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Yo...check this out. While watching Akron & Buffalo on ESPNU last night, I came up with a way for BG to still win the East.

Here goes...

Ohio is 5-1 and has Akron and Miami left. They lose both and finish 5-3.

Kent is 4-2 with EMU and Ball State left. They lose at least one, if not both. Kent finishes 5-3 or 4-4. Hopefully, they lose both and finish 4-4.

Akron is 3-3 and has Ohio and WMU left. Akron beats Ohio and loses to WMU. The Zips finish 4-4.

BG is 3-3 and has Miami and that school up north left. BG wins both to finish 5-3.

This leaves BG and Ohio with 5-3 records and guess who would get the MACC berth based on head to head?

Can anyone confirm the first tie breaker for multiple teams? I think it's the combined records of the West crossover opponents? If that is the case, Akron would hold the edge playing CMU, UT and WMU, currently 12-5. BG (CMU, UT and EMU...currently 8-9) and OH (NIU, WMU and EMU...currently 9-9) would be next followed by Kent State (UT, EMU and BSU...currently 6-12).

Of course all this could end Wed if BG doesn't beat Miami or Thursday if Ohio beats Akron.

Never give up til the MAC office calls and says we're eliminated. Last year, Akron needed about 10-11 games to go a certain way over the last 2 weeks of the season to win the East berth...and they got it. Why not us?

GO FALCONS!!!! BEAT MIAMI!!!!!

Last night on his coach's show, Miami coach Shane Montgomery, was playing up the spoiler role and mentioned a time or two how BG is still in it, although we need a few breaks.

All we can do is win.

In a related matter, no one, in the history of the world, has controlled their own destiny. We can control our future to some extent.

Go BG!!!

I give my left testicle for us to win the MAC this year!

Let's hope it doesn't come to that.

ok, let me get this straight...

BG will win out. (thread title is "Optimism Rules" right?)
Kent needs to lose out.
Ohio needs to lose out.
Western needs to beat Akron
Cows need to wear bloomers.

Am I at least close?? See ya'll at the Miami game, and then in Detoit in a couple weeks!!!

Good one, FF90, count me in. Nothing has gone to form in the MAC this season. Why should everything go to form now? The notion that BG wins its next two games is no less bizarre than the prospect that Kent and Ohio end up having to endure what every other MAC fan has seemingly had to put up with this season - cursed fortune and wretched results. CMU in the MACC is it? Ladies, gentlemen, and sports mandarins, start your souffles.