QUOTE OF THE SEASON. USA Today's Christine Brennan.

College football is so out of sorts that Michigan and USC were hoping not to go to the Rose Bowl this year.

Pasadena, we have a problem. When the Rose Bowl is the booby prize for a Big Ten and Pac-10 school, college football is in more trouble than we first thought.

Quite.

Rip Track takes a time out from supplying the infrastructure to predict that the Special Ed Conference will encounter a few washouts early in 2007.