NCAA is dumb, Mike Leach is triple awesome

The NCAA ruled this week that Oklahoma State receiver -- one of the top 10 or so players in college football -- is ineligible the rest of the season following the whole "lying about a pajama party with Deion Sanders" incident.

Mind you, he's not suspended for drinking cocoa with Sanders. He's suspended for lying about it.

Bryant admits the question caught him off guard, he panicked (thinking it was a violation ... why he didn't know or find out seems silly) and lied that he didn't hang with Sanders.

The NCAA found out about the lie and now they don't have one of their marquee players to showcase this week in the sport's biggest game because lying is just something the seemingly puritanical NCAA does not stand by for.

Instead, the NCAA rules over a large arena of cheating, paying players, "fifth" or "sixth" years of eligibility, boosters running amok, coaches using everything to get a player, punching dudes out on the field and everything in between, but lying. Woe unto the one who lies. Bastards.

SFA (6-1, 3-0) vs. Texas State (4-3, 2-1)
The Lumberjacks get to visit San Marcos and do some Christmas shopping at the outlets and then tend to dispensing the Raccoons of Texas State. I'm not one to overlook any team. The Univesrity-Formerly-Known-as-Southwest Texas State's a little scary. They can score. Winning, however, tends to be their major hang-up. The rolled up 50 against Northwestern State and 48 on Angelo State. Unfortunately, SFA's allowed just 12 touchdowns all season. Game of the week as far as I'm concerned. The best Texas State team is a defeated Texas State team.

Texas (7-0, 3-0) vs. Oklahoma State (6-1, 3-0)
Don't get me wrong here. Texas is fully capable of losing this team on the road at nasty Stillwater. However, OSU's without their two best offensive players against one of the best defenses in the nation a week after going into Columbia and making Mizzou look like a JV team. This week proves just how focus the Longhorns are and maybe paves the way for their date with Florida-Alabama in the big game.

TCU (7-0, 3-0) vs. UNLV (3-5, 1-3)
UNLV isn't very good. TCU is very good. Especially at home. TCU must still keep its focus and make sure it doesn't overlook anyone. Better teams has been undone by worse teams.

Kansas (5-2, 1-2) vs. Texas Tech (5-3, 2-2)
Good game. However, I think Tech rolls. Kansas has wet the bed the last four weeks and Tech probably got its ass whipped in practice all week. And Mike Leach ran off the fat, little girlfriends.

Iowa State (5-3, 2-2) vs. Texas A&M (4-3, 1-2)
A&M's at least beat Tech. Iowa State's beat no one including a Nebraska team that no one can figure out.

Oklahoma (4-3, 2-1) vs. Kansas State (5-3, 3-1)
Did you imagine those teams would have their respective records at this point in the season. I would suspect OU would do to K-State was Texas Tech did, but if you want me to somehow make a science out of Big XII football, good luck. Anybody can beat anybody.

Nebraska (4-3, 1-2) vs. Baylor (3-4, 0-3)
I have no fucking clue who wins this game. And that makes angels cry.

Missouri (4-3, 0-3) vs. Colorado (2-5, 1-2)
Thankfully, Colorado is not ranked and Mizzou's lost three straight games, all to ranked teams.

SMU (3-4, 2-1) vs. Tulsa (4-3, 2-1)
Tulsa's a team that can come up and bite a good team in the ass and still lose a ding-dong game to a bad team. That's part of SMU's hope. A win on the road says a lot about the direction of the Mustang's program. SMU rolls out its back-up this week.

Western Kentucky (0-7, 0-3) vs. North Texas (1-6, 0-4)
Todd Dodge needs a win. A loss here against Western Kentucky could doom him. UNT, actually, has gotten some bad luck and that might save Dodge for a year. Three losses were of four points or less, all thanks to some defensive breakdowns late. Seems to me it's a young, rebuilding team that doesn't know how to win those types of games. Statistically, they've played up to their opponents. For Dodge's sake, it needs to show up on the scoreboard. By the way, I thought Western Kentucky was an independent. How does that work? Can teams just break from the conferences and be independent. I see how it helps Notre Dame since they're popular and can have a gigantic TV deal. But what does it do for Western Kentucky. Anyway, welcome to the Sun Belt, suckers.