1. I don't care if they're your rivals, you never wish injury upon someone.
2. It's offseason still...to start talking like this game is a done deal is just stupid. Nobody really knows what their team has until they play their first actual GAME, not fake football aka practices.
3. In rivalry games, anything can happen. There has been soooo many times in history where one team is highly ranked and dominant, then they play their rival (who has had a terrible season) at the end of the season, and the terrible team wins. Anything can happen in rivalry games.