I've never been to Tuscon but it seems like a nice enough place and Arizona seems like a nice enough school. But I gotta tell you, their Wikipedia page is one of the most boring things I've ever read. And I've read several things I'll have you know.
Wikipedia facts:
- Nobel laureates: 4 (CU has 8)
- Astronauts: 4 (CU has 18)
- Football National Championships: 0 (CU has 1)
- Heisman Trophies: 0 (CU has 1)
- Skiing National Championships: 0 (CU has 17, ha!)
Famous Arizona alums:
Greg Kinnear (actor), Linda Ronstadt (singer), Baraba Kingsolver (author), David Foster Wallace (author), Geraldo Rivera ("journalist"), Jerry Bruckheimer (producer of films in which shit blows up), Don Knotts (Barney Fife), Jenny Finch (Olympic softball pitcher).
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| Remember "Talk Soup"? That was a good show. |
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| Enduring artist known for such classics as, uh... |
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| If anyone ever deserved a punch in the nose, it's this guy |
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| Every Bruckheimer film ever |
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| "Opie went to a better school than I did?!" |
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| U! S! A! |
Fun fact about the the CU-Zona matchup: Buff star receiver Paul Richardson will be defended by his cousin, Wildcat cornerback Shaquille Richardson. So there that is.
Other fun fact: Arizona, the 11th team CU has played this year, is the first one to enter the CU game with a losing record. Zona is 2-7 overall having only beaten Northern Arizona and a team coached by Rick Neuheisel. Arizona has been so hapless this year that they fired their head coach, Mike Stoops, mid-season.
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| Stoops face. The one quality he shares with Bob. |
Zona is bad, I mean CU bad, on defense. They are battling us for 12th pace in the conference for defensive statistics. Saturday's match will decide the winner (er, loser).
But offensively the Wildcats sport one of the best QBs in the country - such is the way of the Pac-12. In a conference full of gun-slingers, Nick Foles might be the gun-slingiest. A possible first round NFL draft pick.
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| Itchy trigger finger |
The Buffs return several defensive players from injury or suspension. So the short-handedness won't be quite as acute this week.
Plainly put, this is the best chance for a Buff victory in several weeks. And it's on Senior Day. This senior class hasn't been what you would call successful but they have been scrappy and inspired. None more so than Speedy Stewart who will leave CU as one of our all-time leading rushers despite the fact that he was running behind a sub-par O-line for most of his career and he is the size of a peanut. So come witness him play one more time.
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| Love you, Peanut |
GO BUFFS!
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