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Well college football fans, week three saw the steamrolling of the once mighty Huskers by the men of Troy, confirmation that Notre Dame couldn’t score a touchdown against a pick-up squad from Morning Star nursing home and the conscription of the Volunteers into the losing column by the Floridian reptiles.  The Gators left a few teeth-marks on the Sooners in the polls as well.  The Baptists from Texas got in the win column and the Jesuits from Boston swatted the Yellowjackets from the deep south right out of the polls.  Oh, and CB Scott owes a big debt of gratitude to Houston Nutt for throwing the ball on third down.  The Sabanation lives and enters the polls this week.

This week the Bayou Bengals get a chance to chop down another top 15 opponent when they face the fighting chickens of South Carolina.  The ranked Kentucky Wildcats [rubs his eyes]… yes, that’s right, the ranked Kentucky Wildcats (this is football season, is it not??) get a chance to eat the hog scraps CB Scott left behind last week as they take on Arkansas.  Will Texas have an adequate number of players released under their own recognizance (or making bail) to field a team of 22?  Against Rice will it matter?  And Georgia stands in the way of the Sabanation.  Will the Bulldogs vanquish that guy wearing laundry detergent and toilet paper on his head?

Now’s the time to cast your weekly predictions.

Time to give our keyboards a rest from seminary politics and the thought that Rick Davis is preparing to put a hand in your back pocket and get on with that which is really important: college football.

If you are a fan of Michigan we now call you in from the ledge. There are still things to live for - like Oklahoma football. And if you are a Notre Dame fan it appears that your only hope is that Benedict XVI will make an ex cathedra pronouncement that Notre Dame has actually won this year.

So, West Virginia has already beaten Maryland and Air Force beat TCU (and if you’re a Texas fan you’ve got to hate that). It’s difficult to pick intriguing match-ups in week three where good teams are playing a bunch of patsies. But there are a few games of note. How mad will Florida be that Oklahoma left Schooner tracks on their backs in the polls? They’d better just concentrate on a ranked Tennessee team. In another SEC match-up Arkansas visits Tuscaloosa. Will they survive the attempted Sabanation? Will Alabama fans rip their ears off from hearing “Pig Soooeey” too many times? Will we hear CB Scott holler “SABAN! SABAN! SABAN!” for a third week in a row?

In other ranked match-ups the non-patsy USC Trojans will visit the land of corn and that little inflatable bouncing husker as #14 Nebraska tries to prove they can play with the big boys once again. The only other game between ranked opponents is Boston College at Georgia Tech. Is the Big East legit?

OK. Now it’s your turn. Predict your favorite game (and this week I’ll try to remember to turn comments on).

Alright boys and girls….now that Michigan has proven the theory that what they play in the north is not football by losing to a team from a state that doesn’t even have football we can now move on to our week two predictions. Will LSU make it past the Hokies? Will Nebraska beat the football team formerly known as Baptists? Will that other tenuous Baptist team, the one from Texas, win a game? Will TCU do to Texas this week what Arkansas State nearly did to them last week? Did OU really hang three-quarters of a hundred on Southlake Carroll High School the University of North Texas? How many will they hang on the Miami Hurricane? Will we hear CB Scott hollering: “SABAN! SABAN! SABAN!” for a second week in a row? Which top 25 team is most likely to stumble this week?

Give it your best shot in comments.

In Oklahoma it’s not uncommon to hear that there are only two sports: football and Spring practice. Since we are a part of the Southern Baptist Convention and since college football reigns supreme in the south - yeah, verily, approaching Sabbath observance - we thought it would be fun to hear from our readers who your favorite college football team is and what your prediction is for their game this week. We will, of course, make exceptions for those states considering themselves to be southern which do not have football teams - like North Carolina and Kentucky. If you root for a team that is not in the south we still welcome your predictions, recognizing that those teams don’t really play football. For others who’s favorite school does not have a football team, but who would like to make a prediction anyway, feel free to jump in. Yes, that means you people at Oklahoma State and Baylor. Alabama fans are welcome to mail in their predictions from the RV park.

If you will spend your day tomorrow shopping for a fanny pack, please disregard this post.

If you are a Notre Dame fan you will banned immediately.