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That is true, but it's not the fault of USC. My point is that they're not intentionally scheduling body bag games at the beginning of the season. Just to be clear, I'm no USC fan. I used to live in that neighborhood, and the student body there was, well...the acronym University of Spoiled Children is quite appropriate.

Perhaps a two team sampling isn't indicative of an overall trend, but when I look at the best of each conference, LSU and USC, I see a huge difference. LSU schedules Appalachian St. and UNT while USC starts it's season with a road game against Virginia and a home game against Ohio State. Both teams routed the competition in the first two games, but USC at least put a hell of a lot more on the line. They could have feasibly been challenged or lost either one of those games, thus ruining their chances at the BCS championship game. LSU, on the other hand, gets full credit for their two victories, but there was no chance in hell that they were going to lose either one of them. The year that LSU and USC split the two voting polls (2003), LSU played ULM and Western Illinois. They lost one game to Florida. USC played BYU and Hawaii and lost to Cal in triple overtime. Doesn't seem equal to me. This year, USC doesn't have a single game against a non-BCS school. So while LSU is warming up, USC is already pounding it out, making it more likely that fatigue will be a factor later on in the season. The polls will reward USC for this only if it runs the table, but if both teams have one loss, I bet LSU will somehow come out on top in the polls. The SEC has obviously found a winning, and easy, formula for reaching the BCS successfully.

What!?!? Crap! What am I gonna' do with my tickets to Miami?

We lost by six more points to a national title defender than national powerhouse Ohio State did to USC tonight. Not too shabby.

Get rid of the penalties resulting from mental errors, and we're just about there.

If he's out, was it worth the money for the game?

Crap! Don't tell my math professor!

Take that Vegas! I'm calling this game a success, but the seven beers I had to drink for the seven LSU touchdowns have me a little wobbly and perhaps a little skewed in my judgment of the outcome of the game.

Chat's not working well for me. Oh well.

I do believe there needs to be an emoticon that I could have used to show my tongue firmly implanted in my cheek...hence the "I'd better quite while I'm ahead" remark at the end of the post.

I guarantee Dan Guerrero won't take this loss sitting down. He's got a pretty short leash when it comes to athletic failure.

UCLA -- Opened 1881 as the Los Angeles State Normal School. UNT -- Opened 1890 as the Texas Normal College and Teacher Training Institute. UCLA -- 25,400 undergrads, 11,179 grads UNT -- 27,300 undergrads, 6,845 grads UCLA -- 419 acres UNT -- 860 acres UCLA -- Worst loss this season -- 59 points UNT -- Worst loss this season -- 39 points I think I'd better quit while I'm ahead.

Yeah, but at least they've got a stadium that's only...lessee here...carry the one....86 years old.

I found it disconcerting that the announcer at Fouts had nothing better to say than, "And that's good...for a Mean Green.........FIRST DOWN!"

Honestly, it looks like Fouts minus the track to me. It's comparing a big new shiny pile of aluminum benches vs. an old dingy pile of aluminum benches.

Good lord. This FAU/MSU thing isn't a football game. It's a mud wrestling match!

I get the same deal with Texas Monthly. Unfortunately, Playboy doesn't seem to be jumping on the concurrent subscription bandwagon.

Can somebody please explain this concept to me? I know that good athletics increase applications to a given university, but I've never really seen evidence that a good football team makes one more marketable in the work place. True, there are schools with huge alumni networking bases. USC comes to mind for me, but that network was just as strong when USC sucked in the early nineties as it is today with the seemingly endless wins. One of the things I look forward to upon graduation from UNT is the alumni base in North Texas. My degree from UNT will be worth more than my degree from UC Irvine by virtue of geography and subject matter, not by virtue of aluminum benches vs. seat back chairs. *I'm not against the stadium. Really I'm not. I do think that there are some fallacies made both in favor of and against the stadium though. ** Would somebody please tell me what the hell I was thinking majoring in history the first time around? What's more useless than that? Art history?

Hmm.. Ok. Then failing that idea, let's follow the lead of our fearless governor and his answer to everything. Put a toll on the section of 35 that passes through Denton. *So grumbles the Frisco resident held captive to tolls in every direction out of town!*

Just do what every other city in the universe does when they want to fund a new stadium. Raise the hotel taxes to 8 bazillion percent. Then it doesn't cost the city a dime. We just get to bilk the fans of the opposing teams out of the money to pay for it.

Appalachian State isn't your run of the mill 1-AA team. Remember that last year their play actually caused rule changes in the polls resulting in their getting top 25 votes.

First of all, basketball has a lot more parity. Even teams from the Big West have done well on a national scale. But if you were to make subdivisions in basketball, there would probably have to be three of them (as it stands now, Irvine is officially classified as Division 1-AAA, or Division 1 with no football). Do that, and 65 of the remaining 100 D1A teams make the tournament with the other 35 making the NIT. Where's the fun in that? You don't think television would let the tournament go down the 32 teams do you?

Just how the hell did LSU become such a powerhouse in everything? National championships in Football and Baseball with multiple final four appearances in basketball? It just ain't right I tells ya'!

No beer at NCAA events sucks. How long has that been around? We used to get beer at Irvine basketball games in the early nineties -- hell, they even sold it in the stands for a while. I have no idea whether or not they still serve it now.

Ouzo?