I was at a birthday get-together this evening and was talking with another State fan. His wife, who was standing nearby, is a USM fan and asked me how I felt about the game. I told her I expected State to win. She said that State always used to say they would beat the hell out of USM, but then USM beat us. It took all I had not to burst out laughing. I leaned in next to the State fan I'd been chatting with and said:"They didn't used to be 1-23 either."