Jim Moore, SeattlePI: Cougar columnist Jim Moore goes undercover to Tyrone Willingham's news conference, is put to sleep.

Michael Hunt, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel: Criticizes Wisconsin for backing out of a game with Virginia Tech in order to play Cal Poly, just so they can guarantee a win on senior day.

Stewart Mandel, CNNSI.com: - Stewart Mandel is back and the self-proclaimed college football expert ranks his top 25 teams with much fanfare to start off the season. Of course, it looks pretty much just like everybody else's top 25 list.

Ron Cook, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette: Conspiracy theories abound! Cook makes the case that Penn State secretly wants to have a shitty football season so as to make it easier to oust Joe Paterno.

This past week the US News released its 2009 list of "America's Best Colleges." With three schools ranked in the top 25 in the nation (Stanford #4, California #21 and UCLA at #25), the PAC-10 wins the CouchQB honor of being the smartest football conference in America.

Now lets focus our attention on the dumbest. The number of schools considered "Tier-1" by US News stops at 130, and with a #130 ranking LSU barely makes being "tier 1" by the hairs on its chinny chin chin. Arkansas comes in at #125, and South Carolina and Tennessee both tie at #108.

That's four teams in the bottom 25 for the SEC, more than any other football conference. SEC wins the CouchQB award for being the dumbest football conference in America.