Here are the top 10 college coaches as we speak.

1. Urban Meyer, Florida: Class of a hot football state.

2. Nick Saban, Alabama: Does not kiss up to the media, what's not to admire about that?

3. Pete Carroll, USC: It's news when a starter is not drafted.

4. Mike Leach, Texas Tech: Consistently casts Lubbock in a good light.

5. Mack Brown, Texas: Just beat No. 6 (below).

6. Bob Stoops, OU: The defense rests.

7. JoePa, Penn State: Was injured teaching on-side kick coverage to players one-fourth his age.

8. Les Miles, LSU: Has guts.

9. Carl Patterson, TCU: Wins under the radar and off the beaten path.

10. Butch Davis, North Carolina: Created instant skillfulness.

Best question of the year: If the spread is such an unstoppable formation, why doesn't anybody in the NFL win with it?

The answer can be found at cornerback.

At even the best colleges, cornerbacks are frequently converted runners, centers, quarterbacks.

At even the best high schools, cornerbacks are about four-feet nine by 155 pounds.

Another college myth is taken down: You have to be able to run the football to win in cold weather settings.

What cold weather settings?

The season is almost over and it hasn't been much less than 70 degrees even for night games at Upper Peninsula State in Michigan.

Around here you might get one or two nippy games.

The Big 12 championship contenders might have to break out a light blanket for the title game in KC.

TONIGHT

Pros

Denver at Cleveland (-3): Goes on the NFL Channel on cable, which has far and away the best pro replay show Sunday evenings at 10:30 p.m., and features hilarious commentary from Deion Sanders, and original music from Snoop Dogg.

Cleveland by 4.

College

SATURDAY

Oklahoma State at Texas Tech (-3 1/2): Like some companies, this game would seem to be too big to fail.

Great offenses, touchy defenses, somebody order another pizza, the extra large is gone and it's only halftime.

Tech is playing for a shot at the national championship, that's all.

State is only playing for a BCS Bowl.

Flip a coin.

Did you know that the side of a coin that is facing up when flipped comes true more often than the underside?

OSU by 4.

OU (-24) at the Aggies: Concerning the K-State opening, concerning likely candidates, all we have to say to the Wildcats is come on down!

We're just trying to help.

Concerning this one, some think the Aggies will score 40.

What does that have to do with winning the game?

Not much.

The Aggie defenders couldn't tackle each other.

OU by 20.

Georgia Tech at North Carolina (-4): Important back east, man the flipper elsewhere.

Carolina by 6.

Arkansas at South Carolina (-10): TU's painful lesson continues. South Carolina by 13.

Kansas (-2 1/2) at Nebraska: Maybe it's time for new search committee guidelines in Lincoln, as the coach before last was rocky, and this one seems frothy.

Nebraska by 2.

Penn State (-7) at Iowa: Do not adjust your set. Squirrels are not gnawing through wires, creating eerie images. Iowa is really that slow.

JoePa by 13.

Alabama (-3) at LSU: Another of the weekly cage match series.

Alabama by 1.

California at USC (-17): One might want Cal to be better than it actually is.

USC by 20.

SUNDAY

Green Bay at Minnesota (-2 1/2): Gus moves around like one of the actual Vikings.

Minnie by 1.

Kansas City at San Diego (-13): How do the San Diego and Denver coaches keep their jobs? They either know where something is hidden, or are about to run off 10 wins in a row.

SD by 14.

Indianapolis at the Steelers (-3): Poutin' Manning should save his breath.

Steelers by 1.

Giants at the Eagles (-2 1/2): Cowboys seem at their best when off.

Eagles by 1.

Baltimore at Houston (-2 1/2): Quick, put on "Dexter" on Showtime, or "The Unit" on CBS, anything beats this.

Dexter could be slicing and dicing Jimmy Smits, and the guys and gals of the secretive unit could be bobbing for enemies of the state.

Houston by 3.

Monday

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