In a bizarre season of MAC football, we crowned our East division champion on Tuesday night. It was a team almost nobody expected to earn a trip to Detroit for the conference title game — the Akron Zips.
Akron took care of business and finished the regular season 7-5 after soundly defeating a 2-10 Kent State program by a score of 24-14. Here are takeaways from the battle for the Wagon Wheel, arguably the conference's greatest rivalry trophy.
Akron proved just about everybody wrong
In the MAC coaches' preseason poll, the Zips were selected to finish fourth in the East division.