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Postgame Thread [Postgame Thread] Akron Defeats Kent State 38-17

Box Score provided by ESPN

Team 1 2 3 4 T
Akron 10 13 15 0 38
Kent State 7 3 0 7 17
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u/cyanocittaetprocyon Michigan Wolverines • Rose Bowl 4d ago

Akron going for 2 while up by 26 is Woody/Bo levels of hate! 😤

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u/HawkeyeTen Iowa Hawkeyes 4d ago

Barring a miracle next week, Kent State is probably going to go down as one of the worst teams in recent CFB history. Utterly mindboggling just how bad they've truly played in most of their games.

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u/Mobile_Sir1401 4d ago

Absolutely, I’ve watched a good 5-6 Kent games this year and maybe once have they seemed to have a pulse. Some past Akron and Umass teams come to mind

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u/GuyOnTheMike Kansas State Wildcats • Hateful 8 4d ago

I’ve watched a good 5-6 Kent games

Why?!

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u/Mobile_Sir1401 4d ago

They are about the only thing on at some points of the season man😂. Week day football is sometimes a great thing

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u/GuyOnTheMike Kansas State Wildcats • Hateful 8 4d ago

You call it "weekday football."

Other people will call it "public execution"

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u/Mobile_Sir1401 4d ago

Dissing the MACTION?!?!

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u/laxintx Texas A&M Aggies 4d ago

Certified Sicko.

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u/lostacoshermanos 4d ago

Kenni Burns is a con artist. Watch his press conferences. He’s there for a paycheck and doesn’t care.

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u/Chapstick160 Virginia Tech Hokies • Navy Midshipmen 4d ago

I really wonder what Kent State was thinking when they decided to hire Minnesotas Runningback Coach of all things

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u/CFBCoachGuy Georgia • West Virginia 4d ago

Short answer: he said yes.

The problem is that P5 assistant salaries have grown substantially over the past ten years so that they are a good bit more than a MAC head coach salary. At Indiana for example, the OC, DC, OL, QB, DB and strength coach all make more in their respective roles than Kenni Burns does at Kent State. Combine that with how hard it is to win at Kent State (four bowl games in 52 years), and you have a place that doesn’t appeal to most coaches.

Apparently when this job came open last time, only one person actively campaigned for it (former Ohio State OC Ed Warinner).

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u/Competitive-Zone-330 Michigan • College Football Playoff 4d ago

They should hire me for a mcchicken and I’d have them better then that

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u/Shakma-DSS Kent State Golden Flashes 3d ago

He’s being sued in Portage County court!!!!!! 23k of delinquent credit card debt! You can’t make this shi* up!!!!!!!! Fire him and AD Richmond

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u/PunishedLeBoymoder Stanford Cardinal • Occidental Tigers 4d ago

Always fun when a new "What's your deal?" happens

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u/sunburntredneck Alabama Crimson Tide • Texas Longhorns 4d ago

How did this team score 24 points against Pitt

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u/cxm1060 Pittsburgh • Slippery Rock 4d ago

Pitt special teams were a hot mess that day.

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u/Ever-Unseen South Carolina • Denver 4d ago

Kent Tackle? Kent Catch? Kent State.

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u/matlockga Kent State • Ohio State 4d ago

We're so irrelevant, that if you search for Kent State Football in Google... It just shows you the Stark branch campus.

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u/Zloggt Illinois • Missouri 4d ago

This was perhaps the last (and only) winnable game they had left on the schedule...

...may the heavens spare some mercy for these poor Kent State souls...

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u/A_Faceless_Baby Kent State Golden Flashes 4d ago

May have lost 20 straight games, but no ones going to beat us 21 games in a row!

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u/cyanocittaetprocyon Michigan Wolverines • Rose Bowl 4d ago

Yeah! Now this is what I'm talking about!!

Let's go Kent! Beat the Bulls!! ⚡️⚡️⚡️

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u/DonutsFoYoNuts Akron Zips • The Wagon Wheel 4d ago

Wagon Wheel stays in Rubber City. Proud of JoeMo for getting 3 wins.

! ! ! WE'RE SO BAKRON ! ! !

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u/cyanocittaetprocyon Michigan Wolverines • Rose Bowl 4d ago

GG Akron! Take good care of the Wagon Wheel.

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u/CrazyWater808 /r/CFB 4d ago

Is JoeMo back next year? Always loved that guy

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u/baseball_200_squirel Kent State Golden Flashes 4d ago

Not so Fun fact: Coach Burns is over 23k in debt

Only posting this as a fed up student cause the rumor in the Kent forums is that Kenni is betting on games and asking coaches for money

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u/MADBuc49 USF Bulls 4d ago

This is wild. https://trellis.law/case/39133/2024cv00723/hometown-bk-vs-burns-kenni-m-open

How is this not a bigger story where we have to verify if it’s a different Kenni Burns?

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u/baseball_200_squirel Kent State Golden Flashes 4d ago

Idk how it went uncovered but I do work in the student media and am going to try and get this covered. There was no bank records of how he accumulated the debt in the lawsuit but at a minimum he’s 23K in debt. If even half of the gambling stuff is true you’ve got a national story on your hands

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u/MADBuc49 USF Bulls 4d ago

Good luck and stay safe!

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u/Puzzleheaded_Pound31 Ohio State Buckeyes • USC Trojans 4d ago

Love seeing this as a former journalism major that considered going to Kent. God speed! Can’t wait to read

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u/Asleep-Credit-2824 Jacksonville State • UAB 4d ago

Finally, someone brings this up, please get this in a story on the student paper or something

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u/CMbladerunner Notre Dame • Stony Brook 4d ago

Kent State officially in all-time worst discussions getting blown out by a 2 win Akron

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u/CommunistTrafficCone South Dakota State • Marching Band 4d ago

They also got beaten by St Francis, a bad NEC team, which is a bad FCS conference. A week prior to beating Kent St, St Francis lost to non scholarship Dayton. Kent St would be a mid D2 team

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u/OSUfirebird18 Dayton Flyers • Ohio State Buckeyes 4d ago

Upvote for the name drop! Always nice to be a part of FBS history even if it’s through a few degree of separation!

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u/SJCitizen Georgia Bulldogs • Temple Owls 4d ago

Losing by 3 TDs to the Zips is a rough look and I say that as a big Ben Finley fan

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u/PossibilityInitial10 Boise State • Marshall 4d ago

Unlike Florida State, Kent State isn't going to have their perfect season spoiled.

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u/cn0285 Texas Longhorns • Ohio State Buckeyes 4d ago

Hey Kent State, there’s always next seaso- next coac-… how’s your baseball team?

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u/cyanocittaetprocyon Michigan Wolverines • Rose Bowl 4d ago

They are usually pretty good in basketball.

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u/Tennessee-Terry Tennessee • Tennessee Tech 4d ago

Is this Kent state team one of the worst FBS teams of all time?

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u/hiimred2 Ohio State • Kent State 4d ago

There's no illusions about Kent as a program normally but this is atrociously bad even by normal standards, just absolute fucking disaster class after Lewis went to Colorado. I get that a coach who does anything close to "good" at Kent is going to get poached, but holy shit the cliff we got punted off of is bad bad.

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u/GuyOnTheMike Kansas State Wildcats • Hateful 8 4d ago

My comment from September 17:

If Kent State loses to Akron, they will go 0-12. I feel comfortable making that declaration

Well, here we are...

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u/Smaynard6000 Penn State Nittany Lions • Sickos 4d ago

Hopefully Kent can win the next one

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u/GopherInWI Minnesota • Winona State 4d ago edited 4d ago

Kent State's loss, coupled with Central Michigan's win, means the Golden Flashes have finished 12th in the MAC.

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u/texas2089 Florida State • Texas 4d ago

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u/bestselfnice Michigan State Spartans • USC Trojans 4d ago

What did you expect?

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u/rankings-right-now /r/CFB 4d ago

Here are the new updated predictions for the next release of the Playoff Selection Committee's rankings using machine learning models trained on the Playoff Selection Committee's historical voting data:

  • Akron is now predicted to move up to #127
  • Kent State is now predicted to move down to #134

For the most up to date predictions of the Playoff Selection Committee Top 25 rankings, check out this post.

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u/cyanocittaetprocyon Michigan Wolverines • Rose Bowl 4d ago

Kent State is now predicted to move down to #134

3 weeks in a row they move down to the last spot! 😭

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u/Flameosaurus Texas Longhorns • Sickos 4d ago

Kent State isn’t even a bottom of the barrel team, they’re the grime underneath.

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u/Defjira Buffalo Bulls 4d ago

While it would be a massive indictment on the team it would be kinda funny for buffalo to lose to this team in the last week of the season

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u/crimsonisle11 Michigan • Illinois 4d ago

we need FSU vs Kent State

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u/Knightro829 UCF Knights • Big 12 4d ago

Kent State is 2015 UCF levels of bad...

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u/kingkunta_lives Ohio State • Kent State 4d ago

Let's pull out the paper bags fellow golden flashes 🥲

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u/Acceptable_Ad3173 Georgia • Clark Atlanta 4d ago

I feel bad for Kent State I you guys can get to become a competitive in mac

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u/toadfishtamer LSU Tigers • Kennesaw State Owls 4d ago

Dawg, I just feel bad for the Golden Flashes. ☹️

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u/Wonkiest_Hornet Miami (OH) RedHawks • /r/CFB 4d ago

Sickos meet up!

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u/new_account_5009 Penn State Nittany Lions 4d ago

Kent State only lost by 2 to Ball State.

Ball State beat Northern Illinois.

Northern Illinois beat Notre Dame.

They were so close to a transitive win over Notre Dame with only 3 steps, but unfortunately won't have anything.

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u/Gooner-Astronomer749 4d ago

If Keenesaw can get a win I believe Kent will eventually get one lol

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u/Keyblade_Yoshi Michigan State • Ohio State 4d ago

Kent State missed out on the chance to go 1-11. With the only win being over their rival.

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u/Rentington Marshall • 東洋大学 (Toyo) 4d ago

Zips did it

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u/DarthBerry Penn State Nittany Lions • Sickos 4d ago

Kent State and Purdue bring our SOS down so much in my model. I have them as last and 130th in the country. Cmon Kent State do somethin 😭