2005 Schedule

[Captain Kangaroo]

The Zips have three non-conference games on their 2005 schedule. In addition to playing host to Army, they travel to West Lafayette, Ind., on Sept. 10 to face Purdue and to Murfreesboro, Tenn., the following Saturday to play Middle Tennessee State.

The eight-game 2005 Mid-American Conference schedule will not be released until the spring, but Akron is slated to play home games vs. Can't State, Ohio and Northern Illinois, and road contests at Buffalo, Miami and Ball State. However, divisional realignment to offset the loss of UCF and Marshall in the East will alter next year's league schedule in some fashion.

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Future Non-Conference Schedules

Year (No. of Games)

2005 (11)

Sept. 10 at Purdue

Sept. 17 at Middle Tennessee State

Oct. 22 Army

Obviously, the Zips will play a game before September 10th, and obviously it will be a league game.

I say play OU as the opener...OU will bring a big crowd to a Septh 3rd, or Sept 1st game. Save the home Can't game for late Sept/Early Oct. Two guaranteed 20K+ games. Don't waste the Can't game on the opener...but don't do anything stupid like playing it in November either.