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What a week in MAC football as the “Chosen Ones” were knocked off, the “Cinderella” team blew up a Top 15 team, and a West Division power narrowly escaped a bottom feeder. We have the MAC wrap-up right here.

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Mike Spinelli

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The second half of the conference season starts Saturday with key matchups in both divisions, one local team taking on a ranked opponent, and another looking for its first conference win in a “winnable” game. The Game of the Week pits 24th ranked Ohio visiting Miami.

 

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Mike Spinelli

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This week a MAC team knocked off another nationally ranked team, Cinderella continued to impress (and become bowl eligible), and Buffalo hosted its long-time rival. Army continues playing as many MAC teams as the regular members, and prepares to face another. 

 

 

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Mike Spinelli

 

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Four conference games are on the docket this week, including Kent State facing their first challenge in our Game of the Week, and Akron also hosting a powerhouse. All games are on Saturday.

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Jonathan Knight


For most college football programs, simply being ranked in the Associated Press top 25 isn’t all that big of a deal. And coming in at 25th is either an insult or an embarrassment.

Not at Ohio University.

When this week’s poll was released with OU at No. 25, it instantly became one of the hallmark moments in the history of the school - just above the foundation of the Northwest Territory and just beneath the day Matt Lauer enrolled.

To put it in perspective, the last time - and only other time - OU was ranked in football, Scooby-Doo was still in the brainstorming stage. Richard Nixon was the president-elect, and Led Zeppelin made its first live performance.

That was 44 years ago, when the 1968 Bobcats roared to a 10-0 record and an appearance in the Tangerine Bowl (adjust it for inflation and you get the Chick Fil A Bowl). Much has changed in the interim, particularly the rationale for the AP voters.

So, to better understand why those incredibly intelligent guys voted OU into this elite club after such a long sabbatical, here are 25 reasons:

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