Wednesday Roundup

We will get to Stanford game notes but today we have some bullet items of note, a picture of an odd-looking Dorrell at his recent Monday press conference, and an announcement of The Bruin Show tonight at 6 pm.:

• Stanford upset prediction:  We expect to blow out a well overmatched Cardinal team that we blew out and blanked last year with essentially the same team we have this year. Yeah, new Stanford head coach Jim Harbaugh can make the team better than 1-11 but not against UCLA, although a San Jose reporter, John Wilner, thinks the Furd will go 0-12.  Still, if you look hard enough (or if someone emails you, as is the case here) you will find that one genius who picks the unthinkable upset.  Today's genius prognosticator:  LawPundit.  Yeah, completely insignificant but he's the first that we found to predict the upset so to him go the glories: "Indeed, we predict that to start out the season, (Stanford) will ambush a vastly more talented UCLA Bruins team still struggling with a new west coast offense." Oookay.
• Pre-Season honors: More pre-season honors are being doled out. This time RB Chris Markey is on the watchlist for the Doak Walker award that goes to the nation's top running back.
• SuC dogfighting revisted: Amazing story found by BruinsNation.com poster Meriones about how SuC RB coach Todd McNair was arrested in 1996 for dogfighting and convicted of cruelty to animals.  McNair also was intimately involved in the Reggie Bush scandal.  Guess Eric Scott has a lot to live up to.  Look for this story to hit the mainstream soon. Update: It has!
• Depth chart out:  The depth chart for the UCLA Bruin football team has been released.  UCLA can only take 65 players to a conference matchup that isn't a rivalry game, so the depth chart only goes so deep for Saturday's game. Of note, Christian Ramirez will travel to the Farm as a backup at RB and Fred Holmes will travel as a backup at FB. Both players were practicing in defensive positions as recently as last week.  Also, Rasshan will be heading to the Farm as a 3rd string QB "for emergencies."

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