FOOTBALL FRIDAY, WEEK 11

Happy Football Friday to all the Cougar faithful. Hope you all had a solid, solid week. As always, hard to believe that we are in the 11th game of this season. And what implications this one has for the future of this program.

As noted earlier in the week, this one may be the most important game of the Doba era. Win this week and you are headed straight for 8-4 with an Apple Cup, that while still HUGELY important, would not have the same pressure attached to it. Plus, 8-4 is so qualitatively different than 7-5 or 6-6. With a down year likely next year, and with two losing seasons in the rears, we REALLY need a GOOD season this year to show that we’re still a truly competitive program.

So, what’s gonna happen this weekend?

While Brinkhater loves Sedihawk’s optimisim–and prays that he is 1000% correct–the outlook of this weekend’s game is just not so rosy for me. That said, I totally agree that we are better than the Devils, I think we are more of a team than the Sun Devils, and I think that we are much better coached than the Sun Devils.

I also think that our quarterback, Mr. Alex Brink, is MUCH better than their little sophomore. So, if you do the little position-by-position checkbox thing, we win this game. Period.

But, I don’t think that anyone who knows this team and knows Mr. Brink can overlook how MONUMENTAL the loss of BOTH Hill and Bumpus are to this offense. In the end, I just don’t think that we are going to be able to move the ball and when we do, we’re gonna struggle to score touchdowns. Its really that simple. The sad thing is, with one of those two guys at 100%, we win this game. With both of them, we run away with it.

Nothing would delight me more than to see Brink light it up and to have us win this game going away. Like I said last week as well, nothing would delight me more than ANY WIN. I’d take a 3-2 romp right now…..(I also think that there’s a chance that the two TE POWER BALL set that I eluded to earlier in the week COULD prove to be very effective).

But, my sense is that it ain’t gonna happen. ASU 21 WSU 13. Cougs will battle with the Dawgs next week to see whether Sedihawk (pre-season prediction 7-5) or Brinkhater (pre-season prediction 6-6) were the soothier soothsayer.

Other games:

UW 21 Stanford 20–UW is not playing well now and Stanford is improving–at least according to them. UW will be thinking “lay up” while Stanford will be VERY motivated to avoid a winless season (and yes, they will think they can win this game). This one may be something ugly.
USC 38 Oregon 27 – Quack will be kept in check until late, Troy will RUN over that defense.
CAL 48, AZ 7 – Any chance of an upset or close game evaporated with the Cats upset over the Cougs. Now, AZ has Cal’s attention and the Bears will want to make a BIG statement before the USC game. When we see this score, last week will feel even worse
OSU 38 UCLA 14: Love Sedihawks upset call–could happen. But to me, OSU is just too hot and UCLA just too not. TO’s do the Bruins in–again.

Enjoy the last weekend of untelevised Cougar football.

Win this stinkin’ game, fellas!

And GO ALEX BRINK! (I’m changing the moniker if we win)