Overall Akron thoughts...

We've covered the Akron game pretty thoroughly....here are some broad thoughts.

First, BG's depth at RB was never more important.  Samuel was injured in the 3rd, but BG didn't miss a beat.

Samuel:  15-117, 7.8 ypc.

Martin:  11-79, 7.2 ypc.

Pettigrew:  13-81, 6.2 ypc.

This wasn't all running backs.  Our line was absolutely blowing Akron off the ball.  Our guys weren't even encountering a defender until we were 5 yards past the line.  But the backs were really good in tight spaces, making people miss time and again.  These guys had a great performance.

The passing game was pretty much completely ineffective. We were 14 for 33 for 180 yards and 60 of those came on a screen pass that broke free.  Even with that, the results were just not good.

Coach always says there are 24 hours to enjoy a win.  The question looking forward is can this kind of thing be replicated?

First, I think our defense is much better than we might have thought.  I'll do a post on this tomorrow, but we have one of the top defenses in the conference so far, and that's against a pretty tough schedule.  

Second, on offense, we are not probably going to be able to be that one-dimensional and beat all of the teams on our schedule.  However, can we develop an attack that is based on running the ball and places less pressure on our passing game, allowing us to limit it to the things it does best and then get enough offense to win, with a solid defense?

That is what we will watch for starting next week.

Some notes from the bgsu official recap:

The 24-10 BGSU win versus Akron was the Falcons 500th win in school history.

In the third quarter the Falcons had 21 plays for 228 yards, compared to Akron’s 11 plays for just four yards.

Anthon Samuel finished the game with 117 yards rushing for his eighth career 100-yard game.

The 292 rushing yards were the most under head coach Dave Clawson.

Chris Jones now has 6.5 sacks of the season, extending his sack streak to five straight games.

Akron came into the contest averaging 38.6 points and 497.4 yards of offense per game. The Zips finished with just 10 points and 316 yards of total offense.