No Amount Of LeIbuprofin Can Reduce LeFevour

Can someone explain to me why the GMAC bowl (between Central Michigan and Troy) is in such a prime time slot? I mean, the day between the Orange Bowl and the self-proclaimed National Championship Game? Each non-Sunday day of 2010 has been headlined by a big-time matchup; Ohio State vs. Oregon/Cincinatti vs. Florida! OK State vs. Ole Miss! Boise State vs. TCU! Iowa vs. GTech! .................CMU vs. Troy? No disrespect to either team, particularly #25 CMU, it's just underwhelming for this timeslot.

The good news is that Troy has the best passer in their history in Levi Brown and as for CMU,

Dan LeFevour is the FBS (NCAA Div. 1-A) all-time leader in career touchdowns. That's right, not even The Tebow has scored enough overhyped touchdowns that won't make it at the next level. And his name is awesome, i.e. Troy's defense will have to suppress LeFevour or they'll burn up! Though I'm relatively uneducated with respect to these two teams, my predictions are as follows:

Winner: CMU
Confidence: 96%

Margin: >10 pts
Confidence: 75%
Total Score: At least 50
Confidence: 65%

Basketball musings after the jump:
So I got back to U of I yesterday (a full two weeks before classes start) and went to the men's b-ball game against Iowa. There were about 12 Iowa fans there. I thought it was just because Iowa was playing in the Orange Bowl. Turns out there were other reasons:

We beat the crap out of 'em. Why did we win by so much? Well, we were 4 for 5 dunking (as opposed to 0 for 2 in the Missouri loss). Also because Iowa sucks.

In less than two weeks though, Purdue comes to Champaign, where the Illini have not yet lost. I think it's because teams play in Assembly Hall and get so offended by our incessant Chief Illiniwek music that it ruins their concentration. They go and start texting lawyers and the ACLU during timeouts.