We kid, HP, but it’s a good analogy nonetheless… Heismanpundit combines an entry regarding the creation of a Wuerffel award for college athletics with some talk radio yahoo’s column cautioning Florida fans from anointing Meyer as their new savior just yet. HP insists the SEC doesn’t know what it’s in for; we’re fighting every instinct to name our first born Urban, and therefore recuse ourselves from the debate effective immediately.
Dennis Dodd rates the hot seat quotient for every D-1 coach here. For our take on the hot seat, click here.
Welcome to Chapter Three of our ongoing study of the art and science of college rah-rahdom also known as Pepidemiology. Chapter Three will focus on an oft-overlooked but integral part of college pep: the costumed mascot.

ASU’s Sparky: Devil worship never looked so funny.
Note must be made here about the term “costumed mascot.” The mascot, the living, breathing symbol of a team, can sometimes be a living, breathing member of the species, as in the cases of Bevo the Longhorn, Ralphie the Buffalo, or Uga the Bulldog at UGA. We’re splitting mascots in two categories for a good reason: costumed mascots and animal mascots have distinctly different skill sets. Ralphie can stampede, the War Eagle can fly around Auburn, and Smokey the Hound Dog at Tennessee can bite people on the sidelines with impunity. We remain certain that this is not the case with costumed human mascots, though Tree at Stanford may indeed be capable of the biting part, for all we know. Thus the division into two categories in our taxonomy. (This is science, people.)
The costumed mascot takes on one of three forms:
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For anyone who’s ever fucked up: college broadcasting at its finest. (In case you’re wondering about the background of the clip, read this at BenMaller.com. The poor kid ended up on Ball State alum David Letterman’s show last night.)

We have a word for men like this: hero.
A recap in the wake of replay fever, courtesy of FanBlogs: everyone’s leaping on the Big Ten booth replay bandwagon except for the Mountain West. They just have to be different, and are trying to adopt an NFL-style challenge system pending NCAA approval.