A pigskin guidelines omen?

So, is it just a coincidence that the Texas Longhorns win the National Championship in the year that the US Sentencing Guidelines Manual has a burnt orange cover?  Whether fate or fortuity, I’m glad the big game lived up to the hype.  Perhaps having swing-voting Justice Sandra Day O’Connor help with the opening coin flip ensured we would get a game with lots of momentum swings back and forth.  (Relatedly, considering that my Buckeyes did me proud and that the Nittany Lions won a thriller, I know there are a lot of sentencing/football fans who will have big smiles for quite some time after this exciting bowl season.)

In addition to now wanting next year’s Guidelines Manual to be Scarlet and Gray, I cannot help but wonder if Jamie Olis is now especially disappointed that his resentencing has been postponed.  The old canard about discretionary sentencing was that a defendant’s fate could turn on whether the judge’s breakfast put the judge in a pleasant or foul mood.  On the assumption that everyone in Texas will be in a pleasant mood after Wednesday’s amazing game, Thursday would probably be a good day to be sentenced in the Lone Star State.