There could be a big ole disparaging parenthetical here about how the Big 12 will go away and how badly it will affect my peeps and schools back home around the Kansas City area, but I’m deciding that we’ll focus on the good things this week.  Sure there may be moves, but our teams will play this Saturday and many Saturdays to come.  Whether or not they will play for a national title might still be going away real quickly, we’ll get enjoy the regional rivals and funky inter-conference matchups.  It’s time for some PMA (Positive Mental Attitude) and for this week’s Crib Sheet:

• Fox Sports had a show called ‘The College Experiment’ but they had to up and cancel it after a segment welcoming Colorado and Utah the Pac 12 made fun of Asian Americans.  There’s a big line that some of these shows need to be careful when they are skating the line of racy comedy.
• Those ridiculous uniforms Maryland wore against Miami are now going up for auction to benefit the school.  Sure, schools can do this, but don’t let those kids sell the jerseys.  Michigan players, take note.  You just got to keep your classic jerseys.  You better not sell them or the NCAA vultures will tear into you.
• In case you didn’t know, Iowa State players picked apart the interim Cy-Hawk Trophy like they eventually picked apart Iowa over the weekend.  The new one better be awesome.
• Okay, I’m tolerating things down here just fine, but the Matthew McConaughey open letter and video to Texas Longhorns fans is really pressing my patience.  Also, I wonder if that’s a burnt orange leather jacket he’s wearing?
• Minnesota head coach Jerry Kill collapsed into a seizure on the sideline during the last play of their game against New Mexico State over the weekend.  The team lost but he’s expected to report back to practice today.  Man I’m not sure how I could coach with benign idiopathic seizure disorder.  That’s gotta be rough.
• Auburn’s mascot eagle Spirit took a detour and flew into a window before their game over the weekend.  The Homer Simpson moment eventually led the dazed bird back to his owner at midfield.  Sometimes mascots don’t always do what they are told.
• About 10 players from Fresno State got accused of fraud for applying for electronic food stamps when they were not eligible for them.  I’m guessing some of them are on scholarships, too.  It’s either a dubious joke or they actually needed the cash.  Maybe if they paid the players more, this wouldn’t happen.
• The Pac 12 up and decided to give points back to USC after it was taken off the board at the end of their game against Utah over the weekend.  Sure it’s a mere scoring change, but it totally jacked up things in Las Vegas.  Remember kids, only bet jelly beans because the bookies will not always be generous when it comes to other things.
• Garrett Gilbert is no longer your Texas starting quarterback, with Colt McCoy’s little brother, Case, taking over the duties.  The switch happened last week during BYU’s game and it looks as though they are sticking with him.  I think the national championship appearance for Gilbert awhile back kind of poisoned him.
• Oklahoma landed a #1 spot in the AP poll for the 100th time.  This is the first time in history that a team hit the big 100.  Even a voting error with Alabama didn’t slow the Sooners down.
• Bobby Bowden went on Good Morning America and admitted he had prostate cancer in 2007.  It’s a balsy thing to coach a college team while going through treatments.  Pun fully intended.
• It looks as though a helmet-to-helmet hit on Derek Sheely during practice is what led to his death, an autopsy points to.  Look for some major sweeping changes coming from this.  Either bigger helmets and locked down necks or some kind of provision.
• Welcome to big time Boise State, here’s your three year probation and loss of nine scholarships.  What’s weird is that contact practices went down from 12 to 9 a year.  I didn’t know the NCAA could do that.
• Just so you know, the NCAA updated their transgender policy.  That’s good news for Chaz Bono and Rachael Maddow.
• A couple of advocacy groups got together and spit out some average fair market values for college athletes playing today. Football players on average would be worth about $121,000.  Whether or not you believe that, believe that the players need to get more than what they have now.
• Kansas State running back Bryce Brown has some work to do.  It seriously looks like the hype is wearing off on this guy.  Hopefully he steps up his game.
• Okay one last tidbit on the alignment drama.  Oklahoma has the key as they, and Oklahoma State, are thinking Pac 12, even though the Pac 12 commissioner is being coy about it.  Texas went up to Norman for the save but we don’t know what’s going to happen yet.  In the mean time, Texas A&M is complaining about being held hostage from going to the SEC, a conference that the Big 12 is real close to being better than this year so far.  Baylor’s trying to stick to the Aggies by returning a bunch of the tickets to their game this year.  It seems the Kansas City teams (KU, MU, KSU) are looking for the Big East.  Texas in the meantime picked up some University of Texas San Antonio games to play on the Longhorn Network.  What’s to come of this?  I have no freaking clue.