The national media conspiracy to discredit Tennessee is deeper and more widespread than previously thought. Don’t believe me? Look at publicity trumpeting Michigan’s loss in their opening cupcake game. The liberal left wing propaganda machine known as ESPN is touting Appy States’s upset win at Michigan as the one of the greatest upsets ever in college football. I disagree.

Cal’s win over Tennessee was just as poo-inducing,embarrassing, devastating and backbreaking. At least Michigan’s cupcake had some credibility. Like Lou Holtz said, at least Appy State has won some National Championships. Tennessee’s cupcake snuck up and spanked the Vols on national TV. After watching Cal’s DeSean Jackson high fiving his buddies while returning the punt for a touchdown I realized that just about anybody can and will beat Tennessee (except for Notre Dame). He was not flagged for excessive celebration by the PAC-10 officiating crew either.

As a Vol fan, I just have to keep telling myself that maybe Coach Fulmer was looking ahead to C-USA power Southern Miss. He knows that the Golden Eagles are easily the best college football team in the football tradition rich state of Mississippi. Or maybe he just wanted to remove the additional pressure of playing for a national championship from his young team in order to focus on winning the SEC. I can hear Coach say: “let’s just worry about winning the East and we can win the BCS next year when we are more experienced”.

In my wildest dreams I can see Les Miles screaming “No Mas” in the SEC-CG as the “mercy rule” is invoked as Tennessee applies a Nike All Day I Dream About Sex (ADIDAS) high top cleat to LSU’s throat. Then I wake up and see the real genius of Coach Fulmer, my Battle Captain.

Is there a bright side to getting beat by a cupcake? There sure as shit is. The obvious first answer would be an emphatic “NO”. But if you remove the emotion from the loss there is a tremendous upside. This loss was a downright stroke of genius in the recruiting wars. Coach Fulmer definitely seized this rare opportunity to solidify his standing with blue chip recruits nationwide. ESPN has played the game highlights over and over again, recruits watching will know that they can come Tennessee and they can play right away. Where else could a team get more free publicity than from ESPN? Sure Michigan and Notre Dame suck, but who is going to suck more in the eyes of the fickle blue chipper? Sucking bad equals job openings for next year’s recruits.

I applaud Phillip Fulmer for taking the requisite steps in ensuring that nobody in the country got more camera time saturday than the Vols.