Reslife4Life Posted November 28 Report Share Posted November 28 Well we have reached a lull in the Zips Athletic calendar. Just thought it could be fun to post in all 3 groups this thread. What is your favorite Zips game/moment that you watched and remember fondly With Football there unfortunately aren’t a ton of great moments that I have witnessed since being a freshman in 2018. But that away Wagon Wheel game in 2018 was awesome. First of all, we rode the Roo Express over to Kent, great experience there. Awful weather, windy and raining the whole time. The only close wagon wheel game I have witnessed with it going to overtime and having the game determined by “trouble with the snap” on the extra point in OT to give us the wheel win. Last win I saw in person for 3 years 😂 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ham Posted November 28 Report Share Posted November 28 As a former DE, Nunnally's sack for the win! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Let'sGoZips94 Posted November 28 Report Share Posted November 28 (edited) 2005 MAC Championship game. My dad wanted to leave with 3-4 minutes to go to beat traffic. I convinced him to stay and the rest is history. His karma was puncturing his finger on a staple on the Go Zips sign we brought. A close second is the game prior to that, AKA the Snow Bowl - Kent @ Akron. Field visibility was nonexistent at times from the upper portions of the Rubber Bowl, and the bathrooms were full of people trying to get warm. Edited November 28 by Let'sGoZips94 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blue & Gold Posted November 28 Report Share Posted November 28 12 minutes ago, Let'sGoZips94 said: A close second is the game prior to that, AKA the Snow Bowl - Kent @ Akron. Field visibility was nonexistent at times from the upper portions of the Rubber Bowl, and the bathrooms were full of people trying to get warm. I was there... for the 1st half 😂 That was a Thanksgiving morning game. How cool! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hilltopper Posted November 28 Report Share Posted November 28 Snow bowl game. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ImAZipFan Posted November 28 Report Share Posted November 28 There are so many, but some that really stick out: My first Acme-Zip game back in about 1986 with a full Rubber Bowl. The 25 point comeback to beat Navy. The 2005 Mac Championship Game The Snow Bowl Game. Saying goodbye to the Rubber Bowl - It's still memerable. Opening Day of InfoCision Stadium with 30 thousand people. The Idaho Potato Bowl win. And many more. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
clarkwgriswold Posted November 28 Report Share Posted November 28 2005 MAC Championship. Zips rally from 14 down against Northern Illinois and win with 17 seconds remaining in regulation when Luke Getsy connected with Domenik Hixon on a 36-yard touchdown pass. The first Buchtel College game in 1891 defeating Western Reserve Academy 22–6 in Hudson, Ohio was a doozy too! 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lee Adams Posted November 28 Report Share Posted November 28 8 hours ago, Let'sGoZips94 said: 2005 MAC Championship game. My dad wanted to leave with 3-4 minutes to go to beat traffic. I convinced him to stay and the rest is history. His karma was puncturing his finger on a staple on the Go Zips sign we brought. A close second is the game prior to that, AKA the Snow Bowl - Kent @ Akron. Field visibility was nonexistent at times from the upper portions of the Rubber Bowl, and the bathrooms were full of people trying to get warm. That entire 2005 season was memorable. Beating NIU during the season, the'Snow Bowl', the MAC Championship win, then the almost comeback win against Memphis State in the Motor City Bowl. But I'll go back a lot farther. The 1976 season when Akron won 2 DII playoff games at the Bowl. The second was deemed the Knute Rockne Bowl. My buddy and I were there with a bottle of Southern Comfort as I recall. It was cold. Zips won the first overtime playoff game in NCAA history. They were good. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eggs Posted November 28 Report Share Posted November 28 (edited) Vs. Virginia Tech in 1996, watching Jason Taylor chase Hokies around the Rubber Bowl… Edited November 28 by eggs Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Reslife4Life Posted November 28 Author Report Share Posted November 28 7 hours ago, clarkwgriswold said: The first Buchtel College game in 1891 defeating Western Reserve Academy 22–6 in Hudson, Ohio was a doozy too! 1894 vs Ohio State what a great game for our community!!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
clarkwgriswold Posted November 28 Report Share Posted November 28 (edited) 9 minutes ago, Reslife4Life said: 1894 vs Ohio State what a great game for our community!!!! I understand they only took that game for the payout. It helped to fund the entire athletic program including basketball program that had a staff that regularly failed to come up with a competitive OOC schedule. Edited November 28 by clarkwgriswold 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GP1 Posted November 29 Report Share Posted November 29 1 hour ago, clarkwgriswold said: I understand they only took that game for the payout. OSUs check bounced. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zipmeister Posted November 29 Report Share Posted November 29 1974 against highly favored U of Tampa. Tampa featured two future NFL players. They received the opening kickoff and screwed up the return. Shortly thereafter they fumbled on the 4 yard line and Akron quickly scored the first 7 of the points that ended up in a 40 -0 victory. Tampa dropped football after that season. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zip_ME87 Posted November 29 Report Share Posted November 29 23 hours ago, Let'sGoZips94 said: 2005 MAC Championship game. My dad wanted to leave with 3-4 minutes to go to beat traffic. I convinced him to stay and the rest is history. His karma was puncturing his finger on a staple on the Go Zips sign we brought. Game-winning TD ... around 1:25:25 and beyond 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MDZip Posted November 29 Report Share Posted November 29 On 11/28/2024 at 8:52 AM, Let'sGoZips94 said: 2005 MAC Championship game. My dad wanted to leave with 3-4 minutes to go to beat traffic. I convinced him to stay and the rest is history. His karma was puncturing his finger on a staple on the Go Zips sign we brought. A close second is the game prior to that, AKA the Snow Bowl - Kent @ Akron. Field visibility was nonexistent at times from the upper portions of the Rubber Bowl, and the bathrooms were full of people trying to get warm. The other kind of amazing thing about that season was that the Zips ended up being tied for first with Miami and Bowling Green each going 5-3 in conference. Miami had beaten Akron, Akron beat Bowling Green and Bowling Green beat Miami so there was no tiebreaker there. They had to go to a tiebreaker where they judged strength of conference opponent and Akron narrowly came out ahead. Without that, there is no Getsy to Hixon. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Let'sGoZips94 Posted November 29 Report Share Posted November 29 8 minutes ago, MDZip said: The other kind of amazing thing about that season was that the Zips ended up being tied for first with Miami and Bowling Green each going 5-3 in conference. Miami had beaten Akron, Akron beat Bowling Green and Bowling Green beat Miami so there was no tiebreaker there. They had to go to a tiebreaker where they judged strength of conference opponent and Akron narrowly came out ahead. Without that, there is no Getsy to Hixon. It came down to the NIU/WMU(?) game I believe, no? Because NIU beat WMU and we beat NIU, that's what gave us the edge if I remember correctly. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ZippyRulz Posted November 29 Report Share Posted November 29 (edited) OK, not a Zips game but I'm going with it.. #24: Dwight Smith Super Bowl XXXVII Highlights | Top 50 Super Bowl Performances https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jUeXYQojlqw Edited November 29 by ZippyRulz 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NWAkron Posted November 29 Report Share Posted November 29 Toledo's missed FG with 2 seconds left. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
72 Roo Posted November 30 Report Share Posted November 30 15 hours ago, Zipmeister said: 1974 against highly favored U of Tampa. Tampa featured two future NFL players. They received the opening kickoff and screwed up the return. Shortly thereafter they fumbled on the 4 yard line and Akron quickly scored the first 7 of the points that ended up in a 40 -0 victory. Tampa dropped football after that season. I appreciate the Meister bringing this great moment in Zip history to the attention of the board. To appreciate this game it is important to know a bit of the background leading up to the game. Tampa, coached by Earle Bruce, was moving up the ladder of respectability. I believed they had three future NFL players, one being John Matuzak, the second overall pick the year he went in the draft. They were moving up to D1 and they wanted to make a splash. They wanted to play Ohio State on a date OSU had open in their OOC schedule. At the time they offered an unheard of guarantee $250,000 for OSU to play them in Tampa. That was indeed huge for the time. The only problem was Tampa was suppose to play in Akron that day. Tampa said no problem Akron was nothing and Tampa would gladly forfeit any guarantee to Akron. OSU refused to consider the offer. You can probably guess how Akron took that. Gordon Larsen, Akron's best football coach ever had that plastered all over the locker room. Better than that he prepared the team magnificently. In front of the second biggest Rubber Bowl crowd ever (40,000+) the team came out on fire and dominated Tampa. I was on the sidelines with the soccer team, who played before the game, and I witnessed the most ferocious hitting I have ever seen. Against better athletes Akron destroyed Tampa. If you are looking for a time to be proud of Zip football this game is rivaled only by the 2005 MAC championship game. Hang in their Zip football fans. We have moments to savor. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hilltopper Posted November 30 Report Share Posted November 30 11 hours ago, 72 Roo said: I appreciate the Meister bringing this great moment in Zip history to the attention of the board. To appreciate this game it is important to know a bit of the background leading up to the game. Tampa, coached by Earle Bruce, was moving up the ladder of respectability. I believed they had three future NFL players, one being John Matuzak, the second overall pick the year he went in the draft. They were moving up to D1 and they wanted to make a splash. They wanted to play Ohio State on a date OSU had open in their OOC schedule. At the time they offered an unheard of guarantee $250,000 for OSU to play them in Tampa. That was indeed huge for the time. The only problem was Tampa was suppose to play in Akron that day. Tampa said no problem Akron was nothing and Tampa would gladly forfeit any guarantee to Akron. OSU refused to consider the offer. You can probably guess how Akron took that. Gordon Larsen, Akron's best football coach ever had that plastered all over the locker room. Better than that he prepared the team magnificently. In front of the second biggest Rubber Bowl crowd ever (40,000+) the team came out on fire and dominated Tampa. I was on the sidelines with the soccer team, who played before the game, and I witnessed the most ferocious hitting I have ever seen. Against better athletes Akron destroyed Tampa. If you are looking for a time to be proud of Zip football this game is rivaled only by the 2005 MAC championship game. Hang in their Zip football fans. We have moments to savor. That game was actually in the 1969 season. It was my very first Akron football game. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hilltopper Posted November 30 Report Share Posted November 30 On 11/29/2024 at 7:10 AM, Zipmeister said: 1974 against highly favored U of Tampa. Tampa featured two future NFL players. They received the opening kickoff and screwed up the return. Shortly thereafter they fumbled on the 4 yard line and Akron quickly scored the first 7 of the points that ended up in a 40 -0 victory. Tampa dropped football after that season. That game was in 1969. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zipmeister Posted December 1 Report Share Posted December 1 I don't know how I screwed that date up. The other two future NFL players on the Tampa roster were Freddie Soloman at QB and Leon McQuay at RB. Solomon went on to a very successful career with Miami and San Francisco. After playing for Toronto in the CFL, Mcquay had an OK short career in the NFL with the Giants, New England, and New Orleans. Leon went to that big football field in the sky in 1995 and Freddie joined him 12 years ago. P.S. Did you know that when you got 40,000 fans to watch a football game at the Rubber Bowl you could not see a trace of the steps anywhere in the stadium? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zipsfan33 Posted December 2 Report Share Posted December 2 On 11/29/2024 at 1:11 PM, ZippyRulz said: OK, not a Zips game but I'm going with it.. #24: Dwight Smith Super Bowl XXXVII Highlights | Top 50 Super Bowl Performances And he DIDN'T win MVP because by the time he had his 2nd pick 6, the voting had already taken place! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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