I’m not even sure why, but this tickles me. Fresno State 24, Rutgers 7. In New Jersey.
I’ll have to think about this.
I didn’t go to Fresno State. I don’t know anyone who did. No one who comes to mind. I have some cousins who live within 100 miles, but it’s not like they’re big FSU fans …
It must be a West Coast/East Coast thing.
I generally root for any team this side of the Rockies in any intersectional matchup. Most of the country lives in the eastern and central time zones, and most of them are convinced no football is played in the west, unless USC is up and running.
Other than that, it’s hard for anyone else in the West to get taken seriously. It’s hard enough for the Pac-10’s Next Beat team.
For your Utahs, Boise States, Hawaiis — Fresno States — it’s almost impossible. You have to go 12-0 and then, maybe, you crack the top 20.
I like it when Boise beats Oklahoma in the Fiesta Bowl. When Utah goes 13-0 and thrashes Big East champion Pitt 35-7 in the Fiesta a few years earlier.
And I like it when Fresno State flies to New Jersey, in a game that was scheduled late, with a layover in Wichita … and hammers a would-be rising Big East power.
I know this game somehow will be ignored or overlooked … but it’s another brick in the wall of building respectability for the good programs on the Left Coast.
3 responses so far ↓
1 Chuck Hickey // Sep 1, 2008 at 9:15 PM
Nice weekend for the Left Coast. UCLA beats Tennessee. Fresno State beats Rutgers in New Jersey. USC flies across the continent to beat down Virginia. Utah — UTAH! — wins at the Big House. Yeah, no football is played west of the Mississippi.
2 Albert // Sep 3, 2008 at 6:23 AM
Don’t forget Cal beating Michigan St. even though it was not considered an upset. Alot of this will be forgotten by the East Coasters, of course, when a team like Georgia beats ASU in a couple of weeks.
3 George Alfano // Sep 4, 2008 at 10:25 PM
Rutgers is always overrated. When I lived in New Jersey I always hated Rutgers. Most people in New Jersey don’t take Rutgers as a serious big-time college football program. They had success last year because the Big East is down, and will be now that Miami and Boston College left. the Big East is a baseketball conference. Being a Seton Hall fan means I hate Rutgers. I get a sick pleasure out of seeing Rutgers lose.
When I grew up, college football was just something that you could bet on for the parlay sheets (Yes, they are illegal, but almost everybody played them).
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