WildcatRick
10-12-2007, 06:45 AM
Stranger things have happened.
Let's just put that right out there. In this college football season, far stranger things will have happened than if the University of Kentucky were to knock off No. 1 LSU on Saturday.
In fact, a UK upset of the Tigers probably wouldn't crack the top five, which at the moment looks something like: 1. Appalachian State over Michigan; 2. Stanford over Southern California; 3. Notre Dame over anybody; 4. Mike Patrick bringing up Britney Spears in the Alabama-Georgia overtime; 5 (tie). Mike Gundy's "garbage" news conference and the University of Louisville's defense.
So we're not crazy to talk about it.
LSU is coming off an emotional win over Florida, perhaps the game of the year in college football. Florida lost at home to Auburn a week before. Texas and Oklahoma both lost a week before they played each other.
Can the Tigers be immune to the weirdness? They're not. LSU nearly trailed Tulane at halftime two weeks ago.
Now I'm not saying it isn't a stretch. It's an Under-Armour-over-Ralph-Friedgen's-gut stretch. No. 1 teams have crossed the border into Kentucky six times and won all of them -- four against UK and two against U of L.
The terms "UK" and "beating No. 1" are not ones generally mentioned together in football. I entered them on an Internet search, and the result was, "You're kidding, right?"
http://www.thenewsstar.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20071011/UPDATES02/71011024/1006/SPORTS
Let's just put that right out there. In this college football season, far stranger things will have happened than if the University of Kentucky were to knock off No. 1 LSU on Saturday.
In fact, a UK upset of the Tigers probably wouldn't crack the top five, which at the moment looks something like: 1. Appalachian State over Michigan; 2. Stanford over Southern California; 3. Notre Dame over anybody; 4. Mike Patrick bringing up Britney Spears in the Alabama-Georgia overtime; 5 (tie). Mike Gundy's "garbage" news conference and the University of Louisville's defense.
So we're not crazy to talk about it.
LSU is coming off an emotional win over Florida, perhaps the game of the year in college football. Florida lost at home to Auburn a week before. Texas and Oklahoma both lost a week before they played each other.
Can the Tigers be immune to the weirdness? They're not. LSU nearly trailed Tulane at halftime two weeks ago.
Now I'm not saying it isn't a stretch. It's an Under-Armour-over-Ralph-Friedgen's-gut stretch. No. 1 teams have crossed the border into Kentucky six times and won all of them -- four against UK and two against U of L.
The terms "UK" and "beating No. 1" are not ones generally mentioned together in football. I entered them on an Internet search, and the result was, "You're kidding, right?"
http://www.thenewsstar.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20071011/UPDATES02/71011024/1006/SPORTS
