Who are these guys?

Michigan, Iowa, etc. NU plays some very well known schools, courtesy of belonging to a major 1-A conference (Big Ten). Duke, Air Force, Nevada. NU plays some pretty well-known non-conference teams, too.

But this week's opponent...Northeastern? Not only do I know nothing about their team, I have never even heard of the school. Ages ago, I entered a football pool at work every week. And invariably, this one girl in the office out-scored me every damn week. When I swallowed my pride and asked her how she did it, she told me she selected her winners by the color of their helmet. And I think that is what NU has done - they selected Northeastern based on its name, figuring that Northwestern versus Northeastern held some special cosmic geographical ad-sensible meaning.

So to start my investigation of this no-doubt formidable opponent, I visited the school's website. What amazing things I learned. The school is based in....well, the northeast, being in Boston. Perhaps they should take a cue from Northwestern, which....well, is not in the northwest. The website has a lot of blather about academic stuff, which was quite annoying while I looked for the team links.

And this is where I got confused. This school obviously has some kind of penis envy thing going on, as it refers to itself as NU. So we will have NU versus NU. How will we even know who won? Even worse, the team name is The Huskies...I am suspicious that this school is really NIU in disguise....is this some kind of creepy Novak plot to get revenge for the smackdowns we have laid on NIU in the past?

I'd make some predictions about the game, but that would require intelligent thought. So instead, link here to get the insider's analysis....altho I think the writer was being too polite, as I expect a huge smackdown with Northeastern slinking out the back door at half-time. Colonial Athletic Association? Quick, $100 if you can name one more school in this conference with less than 1 minute of deep thinking. Can't do it? Me either!