OK now I'm glad it's football season

Apologies for making too much drunken, rooting, Twitter noise last night but this really was one of the most satisfying football games I've watched in quite a while. Also satisfying is John DeShazier's (somewhat crow-eating) column in this morning's T-P.

The Ducks still are no match for upper-level SEC teams, even if that team has been dealt a potentially devastating distraction less than 10 days before the season-opening extravaganza -- even if it also is without one of its leading returning playmakers, even if its offense must pare down on the play calls because certain calls simply aren't applicable anymore.

If anything the Tigers probably benefited from the loss of Jefferson and Shepherd. Had they been available it is likely LSU would have been tempted to execute a more unnecessarily elaborate game plan than the muscular pounding attack that took such clear advantage of Oregon's physical inferiority last night. Sometimes the best idea is just to line up and play football. I hope this is what the LSU coaches learned from the experience.