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PODCAST AIN’T PLAYED NOBODY: Cupcakes and Midwestern moral indignation

Yes, playing a cupcake the week before Rivalry Week is lame. Yes, we can all survive it without questioning anyone’s manhood.

NCAA Football: Mercer at Alabama
NCAA Football: Mercer at Alabama
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Week 12 is in the rearview! Let’s get a couple of things out of the way and move on to Rivalry Week, baby.

Topics:

  • Why it’s really hard to get that worked up about the whole “playing cupcakes right before Rivalry Week” thing. Yes, it’s lame. No, we probably shouldn’t question anybody’s manhood about the whole experience.
  • Or hey, do it anyway. Whatever.
  • Hey look, Bill figured out a reason to talk about Mizzou’s 2007 season. That never happens.
  • This week’s S&P+ top 30.
  • Please, lord, make a Mizzou-Kansas State Liberty Bowl happen.
  • Welcome back to existence, Louisville.
  • Washington State has one more step to take.
  • Why Oklahoma State wasn’t punished all that much for losing to Kansas State (and why K-State wasn’t rewarded that much either).
  • Georgia’s ahead of Auburn now!
  • Ohio State remains the efficiency master.
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