MACTION Week 3

Men's Sports Football
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Like 6 teams still with hopes for playing in the MAC. Right now, the 3 teams tied for first place are all Eastern Division teams. Not what the Western teams were expecting when they pushed for the 2 teams with the best record to play in the MACC. If Miami wins our last two games, we will be the regular season champion and play in the MACC. Even one loss makes it doubtful.

Tuesday Nov 19

7:00 Akron at Kent CBSSN Battle for the Wagon Wheel

7:30 Western at Central ESPN2 Battle for the Victory Cannon

8:00 Northern at Miami ESPN Playing for the Mallory Cup

Wednesday Nov 20

7:00 UB at EMU ESPNU

7:00 Ohio at Toledo ESPN2

Saturday Nov 23

2:00 BGSU at Ball State ESPN+

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Current forecast is for ideal Oxford weather in November: 8pm temp of 59, falling to only 56 at 11pm. Light winds and sub-10% chance of rain.

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Semi-related to the MAC, but how the hell is Cooper Rush of CMU still in the league? How did he even stick on a roster in the first place?

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Zac Dysert got a herniated disc, and the rest is history

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No great place to post, but our ESPN “stop rate” (percent of defensive drives that end with a punt, turnover, or turnover on downs) is 13th in the nation at 71.4%. First in the MAC and fourth among G5 teams, Kent is last at 38.9%.

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Bobcats are losing at halftime just to piss us off.

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OU scores early in the 4th to take the 14-7 lead.

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I am not sure it is worth rooting for Ohio for the one in a hundred that they lose to Ball State

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I’d still like to play them in the finals. They couldn’t do anything against us (until garbage time) in our regular season game. Also want to avoid Toledo at all costs

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In the event we lose to BG, unclear if we’re better off if Ohio wins or Toledo wins.
Lots of factors to consider, I suppose.
Obviously, just Beat BG!!
Then, beat whoever in Detroit.

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It would depend on what you think is more likely. Ohio losing to ball state or Toledo losing to Akron

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OU up 21-7

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Honestly, if we can’t close out with BG, we deserve go to a whatever bowl.
MAC Championship is the goal.
Bowl seems secondary.
Let’s finish this.

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But, I’d like to beat OU (again) in the championship!
Beating Toledo would be so last year!:stuck_out_tongue_winking_eye:

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Toledo also plays Akron on Tuesday. If (meaning when) the Rockets win that game, they’d have extra days of rest over Miami, BG, and OU, as all of those team play a week from Friday.

Plus, Gleason has the worst tattoos in college football. No reason to have that temporary tattoo starter kit on display in Detroit.

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Buffalo winning takes our back door way of losing and Ohio losiing to Ball state

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OU about to put this one away…up 21-7 and inside the UT 10 w less than 4 minutes remaining. We beat OU and lost to Toledo so isn’t this a slightly better outcome for us in terms of tie breakers?

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BG tacks on meaningless FG to add insult to injury to UT to go up 24-7. UT will get the ball back one more time with 3 and a half minutes left.

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If we lose to BG & OU wins out, it will be OU & BG for the championship, because everyone will have 2 losses.

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Gotcha. Well, if we beat BG, maybe OU is still the better opponent for us in the MACC vs. UT.