Zips sports news, features and notes
- UA football: Zips lift quarterback prospect Chandler Kincade from Pitt’s backyard
- Mid-American Conference announces kickoff times for some UA and KSU football games
- George M. Thomas: Finals ratings go up with stakes
- George Thomas: Magic Johnson prescribe’s Heat’s cure
- UA notebook: Keith Dambrot has Zips working for future
- On the record — Three former KSU golfers in U.S. Open
- Zips teams showing academic progress
- Q&A with Quincy Diggs, who returns to Zips basketball after suspension
- Former Zips point guard Abreu pleads guilty in drug case
- UA football: Defensive lineman gains sixth year of eligibility, set to transfer to UA from Florida State
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In order to contain Miami's mobile quarterback Mike Kokal, the Zips gameplan intends to clog inside pass-rush lanes, defensive coordinator Jim Fleming says.
- David Lee Morgan predicts a 31-24 Zips victory on Homecoming.
- This game was supposed to determine first place in the MAC East, the Cincinnati Enquirer writes.
- Each of CFN's experts, including the chicken, picked Akron to win by more than the seven-point spread, which has since ballooned to eight.
As for my take, I think this will be a close game, but the Zips will win. One factor sure to help Akron is days of rest. The Zips have been inactive for two weeks. Miami played Buffalo on Sunday.
With all the emphasis and media scrutiny on the Zips defense's inability to stop a mobile quarterback, I believe Fleming's plan will have improved. If Dennis Kennedy is truly 100 percent healthy, Akron will be able to run all night.
Hopefully, the weather will cooperate for a terrific day of tailgating.
Akron 24, Miami 21.
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