Only two weeks to kickoff, folks, and that means it's time to wind up the Rocky Top Talk College Pick 'Em game.

It's all free, courtsey of ESPN, so go sign up up for an account if you don't have one already, and make sure to join the Rocky Top Talk group.

Jackson (not The Mule) and pino tied for first last year, which explains why it was Jackson who emailed me a friendly reminder last evening wondering if we were going to do it again in 2008. Yeah, Jackson, we are doing it again this year, but you, you're going down. If I hadn't entered my first week's picks under the wrong free ESPN account, I would have been . . . 14th. So, you know. Another few games, a few more yards, a kick here and there, and I would have been first. I'm sure of it.

Okay.

So go sign up for an account. Join the Rocky Top Talk group. Maybe you, too, can be emailing me next year hoping vainly to repeat.

;-)