I agree, it's possible. Mostly I just want Ohio to beat Buffalo. 9 wins in the regular season is a nice achievement even if you don't get to play for the championship, and as others have pointed out this would be the first time in five years to hit that number.

I don’t disagree with that at all. We all know the MAC East is one of the weakest divisions in all of FBS and has been for awhile. There’s been a couple really good BG teams and one good Kent State squad mixed in with several solid Ohio teams in recent years. Otherwise, the better teams reside in the MAC West. My biggest issue with Ohio football in the last decade has been the weak non-conference schedules. A few of them have been downright embarrassing compared to what our conference peers play. Ohio’s AD/coaching staff seem more concerned with beating the bottom of the barrel P5 teams (see Kansas!) and weak G5 schools than facing much of a test in non-conference play. The fact comes up every year that Ohio has never beaten a Top-25 team in its history, which is pretty crazy considering many, if not all, other MAC schools have done so including some schools multiple times. But when you look at how Ohio schedules teams, it hardly ever even gets to face Top-25 competition. How is Ohio going to ever beat a Top-25 team unless it get chances to play one?

But as for the topic at hand, it’s puzzling to see all the talk on the board as if Ohio has officially been eliminated when it’s still in contention. In 4 days Ohio could be locking up yet another trip to Detroit. I get being frustrated with the loss to Akron, but it didn’t eliminate Ohio from anything. Come on y’all.

James Hoffa is still alive. Elvis is still alive.
Hope springs eternal.

I've always wondered why we dont play Cincy hell we stopped scheduling Marshall

If you remove the bad teams we beat, the win against Toledo looks pretty good.

Because removing any games when the sample size is this small makes a lot of sense.

Leave Toledo in, it still translates into just a combined 36% win record. Maybe that is great in your world, but to me that means that the teams we are beating are basically on life support except for one (Toledo).

Hey man, what Burger King was it where you spotted Elvis? It's been about 5 years since I last had a Whopper with him.

The schedule should be dumbed down--forget about the 500 fans that like to go to different away games.

Out of conference 1&1's rotate between: Appy State; Troy; Middle Tennessee and Marshall; throw in an occasional ARMY or Navy away. Play your peers and get the Woffords off the schedule and forget about the big money games.

Not to rain on anyone's parade with actual facts, but OOC games since Solich took over include Connecticut, Kentucky, Louisville, Minnesota, Missouri, Northwestern (twice), Ohio State (twice), Pitt, Penn State, Purdue, Rutgers (twice), Tennessee (twice), Virginia Tech (twice).

Before advocating for more of the same, one might note the 2-16 record in these games, although most of these were surprisingly competitive road games.

TD by Kent State! Only a 3 point game now!

Kent defense harassing freshman Kato/OHIO defense didn't lay a glove on him but a week earlier harassed Toledo QB. Good game plan vs Toledo and Kent showing it would have worked against Akron.

They are hanging...Kent State quarterback is horrible

MAC refs. SMH.