The cost of getting to Grandma’s sure has changed… Baboon gangs on the loose… How do I get to one of these state dinners?
Tony Pike, the ultimate senior, returns on senior day. (Rivals.com)
Brian Kelly said coach-rumor time is the “silly season.” (AP)
Still, Kelly’s a Cincinnati man. Why doesn’t he just say it already?… Charlie Weis was told to forget that recruiting trip out West… Thanks to Bootsy Coolins, the Bearcats have a new fight song. (Cincinnati Enquirer)
UConn’s already over that biggest-in-history, program-affirming win at Notre Dame. (The Day)
The Huskies are taking a lesson from Rutgers: how not to view Syracuse. (Connecticut Post)
Big surprise: Edsall wouldn’t discuss his name being linked to Kansas, where former UConn AD Lew Perkins is the current AD. (New Haven Register)
Trent Guy has five punt and kickoff returns for touchdowns. The Cardinal can’t stop thinking about the sixth a penalty whistled back… Steve Kragthorpe’s still using “we.” (Louisville Courier-Journal)
The way fans dream sure is nice… When a Panther marries a Mountaineer. (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette)
Pitt thinks WVU QB Jarrett Brown is just as dangerous as Pat White was… Pitt’s o-line, meanwhile, is sporting bleached blong mohawks. Coach Dave Wannstedt said they better back that up. (Pittsburgh Tribune-Review)
The whole West Virginia payback spoiler story doesn’t quite work. (Charleston Gazette)
No offensive lineman is as terrifying to George Johnson as his two-week old daughter. (SNY.tv)
Louisville’s 6-9 Josh Chichester is only the latest in a long line of mega-tall wideouts Rutgers has seen… Rutgers’ line is readying for the same blitzing Syracuse ate it up with. (Star-Ledger)
Rutgers recruiting coordinator Joe Susan is up for the Princeton job… Tom Savage is anticipating that blitz. (Home News Tribune)
Miami isn’t the only choice for Miamians anymore. (Tampa Tribune)
Miami’s AD played for Jim Leavitt at K-State. (St. Petersburg Times)
A couple South Floridians turned down the SEC for Syracuse… Mike Stenclik doesn’t need a trophy. He got The Bone. (Syracuse Post-Standard)
Aditi Kinkhabwala has written a regular column for SI.com and been published in Sports Illustrated.
Go Bootsy!!!