It’s a short week here at the KCCGD.  We gotta pack up tonight and get ready to hit the highway big time for Turkey Day.  We still have some time to get pumped for college football.  Usually when you think of football and Thanksgiving, it’s the NFL games with Detroit and Dallas.  But, there is even a bigger tradition for Thanksgiving and college football.  Rivalries are all over the place and it’s spread out nicely across the whole weekend.  So while the travel may be plentiful for us and maybe you, we are guaranteed some live college football at some point.  Happy Thanksgiving and here’s the Crib Sheet:

• Mascot Monday participant UGA VII of Georgia died last night due to a heart failure.  Our condolences goes out to the university and all live animal mascots out there.
• ESPN Page 2 columnist Matthew Iles talks about some of the more goofy rivalry trophies in college football.  We like the Old Brass Spittoon the best.  I wonder if, at the end of the game, whether or no the winner spits in it and if it makes a ba-doing noise.
• Florida State barely got bowl eligibility last weekend by edging out Maryland 29 – 26.  Bobby Bowden may end up being forced out anyway at the end of the year.  The guy has been getting from all sides down there.
• Some Big 12 coaches are jumping to the defense of Kansas coach Mark Mangino.  Mike Leech and Bob Stoops are covering for him, even though they are alot like him.  The surprising one was Bill Snyder 2.0.  Coaches need to look out for each other and we’re seeing a pretty good case of this right here.
• Jimmy Clausen could have used some defense when he was cold cocked by a fan in front of a South Bend restaurant.  Not very Catholic-like indeed.  Jimmy’s out at the end of the year and heading to the NFL.  This incident merely sealed the deal.
• That’s just the tip of the iceberg for Notre Dame.  Charlie Weis pretty much said it himself when we stated that there is no surprise if the Irish can him at the end of the year.   Urban Meyer keeps telling the press he’s out, signaling the start of a new coaching search for the Domers.  No more vaunted, Charlie Weis led, Notre Dame Fighthing Irish.
• Taylor Potts last week wore ‘Nick’ on the back of his jersey, now we know why.   Mike Leech talks about his man love former Kansas linebacker Nick Reid.  He never met him but for some reason he’s always thought Reid was the ultimate football player.  We’re still trying to figure this out.  It did help inspire them to a win though.