Thank You, Texas Southern!!!

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Look, it's Texas Southern. This wasn't exactly Alabama walking in to The Rentsch Saturday afternoon. This is a SWAC team that doesn't even do much in the SWAC. That says it all, right there.
But, so what? This is what you're suppose to do to bad teams. In college football, where you get style points, winning 62-3 is impressive no matter who the opponent. I look at Texas Southern like this: sometimes, with race horses, trainers will bring in a second horse to run against their prized stallion. The second horse is always inferior and its only purpose is to lose and instill a sense of confidence in the racer. That was today, and it was needed.
When it's 62-3, there isn't much to discuss. It isn't like there is a lot to break down. The game was over before it started. Uconn scored touchdowns on seven straight posessions at one point, and Jordan Todman was over 100 yards for the game before the first quarter had even been put in the books. Randy Edsall literally could have gone into the stands, grabbed a dog and beer, and talked baseball with some fans and the outcome of the game would have been the same. It was a beatdown.
The only thing to take away from the game, quite frankly, is that everyone just needs to relax. As I said in the post after the Michigan game, Uconn wasn't winning a National Championship, so one loss wasn't a big deal. if Uconn takes care of its business, and gets better and better each week leading up to the Big East schedule, they will be in prime position to take that next step forward.
After a 62-3 mauling of another team, it is important to note that Uconn played about as bad as one possibly could for the first quarter and a half of football in Ann Arbor, got down by three touchdowns, then, for the next two and a half quarters, allowed Michigan only 9 more points and had two separate opportunities to turn the complexion of that game completely around. It is also important to note that Michigan beat Notre Dame at Notre Dame on Saturday where Denard Robinson went for 500 total yards, about 200 more than he got on Uconn. In other words, Uconn played poorly, but wasn't outclassed by Michigan.
Conversely, they manhandled Texas Southern the way a superior team should. So, we can all, in Husky Land, feel a little better about things. We can relax a bit, wait for the game in Temple, expect that Uconn will continue to get better, and get ready for Rutgers down in Jersey in a few weeks to open up what will be the referendum on the team.
Thanks, Texas Southern, for taking the body blows Uconn needed to deliver, for their own sanity.