Halloween is Sunday and we are cooking up various items around the place with pumpkin in them.  The roasted pumpkin seeds with cinamon and nutmeg were awesome but so where the pumpkin muffins.  Grab your favorite pumpkin related food and check out this week’s Crib Sheet:

• Kent State just paid off Purdue for a chance to play Alabama as their opener for next year.  Huh?  I get that smaller schools need to shop around their bad football teams to juggernauts because it’s the only way the athletic department can make money.  This kind of swap, though, seems ridiculous.
• The lawyer of the Pace football player killed last week says that the paramedics ignored the handcuffed and injured Danroy Henry while they attended to the injured police officers first.  This just got a little more interesting.  Look for me “he said she said” reports as the courts sift through what actually happened.
• Gary Patterson, head coach of TCU and former Kansas State alumni, yelled up a doctor on the sideline of last week’s game because he kept a player out of a game due to concussion concerns.  We’re gonna see more and more of this as head injuries continue to be the number health issue for football.
• A national guard solder walked onto the field of the Michigan vs Michigan State game with two unloaded M16s.  The security guards let him on the field because of a veteran celebration going on.  The issue was he was not a part of the allowed crew.  He couldn’t get tickets to the game and wanted a way to watch it.  Wow, just wow.
• A new kind of Holy War will be on ahead of us in 2012 and 2013 when BYU heads to Notre Dame each year. Who’s tougher?  Mormons or Catholics?
• The Big 12 changed the tiebreaker rule that messed things up a couple of years ago.  Now if the teams are right next to each other in the BCS rankings, they will go back to the head to head match up.  It was only a matter of time before that was going to be changed.
• It looks like a new mascot will not only show up at Ole Miss as a student group is pushing for Illinois to change their mascot as well.  It’s going to be somewhat tougher as Native American mascots have a stronger foothold in culture than southern  rebels.  If they change that, they need to change all Indian mascots.  Chief Osceola might have a complaint or two.
• As I’m sure all of you know, Missouri beat Oklahoma last Saturday.  That’s all good and nice, but this is the first time I’ve heard that a rivalry game between these two means something.  That’s right, folks, David Ubben points us to the fact the the ‘Peace Pipe’ was up for grabs last Saturday.  Hey, the Big 12 needs all it can get with rivalries and strange tradition pieces.  Now that Missouri has it, will Oklahoma get it back?  They might at the Big 12 title game later this year.
• Starting Colorado quarterback Tyler Hansen has a ruptured spleen.  He’s out for the rest of the season.  The swan song for Colorado and the Big 12 is way more sour than Nebraska’s version.
• The division alignment for the Pac 10/12 came out last week.  The cutting line was in California as Stanford and California will be playing in the geographic North Division.  Soon to be former Big 12 school Colorado will be playing in the South Division.
• A panel comprised of NFL and college officials may suggest financial penalties for student-athletes who take sports agent money.  The fines would be addressed at the draft level.  There’s even talk of game suspensions.  I guess that if a player is good enough to be in the draft and he takes money, this kind of penalty would deter them.  I’m not sure it would scare away the guys that take money and don’t get drafted.
• A study out of Ithica College states that full scholarship athletes actually need to pony up about $2,951 in school-related items not covered.  It kind of makes you wonder why students would try to sell game jerseys and what not again.
• Justin Blackmon from Oklahoma State got a DUI after the Dallas Cowboys Monday Night Game.  Apparently they were there to support former Cowboy Dez Bryant.  In Texas, if you are underage and smell of booze, you will be arrested, no matter if you had one or none.  It’s not know yet if he’s gonna play Saturday against Kansas State, but he should sit for at least a game or two.