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1. With the way the season has been progressing, will this be the last year for the BCS?

2. Who will win the SEC East?  West?
(I know this question seems a bit redundant, but every week seems to bring up new predictions and new scenarios)

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So, the University of Tennessee goes into the off week homecoming week preparations this week where the Volunteers will face off against the um, Ragin’ Cajuns of the University of Louisiana Lafayette. The Cajuns bring to the table, aside from delicious crawfish boils, a logo, that looks eerily similar to that of another sports team. Let’s have a look, shall we?

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Hmm, very interesting. Some might say that the fleur-de-lis is a fairly common symbol ranging from royal crests to state flags, but we still say they’re copiers! Of course, they’re not the only team that does this, as there are other teams that shamelessly um “borrow inspiration” from other logos. The least obvious of these (and by “least obvious” i mean “most obvious)? You guessed it, the Bull-Packers.

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Of course, Georgia isn’t the only one to use the logo, as Grambling State is pretty famous for using the same logo, but Grambling State probably actually uses old Green Bay Packers uniforms because they don’t have the multi-million dollar budgets that a huge school like Georgia has.

And even though it’s a logo that is similar to none, but scares the bejeezus out of me like nobody’s business, the Richmond… Spiders. Ewwwwwwwww.

Alls I can say is that I hope we never… eeeeeeeeever play them. I mean, what the heck do they do for a mascot? Run a bunch of tarantulas out on the field? Holy crap, greatest idea for a mascot EVAR.

Eeeeeeeeeeeeeeever.

To borrow words from the great Verne Lundquist: Oh My!

The SEC this year has been a microcosm of the college football world.  But as outsiders might not know, but SEC insiders know, that is simply considered “normal” in the SEC.  Any given week, any team can beat any other team (unless that team is Ole Miss), and the conference race is dynamic, competitive and therefore, important to many.  Of course, national titles and national recognition is great, but given the way the league generally tends to sabotage it’s own place in the national picture, the league title tends to take on a special meaning that many other leagues will never know (cough, Big 11, cough).

The weekend provided it’s fair share of excitement with a nightmare scenario emerging in the East for teams not named “Tennessee.”  The East has become a bit of a logjam with the Volunteers precariously perched at the top of a very unstable hill.  Of course, it’s way to early to crown UT with the Eastern Division title at this point because well, there are still road games left on the schedule, but at the same time, it’s going to be difficult for most of the other teams besides Georgia at this juncture to take advantage of a flub by the Vols.

Speaking of Georgia, they had one of the more entertaining moments of the weekend, and we’d be remiss to not show you a clip of what went down at the Cocktail Party:

Danielson hit the nail straight on the head when he said that it was planned, as was evidenced by Richt’s own comments after the game.  Some people might look on this behavior of being unbecoming of a classy coach, but I don’t think it was about class, it was about motivation.  When you have 18-22 year old kids out playing a game, mindset is half the battle.  That’s what led Appy State to a win over Michigan in the big house, as well as the other side of the coin contributing equally to Michigan’s defeat.

There aren’t really a lot of fans out there that are so outraged by the antics that aren’t Florida fans, and for the most part, it was pretty well received by most of the media as well.  Of course, this will undoubtedly lead to other similar shows of excitement, but as is often the case, Georgia got away with it (sort of) because they were the first ones to do it, and now, undoubtedly, a rule will change, and this of this sort will lead to more severe punishment in the future.  That aside, thanks go out to the Bulldogs for knocking Florida out of everyone’s freaking collective consciousness.  I mean, the best X-Loss team in the country.

Well, control of the SEC East doesn’t come easy, but holy crap that was sort of more exciting that it ever should have been. The Spurrier/Fulmer saga continues, and ‘ole Steve O almost did it again against our beloved coach, but you know what? Halloween weekend, of course the Great Pumpkin reigns supreme!

In a game that came down to special teams, freakin’ cool as ice Daniel Lincoln, on the field to kick a field goal, SMILING, decides it’s a good idea to shank the first kick, but knew he’d have a chance to get better stats with a kick from further back.

Iceman fears no kick.  Iceman likes the longer stat anyway!

On the other side of the coin was Ryan Succup, who at one time was basically considered automatic, slicing the ball further to the right than that time I tried hitting my tee shot from off of Don’s tiny junk.

The one person who was the most excited/relieved/happy was our very own Coach Fulmer. The greatest coach of all time, and completely unrelated, the greatest blog of all time named after a body part. Hmm, did I overreach there? Nah.

The Volunteers remain unbeaten at home this season, and actually now control their own destiny in the East. Georgia was able to upend the “Greatest one two three loss team in the world!!!1!!one!!” in the form of the Gators, giving all but Georgia and Tennessee 2 losses in the East, with Tennessee owning the tiebreak. Interesting developments indeed.

Happy Halloween! Eat lots of candy, and may all your bellies be rotund! Oh yeah, and Suck It Spurrier! WVU Sucks!

At this point in the season, with the three losses basically being humiliations, is there anything left to play for?  Well, of course there is.  What is that you ask?  Beating Spurrier of course.  Playing a game against a Steve Spurrier led team is like looking a pictures of um, nice ladies.  You know it’s bad, and you feel kind of dirty for looking at it, but just like playing a Spurrier-led team, it’s only pleasurable if you beat it.

Mike knew what to do.

The Old Ass Ball Coach has been a bane of the SEC for years when he was with Florida, and now, he is causing just as much havoc at a school with significantly less resources as well as a talent pool that doesn’t even come close to that of Florida.  How does he do this?  No one knows.  Could it be… Satan?  I mean, the dude won the ACC… at DUKE!  DUKE!  W… T… F?

Seriously though, the guy is a good college coach, and he finds ways to win with the talent that he has available.  Two years ago, he was able to do the unthinkable and win in Knoxville for the first time in school history.  Let’s hope that particular slice of history neglects to repeat itself.

The Vols are still very much in the thick of things in the SEC, and depending on the result of the Cocktail Party, UT could find themselves very close to the lead in the East.  3 embarrassing losses = BCS Bowl?  Perhaps.  Just… Freaking… Beat… Spurrier.

Um, I’ll try to write a super clever post later on this week about how South Carolina will be Smokey’s chicken dinner and we’ll put the visor on the hood of our 4×4, but for now, Southern California is on fire, and there is one about 7 miles or so away from where I am currently breathing in awesomely fireplace-like air.

So, hopefully the house won’t burn down, and WVU sucks!

I have a few pet peeves. I dislike it when people fart in elevators, throw up in the seat next to me on the plane, don’t pay up after I’ve given a Nigerian Prince my bank account number. But one of my biggest pet peeves ever has to be when a commentator utters these following words:
“He’d sure like that one back.”

Now, let’s analyze this statement, shall we? Aside from the fact that it’s true, there is nothing else to like about the statement. It’d be like saying “he’d sure like to have sex with Giselle during halftime.” Of course he would. What kind of stupid statement states the painfully obvious? I don’t know who was the first person to utter this fateful line, but my money’s on John Madden.

Just as players need to get away from the words “overcome adversity,” commentators need to get rid of “standards” that get regurgitated every weekend, and take a chance at making other than painfully obvious statements. Kirk Herbstreit is actually pretty good at this, but it’s partly to keep himself from going insane at the right hand of the ever-drunk Musburger.

Let’s make it happen people.  Stop the madness.

I know that column was kind of terrible, I wish I could have that one back.