Cancel the trip and pass the jelly.

Guess I might as well not bother with the bowl trip. Here is what John Canzano wrote this morning in the Portland Oregonian about Oregon's win on Thursday.

...it became obvious on the field at Autzen that because of the jobs Kelly and Riley have done, Ohio State wouldn't have beat either one of them...The first meeting of what will certainly be called "Mike Riley vs. Chip Kelly I" went to Kelly. And when I saw the men match wits, shuffle personnel and shake afterward, I thought, "Ohio State is toast....."

Well the war of words is on. The above quote is some of the tamer ones in his article. The more I read what is written out there, the more I understand and even admire Woody's contempt for the West Coast writers. In the old days Woody, God bless him, would have punched a guy who wrote that. We know Coach T will not do that...just quietly go to work and I think get the job done.

Let em boast. I will keep my tickets and head west to see it play out on the field, in what my now departed friend once described as "California, the land of Fruits and Nuts."