Buffs Win! (another Nobel Prize)

It's only Wednesday and the Buffs are already winners.  The Nobel committee in Stockholm, who clearly have a mad crush on CU, have bestowed the Nobel Prize for Physics on faculty member Dave Wineland.   It's CU's 9th Nobel.

If there was a Nobel Prize for Mustaches he would win that too

To celebrate, the Buffs will have Wineland ride Ralphie as she leads the Buffs onto the field for their Thursday night tilt against the Arizona State Sun Devils*!  The sight of a thundering 1500 Buffalo and a mustachioed physicist will be terrifying enough to the visiting Devils.  Add to that the blackout clad Thursday Night Club of CU revelers and ASU should be duly intimidated.  Further add the fact (fact!) that the Buffs have never lost in a Thursday night game at home and this spells 2012 victory # 2 for the Buffaloes.

Yes, victory returns as the Buffs rise up against great odds and wallop a Sun Devil squad with designs on winning out in the Pac12 South division.  ASU brings a ferocious defense and a prolific offense to Folsom Field.  With a new coach, they've been everything the Buffs haven't been this year - productive, consistent, disciplined, creative and confident.  But a crisp, dark Thursday night in Boulder could change all that.  College football exemplifies beauty in chaos as the improbable happens every week.  

Every week.  It happened in 2008 when a underperforming, down-trodden Dan Hawkins led Buff squad rose up on a Thursday Night in front of a nationally televised audience to defeat the 21st ranked West Virginia Mountaineers in Boulder.

And so will the scene unfold in Boulder once again.  As an election season weary nation switches the tube to ESPN in search of distraction, they'll be met with a surprising scene.  A Buff team left for dead at the season mid-way point suddenly demonstrating that reports of their death had indeed been exaggerated.  

And an elated, all-black clad student body and alumni base storm the field once more.  And Dave Wineman's magnificent mustache will lead them.

Go Buffs!

* Untrue