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Snorlax, your parenthetical re: Utah is about this year, no?

As for Woofing Gods, well put them aside.

My only caution:  Stanford has shown the ability to lay an OSU or WSU offensive egg at any time.  And if that happens, C.al should win.  I certainly hope that doesn't happen, and I don't really expect it.  But expecting too much from this O is a shaky proposition.  [I do think that Love, if healthy, has a chance for a big game].

Yes, I would say that the offense is good, but a bit fragile.  Fortunately, much less so at home than on the road, but sample sizes are small enough that I wouldn't be able to rule out laying another egg.  To an extent we dodged a bullet last Friday by completing a large number of low probability third downs (third and 7 or 8), which covered something of a concern, which was that we had trouble moving the  ball consistently on early downs (thus creating easy third down conversions).  If that continues against Cal, and this time Costello fails to hit those third down conversions, we could easily be in trouble.

BC

[BostonCard]

Snorlax, your parenthetical re: Utah is about this year, no?

As for Woofing Gods, well put them aside.

My only caution:  Stanford has shown the ability to lay an OSU or WSU offensive egg at any time.  And if that happens, C.al should win.  I certainly hope that doesn't happen, and I don't really expect it.  But expecting too much from this O is a shaky proposition.  [I do think that Love, if healthy, has a chance for a big game].

Yes, I would say that the offense is good, but a bit fragile.  Fortunately, much less so at home than on the road, but sample sizes are small enough that I wouldn't be able to rule out laying another egg.  To an extent we dodged a bullet last Friday by completing a large number of low probability third downs (third and 7 or 8), which covered something of a concern, which was that we had trouble moving the  ball consistently on early downs (thus creating easy third down conversions).  If that continues against Cal, and this time Costello fails to hit those third down conversions, we could easily be in trouble.

BC