Sorry folks, no Joel Klaat or Gus Johnson in this game, which features a struggling Michigan squad revved up to take its mediocre football team into Happy Valley to prove to its fans that life is nothing but an exercise in futility.
The Buddha taught there are three kinds of dukkha (a form of words for suffering). The first kind is physical and mental pain from the inevitable stresses of life like old age, sickness, and death. The second is the distress we feel as a result of impermanence and change, such as the pain of failing to get what we want and of losing what we hold dear. The third kind of dukkha is a kind of existential suffering, the angst of being human, of living a conditioned existence and being subject to rebirth.
On Saturday, Michigan's fans shall know all three.
A note about the rankings: USNEWS changed it from #17 a couple weeks ago...what could possibly have shifted it 2 positions?
I looked to see where Penn State is considered elite. These are its best ratings per the jokers at USNEWS:
#26 in Arts and Humanities
#28 in Materials Science (glad my son doesn't know this...he might want to do this field of study and I'd hate for him to go to PSU)
#26 in Plant and Animal Science (agriculture I'm guessing)
#33 in Space Science (really?)
#1 in sending annoying people to work in Washington, DC.