It’s the most wonderful time of the year!  Happy holidays from KC College GameDay!  It’s bowl season and I’ll do a couple of recaps in the next couple of days as well as run down some bowls I’m in to.  In the meantime, we have a fat Crib Sheet so let’s get to it:

• Iowa’s Derrell Johnson-Koulianos got the hook by the police for a bunch of drug charges.  It looks like he’s suspended from the Insight Bowl against Missouri.  That should help out the Tigers defense immensely as Johnson-Koulianos was the Hawkeye’s all time leader in receptions and receiving yards.  And yes, two of their running backs are out as well.  It should be an easy game for the Tigers.
• Here are some national award winners from the Big 12:  Texas defensive end Sam Acho won the William V. Campbell Trophy or the Academic Heisman.  Oklahoma quarterback Landry Jones wins the Sammy Baugh Award for the nation’s best passer.  Oklahoma State wide receiver Justin Blackmon won the Biletnikoff Award.  Meanwhile, fellow teammate Dan Bailey wins the Lou Groza Award.
• Meanwhile, the Nebraska Huskers suspended defensive tackle Baker Steinkuhler for getting a DUI last week.  He’ll be out of the Holiday Bowl and the Husker’s rematch against Washington.
• Even though I think Big Ten Commissioner Jim Delany is evil incarnate, I do agree with him on holding back the college football playoff.  His reasons come from a wealth of ego.  Delany says that the Big Ten sacrificed enough by letting other conferences play in the Rose Bowl.  There’s enough ego around other commissioners that there would be no way a playoff would bubble up.
• Urban Meyer resigned from Florida.  The only reason this is news is that he should’ve stayed gone last year.  Urban Meyer’s resignation was again due to health concerns.  It seems as though this time, Florida didn’t give him a chance to second guess himself.
• Let’s take a look at how some Big 12 coaches voted in the final coaches poll of the year.  Interesting stuff here, especially the one where Bo Pelini ranked his Cornhuskers #8 even though they lost to Oklahoma in the Big 12 Championship Game.
• Speaking of coaches, the USA Today has a break down of some interesting contract provisions for some of the coaches out there.  Bill Snyder 2.0 gets a free ride and tickets to basketball games.  If Mack Brown resigns, he’ll be reassigned to another a part of the school.  Mike Sherman gets a cool $100K for appearing or being named a national champion.
• Keeping with Bo Pelini, he had to shoot down rumors of taking the Miami job that’s up for grabs now.  Usually, when rumors like that happen, it means that something is ticking.   It makes sense, too.  Miami got rid of an upstanding Randy Shannon because he wasn’t winning games.  Shannon did turn around the program in terms of class act athletes.  Bo Pelini coaches the opposite way.
• It looks like Missouri is putting on a cheap-o way to get down to the Insight Bowl.  Bus rides and hotel stays abound!  They are pulling hard to shake the no fan travel stigma.  I hope it works.
• Conference expansion time!  Hawaii is joining the Mountain West Conference for football only in 2012 and will be doing all other sports in the Big West Conference.  It looks like the WAC is falling apart.
• Auburn quarterback Cam Newton won the Heisman Trophy.  No surprise there.  I watched him torch South Carolina in the SEC Championship game and knew then he had a lock on it.  It didn’t stop the proud sports media to take pot shots at him.  Some writers left him off completely and he was absent from the Football Writers Association of America’s All-American team.
• Okay, there’s been huge amount of coaching changes in the last week.  Let’s run them down.  Northern Illinois hired Wisconsin defensive coordinator Dave Doeren.  Louisiana-Lafayette hired Mississippi State assistant coach Mark Hudspeth.  The Miami Hurricanes notch down Temple head coach Al Golden as their new head coach.  The biggest move, of course, goes to Florida hiring Texas defensive coordinator Will Muschamp as their new head coach.  The Longhorns thought they had him next in line for whenever Mack Brown retires, but it looks like Florida was too big of an opportunity not to pass up.  Texas had a down year this year and it looks like rebuilding may take longer than expected.
• The Big Ten unveiled it’s new logo and what the division names, the ‘Legends’ and ‘Leaders’, for next year when Nebraska joins the league.  I’m glad they got rid of the eleven hidden in the logo.  The color is a little bit lighter than I expected though.
• Just in case you were wondering, Oregon will have new digs for the BCS National Championship Game. Fashionable Ducks, they are.