* Respect to Duke for not moving the game to Charlotte and selling an extra 30,000 seats, of which 29,997 would have probably gone to Alabama fans. However, the real problem might have been scheduling the game in the first place. No idea why some of these games happen.
* Speaking of – apparently the Nevada tilt was considered Cal’s “A” non-conference game this year. I don’t know whether this is begging the question or just after-the-fact rationalization, but it makes no sense to me that you’d schedule your non-con games C-B-A, leaving all summer for Davis but needing a short week for a road game at altitude against an exotic offense with a propensity for breakaway scoring. For the first time, we have a loss that may be less on Tedford and more on Sandy Barber’s scheduling – something that’s already giving pause for thought with the month gap between home games.
* I think before the season, people would have been thrilled with a 30-27 OT loss to Houston and a win over Dallas to start the season. Proof, if any were needed, that the euphoria of beating Dallas is a worse drug than black tar heroin. Also, Gary Kubiak does need to eat a bag of dicks for that utterly hack move with the timeout before the field goal, but do you know who was the first to bring that particular move to the NFL? That’s right, noted douchebag Mike Shanahan – now the coach of the Redskins. Karma’s a motherfucker, and we could do without it, especially now that the universe has ten years of illegal cut blocks to reckon with.
* Four out of six. Math it up. Vandy has beaten LOL Miss (ht EDSBS) four years out of the past six, including both of the last two games in Oxford. There’s a reason a win over the Rebels has become a critical component of Big Six, and matters are probably made worse this year with the likely loss IN Connecticut (who the hell is scheduling these things)? and the resulting need for two extra conference wins to make six (although you have to think Tennessee could be had, and we do have a way of tripping up South Carolina whenever they get good). I don’t know how good the Furd is, but looking at Wake Forest down 41-7 at the half I’m more sanguine about our prospects for derailing the Demon Deacons to end the year…