Blogtoberfest: making an early appearance thanks to huge amounts of caffeine.

Hinton’s quoting the Big Tymers. Universe vibrates slightly. His blogpoll ballot is up, and it’s SECular in nature. Also, we’ll take any excuse to post the fine productions of Cash Money productions.

Good to see Houston Nutt proved right. Er, totally wrong. Tulsa’s profligate offense is coached by Gus Malzahn, the Arkansas high school coaching savant who Houston Nutt all but excised from the coaching staff after five games of this coaching career at Arkansas. Tulsa, as Hugging Harold Reynolds points out, has scored 157 points in three games and has a qb on pace to throw for 60 touchdowns. Not that Jevan Snead isn’t doing an acceptable job in the standard Houston Nutt run run scramble offense at Ole Miss, but it bears repeating that at least at one level of college football, the no-huddle spreadorama of Malzahn is working well enough to be mildly embarrassing for his former employer.

Further early stat-peeping: Javon Ringer is on schedule for post-season award of copyrighted use consideration. Getting 35 carries a game will do that. Meanwhile, getting nine carries at Florida has everyone in a tizzy over Moody being THE running back at last.

This may or may not be true, but Moody at least understands the essence of the SEC experience:

“(Tennessee was a) little dirty, but that’s part of football,” the transfer running back said. “Whatever you can do to try and win, that’s what the SEC’s gonna try and do.”

A future in academic compliance awaits, young Moody.

Because when it comes to foreign policy, we are moderate realists. Texas A&M is the home to the Bush Center for Public Policy and Public Service, which features a Master’s in Policy in International Affairs. If they follow Pappy Bush’s lead, they embrace a realist vision of international relations, which neatly mirrors the student newspaper’s realism surrounding the Aggies’ upcoming home schedule.

The Texas A&M football team has five home games left on the 2008 schedule. If the team does not improve from its current state, the Aggies could finish the season 1-6 at Kyle Field, a far cry from the stadium’s reputation.

Also, the current international account imbalance with China will not improve, the intervention in humanitarian situations continues to be a no-win for the U.S. without clearly defined and commodified U.S. interests, and we do not recommend vomiting on other foreign leaders.

Cursed horsepigs. Oklahoma’s mascots may have inadvertently caused much suffering. Meanwhile, neither plush mascot, nor anyone associated with Oklahoma, is insinuating that TCU spied on Oklahoma prior to their 2005 upset of the Sooners, because that is exactly what they are doing.