Let the season begin! And let Buffalo not lose by more than 50!

So, I was planning to post something making fun of the quality of games, or lack thereof, on this season-opening Thursday of college football. I was going to list a representative handful of tonight's contests, with sacrcastic exclamation points at the end of each one -- Cincinnati vs. Southeast Missouri State! Louisville vs. Murray State! Rutgers vs. Buffalo! -- and then I was going to say something like, "Try to contain your excitement about this scintillating array of games."

But then I learned that I may have the opportunity to watch the Buffalo-Rutgers game, in a sports bar in Buffalo, with a bunch of crazed UB fans. And naturally, being a huge dork with a soft-spot for lovable losers like the UB Bulls, I'm totally excited. So it would now be disingenuous for me to go ahead with my originally planned post. :)

It's funny: a few years ago, Buffalo-Rutgers would have been seen as a rare opportunity for the Bulls to perhaps pull an upset against a BCS-conference team. Nowadays, however, it's almost as daunting as Buffalo-Auburn was last year. Rutgers is a legit powerhouse with legit BCS (and Heisman) ambitions, while Buffalo's ambition remains the same as ever: to avoid losing each and every single game it plays. To not go winless. A lofty goal indeed. :)

Anyway, not that it matters -- and this is the last time I'll root against Rutgers this season, unless they play USC or Notre Dame in a bowl game -- but I'll say it for what it's worth: LET'S GO BUFF-A-LO!!!

Comments

[anon]

somehow rutgers has become one of the most overated teams in the country.

[Barbara]

Weston is digging out one of his UB Bulls "Alumni in Training" shirts for you...

[V]

Oh the Bulls. Good luck to 'em! I have a good feeling about this season. I predict we win 3 games.