Your humble Blog Goliard has been slacking on his obsessive news-and-politics web reading in recent weeks, and may even manage to be more scarce than usual this season here on his own blog. The reason? Simple. College football has got to be about the most glorious, crazy, funny, gripping distractions ever devised by the mind of man.

I’ve been under the weather this week and am plenty tired and cranky, so that’s about all I have to say about that. Except for: Go Dawgs!

(This week, they’d better go for a thousand yards.)