Ho boy do we have a feast of news for you to munch in this Thanksgiving edition of the Crib Sheet.  There should be enough left over to keep you fed over the whole weekend as there is college football on pretty much all of the time.  Grab a bib and get ready for some Crib Sheet:

• Iowa State quarterback Austen Aurnaud had his college career cut short due to injury.  He did a pretty good job up there and it’s a shame he can’t finish the season out.
• Fox, the channel that brings you the Big Ten Network, will bring you the next 6 Big Ten Championship Games.  Let’s hope Nebraska makes none of them.
• A Mississippi State booster got a payment plan for Cam Newton via a text message.  Yes, a text message.  Again, I’m trying to figure out why this is big news now.  I’m sure boosters send texts between each other all the time about getting the latest recruit.  I guess this points toward firing up an investigation at Auburn but outside of that it’s just a text message.
• Five ex-Kansas employees were charged Thursday for conspiring to steal more than $2 million in tickets to university athletic events.  Usually when the feds get involved, the case is pretty tight.  Let’s hope the Jayhawks can get this cleaned up and put passed them.
• Wrigley Field provided for some entertainment last Saturday.  Just check out the field.  It’s a good thing the teams agreed to play with some crazy rules. Among them, the teams ran their offense toward the west end of the field.  And it might happen again.
• Colorado’s officially contacting Bill McCartney.  Yeah, he retired back in 1994, but after seeing JoePa and Bill Snyder 2.0, I’m sure he feels he can kick the tires and light the fires again.  Meanwhile, NFL’s Minnesota Vikings have confirmed that Colorado contacted the team to meet with coach and former Buffaloes alumni Eric Bieniemy.
• Don’t look now, Hawaii may join the Mountain West Conference.  The WAC is falling apart worse than the Big 12 did.  I’m guessing that the Mountain West will get an automatic qualifying spot here in the next year or two.
• Wow that was fast.  Nebraska retired Ndamukong Suh’s jersey at halftime Saturday.   I guess he was one of the more dominating figures from the defensive side of Husker football.  I wonder if Bo Pelini chewed his gum during the ceremony.
• Further proving that Harvard is full of smart people, the officials banned the use of vuvuzelas from this year’s Harvard vs Yale game.  Good show, chaps!
• With all of the recruiting hullabaloo going on, USC head coach Lane Kiffin did the right thing in leaving freshman tailback Dillon Baxter home after what he called was ‘inadvertent’ contact with a sports agent.  Now that sports agents are like the plague, the kid needs to stay home and heal up from such poison.  </sarcasm>
• Michigan’s Denard Robinson became the first NCAA player in history to pass for 1,500 yards and rush for 1,500 yards in the same season.  Too bad his Wolverines have such a terrible defense.  With a better won/loss record he would be the clear leader for the Heisman Trophy.  Cam Newton’s undefeated and he’s got it so far.
• Looks like the sideline antics by Bo Pelini was too much for Nebraska chancellor Harvey Perlman.  After the upset loss to Texas A&M last week, Perlman stated that the behavior of Pelini was not that of Cornhusker pride.  Pelini got flagged for yelling at the refs as well as a good minute of yelling at them after the game.  He was also seen verbally pummeling quarterback Taylor Martinez.  The amazing thing is he did it while chewing gum with his mouth wide open.  Pelini is a joke.  He might be a great coach, but he’s a clown on the sidelines.  He has since apologized.  It’s gotten to the point where they are analyzing each of the 16 penalties up there.  I can’t wait til these guys leave for the Big 10.
• So while all that was happening.  Carl Pelini, the lesser refined version of Bo believe it or not, jacked around with a cameraman after the loss last Saturday.  Bo says Carl was trying to ge to a player, the photo evidence shows otherwise.  Man those two are like the opposite of the Super Mario Brothers.  They are the Super Pelini Brothers now.  Mama mia, do they get snappy when they lose!  Oh yeah, Carl apologized too.
• Hold on to your hats, conference expansion is still going on!  This time the vaunted Rhode Island Rams will join the Northeast Conference for football in 2013.  Look out everyone!