TruffleShuffle

yep, we're playing michigan. fumbled snap on a qb sneak, then field goal off the upright. nice job guys.

did spielman just refer to evan royster as blue royster cult? sean mcdonough is a good announcer, why is he saddled with spielman?

i tailgated earlier so i was having a few beers during the game (gotta work late tonight), but if michigan scores on this drive i am breaking into the liquor cabinet and going nuts.

michigan always plays their best game of the year against us and we always play our worst (see that last play, for example), so who knows.

our front seven should be embarrassed

You think Michigan could beat them? oh without a doubt. baylor blew them out for God's sakes.

at halftime, usc has outgained wazzu 408 to 18. wazzu seriously is worse than most i-aa teams.

that works. the tackling in this play has been garbage, we had two guys hit a michigan rb behind the line of scrimmage on 4th down, and royster was penned in there and got loose.

we need to score this drive, before the doubt starts to really take hold.

i'm already so angry i can't see straight.

brb, going to drink some poison

When you break off a long TD run on the second play from scrimmage coming up, you will not be worried anymore. Penn States offense is too good. If Michigan loses by less than 17, I'll consider it a victory. michigan's defense really isn't bad though. i don't know how the hell that just happened; michigan's offense sucks. but somehow i knew that they'd play their best game of the year today, they usually do.

usc 41, wazzu 0 5 minutes left in the second half :-))

wow michigan just ran all over penn st in the first drive... if we lose this game i might kill someone.

"it was the best of times, it was the BLURST of times?!?!? you stupid monkey!"

i wonder if derwood is still more concerned about the michigan state home game than the ohio state night road game.

maybe moo is not ready for the big boys' table.

seriously is there any acc team that you feel very confident about beating another acc team? the conference is just wall to wall mediocrity and inconsistency.

wait john kruk seriously said that brett myers' arrest for beating his wife would cause him to make the next step and become the staff ace? in what world is there a cause and effect there???

I think that HR knocked a satellite out of orbit. yeah unfortunately all those baseball prognosticators who said "lidge will never be the same" were dead on the money. oh wait never mind, he hasn't blown a save in 2008.

So did I. i think like half of america had that game right, byu was like a one point favorite. that really wasn't an upset.

so the model is assuming that usc has a 0.2% chance of getting lost on the way to the stadium tomorrow?

IT'S THE DEFINING PURPOSE OF THE GAME you're missing his point. oh, and I can't wait for 2 or 3 years from now when PSU plays Alabama OOC but Alabama happens to be 4-8 that year and then everyone bitches about how PSU never schedules anyone good for OOC if nick saban is still there - and given his history, that's a big if - alabama will not be 4-8.

oh usc is one team i would never take to task for playing a weak non-conference schedule. i would guess that if you look at their OOC schedule the last ten years, it's as hard as anybody's in the country. however, i'd argue that a lot of the prominent sec, big xii and acc schools have a habit of doing the same thing - scheduling a slate of duds out of conference. occasionally the MAC slot machine pays out and our game against akron or toledo turns out to look not-bad in hindsight, but yeah, if psu is average or better in the big ten, they're scheduling at least three auto-wins in the non-conference schedule, and that annoys me.

miami and florida state i can buy, but hawai'i? come on, they weren't thinking "here's a tough non-conference team we can play," they were thinking "here's a wac school that goes 8-4 every year and then wins the hawai'i bowl, but is notoriously bad on the mainland, especially when traveling longer distances." but yes, when you have miami and fsu on your non-conference schedule, you can expect to play a difficult schedule. i'm not taking florida to task for playing an easy schedule in or out of conference, but i do have a big problem with them losing to ole miss. and again, i wish psu would schedule another legitimate game every year. they do try to schedule one each year - nebraska and miami in the late '90s and early '00s, notre dame the last two years, syracuse (who it turns out is awful) this year and next. the problem i have is that if that "real" non-conference opponent is down, then your non-conference schedule - which they usually fill out with mac schools, temple (so tired of playing them) and a i-aa team here and there - is a joke. if the conference is strong then it's not a huge deal, but if the big ten is down, then the schedule is really lame and you're not going to get a whole lot of respect. the only year i can remember playing two legitimate bcs teams was in 2003 when we hosted boston college and then went to nebraska.