I was looking through the scores on ESPN.com yesterday and I noticed some good opportunities for gallows humor.  Look at our schedule and see how our opponents did:

San Diego State:  Continues to suck.  Epic loss to New Mexico (70-7!!).  Tell me there's no way for ND to end up in the same bowl game as the Lobos.

Michigan (sucks!):  Penn State unleashes a decade's worth of anger upon their tormentors.

Michigan State:  Takes their first opportunity in God knows how long to make some noise in a big Big Ten game and completely blows it.  Bye-bye ranking.  Sparty is on schedule for their second half collapse.  C'mon, Dantonio, keep them together enough to at least beat Michigan.

Purdue:  For some reason I thought they had a bye this week.  They seem to have thought so too.  Blowout by Northwestern.  PU, IU, and WU now firmly in the Big Ten basement.

Stanford:  Coughs one up to the UCLA team we barely beat last year to keep 2007 ND squad from setting the consecutive losses to start season record for all future time.

North Carolina:  Falls to hapless Virginia.  Bye-bye ranking.

Yes, friends, ALL of our previous opponents not only lost last Saturday, but they looked bad doing it, either getting blown out or losing to an inferior team (I guess you could quibble with Stanford-UCLA; that really probably was a toss-up).

Washington:  Thumped by Oregon State.  <yawn>  I'm sure they were just caught looking ahead.

Pittsburgh:  Thumped Navy 42-21.  Glad we get them at home.

BC:  Forces of evil upset Virginia Tech, earn first ranking of the season.  Gag.

Navy:  Thumped by Pittsburgh, see above.

Syracuse:  Annihiliated by South Florida.  <yawn>

USC:  Beats Washington State even worse than New Mexico beat SDSU.  I expect Pete Carroll chartered a flight home for the first team right after halftime.

So overall, three of our opponents won over the weekend, all three in such fashion as to convince the casual observer that they'll most likely beat us too.

I'm seeing 7-5 and a trip to the Sun Bowl, although 9-3 is still within reach if we could somehow play as well as we did against North Carolina minus the turnovers.