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If you subtract the 10 yard pass and 67 yard run by Lorenzo, they had 161 yards in the first half. They easily left 100 first half yards on the table. By 2023 college football standards, the offense was just bad yesterday. When a team can't complete passes down field, it allows defenses to choke off the running and short/intermediate passing game. In 2023, a team has to be able to complete down field passes consistently in order to win. It's all very simple. What makes the loss so distasteful for me is this team is so much better in almost every category. They look like a good MAC team. Certainly they are good enough to beat the likes of Temple and they didn't. I think I have to go back to just commenting on general college football topics because this black hole of a football program is exhausting.

He's not a winner.

Is that good company?

I'm too lazy to do it, but could someone please find out how many D1 teams don't score a point in the second half of games this week and report back.

I'm ok with him sticking with him this week, but not next week.

I agree. He's stupid.

I didn't know and I don't care. The next opponent gives Akron an extra week to get someone else ready, assuming there is any competence behind him. T The guy has been around long enough. He does nothing.

He's terrible.

It's terrible. Temple is terrible and we didn't score a point.

Hats off to the Zips defense. The left it all on the field.

From his accuracy, to his arm strength, to his leadership, to his sideline body language, Irons isn't the guy. He has never won and he isn't going to win.

Much better.

Yes. Accuracy is worse.

Missed two open receivers. Irons has to play better. The standards are higher.

I respectfully disagree. There will just be another division. G5 schools need to do everything they can to complete against the likes of Northwestern and Wake Forest because those teams will be their competition. MAC schools beat lower level P5 schools annually. It's a realistic landing spot for all parties.

At the highest level, it's already an exclusive club. There are less than 10 schools with any shot to win a national championship. When the super conference is created, that is the one thing that won't change. They can have their money. The rest of college football will remain the same. It could be improved for the rest of colleges because they can finally stop chasing the Holy Grail and setting into a level of college football they can realistically succeed in. I'll still go to games because I like college football and I don't really care who is playing or about their shot at winning a national championship. This is the main reason I really don't care about conference realignment. It has no meaningful impact on my life. Casual fans lives won't change because they will watch football on TV regardless. Degenerate gamblers will bet on anything regardless of a super conference or not. Alumni will still follow their school.

How does a mountain of money equal fatality?

SMU is a joke of a program high dollar donors are able to keep afloat.

Depends on how you define success. Success and failure in college athletics is now defined in terms of dollars. Television executives and their willing dupes, athletic directors, could easily make this happen. Not only will it happen, under the current definition, it will be wildly successful. Americans love the NFL and it's business model. All colleges will do is duplicate it. It's about 10 years away.

Where is this all going? https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.si.com/.amp/college/2023/08/30/college-footballs-inevitable-conclusion-is-a-40-team-mega-alliance

It's only a matter of time until the AAC had the rug pulled out from under it.

We are witnessing the death throws of independent conferences at the highest level. Teams are looking for landing spots. Within 10 years, there will be one super conference, run by one commissioner who is charged with gobbling up as much money as possible for the member schools. It is reported SMU gave up all rights to ACC TV revenue for 9 years. Stanford and Cal are only getting 30% of the total. Basically, these schools needed a place on the bus for when a super conference becomes reality. I'm hoping Wake Forest can trade games against Clemson, FSU and Miami for SMU, Stanford and Cal. Wake Forest fans love games against institutions they believe are equal in academic standards to theirs, in the hope of winning.

JD was a great guy. Never gets the credit he deserved from people around the University. He achieved actual greatness by actually winning something meaningful.

MAC kicker sighting.

MAClike implosion by OU at the end of the first half.