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| Week Twelve |
| posted November 15, 2003 10:15 AM EST Denise Butterfield, a 69-year old woman in Daytona Beach, Florida, needed to renew her driver�s license. So, Denise hopped in her car and headed over to her neighborhood DMV on Thursday. While pulling into the handicap space at the DMV, her car suddenly, and unexplainably, jumped the curb and smacked into the front of the building, narrowly missing two people sitting on a bench. According to Denise�s recount of the story, she �never hit the accelerator. The gas engaged itself." Obviously, Denise was given a ticket for careless driving. Incidentally, she was also given a renewed driver�s license. Isn�t this just like college football? You screw up big time and yet you still get another shot at the glory. Just look at the teams that are vying for a shot at the National Championship game. There are three one-loss teams with a shot at the Sugar Bowl: USC, LSU and Ohio State. If you ask the PSU Preview Staff, the team that is most reminiscent of Denise is Ohio State. They have had several harrowingly close calls where the car has jumped the curb, but not quite smacked into the building. The most recent close call coming against our beloved Nittany Lions, where it was a DMV official, dressed in black and white, standing at the door that stopped the car from hitting the building. The Staff usually likes to �spread the love� when picking an upset of the week, but we are inexplicably drawn to the Buckeyes like a moth to a flame when it comes time for upset picking. Let�s say that time and again, like Denise's accelerator, the Buckeyes just engage themselves into an upset pick. The Buckeyes are taking on the Purdue Boilermakers, a team very close to the Staff�s heart. Ohio State ranks 99th in total offense, but the Buckeye defense is 5th overall. The Boilermakers will be traveling to Columbus with the country�s 10th ranked defense and 62nd ranked total offense. What this means is that the score is going to be low on a sloppy, wet, cold day in the Horseshoe. Ohio State will be taking on rival Michigan next week, so we could play the �looking ahead� card. The Staff doesn�t need to pull that card out this week. This is simply a matter of appeasing the Gods of college football. You can only tap the DMV front door with your bumper so many times before you break through. Should people like Denise really have licenses and should teams like Ohio State really be in contention of the National Title? |
| Upset of the Week |
| Purdue Boilermakers over Ohio State Buckeyes Saturday, November 15, 2003 The Horshoe (Ohio Stadium) - Columbus, Ohio 3:30 PM EST - ABC Sports |
| Photo � Purdue University |
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| PSU PREVIEW PREDICTION: Ohio State 3 - Purdue 6 |
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