With that said, Troy beat OSU by 18 last year (Ironic?), I just hope the pokes can avoid another horrible embarassment, because this is a good Troy team. Here's to 12-0 for the state.

The irony does abound in the scores, but 10-2 I think is reaching for OSU at this stage. Even if we hammer Troy by let's say 21, that still doesn't necessarily leave us better than Mizzou, Texas, Texas Tech, and OU. Beyond that we have to travel to 3 of the 4 of those and it would be one thing if the somewhat easier games were in Stillwater and gave us better upset chances, but the hardest game is in Stillwater leaving us less of a chance to have an upset against those lesser teams. That still puts us at 8-4. That is also assuming that the games against Mizzou, Texas, and Texas Tech don't leave us beleaguered when we get to those mountains in Colorado. Colorado looks to be sub-par. Does anyone really think West. Va is that good? They lost to Colorado and got beat up by an ECU team that just lost some of its luster. Nevertheless they are still at least an OK team and if we don't have our stuff together for that game we probably won't walk out victorious.

Beating Troy handily means that 7-5 should be the minimum with a goal of 8-4 and a parade if 9-3. Troy may be good but not that good when compared with the competition OSU will face later in the season, especially the road competition.