First off my condolences to those of you absolutely screwed by the Cincinnati QB rotation last night – Tony Pike did a fantasy football impersonation of Mariano Rivera, closing drives in the red zone with two short TD passes on four attempts. That resulted in Zach Collaros lowest output of his short stint as starter – he should fear Friday the 13th now.

Before you curse out Brian Kelly and yank him from your Coach of the Year ballot – at least be as understanding as Tennessee Vols fan and robbery victim Corey Zickefoose.

Corey Zickefoose: I think they should still be able to play football, regardless. Tennessee is my place. You know, it’s my football team.

Reporter: Even after they put a gun in your face, you say let them play football?

Corey Zickefoose: Yeah. It’s Tennessee. That’s the way it is sometimes.

Corey, the Tennessee Chamber of Tourism would like a word with you.

Weather

No need to worry about Tropical Storm Ida in the Southeast it has disappated and has no effect on todays games.

The historically strong Nor’easter soaked the Virginia and NC area with almost a foot of rain, so beware of all ACC matchups for some halo effects of the storm. I could see muted performance from Georgia Tech and the Miami Hurricanes. The gametime weather may be nice but the effects on the soaking will put focus on the groundskeeping crews.

Big winds expected in The Long Island area so we could see 50mph in the ground battle of VMI at Army. This will mean more for some NFL matchups on Sunday.

Start-sit after the jump, updates throughout the day on my Twitter feed.

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Great matchups all day long – get your workouts in early as one could potentially stay on the couch all day for a docket like this:

• 12:20p – Ole Miss at Auburn
• 3:30p – Florida v. Georgia
• 6p – give out Halloween candy (move couch to front porch)
• 8pm – Texas at Oklahoma State and/or USC at Oregon

Let me wrap up this week’s fantasy college football analysis in the carrot-infused tortilla (to get the seasonal orange flavor).

First off, last weeks Top Ten Plays from our friends at AthletixNation:

on to the wrap-up…
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Vince Mullins has taken the burrito-maker and set sail for ports unknown (maybe some that are known).  Daniel Freer, who ate a lot of burritos one summer at the Mr. Burger in Plainview, Texas, was tasked to prepare the Saturday Breakfast Burrito while Mullins was gone.  This week, you get the 7-Eleven special…while some islanders in the Carribean are getting the Mullins Monster burrito…or something like that Read the rest of this entry →