Shocker. Nobody outside of the south wanted to see a rematch of a low-scoring, nap-inducing game on top of the self-fellating SEC advertisements.

Via our comrades at Corn Nation. Which obviously would beg the question, who would be #14 for the conference? And does this reignite the merry-go-round, driving the Pac 12 and Big 10 to attempt to "keep up"?

I like to smugly assume that the SEC wants to add teams because they hate the fact that the Big 10 pulled such a sweet move adding Nebraska.

...as determined by the highly qualified and knowledgeable staff at Playboy, who no doubt did an intensive investigation of every college campus in the U.S. using sound measurables.

Penn State is #2, for what it's worth. Which is probably nothing. Let the faux outrage and asinine fist-bumping begin, brahs!

We got ourselves a kicker from Indiana, folks.

Didn’t think it would ever be possible, but there it is…pity. I hate Michigan as much as the next guy, but even I’m embarrassed by their head coach getting all blubbery as Josh Groban’s music gets played at their football banquet.

We are again the #1 student section. I'm beginning to wonder if Herbie is starting to mail it in with his picks? Notre Dame is #2 behind us? And I don't think I can honestly feel comfortable with our students claiming #1 after some dubious attendance last season, even with the logistical difficulties of the ticketing system.

Being a nerd, I frequent Popular Science's site. Not sure if the link will go directly to it, but Penn State's Humanitarian Engineering and Social Entrepreneurship is slide 26.

First, 11 Notre Dame players get thrown in the paddywagon. Now, a Pitt player gets busted for chucking some goober through a window. What did I do to deserve such delicious schadenfreude?

"Well, here on the 500 block of E. Foster the worst we saw yesterday was a drunk young man pooping (in broad daylight) in the front yard of our neighbors across the street — he had to use snow as toilet paper which is a bit of a consolation I guess."

Dude's dropping deuces like Labradors sure isn't going to help your cause, State Patty's fans.

In a shocker, Meyer is resigning for health reasons. No specifics yet, but Meyer will no longer be the head coach after the Cincy game.

Fuller Hoepner, a 6'2" 220 lb QB/ATH from my area, Midlothian (suburb of Richmond), is heading to PSU to check the game out this weekend.

Scout doesn't even have him in their database, and Rivals doesn't have a star rating for him. His stats as a QB don't seem all that impressive, and the article states William & Mary and Virginia Tech are recruiting him. I'd imagine with the number of schollies we have left, he would have to be a walk-on. Unless our guys see something in him.

Really? C'mon now.

Virginia Tech Recruiting Director Jim Cavanaugh complains about PSU recruiting tactics on VT radio show

From the notes of the radio show:
"Cavanaugh has always had a straightforward approach to recruiting. He's honest with players. Some coaches will promise playing time, etc., but you can't do that. In 40 years of coaching, Cav has told just one recruit he would start as a freshman, and he was a prep school recruit. That was Mike Quick, who played in the NFL for a long time. Even Michael Vick redshirted.

Cav doesn't like Penn State because they have some questionable recruiting tactics. They make promises to players that they don't keep. They promised Michael Robinson he would play quarterback, but they didn't put him there until his senior season."

I was informed of this guy's butthurt by my boss's boss (enormous Tech fan). It seems to be the general consensus down here in Hokieland that PSU steals recruits by making empty promises while Tech's recruiters are up-front and honest.

And to that, I say a big "Waaahhhhh, crybabies". Maybe, just maybe, we're raiding your territory because we're a far more attractive program and you can't erect a Great Wall of 'Stache like Pitt. Everyone thinks their program is on the up-and-up, and when they come up short to one school routinely on the recruiting trail (Robinson, Newsome, Zwinak, etc), they resort to the tried-and-true stance of "they lie and cheat" as opposed to recognizing their own shortcomings.

Rich Rod cried at his presser today about the allegations that he works the players excessively.

Somebody mine some awesome teary-eyed Rodriguez stills from the video Deadspin has embedded, so that we may have fresh material for our MSPaint hack jobs.

The link goes to their preseason AA lists, which breakdown by position. I've made it as far as the first list, QBs, before shaking my head in disbelief. Arm Punter is #4, yet Clark is buried way down at #14...behind Juice Williams. It's like they aren't even trying over there.

At least Jimmy the Emu Pickle Clausen is at #24.

Cocaine is a helluva drug.

Oregon outdoes themselves, yet again. Do they hire a 3rd grade art class to come up with these concepts?

I'm starting to think they don't like us. But I have a hard time making a case against this point, this season.

Such a stand-up, supportive coach.

I understand if he privately thinks Sanchez will tank in the NFL, but you don't publicly send mixed signals because you then look like a dick.

He carries a bit of a grudge for getting fired 3 years ago, but still makes excellent points, using his alma mater as a case study of all that's wrong with ESPN and sports journalism.

You've got to be shitting me. I don't have the words for this.

Next time I get a call from someone asking for alumni donations, this little nugget is being brought up.

In case nobody has noticed, Danny Connor is out for the season after getting injured during special teams duty against the Vikes yesterday. And the injury?

Blown ACL in his left knee. Which seems to be an injury that effects 99.5% of all Penn State All-American linebackers.

I offer a tentative declaration of shenanigans. It's an overt stab at one of our most recent traditions (as traditional as a few years ago can be). If it were done on a national stage heads would roll, but since it's against Furman and for reading (really? We need to raise awareness for literacy still?) I'll merely shake my fist in the direction of Blacksburg.

I can't help but think their AD Weaver (former PSU player) is hijacking our successful idea, if only for a test drive. But using the word "inaugural" makes it sound like it's going to happen again.

Take a look at the odds all the teams are getting for winning the NC.

Apparently somebody thinks that Michigan (40/1) has a better chance of winning the national championship than Penn State (50/1) does. And Virginia Tech at 22/1 with how many starters they lost?! Maybe because the ACC is pathetic.