zip it
the final days of summer are upon us and so begins the transition to fall. as anyone who has spent time in the happy valley of central pennsylvania knows that means one thing...hundreds of thousands of people are about to spend some quality time in cow pastures, drinking ice cold beer, and feeding some pigs potato chips while singing the psu fight song. that's right, it's time for some college football and anyone who witnessed the nits magical run last year that culminated in a #3 finish in the polls, knows that this moment could not come soon enough. sure you tried to prognosticate this season's outcome while you stood in the freezing rain at the blue white game and you have no doubt poured over various copies of "preseason college football annuals", but that was a mere pacifier for the real deal, the season and home opener for the mighty nittany lions.
with the overwhelming success of last years campaign still fresh in most people's minds, the opener against the zips of akron is an interesting affair. fans desperately want a return to the psu of the past where there was no drop off from season to season just new faces wearing the blue and white and an annual trip to a new year's day bowl. of course with so many new faces (i.e. morelli, secondary, o-line, etc.) there are bound to be some slip ups saturday (look for a morelli pass to travel no more than 10 yards and strike an akron linebacker squarely in the chest at least once) but with an abundance of talent there are bound to be some exciting moments too (possibly the first real special teams play from an offensive stand-point in years).
i never really subscribed to the "trap game" theory and i squarely believe that a good big ten team should beat a good (not great) mac team virtually every time. that being said, the nits will run out of the tunnel to wild applause from the rain soaked faithful at the beav and put on a decent show. notre dame looms in the distance but psu will focus enough to "get 'er done". look for dwheels to line up all over the field and open his scoring account in '06 as the nittany lions beat the zips of akron 27-17.
go state...beat the zips
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if you really need help getting up for saturday's proceedings...here you go!
posted by robb | 8/31/2006
7 Comments:
It is going to rain - a lot. The game will be sloppy. The DWheels tatoo will be covered in mud. But, I am going to be more optimistic than you and go for broke:
Nits: 31
Zips: 17
The play and field will both be sloppy; Nits 24 Zips 10. We will play good enough for A. Scott to score a touchdown.
I think PSU will win by 14.
I was going to enter my own commment but thanks Robb for helping me out. I'll do better next week. Hope everyone enjoys the game, rain and all.
Mom
inside information says morelli spent a lot of time on the river this year - and he is not a big fan of getting wet...could lead to trouble. With that being said, morelli is lucky that hunt loves the MAC and runs for 3 scores:
Nits: 28
Zips: 17
I think there is almost as much hype been placed into the "fantastic QB hype machine" on luke Getsy as there has been on Brady Quinn. I don't deny their abilities, but I just don't care. Neither QB has played against the best linebackers in the country with the added combo of Jay "I'll bury you alive" Alford and Ed "Back from Suspension" Johnson. Let's not even mention John "I'm a circus freak in the weight room" Shaw. There's too much talent on D for this team to give up more than 17 points with the 1st team in. And, lest we forget, we have T Hunt, DWill and a guy by the likes of DButt (best nickname ever) to put a score up for the good guys. We may start sloppy, but we win handily, muddily, and readily. If I could think of another word that ended in "ily", i'd add it too, but I can't, so that must mean this prediction is over....
psu 37
akron 21 (touchdown in garbage time)
Penn State 24
Akron 3
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