Should I Stay or Should I Go?

The mobile and immobile in College Football:

Going: Armageddon at Arrowhead. It was awesome last year, it won’t be this year. Instead of seeing no. 2 face off against no. 4 for the National Championship’s driver seat, we will all be treated to seeing an underachieving Mizzou team beat the tar out of an overmatched KU defense. Oh yeah, and kick is at 11:30 in the freaking morning: I’ll take a shot of espresso to get myself out to The ‘Head and a shot of Jack to get me through the Chase Patton/Blaine Gabbert show in the second half. Todd Reesing may need several shots of cortisone just to get himself from the Lollipop Guild to the field, and KU tailback Jake Sharp and QB turned punter turned wideout Kerry Meier will probably have to miss the matchup, too. I just hope they'll all be ready for the Insight Bowl.

Going: The Apple Cup. I’d like to put out a bounty for someone to steal the trophy for this game. Washington and Washington State should not have gone anywhere near each other this year, as the amount of suckitude should have created a black hole. To be honest, I meant to hit on this last week, but it was so meaningless I forgot. In the end, Wazzu laid an epic beatdown on the Huskies (16-13) after scoring one of only three touchdowns in the game in overtime (remember you satrt on the 25 in NCAA OT so don't get too excited). Washington State grabs win number 2, and blows off that title previously placed on them as worst PAC-10 team ever and places it firmly on their in-state rival. As for Washington? They have as many coaches as wins - 0. No word as to why Gameday wasn't there.

Going: Texas Tech. They didn't plummet (and they shouldn't have) but they did drop to number seven after being embarassed by the Sooners, and will therefore very likely miss the BCS. Even if Oklahoma drops to Oklahoma State on Saturday, it will still probably take a Texas loss to Texas A&M (a team that got dismantled by the almighty Baylor a few weeks back) for Tech to get back into the BCS picture. These decisions are made on the basis of sex appeal and not football, so I'm sure Texas and Oklahoma will both find themselves in a BCS bowl game, unless one of them goes Jason White and forgets to play the Big 12 championship.

Staying: Notre Dame. This team is a complete and utter embarassment. I actually wasn't planning on talking about them this week, but OH-EM-GEE!!! Losing to Syracuse is worse than kissing your sister. It is like kissing your extremely ugly and fat sister, knocking her up, and fathering Quasimodo. Or, giving birth to Charlie Weis. Charlie Weis got out-coached by Greg 10-wins-in-four-years Robinson. Syracuse this year has double digit losses to South Florida, Rutgers, UConn, and wait for it.... Akron. Yet they beat Notre Dame in plain sight of Touchdown Jesus. Rudy does not appreciate the effort.

Sorry for the abbreviated takes... I'm too focused on turkey.