ZippyDoo Posted Monday at 01:13 PM Report Posted Monday at 01:13 PM Zips got their work cut out for them... IF they finally make it to a bowl, I feel comfortable saying that they will have earned it if this preseason prediction is accurate... 1. Wake Forest ACC Preseason #11 2. Robert Morris University NEC Preseason # 3 3. Minnesota Big 10 Preseason 11 4. UNLV Mountain West Preseason #1 5. Central Michigan MAC PRESEASON # 3 6. Eastern Michigan MAC PRESEASON # 8 7. Miami (ohio) MAC PRESEASON # 1 8. Kent State MAC PRESEASON # 10 9. Ohio MAC PRESEASON # 5 10. Western Michigan MAC PRESEASON # 2 11. UMASS MAC PRESEASON # 13 12. Buffalo MAC PRESEASON # 6 Just for the record Athlon predicts the MAC Championship to be Miami (ohio) over Western Michigan.... Zips were #9; Not on our schedule ( Toledo #4, Bowling Green #7, Sacramento State #12) What are everyone's thoughts? Looking at this ranking it is gonna be really hard to get to a bowl... Zips would be the underdog EVERY week except week 2 and week 11... I bet after last year against Kent State and the fact that they would be the home team this year-Zips will probably be the underdog that week too.... Quote
Zips1991 Posted Monday at 01:27 PM Report Posted Monday at 01:27 PM (edited) 13 minutes ago, ZippyDoo said: Zips got their work cut out for them... IF they finally make it to a bowl, I feel comfortable saying that they will have earned it if this preseason prediction is accurate... 1. Wake Forest ACC Preseason #11 2. Robert Morris University NEC Preseason # 3 3. Minnesota Big 10 Preseason 11 4. UNLV Mountain West Preseason #1 5. Central Michigan MAC PRESEASON # 3 6. Eastern Michigan MAC PRESEASON # 8 7. Miami (ohio) MAC PRESEASON # 1 8. Kent State MAC PRESEASON # 10 9. Ohio MAC PRESEASON # 5 10. Western Michigan MAC PRESEASON # 2 11. UMASS MAC PRESEASON # 13 12. Buffalo MAC PRESEASON # 6 Just for the record Athlon predicts the MAC Championship to be Miami (ohio) over Western Michigan.... Zips were #9; Not on our schedule ( Toledo #4, Bowling Green #7, Sacramento State #12) What are everyone's thoughts? Looking at this ranking it is gonna be really hard to get to a bowl... Zips would be the underdog EVERY week except week 2 and week 11... I bet after last year against Kent State and the fact that they would be the home team this year-Zips will probably be the underdog that week too.... If they could've just gave us Sac State instead of Miami, I think we'd get to 6 wins. I see us beating Robert Morris, EMU, Kent, UMass, and one of either Ohio or Buffalo. Edited Monday at 01:27 PM by Zips1991 Quote
ZippyDoo Posted Monday at 01:51 PM Author Report Posted Monday at 01:51 PM I was looking at EMU, UMASS, Kent, RMU and hoping for BUFF as the season finale at home IF we pulled off BUFF and OHIO plus these others that would give us six.... an upset against any of those other three non-conference teams would be tremendous. I don't know if it is realistic, but it would be tremendous. I think the offense has a lot of fire power if this qb is any good.. The wr's are gonna be studs and I'm excited for the rb's this season. the defense doesn't have to shut the other teams out, the offense just has to outscore them! I think that is an optimistic way of looking at it. (just trying to stay positive as we head into the season.) camp is officially two weeks away. Quote
kreed5120 Posted Monday at 02:15 PM Report Posted Monday at 02:15 PM I don't think the schedule is particularly gruesome. Wake Forest, Minnesota, and UNLV are all winnable games for a team competing at the top of the MAC. Not saying I'd expect a Miami (OH) to win all 3, but I'd think they would win at minimum 1. The real issue is we're projected as the 9th best team in what is arguably the worst FBS conference. Of course getting to 6 wins will be a challenge. There are only 13 teams in all of FBS that Athlon has ranked below us. Quote
zippy5 Posted Monday at 02:39 PM Report Posted Monday at 02:39 PM Once we beat Wake and Minnesota we'll be favored in all of them 1 1 Quote
Zips1991 Posted Monday at 04:05 PM Report Posted Monday at 04:05 PM 1 hour ago, kreed5120 said: I don't think the schedule is particularly gruesome. Wake Forest, Minnesota, and UNLV are all winnable games for a team competing at the top of the MAC. Not saying I'd expect a Miami (OH) to win all 3, but I'd think they would win at minimum 1. The real issue is we're projected as the 9th best team in what is arguably the worst FBS conference. Of course getting to 6 wins will be a challenge. There are only 13 teams in all of FBS that Athlon has ranked below us. At least we're ahead of 13 teams. There was a time when we weren't ahead of any! 1 Quote
GP1 Posted 8 minutes ago Report Posted 8 minutes ago On 6/29/2026 at 10:39 AM, zippy5 said: Once we beat Wake and Minnesota we'll be favored in all of them Never be surprised when an ACC team loses. We beat a better Big Team in Northwestern than Minnesota years ago. I think NE went to the Big Ten Championship that season, or not.... can't remember. Quote
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