(delayed badly) Pick the MAC week 8!

[MarkL]

This is late, I know, my bad. Crazy busy week. Don't have time to add up all the scores including this past week, will get to that when I get a chance and post it. Things have been hectic on my end recently, my bad. And next week might be worse. Can November get here already?? How about 2012?

So back to the point ... the next week of MAC games is as follows. All conference game, Kent's got a by week ... and they probably need it. Don't we have Kent next week? If so, we'll catch them well rested after we've faced a physical, pounding Temple team. No like, no like.

Saturday
Northern Illinois at Buffalo, 12:00
Western Michigan at Eastern Michigan, 1:00
Central Michigan at Ball State, 2:00
Ohio at Akron, 3:30
Temple at Bowling Green, 3:30
Miami at Toledo, 7:00

And my picks ...

Northern Illinois. They did WHAT to WMU? Yeah, good luck Bulls.
Western Michigan. Yeah, they got destroyed by NIU, and yeah, the emus beat up on CMU. WMU is still the best MAC team in Michigan. Easy win.
Ball State. I don't really have a finger on Ball State yet. CMU's been inconsistent. I'll take Ball State.
Ohio. Akron's bad.
Bowling Green. My homer pick. Temple's rough.
Toledo. Miami will make a game out of it but I don't think they have the ability to close the deal.

That's all folks, updated scores coming when I get the opportunity to, you know, relax for a bit.

[1987alum]

Northern Illinois at Buffalo: Beatdown in Buffalo

Western Michigan at Eastern Michigan: Western rebounds in a big way

Central Michigan at Ball State: The Chips are down

Ohio at Akron: Akron's Trail of Tears continues

Temple at Bowling Green: Following my father's advice ...

Miami at Toledo: Rockets are rolling

[Warthog]

Northern Illinois
Eastern Michigan UPSET SPECIAL
Ball State
Ohio
Temple
Toledo

[bgsufalcon24]

Saturday
Northern Illinois at Buffalo - Northern Illinois - NIU is a perplexing team...but when they're good they're GOOD. Huskies win this one.
Western Michigan at Eastern Michigan - Western Michigan - I think WMU bounces back from last week's debacle and gets healthy against EMU.
Central Michigan at Ball State - Ball State - Man, TOUGH game to call, Ball State has just been so unpredictable. I like the Cardinals, but would really not be surprised at a Chippewa upset.
Ohio at Akron - Ohio - It looks like I might've been wrong about Ohio, but the Bobcats can't be bad enough to lose to Akron. Could they?
Temple at Bowling Green - Bowling Green - Call me nuts, but with their backs against the wall, BG plays better than they have all year. Falcons by a big margin in a result that turns the East race totally upside down.
Miami at Toledo, 7:00 - Toledo - This game really freaks me out...something's telling me Miami is going to pull it off but I just can't pick em, Rockets hold serve and defend the Glass Bowl.

[VDub26Falcon]

Northern Illinois at Buffalo - NIU

Western Michigan at Eastern Michigan - Western

Central Michigan at Ball State - Ball State

Ohio at Akron - Ohio

Temple at Bowling Green - Temple

Miami at Toledo - Toledo

[bgsufalcon24]

Per MarkL's request, I've calculated the standings through Week 7. Again, if you think there's an error somewhere please let either me or MarkL know.

The game is tied, a 4-way tie for 1st place after last week between kdog, lordbyron, warthog, and myself. Plenty of others are right there though, with Cincy, Falconfan1999, and Falconian just 2 games behind.

Kdog27 - 56-14
Lordbyron - 56-14
Bgsufalcon24 - 56-14
Warthog - 56-14
Bgfalconfromcincy - 54-16
Falconfan1999 - 54-16
1987alum - 53-17
Mjmorefield - 53-17
Camkru - 52-18
MarkL - 52-18
Footballguy51 - 50-20
Fortwaynefalcon - 47-23
Daspollak - 44-9
Vdubfalcon - 43-15
Bgdodgeball - 40-16
Svillefalcon - 35-11
Ham0331 - 27-5
Oldballcoach61 - 19-5
Sicsicalum - 18-4
Falconian - 16-54 (reverse picking)
Mc0322 - 14-9
Jpfalcon - 12-1
Polsenvsbgsu - 10-2

[Lord_Byron]

Northern Illinois
Western Michigan
Ball State
Ohio
Temple
Toledo

[mjmorefield]

Thanks Mark for doing this. I tried to keep up a couple years ago and it's a pain in the butt.

Northern Ill
Western MI
Ball St.
Ohio
Temple
Toledo

[kdog27]

Couldn't stand to pick like everybody else so taking a chance and picking CMU.

Northern Illinois
Western Michigan
Central Michigan
Ohio
Temple
Toledo

[BGFalconfromCincy]

Northern Illinois
Western Michigan
Ball State
Ohio
Temple
Toledo

[bgsufalcon24]

Wow, everybody's picking Temple. Either this is going to be the game that puts me into the lead...or a colossal mistake. We'll find out at the Doyt Saturday.

[footballguy51]

Northern Illinois: Everybody is picking NIU because it's more likely Buffalo accidentally travels to Dekalb than it is that they win this game.

Western Michigan: EMU beat CMU like I predicted, but they can't beat WMU.

Central Michigan: I think they are really mad they lost to EMU, so they will come out angry against Balls Tate.

Ohio: Come on, they're playing Akron.

Bowling Green: I'll be at the game. I can't bring myself to pick Temple.

Toledo: Unfortunately, I had to pick a winner in this game. Can't we just pray that the stadium blows up and the game cannot occur?

[Falconian]

Buffalo
EMU
CMU
Akron
BiG SUrprise
Miami

[falconfan1999]

Northern Illinois at Buffalo, 12:00 NIU gets back to the W column
Western Michigan at Eastern Michigan, 1:00 This is going to be a better game than most think, but Western is a much better team and will win
Central Michigan at Ball State, 2:00 I think Ball State has more tenacity and will find a way to win
Ohio at Akron, 3:30 Ohio will win a boring game
Temple at Bowling Green, 3:30 BG will find a way to lose, Temple is tough!
Miami at Toledo, 7:00 Toledo is much better than J.Crew U and will win handily!

[camkru9701]

Northern Illinois
Western Michigan
Ball State
Ohio
Bowling Green
Miami