IT'S 10 PM...DO YOU KNOW WHERE YOUR UNDEFEATED TEAMS ARE?

It's actually 10:09 p.m. and do you realize that 40% of the nation's undefeated teams have yet to play today? Arizona State kicks off at home versus Cal in a few minutes. Hawaii kicks off in Honolulu (great concessions there, by the way) at 12:05 a.m. eastern. I spent Christmas eve at Aloha Stadium last year and it felt like a 4th of July game at Yankee Stadium. Wait, no it didn't, because it was rainy and cold here in NYC last July 4th.

Anyway...the other three unbeatens: Boston College won on Thursday night, Kansas is up 19-9 late in the 4th, and Ohio State just scored to go up 24-7 in the 3rd in Happy Valley.

Trend I'm getting REALLY TIRED of: Refs reviewing touchdown catches. It seems as if every other one gets reviewed these days. You know, nobody reviewed Matt Holliday's slide in the one-game playoff versus the San Diego Padres and the world seemed to keep spinning just fine. Even though Holliday never tagged home plate. Just like Julio Lugo should have been called out at second base in Game 7 against the Tribe (that was it, right? I'm too tired to review the details at the moment). Anyway, baseball has bang-bang calls, too, just like football. They get most of them right. Some--very few--they miss.

But at least the game keeps moving.

I tune in to watch football games. Not appeals processes. Let's stop litigating football games, folks. Let the players play and the refs ref, and if occasionally someone screws up, well, we'll live with it.

(Old cranky guy now stepping out of spotlight).

Hey, this McAnderson dude for Kansas is a rumblin', bumblin', stumblin' stud.

By the way, how about Mark Mangino? This has to be the most watched Kansas game in ages (they're on ESPN2, nationally televised) and Mangino is going with the black velour sweat jacket. It looks as if he borrowed his game outfit from Tony Montana's boss.

Remember those "Never" rules I mentioned earlier? Well, in the 3rd quarter of this Kansas-A&M game, an Aggie DB thought he picked up a fumble at about the Aggie 15 and, even though the whistle blew, he ran it back 85 yards all the way to the hizzouse. Then he just stood there, kind of like a petulant child, as if he stayed in the end zone long enough the refs would reverse the call.

The refs didn't. They started the game clock. And the DB couldn't get all the way back to the line of scrimmage fast enough, so A&M had to burn a timeout so they wouldn't get a penalty. Well, guess what? A&M lost 35 seconds in the final two minutes because they had no more timeouts. And they're only down 19-11.

If they had that timeout, they could have started this final drive with about 90 seconds left from their 20. Instead, they began it with 0:52 remaining.