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Doug Smock: Open-week thoughts while waiting for Marshall to debut

Southern Mississippi tight end Julian Allen (11) celebrates teammates after scoring a touchdown against Kentucky Saturday night.

WITH MARSHALL’S bizarre first-week open week, I sat glued to the couch.

And sat and sat and sat. Watched a few games with MU implications, and here are some takeaways. (Or overreactions, you may say.)

Southern Mississippi is the favorite in Conference USA: It wasn’t just that the Golden Eagles defeated Kentucky 44-35, or that they beat a supposed “Power 5” team. After all, I’ve been picking on the Wildcats for years.

It was the way the Eagles overpowered the Wildcats in wiping out a 35-10 deficit.