And again, conference standings aren’t on the line and the game is so early in the season it doesn’t have that same “strong finish” aspect it used to. In the sense of having the security that “little brother” will remain a punching bag and that there’s no real reason to fear an upset I suppose this can be a good thing, but doesn’t that kind of take the excitement out of it? Screaming my lungs out in the flood of people on the field in the bitterly-cold air in 2009 wasn’t just because we’d secured a spot in the Rose Bowl, it was also because we had defeated a very good team in Oregon State and the outcome had been anything but certain.
Author: SB Nation
Published at: 2025-07-15 23:00:00
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