JB: Akey Enjoying WACky Year

This is part of Akey’s thrill – that the Vandals have not gone on this ride playing over their heads. They’ve beaten some good mid-level teams despite some hiccups in all three phases of the game, managing to conjure up a drive or make a fourth-down stop or deny a two-point conversion at defining moments. The incremental gains Akey sees he also saw a year ago when the Vandals were 1-6 at this juncture, “when the hardest thing in the world was looking them in the eye on Sunday when they weren’t getting the payoff for all their work.” The grim times are still too vivid for the Vandals to be too full of themselves now. In the tumult after beating Colorado State two weeks ago, a voice headed for the locker room could be heard saying, “Hey, we are for real”/ John Blanchette , SR. More here .

Question: Will the clock strike midnight for the 2009 Division I-A Cinderella team, the Idaho Vandals?