Hours into another day of practice, Mesa State College senior offensive lineman Trevor Wikre faced a life-changing decision. For some, it would’ve been difficult. For Wikre, the decision to amputate his severely dislocated finger Tuesday was easy. It was easy because it gives him an opportunity to continue playing. Surgery to repair the finger meant he would likely never play another football game. Wikre told the doctor, “ ‘This is my senior year. If I want to go on, I’ve got to play great the rest of the way. These are my last few games, we’ve got to make this work.’ “He’s like, ‘We can’t.’ I said, ‘We can. Cut it off.’ I love football. When you face the fact you’ve played your last game, it hurts. If you love the game and you’re told that, you do whatever you have to do to play again. “This team means the world to me. I love everybody on the team like a brother. I told them all before the Western New Mexico game that I would have no...

Unless Stanford, presently down 21-14 at TCU in the fourth quarter, comes back, the Pac-10 could start this big weekend 0-3 (and Purdue just jumped on Oregon 7-0). Folks at USC should take note of the way Maryland, which lost last weekend at Middle Tennessee State, physically manhandled California. The very idea that USC wins in a walkover today against Ohio State just seems so... wrong... to me. Consider: In week two, Maryland gets whipped by a mid-major. Ohio State barely handles a mid-major. California looks dominant on its way to 2-0 and a national ranking. USC looks dominant at Virginia on its way to a No. 1 ranking. In week three, Cal, a heavy favorite, lays an egg to a Maryland team that was a laughingstock from the laughingstock ACC. Whither USC against the most maligned elite program from the maligned Big Ten? Here's a big difference, though: USC is playing at home. And, of course, USC is still USC. As for Cal, we probably can close the book on RB...