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So how come I never met this guy? He lives in Florida, is an FSU fan, a Mac user, and a Halo player. I’m sure we’d get along famously.
My Orlando friends have some ’splainin to do.

As the BCS Championship winds down, there’s no rest for the bookies. Here are the latest odds, home teams in ALL CAPS:

Urban Meyer coaching in the NFL next year +3.5 over MEYER COACHING IN THE NCAA NEXT YEAR: He’s never coached anywhere longer than two years - why break the streak now? [...]

Tonight we get to watch The Ohio State Buckeyes frog-stomp the Florida Gators in Arizona. I’ll be watching the game with my Dad and certainly won’t be live-blogging it, so today’s warm-up post is the long-awaited story of the third-best football tradition in the state of Florida, the Florida Gators.
Obviously, judging which school has [...]

While we wait for the Bowl Championship Series to decide whether it’s going to set up a rematch of the Ohio State - Michigan game for the national championship or whether the Florida Gators will get a chance for the Buckeyes to frog-stomp them in the Fiesta Bowl this year, I thought I’d spend some [...]

Last year at this time I stated:
We could go 2-7 next year, and if the two were Miami and Florida I’d call it a successful season.
Unfortunately, I was eerily prophetic on how bad this season would be. But as this game kicks off, there is hope.
The reader should be aware that I am watching [...]

Since Jeff Bowden took the job as Florida State’s offensive coordinator in 2000, FSU has never finished in the top ten. This past weekend, FSU was blown out and shut out at home by Wake Forest.
Yesterday, he did the honorable thing and resigned. (Later breaking news revealed that the FSU Boosters agreed to [...]

Which of the following teams are ahead of the Florida State Seminoles in one or more of the NCAA Football polls:

Boise State
ACC Rivals Clemson, Georgia Tech, Virginia Tech, AND Boston College
Rutgers
Every single team listed in 1, 2, and 3.

If you answered (4), you are unfortunately correct. Argh.

All quarters should begin with an FSU touchdown. That is my new policy. FSU ties it, 10 - 10, virtually guaranteeing this game comes down to a field goal.
A couple of very nice passes by Weatherford, and then we’re visiaully assaulted by Holly Rowe and her now-uncovered hathead. Could someone please keep [...]

First rule of the shotgun: catch the shotgun.
Really, this multiple camera angle approach on ESPN2 would be so much more interesting if there were a camera in the cheerleaders’ locker rooms. I really don’t care what the line judge is looking at.
First running yards of the season? A pointless run by Weatherford. [...]

On first sight, that Jenkins catch was out of bounds. Watching the replay, he had both feet in bounds, but the play is under review. I don’t think this one will get called back. Bad position for the good guys.
Or, we can just take fifteen yards back by sodomizing your QB. [...]

Miami flushed almost its entire coaching staff in the off season, booting everyone but Head Coach Larry Coker and the Ibis - possibly the dumbest mascot in all of college football, even counting the Delaware Blue Hens. The inexperience of this maiden coaching crew shows in the team’s play: Miami’s committed two very [...]

Seattle looks like it’s finally found the keys to its offense and are taking it for a drive. Ooops, except for the inopportune holding penalty. And then a “huge sack” by someone who hasn’t gotten a sack since 2003. And then an interception. Ok, they found the keys and handed them [...]

Willie Parker runs 75 yards for a Steelers TD in the opening moments of the half, and Cowher still looks pissed. What, did he call a passing play?
Or maybe Cowher doesn’t like his players setting records - that was only the longest rushing touchdown in Superbowl history.
Hines Ward’s hands - the vacuum that doesn’t [...]

Don’t special teams drill that whole “knock the ball out of the end zone” move?
The Bus has now entered the game.
Not necessarily by coincidence, the Steelers have finally broken the thick, thick ice protecting the first down marker.
Who wants to buy Rolling Stones tunes from Sprint? Not me.
Big Ben finally settles down and concentrates [...]

Three and out - not a good opener for the Seahawks. Gotta watch those penalties.
I have hidden several bottles of beer around this website, savages.
As if the “king” weren’t freaky enough - who wants a gangbang burger?
How did this game become a defensive battle? Steelers, three and out. Lousy field position can [...]

I’m sticking with my predictions of a couple weeks ago: “AFC beats NFC, no matter who makes it.”
This will be a fantastic game, and although I think the Steelers will win, they’ll have to play their best game ever. I’m also rooting for the Steelers, mainly because a lot of my close friends [...]

One out of two ain’t bad. I was right about the sharp pointy teeth of the Seahawks, but I’m thinking when they get that uniform makeover they might want to go all the way and just rename the team the Seattle Shawn Alexanders. Or the Seattle They-Whose-Running-Game-Cannot-Be-Stopped.
I was glad to be [...]

For what they’re worth, my predictions:
1. Even though I’d like to see the Steelers prevail, I suspect the Broncos will maximize their home field advantage and take the AFC Championship in a close one - 30 - 27.
2. The Panthers have to the NFC Championship before, but the Seahawks are a buzzsaw this [...]

Poor little thing. Apparently this USC Cheerleader got confused during the Rose Bowl and celebrated when Texas punched it in.
From Wizard of Odds via Deadspin.
(I don’t know if this is authentic but it sure looks like it.)

In what seems like a recipe for team-discipline disaster, the Bucs are reportedly interested in signing Terrell Owens.
That’s like taking arsenic to cure a headache. By the time the headache stops, you’ve got much bigger problems to deal with.