With yet another night game for the Vols, there's a full day of football before things get serious against Memphis. Here's one recommended viewing schedule for Vol fans again:

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• With FSU defensive coordinator Mickey Andrews retiring at the end of the season, which of current head coach Bobby Bowden or head coach in waiting Jimbo Fisher will choose his replacement? Tomahawk Nation says Bowden is crazy if he thinks it's his decision, and Team Speed Kills weighs in from afar, noting the unintended consequence of coach-in-waiting scenarios.
• Brandon Spikes has taken it upon himself to extend his suspension from the Meyer-required half game against Vanderbilt to the entire game. Give the guy credit; it's a classy move that will go a long way toward diminishing the heat he's received this week. By the way, is the criticism a result of doing what he did and being caught in the act or because Spikes is "an easy target for any Gator hater or anyone scared of big black dudes with dreads"? We report, you decide.
• From Black Heart Gold Pants: Franz Kafka rises from the dead to join the GameDay crew in Iowa City.
• The Rivalry, Esq. has SB Nation's weekly Big Ten Power Poll.

Basketball

• Hail to the Orange identifies the seven games Illini fans can't afford to miss this season.
  

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I:

• am a senior starting quarterback at a 1-A school.
• am a multiple-year starter.
• have a very real chance to set the all-time passing yardage record at my school.
• already hold school records for most passes attempted and most passes completed in a single game.
• hold the school record for most passing attempts in a season.
• am on pace for the school record for most passing attempts in a career.
• guided the team through a coaching transition and offensive overhaul.
• have maintained roughly a 65% passing completion percentage and 130 qb rating throughout my career.

Who Am I?

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There's a full day of football before ours rolls around at 7:45 tonight, beginning with Ole Miss at Auburn at 12:21 and continuing with the Cocktail Party at 3:30. Of course, the day really kicks off with ESPN College GameDay, which starts at 10:00 and shoots live from Eugene, Oregon where USC will travel to take on the Ducks at about the same time as our game. Expect little mention of South Carolina at Tennessee unless it also includes talk of officials, reprimands, and/or Lil Wayne.

So leave your comments on GameDay and/or the early games below.

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At this stage in the season, it's pretty well time for fans of teams who don't have a shot at a national championship to begin wondering who they'd most like to see actually win the thing.  Sometimes it's a matter of not watching a rival win it.  Sometimes it's just hoping the SEC doesn't win one yet again.  Sometimes it's just the color of the helmet.  But we all decide that, at the very least, there's one team out there that we'd be least disgusted to see win it all.

This has absolutely nothing to do with the name of the team, the color of the jersey, or even the geography of the conference, but rather a matter of principle of opinion.  Now, my opinion might change again at the drop of a hat, but for one week, I finally have an actual reason to pick somebody - the Alabama Crimson Tide.

My reason comes as a reaction to this opinion at Team Speed Kills:

The conference sure would be a lot less interesting without Nick Saban and Lane Kiffin, but after watching Alabama and Tennessee play, I'm willing to make that sacrifice.

Year2 is fully entitled to his opinion, and I completely respect it.  I understand where he's coming from, and we can set aside any pro-Florida innuendo behind his preference for Alabama and Tennessee to jettison their coaches as I really don't think he meant it in that manner.  But the disinteresting nature of pro-style football at the collegiate level comes entirely from a matter of personal subjective preference, not from the systems themselves.  And before I go any further, since I have shown a tendency to come off as judgmental against people themselves, let me again repeat that it's perfectly ok for Year2 to have his opinion and I'm not begrudging that in the least.  But an opinion - even mine - is nothing more than an opinion, and it's worth separating out some of the objectivity from the subjectivity.

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There's still more football on, if you're up for it.  Expect this to be casual tonight.