Idiots Write About Sports

At the USC game, they were handing out small sheets of paper with next year’s schedule printed on it. The old 2006 schedule fell apart because the Pac-10 decided to take advantage of the new, official NCAA 12-game season to make a schedule featuring all nine other Pac-10 teams. Good news — there will be no more skipped match-ups as there have been in the past.
In addition to the nine conference games, Cal’s nonconference opponents were scheduled to be Minnesota, Louisiana Tech, and Tennessee. (Yes, Cal’s playing the Volunteers — at Tennessee in 2006 with a return visit to Berkeley in the offing as well.)
Turns out those paper schedules are now collector’s items. Cal’s game with Louisiana Tech (which oddly was slotted for Oct. 28, the in-conference bye week, rather than in the early part of the schedule as most nonconference games are) has been postponed to Sept. 15, 2007, according to the Contra Costa Times.
This means that Cal is now seeking a new nonconference opponent for next year, for the open Sept. 9 date. Anyone wanna play?
As of now, here’s the Cal schedule for 2006:

9/2	@ Tennessee
9/9	TBA
9/16	Minnesota
9/23	Arizona State
9/30	@ Oregon State
10/7	Oregon
10/14	@ Washington State
10/21	Washington
10/28	bye
11/4	UCLA
11/11	@ Arizona
11/18	@ USC
12/2*	Stanford

* The Contra Costa Times lists this game as 11/25, Thanksgiving weekend. My understanding is that the Big Game will actually be played Dec. 2, making it the first time that Cal has ever played a regularly-scheduled game in December. (The 2001 game versus Rutgers and 2004 game versus Southern Miss were both postponements from earlier-season dates.)