Our Chances in the MAC

[GP1]

Many of our fellow MAC schools were on television this weekand and many of us were able to watch them. With the exception of Akron, Toledo, BGSU and CMU, everyone else was pretty unimpressive. Most importantly, Akron and BGSU were the only two MAC East teams to score a respectable amount of points against bigger conference schools. What does this mean for us?Well, while we want to win every game, the real goal is similar to the first goal of an NFL team which is to win your division. Having Miami and BGSU at home is going to help us greatly. The rest of the MAC East is absolute garbage. In fact, Miami didn't impress me at all against Northwestern and I didn't get to see BGSU, but they had a similar score to ours on a neutral field against a much lesser team than what we played yesterday. I like our chances against those two schools.Most of the mistakes we made yesterday are correctable mistakes. We do have to stop giving up so many big plays though. Most importantly, we scored points against a very good defense on their field. Also, we played hard the entire game. If we can play hard against our MAC East opponents and score points consistently against them, we should make it to the MACC. Compared to other MAC schools, our team has a lot of talent even though it may not have looked that way at times yesterday. PSU had much more talent than we did on the field yesterday and I don't see how we could have ever overcome it.I don't feel like typing much today, so I'll just let you guys take it from here. We are the MAC East Champions and the Confierence champions though and as that bumbling idiot John Madden once said (I swear he said this, it's too stupid for me to even make up), "The champion is the champion until he's no longer the champion, and that's what makes him the champion." In his own crazy way, I think he is trying to say that someone has to take the championship away from us. I don't think Akron is the type of team to give it away this season. I really don't see anyone out there in the MAC East that can take the divisional championship away from us at this point, and I'll take my chances in a winner take all MACC again. I'm feeling good.

[bobbyake]

Western Michigan is no push over either. I'm worried about the game against Miami. They have our number at home. Did anyone see the North Texas vs Texas highlights. They don't look good.NIU's defense is bad. OSU made them look like a pee-wee team. I think Toledo will beat them and win the West. Bowling Green looks good. Miami has a horrible offense.I think a 7-5 season is a reasonable prediction, anything worse and it's bad for the Zips.