Tomorrow, the defending national champions of college football, Oklahoma, will play the cadets of the Air Force Academy here in Colorado Springs. The last I heard, Oklahoma is an 18.5 point favorite. Ignoring for the moment that there's no way to score half a point in football, I think that spread is actually pretty generous. Personally, I suspect this will be more like a reenactment of the Gulf War with the cadets playing the part of the Iraquis. However, hope springs eternal. Air Force never quits and has been known over the years to beat some really big name teams like Notre Dame.

Before every AFA home football game, there are fly-bys of military aircraft (our tax dollars at work). Over the years, I've seen just about every aircraft type in the Air Force inventory fly over the Academy. I heard an Academy spokesman say that tomorrow's fly bys will include a surprise. While the most useful surprise would probably consist of an A-10 straffing Oklahoma's bench, I wonder what they could do that would actually be a surprise. Personally, I'd like to see the AF football team parachute into the stadium. That won't happen but it would be cool.