Tee hee hee: Yep: I won another bet with Mike Tran, my “Irish Bruin” buddy from law school. If UCLA had won, I would’ve had to post a picture of myself in UCLA gear as my Facebook profile for a week. Instead, Mike has the distinct privilege and high honor of sporting cardinal & gold for three days. (I gave… Read more »
That is all. P.S. Okay, not quite all. One more thing: Heh heh. Fight On Trojans!! Beat fUCLA!! P.P.S. Also, Go Irish!! Beat the Drunken Trees!!
Okay, time for a little blog prediction contest… QUESTION: Who will be the head coach of Notre Dame’s football team next season? TIEBREAKER #1: On what date will Notre Dame announce its decision with respect to Charlie Weis? TIEBREAKER #2: On what date will Notre Dame announce Weis’s replacement (if applicable)? TIEBREAKER #3: What will be the margin of victory/defeat… Read more »
On the USC football team’s official blog, Ben Malcolmson goes there: Stanford’s loss to California on Saturday further muddied the Pac-10 race and also caused several people to scratch their heads in confusion. What is going on in this conference? USC beats California by 27 points, Stanford beats USC by 34 points and then Cal goes out and beats Stanford… Read more »
Should they? Of course not. Will they? Quite possibly, writes Stewart Mandel: Is the loser of the Pitt-Cincy game really going to end up in the Meineke Car Care Bowl? Really?? — John, Chicago If Notre Dame finishes 7-5 [or 8-4], most likely. The Gator Bowl has first choice of Big East teams after the BCS, but it’s also allowed… Read more »
Courtesy of Scout.com’s Matt Zemek: The commissioners of the Mountain West, Western Athletic, and Pac-10 Conferences (especially new Pac-10 boss Larry Scott) need to create their own answer to the SEC and Big 12 title games on the first weekend of December: Have the champions of the three leagues and one at-large second-place team compete in two made-for-TV games. Call… Read more »
Unfortunately, the scenario involves Wazzu winning, so it ain’t gonna happen. But Ken Stern can dream: [T]here would have to be a 6 way tie for the conference lead (with 6-3 records) among Oregon, Arizona, Stanford, Cal, Oregon State and USC. Under that scenario the first tie-breaker is the record against those teams and USC, Oregon State and Arizona would… Read more »
Most Trojan fans consider a “perfect day” to be a day when USC wins, and Notre Dame and UCLA both lose. As an “Irish Trojan,” I have a different definition: a Brendan Loy Perfect Day is a day when USC and ND both win, and UCLA loses. That’s happened a bunch of times since I enrolled at Notre Dame. What… Read more »
The craziest play of Saturday’s USC-ASU game. Hacky-sack in Tempe: The announcers didn’t even notice, in the real time, the fumble at the end of the play (which ended up being the focal point of the review). Speaking of which, why did ASU’s #5, Terell Carr — the same guy who kicked the ball earlier — run it back the… Read more »
In the wake of the Eugene Massacre, my posts on the BCS championship game “pecking order” have lost all significance for USC fans. It would take a nationwide collapse of utterly epic, cataclysmic proportions — making the BCS chaos of 2007 look like a day at the beach — to get the two-loss Trojans back into the national championship picture…. Read more »