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Ye Olde Roundtable: It’s Bowl Season!

How would you assess Akron in its decision to fire head coach Terry Bowden?

James Jimenez (@AVKingJames): A long time coming. Throughout the season, it felt like the team was more or less in the process of moving on from him and really, it’s a change Akron needed to undergo. The ceiling under Bowden was very clearly a 6-6 record with a possible appearance, outside of last year’s outlier MAC Championship appearance of course. The timing feels bad given that 2017 MAC Championship Game, but Akron has done the rebuilding it started with Bowden’s hiring.