Okay you dopes.  Time to make predictions on who will end up being the Big Ten's twelfth member.  And when I mean predictions, I mean who ultimately ends up joining.  Not who you want to join, or who deserves to join, or who makes sense, blah blah blah.

Just who De-lame-y ends up choosing as the twelfth member.

I don't want to read any comments unless you're submitting an alternate candidate.  Just cast your VOTE!

Let's see if we are right after eighteen months.

Now I don't pray to you that much because I despise your believers, but Imma praying to you now because Imma asking for a favor in exchange for my wretched soul.  All Imma asking of you, the all powerful who made the sky Blue and White, that on 10/24/09, rain or shine or snow or Biblical flood - whatever you're in the mood for - please for all things good and decent, have the Lions of Mt. Nittany kick the living, stinking s%*t out those of Ann Arbor Wolverines.  I don't mean by a field goal or anything like that.  I mean a public execution, a bubonic plaque...a Tiananmen Square Holocaust that would put the Book of Revelations out of print.  I want the wrath of Khan and that ear bug eating their insides out.

Something like 2,030 to -993, or thereabouts.  Nothing too fancy.  Just a Smite Hammer laid down DC style, with Maize and Blue coloring the background - preferably the ground, but hey Imma not begging, just praying's all.

Oh, and bless all those getting married tomorrow.  Not the schmucks attending them (because they should be watching the game), but the bride and groom and the love they'll share for five to ten years.  Bless them all.

Let there be smack down. 

Amen.

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Holy krikey, it's 5 in the morning and I haven't been able to sleep!  No, I'm not struggling with the loss; something happened to my sleep schedule while tailgating.  Maybe it's the alcohol, maybe it's the fact I'm still on West coast time.

Anyways, let me waste some of your precious moments by extending carolinaeasy and millzners' optimistic take on the rest of the season.  Looking at the AP and Coaches poll, Iowa entered the top 25 giving the Big Ten 4 teams on the proverbial, yet meaningless, list instead of three.  Good for them and good for us, I say. 

Now hear me out.  I'm speaking purely from the intangible "sexy factor", as opposed to technical/statistic's analysis (who wants to read numbers anyway?  Not Mark May), but if you look at conference representation, the Big Ten now has one less than the EESSSS EEEEECCCEEE and the Nintendo 12, one more than the Pac -10 and the ACC, three more than the Big Least and the Mountain West, MAC, etc.

Why does the Iowa entrance into the polls do for us?  Well, now we lost to a ranked team - which is fully acceptable (as opposed to USC losing to Washington) and on par with every other top ten school who, in my opinion, will lose at least one game to a ranked opponent.  Hopefully they'll lose to an unranked one.  And guess what?  We have two more ranked teams ahead of us, which if you remember from the preseason polls, we only had two teams (Buckeyes, Nits) representing the conference.

Okay, we can't take the other unranked opponents for granted, and neither can Iowa or anyone else.  But at least we're in the mix of things rankings wise.  And who knows, we may be one of the few one loss teams, or a handful of  two loss teams by the end of the season?

Now three losses, well, then it's the Capital One bowl. 

Day's not over, but I'm posting this anyway. 

Penn State and Michigan did what they're supposed to do.  Everyone else, not so much.

So Mark May's puckering his lipstick and rinsing Trojan essence out of his mouth, ready to lambaste our conference along with his partners in crime.  Nothing we can do about it.  It's inevitable.  

So what are we to do?  Well, voice your opinion on my very first poll (no sex jokes pleaz).

I don't know if this has been brought up before, but I was wondering if BSD and/or SB Nation could start a classifieds section so those who have extra tickets, or students who want to put up their apartment for rent during weekends - or sports memorabilia or whatever - can do so easily where interested parties congregate.

I don't know if BSD has the traffic to make it successful, or whether SB Nation has the apps to make it possible, but I think it would be a great benefit to fans.  It could possibly bring in more traffic to the site as well.

I guess the only downside is that we'd have to reveal our real names and sensitive info, but I think it's worth it.

And if you haven't guessed already, I'm having a hell of a time procuring tickets and finding room accommodations for this upcoming season.  The older the alumn, the lesser the connections.

For those of you who find ReadingRambler's prose inaccessible and byzantine, both stream of consciousness and word play, please continue reading and remember to honor America's veterans who have fought for our freedoms, especially the freedom to post fanposts on fanposts, which the German Nazis, North Vietnam, the Soviet Union, the Michigan Wolverines, and Al Qaeda have attempted to thwart with what ReadingRambler has already said so pricelessly, scum and villainy*

* - Half-assed Big Ten preview, part 2: Iowa

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