I look at my calendar, it says Tuesday, August 5, 2008. Just over three weeks away until I get to sit down and watch the 2008 season get underway. When I last left, LSU won the Bowl Championship Series crown, thumping Ohio State by fourteen points. Since then, the Tigers lost Ryan Perrilloux because he can't behave himself, Michigan have a new coach in Rich Rodriguez, the usual amount of players getting arrested for fighting in a bar, carrying a gun, or smoking weed. In short, your typical college football offseason that reminds me of those trashy television daytime talk shows.

Pretty nondescript weekend in college football, eh? Thursday doesn't count towards the weekend, lads. Yeah, the Big East may have been decided, the Big Two had minor scares, and some old guy got mugged on the Penn State sideline. Oh, wait. That was Joe Pa. My bad. But I will say that had to be the most unintentionally funny moment involving a senior citizen and a collision since Bob Dole lost his battle with gravity in California in 1996...

College basketball is back, as a quick check of Tuesday's schedule shows two games being played in College Park, Maryland, as the Coaches vs Cancer Classic tips off the 2006-07 college basketball season. Florida, last year's national champs, will begin this season No.1 in both the AP and Coaches' preseason polls...

As I've been saying for weeks now, this year's Heisman winner will be won by one of two QBs, Ohio State's Troy Smith or Notre Dame's Brady Quinn. Quinn has the much better numbers lately but it shouldn't go unnoticed that the Irish haven't exactly faced "Murderers Row"...

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