APOLOGIES. THINK ON THIS

I love seeing Michigan get beat. All-time fave: ’94, the Hail Mary from Stewart to Westbrook, and I hate Colorado, but man I love seeing Michigan lose.

Damn you Swindle. I was in sitting the the corner of that endzone 10 rows away when that happened.

Adrian Arrington called to tell you he’s in Florida’s endzone again.

Mingovians unite! The race is close.

The real UM trauma happened the week before this game. 34-32 or sumptin like dat.

listening to the Pre-season top 10 thing…. I never knew Wake Forest’s QB played WR at Florida.

You can all fuck off for mentioning Notre Dame and Arizona (State) before Cal as USC’s tough road games.

EAST COAST BIAS.

(Also Jahvid is pronounced exactly as spelled: “Jah” as in mandible, “vid” as in video.)

Also while much of the hype around Cal does revolve around Best, that’s due to oversight of Cal’s other assets rather than Best being a big fish in a small pond. We’ve got a ridiculously deep secondary with four returning starters, a tough 3-man front with three returning starters, a 3-4 defensive scheme that only stands to get more effective in year two (even in year one it held USC to 17 and Oregon to 16), solid depth at offensive line, a dependable backup runner in Shane Vereen, a field-reversing punter, one of the guys behind Utah’s 13-0 run calling plays, and a favorable schedule (only one major road game against Oregon, maybe two if I’m underestimating Dennis Erickson or Rick Neuheisel).

Will we find a way to blow it and miss the Rose Bowl? You’re damn right we will. But is it possible to know that on anything more than an intuitive level? I say no sir.

AERose:
Cal’s defense will be its best ever BY FAR, even with the loss of 3 seniors LBs (all three of which could be second-day NFL draft picks)… weird attacking 3-4 schemes seem to work wonders against the Pac-10, which is weak on quality OTs.. It doesn’t hurt that the two DEs on the line will both play on Sundays — keep an ear out for Cameron Jordan to rocket up Kiper and McShay’s mutual masturbation board…

We also have Oregon’s number, and we’ll make it 4 in a row when the Bears roll into Autzen. Look for another LeGarette Blount -2 yard stinker… Huzzah!

It would seem Mr Dixon is doing better than expected with the Steelers. Look for him to push Charlie Batch for the #2 spot this year (which is critical because Ben always misses a game or two) and have it for sure in 2010. Good for him to come back the way he has.

Damn that was fun watching Dixon wax Michigan…

Real life? REAL LIFE?!?!?

I thought you were pissing away the week in Vegas, an activity that I can wholly endorse.
But now you’re telling me that you’ve been engaging in “real life” activites?

Oh, Swindle… (shakes head)

Just kidding… it’s funny how much “real life” you inherit when you buy a house isn’t it?

Second to Tim Tebow? No offense, but if Dennis Dixon doesn’t shred his knee against Arizona he wins the Heisman that year.

Audit, was about to post the same thing. Some revisionist history up in here.

“…Dennis Dixon, the Oregon qb who probably should have finished second in the 2007 Heisman to Tim Tebow.”

Sorry, O. I know you’re a Gator, but Tebow nor Dixon should have won the Heisman that year.

/Darren McFadden fan/
/still bitter/

But he had that wood, Sue E.!

Nate Longshore

Nate Longshore beat Dennis Dixon that year at Oregon. Late in the 4th quarter Nate Longshore busted his ankle and was never the same. Nate Longshore was Mel Kiper’s #1 QB of his class at the time of the injury. In two days Nate Longshore will go undrafted.

Even Dennis Dixon didn’t get jobbed by fate as badly as Nate Longshore.

The Pac-10 had 3 teams ranked #2 in the country whose QB went down with injury that year*. The Pac-10 is a weird place.

• (USC – Booty, Cal – Longshore, Oregon – Dixon)

And that’s not even counting Rudy Carpenter, who just got his ass kicked on a regular basis.

This video does a good job summing up the state of the Heisman race going into that Oregon-Arizona game
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4LRaXRNRVjM