Oh my. Oh gee. Oh Gosh.  The ever fluid question of who is going to play for the BCS championship grew ever murkier yesterday thanks to a mad scientist from Lubbock, Texas.  With an unending air assault on Oklahoma, Texas Tech found a way to kick the Sooners back down the ladder in the BCS polls.  But wait, there's more.

Imagine if you will a national championship game starring Georgia and Ohio State?  Nuts, you say?  Not gonna happen you say?  Here's how it can:

• LSU. who knocked off Ole Miss yesterday and should beat Arkansas Friday (although stranger things have happed, right Mike Berlotti? Right Bob Stoops?)  will be in the SEC Championship game December 1.  If Kentucky has one more upset in them and knocks off Tennessee next week, Georgia will represent the East.  Right now, Georgia may be playing the best football in the SEC.  So, if Tennessee, who barely survived Vandy yesterday, gets knocked off by UK, LSU will have to come off a tough Arkansas game against a team who, at this point in the season, is peaking.  Georgia could very well be the fly in LSU's ointment if they get some help.  So, assuming (and yes, i know, it's a big assumption) that the cosmic tumblers align, LSU can get knocked off the hill, but only if they play Georgia.  If UT beats Kentucky, LSU will devour them and play for the national championship.
• I've said it a million times but I will say it again, the only way Kansas is going to be at the BCS Championship game is if they buy a ticket.  They may survive Missouri next weekend, but they won't survive a very ticked off Oklahoma team who will make the Big 12 game their championship game.  Repeating  our top story, Kansas will NOT play for the championship this year.  Period.  End of sentence. End of paragraph.
• West Virginia, which looked impressive against a very good Cincinnati team, puts it all on the line Saturday against UCONN.  If they beat the Huskies, they have only one game left on their schedule, Pittsburgh.  And if they can't beat a team coached by Davewood Bumstedt, they have no right to play for a title of any kind.  So, their odds of making it to New Orleans are pretty good right now should Kansas or LSU or both get knocked off.
• Ohio State is done for the season.  They will simply wait and watch and be ready to go to Pasadena or New Orleans depending how things shake out.  As they say in NASCAR, they need to get through some lap traffic first.  For OSU to go, Kansas MUST lose to Missouri, Missouri MUST lose to Oklahoma and West Virginia must lose to UCONN.  They need help, but since they don't play again, they have nowhere to go but up.
• Here's your dark horse, Georgia.  But they need lots of help.  They themselves have to beat Georgia Tech (which they should.)  Then, the Tennessee scenario, the Kansas scenario, the Missouri scenario and the West Virginia scenario all have to come into play and THEN they still would have to beat LSU in the SEC championship game.  The odds are slim that the cosmic tumblers could fall this way, but they are within the realm of probability and possibility.  Personally, I would be happy with a Georgia-LSU SEC title game just to see if the Dawgs are for real.
• Some other scenarios to watch out for: If Kansas gets beaten by Missouri and Missouri loses to Oklahoma; AND LSU loses to either Arkansas or Georgia, it is plausible to believe that the two conferences everyone seems to agree are the strongest this season, the Big 12 and the SEC, may not have a representative in New Orleans.  This depends on where Oklahoma falls in the standings after yesterday, but even so, the Sooners probably don't have enough time to get back in it, especially with two losses.  Things could shake out with a Big East-Big Ten championship, with the Big East being the better of the two leagues this year.
• Elsewhere in college football yesterday: Florida beats up on a patsy. 
  
• Maybe Florida coach Urban Meyer ought to call Alabama coach Nick Satan and tell him how to do that.  The weeping and wailing and gnashing of teeth in Tuscaloosais so loud you can hear it in Mobile.  Losing to Louisiana Monroe? Even my 83 year-old mother in law is annoyed.  Last night she said "Maybe it's time to get rid of their high-falutin', over priced coach."  Hey, Coach Satan.  When you tick off grandmothers, you got yourself some issues.  Good thing those five players that got bounced are conveniently re-joining the team for the Auburn game next weekend.  It won't matter though and it's really going to piss off anger Tide Nation that your team probably won't go to a bowl game, and if it does it will be named after a weed wacker, a second tier city or a pizza joint.
  
• Notre Dame beats Duke, which would be a much bigger deal if we were talking about basketball.  Four more wins and Charlie Weis' squad is bowl eligible, which is not good considering they've played ten games and have only one left.  Of course, it is possible for them to beat Stanford, so 3-8 may not be out of the question.
• Harvard beats Yale for the Ivy League Championship.  I tell you this only because I like to think of this as an intelligent blog.
  
• Sometimes you feel like a Nutt, sometimes you don't.  Ongoing Internet traffic reports Houston Nutt is out, Nutt denies the rumors, which is something people from Arkansas are good at ("I did not have sex with that woman")  BTW, Hog Nation, your new AD Jeff Long is the same guy who hired Davewood Bumstedt at Pittsburgh.  Good luck with your next coach.
  
• Reports out of Detroit are that Les Miles may want to coach at Michigan, but Lloyd Carr, who will have a lot of influence over the hiring of his replacement, doesn't want him to.  Les, here's some advice.  Stay at LSU and make your own history.

Lightning Round

• Rex Grossman's road to redemption begins this afternoon at 3:15.  It should hit a traffic jam about 3:30.
• If you haven't been impressed by this young Chicago Blackhawks team, maybe you should be.  Out shot and out played most of the night by the Red Wings, the Hawks scored four shorthanded goals and won 5-3 last night in Detroit.  Don't look now, but as the song goes, here come the Hawks. 
  
• Tony Stewart is one guy who is glad the NASCAR season is over after today.  Matt Kenseth may not be so glad since he loses his best friend and crew chief following today's Jimmie Johnson coronation at Homestead.
• Local police are raising Kahne.  I know at first, your reaction is "he was in uniform, the guard should have known who he was, etc., but the guard is actually a hero because what if it wasn't Kasey Kahne, just a nut dressed in a look alike fire suit.  That's why they ask for credentials.  I don't blame Kahne for his reaction either, this should go down as an object lesson for everybody: Wear your credentials, this means you, and we can all move on.  Although I'm sure the guard will sue for pain and suffering before it;s all said and done.
  
• In a pleasant surprise to men everywhere, a retailer is considering marketing the J-Cup bra.  No telling what's behind it though.