Bear with me, it's BYE WEEK.

This year 8 teams play football in the Big East.  Three of them are jumping ship, leaving 5 teams remaining.

The Big East is said to be offering Central Florida, Houston, and SMU full membership, and offering football-only membership to Air Force, Boise State, and Navy.  That's 6 new football teams right there.

All together, that's 5 + 6 = 11 football teams, which is the most teams you can have splitting your television contract money without having the ability to make more money with a conference championship game.

Why would the Big East only go up to 11?  Why not 12?

It sounds like Joe Paterno should be OK, according to the Pittsburgh Post Gazette.

From the man himself:

"What I have is not something that can't be fixed," he said. "And it's going to be fixed."

Thank goodness.  He may have to struggle through the season, but come 2008 Joe Paterno should be able to be on the sidelines for many years to come.

(Apologies if this isn't formatted correctly, but I wanted to make sure you all see this ASAP.)