As some of you may have heard, there’s a football game down in Lincoln on Saturday night and, surprisingly, there will be an opponent on the other side of the ball.
The Akron Zips are coming off a 2017 season in which they finished 7-7 and won the MAC East going 6-2 in conference play including a division-clinching 37-34 win over Frank Solich’s Ohio Bobcats.
Their reward was a spot in the conference title game, a 45-28 loss to Toledo, and a trip to the Boca Raton Bowl where, in front of 25,912 fans averaging around 77.