The kids and I drove down to Zanesville, Ohio to rejoin the wife last night. And so the kids can see grandpa. This morning — really, really early — I headed to the ‘Burgh. That stretch on I-70 from Cambridge, OH into West Virginia remains one of the more desolate, dreary stretches to drive. Even in the spring and summer large patches are nothing but brown lands and burned out husks of ramshackle houses and barns. Fall and winter, you just hit the gas a little more frequently and try to get through the area quickly.
So, it’s an 11 am Homecoming game on ESPNU.
Louisivlle is ranked. Favored in the game. Has a quality coach and a potentially dynamic, young QB. But for the whole, stuck-in-the-Big-East-until-the-Big-12-decides-to-go-to-12-teams thing, things are going well for the Cards. Fully recovered from their exposure to the Krags N1N virus they contracted from Tulsa.
Pitt is…