Kansas and Missouri square off this weekend in arguably the biggest game this whacky college football season has seen. Kansas is #2 in the latest BCS standings and Missouri is #4. In unrelated news, the South won the Civil War, the Bengals are America’s team, and Nick Saban has left Alabama to write speeches for President Bush. Just kidding, um, I think.

Because with all this topsy, turvy, wild, crazy stuff going on, it all seems more plausible then Kansas (the football team) and Missouri (The Tigers?) both controlling their own destiny for a shot at the national title.

A part of me is trying to embrace this whole upside down world. Okay, Kansas is undefeated and they’re a scoring machine, but who have they played? Nebraska? Is that the best we can do? Sort of. In the year they knew they weren’t playing Texas or Oklahoma in the regular season, Kansas locked and loaded up weak teams (Central Michigan, Southeast Louisiana, Toledo, Mighty Florida International?) Their best wins (At Colorado, At K-State) are mediocre wins at best. Is this team really title tough?

Missouri has Chase Daniel and a bunch of other guys no one east of the Mississippi River has ever head of. Yet, the Tigers, who unlike the Jayhawks have received virtually no press this year, have flown so low under the radar that they’ve vaulted all the way into title contention. At least Mizzou took on Oklahoma (lost by 10), beat Texas Tech, Illinois, some decent competition I suppose?

Ya know what, whoever wins this game, will probably lose to Oklahoma/Texas anyways in the Big XII title game. And West Virginia will lose to Connecticut this week, and the Buckeyes will end up in the national championship game because they ran out of games to play. However, their opponent, Georgia (after LSU loses to Arkansas) won’t have even won their division, let alone conference, because the mediocre Vols are able to beat Kentucky. Thus leading to the wildest BCS show ever. Ratings baby, Fox will think! We sure could use them after that baseball post-season.

(It should be noted, that final paragraph is based upon how the season has gone this year, and what would seem logical (meaning completely illogical) to pick. These are not my picks, I am afraid to make any, because they will probably be pathetically wrong. Why did Dennis Dixon have to get hurt? Oregon could have made this so much simpler!