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Groundhog Day as a BCS Nightmare

You wake up, it’s cold, you’re in a somewhat familiar bed and it’s playing again. “I Got You, Babe”. “The Hell?,” you think, “these idiots played this song yesterday morning”.
Here we are in Punxsutawney again. That damn BCS gopher is about to let us know that bowl season will suck again this year. We’re about to run into that asshole Ned Ryerson who will be totally excited about the LSU/Alabama matchup which leads to our plunging our foot straight into an icy puddle. The letdown here is we don’t get to deck that bald buffoon.

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Dr. Strangevox or: How I Learned To Stop Worrying and Love The Demise of the Big XII

Sitting down to a can of Ska True Blonde Ale I feel strange. A lot feels strange these days. A country in a financial clustercuss, an unseasonably cool September day in the Kansas City Metro, my return to the classroom… and of course the constant soap opera of college football and the Big 9. Or was it twelve teams. Wait. Ten?

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