Classes started this morning at ND, and it'll take me a few days to figure out the best times to nap and to...umm, yeah, nap.  Onward and upward...

Remember back on my first real post on this site when I was looking at some of the contenders and happened to make a not-so-nice comment about doubting Mack Brown?  Well the Longhorn faithful can thank me now, as it provided Pete with some excellent fodder for an idiot columnist over at BON.  Apparently, Texas fans adamantly defending their coach against the evils of a Notre Dame onlooker counts as having venom towards him, so either I don't really understand what venom means or David Bozich is a freaking idiot.

The only way to describe my feelings towards the GT game is to note that there is an equal mix of confidence, excitement and complete and utter dread something terrible will happen.  First, I'm must perusing various Top 25's and I stumbling onto this,  SMQ writing the following about GT in his BlogPoll overview:

I don't like it when things are phrased that way, although do remember the upsets over Auburn and Miami involved rather young opposing quarterbacks, as opposed to The Mighty Quinn.  Also, Yellow Jacket linemen appear to be dropping like flies.  Okay, at least the atmosphere won't be absolutely terrifying and conducive to an upset:

Thanks, SportingNews.  All I want to do is just go to sleep and wake up national champions.  Sadly, we're going to have to wake up the echoes thirteen times this season before that can happen.  

For what it's worth, CollegeFootballNews picked us to lose to GT, but they also picked the combined score of the Louisville/WVU game to only reach 51, so I'm sorry if I don't get too upset about that one.

 We got our tickets, and I'll be watching seven fantastic home games in the Stadium from Section 30, Row 55, Seat (Standing area?) 23.  A little higher then we were the last couple of years, but still tickets to every Fighting Irish home game nonetheless.

Kickoff remains oh-so-close...