Due to budget cuts, Alabama was forced to skimipify their cheerleader outfits.

Capping off College Football’s season opening slate is the marquee matchup of #5 Alabama and #7 Virginia Tech. Not gonna throw out a prediction on score or winner, but will predict this: Alabama struggles with a passing offense and Virginia Tech blocks a kick.

Also tonight sees #20 Brigham Young take on #3 Oklahoma. Sam Bradford will throw for tons of touchdowns for Oklahoma, so hopefully whoever is quarterbackin’ for BYU channels a little Ty Detmer (Yes, Ty, fuck Steve Young, I said it) and can turn this one into an entertaining shootout.

And, if you still want more college football, at like 11pm Washington and LSU play in what could be a sleeper of an entertaining game. LSU comes in thought to be the much better team, but, Washington is still a major conference team hosting a team from an entirely different part of the country, which tends to keep games closer than they should be.

Lucky for us, cheerleaders suck at hiding.

Not sure I would have known that if not for college football, really. I mean, I’m sure at one point in my life, I knew the shit out of that, but, past like the 5th grade, that information stops becoming relevant. And then, with college football, it becomes relevant again. Because Juice Williams and Arrellious Benn of the Fighting Illini take on Missouri from St. Louis in one of the marquee mid-afternoon games.

Also on tap?

Most of the country will get to see #13 Georgia play #9 Oklahoma State in what should be a really good game. Since I reside in the Murder Mitten, hey there’s University of Michigan coach Rich Rodriguez crying again…Please, let Western Michigan win to make up for me having to watch that game.

Nevada and Notre Dame play as well, and there’s always a chance Notre Dame loses with Charlie Weis as head coach, so that could be fun.

mmmm...team spirit

So, today kicks off college football season. Sure, there was a game the other night, but they played it on a blue field and there was a sucker punch involved. Pffffft. Today is the day.

Top Games with 12 Noon kick off:

Navy v. #6 Ohio State
#9Penn State v. Akron

OK, so, PSU should roll and the rest of the games at Noon aside from that OSU-Navy tilt are going to be one sided early season affairs. Like, Liberty and West Virginia are playing at Noon. WVU 73 – 3 I’m going with on a score for that one.

Anyway, the point of this post is to alert you folks that we’re going to try and get some action going in the comments for the start of college football season. If you’re watching the action, feel free to post in the comments. I’ll be doing so…and, uh, I hope I won’t be alone, but, likely will be.

Pacman Jones’ NFL fate was pretty sealed in a downward spiral after his Makin’ it Rain Strip Club performance. Well, hey, there’s always the Arena league. Or, uh, no, sorry. Well, hey, there’s always pick up games going around the block where Pac lives, and his firearms appropriate play schemes would likely fit in well.

Except, Pacman is heading North.

Troubled CB/KR Adam “Pacman” Jones agreed to a one-year deal with the CFL’s Winnipeg Blue Bombers on Monday night, presumably an attempt to revive a football career derailed by numerous off-field incidents and, frankly, ineffectiveness between the sidelines last season in Dallas.

I don’t know how many strip clubs they have in Winnipeg, but, they definitely added more lunch shifts with Pac’s pending arrival.

Her last name is Rubio. That's close enough.

After weeks of courting Spanish league officials for a favorable contract buyout, the Minnesota Timberwolves’ brash general manager, David Kahn, failed to deliver point guard Ricky Rubio(notes), sources told Yahoo! Sports on Monday night.

Rubio – the fifth pick in the 2009 NBA draft – has agreed to a six-year contract with Regal FC Barcelona that doesn’t allow for an escape to the NBA until 2011. Kahn made several trips to Spain to try to get Rubio’s previous team, DKV Joventut, to lower his $8 million buyout price, but couldn’t get it done.

This has to be a little bit embarrassing for the Wolves. But, then again, they did take another point guard in addition to Rubio and folks were all “WHAT THE HELL ARE THEY DOING?” So, at least they have that going for them.

Plus, dude went over to Spain a couple of times. Which is a lot better than if they tried to sign a kid from the Bronx.

What does this mean for future players coming out of Europe? Probably nothing, but could mean that teams might actually stay away from drafting them in the future. Which, is never good for anybody, except for the player who forces the deal to a team he actually wants to play for.

Chad Ocho Cinco is one of the best wide receivers in the NFL. Last night in the Bengals second preseason game of the year, he did something that not many WRs in the NFL get to do. He kicked an extra point.

Cincinnati’s emergency kicker and international soccer fan booted the decisive extra point late in the first half and the Bengals beat the sloppy New England Patriots 7-6 on Thursday night.

“‘Esteban’ Ochocinco is back, the most interesting footballer in the world,” Ochocinco said. “Everyone has to remember, I’ve always said that soccer is my No. 1 sport. I think Ronaldinho would be proud of me right now.”

He says he practices kicks, but had not had the chance to get it done in a game. Well, there ya go. The best part is that in typical run-his-mouth-awesomely fashion, Ocho says that he can kick from much further distances.

“Soccer’s my first love, kicking’s easy … like riding a bike,” he said. “I can kick them from 50, 60 yards, left or right hash mark. … I kicked all through high school.”

Now that is something I’d really like to see him do.