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If there was a 22 team college football playoffs, this wouldn't be a problem.

Syracuse?

If they haven't figured it out by now.....

This is an easy answer. They really aren't creating a playoff. There are too many teams in college athletics to allow for a regular season to create a list of playoff participants so a committee is needed. The same goes for college basketball. More teams does not solve this problem.

Ah! Are you saying a 36 team playoff would be 3 times better?

I have no doubt this is true. Kent State is the worst public university in Ohio. Truly stupid people. My guess is their university president was driving the truck.

If there was a 12 team college football playoff, their fans would be smarter.

Oh, the crap they could shovel into our living rooms is endless.

I'm guess he's probably seen enough.

The MAC has the crockpot set on low for this decision. This is going to take some time but whatever happens feel confident a really stupid decision will be made.

I just shake my head reading this post. After all of these years, have you learned nothing about the MAC? It takes time for bad ideas to bring out their flavors in the crockpot of stupidity that is the MAC league office. There is still time to make a really bad decision that will create both terrible entertainment for students, alumni, fans and the general communities around these schools as well as putting the safety of the players in question because of travel through a blizzard.

I don't see how Buffalo wins the division. They are a game behind OU with OU having one game to go and OU has won the head-to-head matchup (assuming the MAC uses this stat to break ties, which would make sense so I'm suspicious the MAC uses the stat to break ties). Even if OU loses next week there is no way for Buffalo to catch up.

I listen to a lot of meatheads discuss college football on the radio. There is one thread that runs through all of it. Without any evidence whatsoever they state that a 12 team college football would solve problem X in almost every case. Moving forward, I vow to solve all problems in all of college athletics with declaring, without any evidence, that a 12 team college football playoff will solve any problem present. Doubt me? Try me.

Seems like a pretty easy solution to me. Play on December 10th only if Buffalo needs the game to make a bowl. If not, don't play it. A 12 team college football playoff would solve this whole snow problem.

Stop making sense. The MAC will have none of that.

They are always bowling.

This is one of the best posts on this board in a long time. The television networks want a playoff because they will make a ton of money destroying a great American tradition like bowl games in order to shovel crap into American living rooms. Yaaaaay In my opinion, college football should benefit the athletes, students, alumni, fans and general communities around the schools. How do you bring as many of these groups together as possible? A bowl game is a great way to do that. There are events at these games where many of these groups are together celebrating a good season and their school. These games are good clean fun for everyone and that is something that should be embraced and fostered not destroyed by TV networks. Maybe at an event a player encounters an alum and the starter relationship where the alum mentors the player and maybe one day hires the player. Maybe a player and another student meet at the game and strike up a lifelong friendship. Maybe a fan meets the players and realizes that almost every player is a good guy and the impression this fan has of the school grows. Last year I went to the Gator Bowl to watch Wake Forest. They stayed at the Omni on Amelia Island (I'm actually in the Courtyard on AI as I type this). There is a downtown Fernandina Beach that's awesome. When the players weren't playing they would go to the town and walk around together or with their parents. All of them spoke to every fan who talked to them and would thank them for coming to the game. I'm sure the same thing was going on at Jacksonville Beach where Rutgers was staying. Akron students, alumni, fans and general community need more of this in their lives. This is more important to UofA than a college football playoffs.

He's right where he wants to be, not just UofA but Akron, Ohio. Morgantown is a horrible place. It's so awful their previous coach left for an AAC school somewhere more attractive to live.

Agreed and I dont know. It's time for the players to turn the program around is my main point. We need to bring in some players with less experience in failure than we currently have. If the choice is a Transfer Portal player from a losing program vs a winning program, the winning program player gets the scholarship.

Good post. One doesn't have to watch every second of the team to understand their problems. There are two major problems. 1. Talent. Regardless of how hard a kid competes, if the base talent isn't there it's extremely difficult to win. 2. Details. Turnovers kill and they commit too many. Too much bumbling around. It's losing football. Get talented kids who are detail oriented. A coach can change the players or he can change the players. Joe M needs to change the talent rapidly this off season. He also needs to change the bumblers. No matter how hard they play, another 1 win season next year will signal the end of the Joe M era at Akron. The stench of failure is hard to wash off and change has to happen soon.

Better pursuit gets more guys around the ball so a team has a better chance of recovering a fumble. This is something the players can control. There is no such thing as luck.

You're using the word luck too much. The Zips don't need luck. They need to execute on the things they can control. I'm sure they don't practice dropping passes and punts, and under throwing passes.. I'd go as far as to say they probably practice catching and throwing. They need to apply those lessons in games.... Every time. It's a gazillion little things they do wrong. Losing culture is extremely difficult to change.

No. They can't. It's one of the many reasons they have one win.

Details.... Details...... Details. Just catch the Fing ball. Stop playing like a losing program.

That is not targeting.