Joy of joys, it's Weber State football game day once again, whence our heretofore underachieving WSU Wildcats football squad ( 1-7, 0-4) comes off a "restful" bye week and travels north to Portland, Oregon (official city motto: "We have a streetcar and you don't"), for tonight's gridiron contest against the Portland State Vikings (4-4, 1-3). Kickoff's set for 2:00 p.m. (Mountain) at the Portland City Corporation's most impressive ELD-WEN Field:
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Here's the pre-game setup from the Standard-Examiner and the newspaper down south, O ever-eager Wildcat fan[atic]s:
While Portland's three local newspapers devote not a single byte of electronic ink to this afternoon's important Big Sky Conference tilt-off, here's the local pre-game perspective from the Portland State website:
Dang. Even though Portland State probably can't exactly be regarded as a Big Sky Conference powerhouse, for the eighth straight week, our WSU Wildcats nevertheless remain Las Vegas oddsmaker underdogs:
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And just to get your Wildcat juices flowin', we've bullet-pointed these possible pre-game WSU "bright points," fastidiously gleaned from the articles linked above:
- Weber State has won the last five meetings in the series, including the last three trips to Portland.
- The Wildcats have won five of eight Big Sky Conference games played at JELD-WEN Field.
- In the 'Cats' last game (MSU v. WSU) "ace" quarterback Chipoletti and the rest of the WSU squad actually "got their groove on" (well, almost).
- Coming off a bye week, a previously battered WSU squad is all rested up. Although they barely practiced on the field at all, they thus had plenty of extra time to engage in useful "off-field" game simulations on their trusty team-issued X-boxes, right?
- It's reaching the point where Coach Sears' job security might possibly be on the line, so if Sears knows what's good for him, this afternoon's game will no doubt involve a little extra "crackin' of the whip," if you know what we mean (and we think you do.)
Yep. We think so.
GO WILDCATS!
Right?
Update 11/2/13 4:09 p.m.: PSU on top 24-10 at halftime. Vikings with 165 yards rushing, WSU with 18.
Update 11/2/13 5:24 p.m.: For those who have or haven't been closely following the WSU football program, here's the score of tonight's BIG game: PSU 45; WSU 24. WHATTABUMMER!
Update 11/3/13 8:00 a.m.: The Standard provides the post-game story:
Next up: Southern Utah, 1 p.m.next Saturday at Stewart Stadium.
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