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Figured I would start this so other people could share their stories of not being able to get tickets either through the school or that joke of a TicketMaster release. I am sure I was with you and every other Texas/USC fan trying to buy 2 tickets out of a ridiculous allotment of 1,000 tickets from TicketMaster this morning at 10:00am. Is it just me or was it depressing how quickly those tickets sold?

So, I felt that I needed to secure tickets no matter what, especially because I have already setup my trip to Vegas and drive down to Pasadena. So what do I do? I check eBay of course. Hmm…$1000/ticket. Later. So I check Razor Gator. $637/ticket. Do-able, but it comes out to $700/ticket once you add all of their fees. So that is what we ended up doing. We got 6 tickets at $700/piece. Man, that sucks. But you gotta do what you gotta do.

So what happened with your ticket attempts?

Former FSU QB & Heisman winner says “I’m going to vote for him for what he does for his team.”

Texas, USC, Notre Dame, Ohio State. Bobby Bowden and Joe Pa. BCS matchups at least sound good.

Now this is funny stuff.

“We tend to root for the people we can relate to, and white people seem to have an easy time relating to shaggy-haired hippy kids from the northwest.â€?

Never heard of TheBrushback.com before, seems to have some pretty good content and they’ve been around forever and update weekly. Annoys the daylights out of me that they screw up the proportions of all the images on the homepage. Makes the site look a little unprofessional. It’s definitely funny though, and they’re even working on a pilot and trying to get it on Comedy Central.

Saying I “want to dominate” USC doesn’t really constitute talking trash IMO.

Find out who’s playing in the 27 games that aren’t the Rose Bowl.

Vince was on PTI yesterday for their “Five Good Minutes” segment. Tony Kornheiser and Michael Wilbon ask him about his frustration during the A&M game, how important the Heisman is to him, his childhood, whether he’s headed to the pros, and more. The university definitely has turned on the PR machine the last week or so for his Heisman campaign. He’s been on TV at least twice (Best Damn and PTI) and made the covers of both ESPN the Magazine and Sports Illustrated. I’m sure he’s done the national sports radio rounds as well. Let’s hope the media takes notice and then he goes out on Saturday and shows them of what he’s capable of.

Click here to watch the entire 4+ minute interview. (Note: Video playback requires Flash Player 8.)

Everyday Should Be Saturday has 52 hilarious and dead on reasons that ESPN/ABC/Disney sucks. I stole a few and came up with some of my own to put together my top 10 reasons ESPN and ABC suck…

1. The ruination of College Gameday, formerly the best show on ESPN. It used to be entertaining and informaative, then it was just entertaining, now it just sucks. I used to watch it religously every Saturday morning, but even though my TiVo’s still set up to record every show I’ve hardly watched it this season. Notice how about half of EDSBS’s list (several mentioned in a second, plus #23 Desmond Howard, #25 Lee Corso, #34 Mark May, and #35 Lou Holtz) is something wrong with Gameday. Anytime you make me long for the days of Trev Alberts, something has gone horribly awry.

2. Skip Bayless. You made me like Woody Paige (EDSBS #30), you must really suck. How did those guys miss Skip?

3. Stuart Scott. I know you can’t fire him because his creepy eye injury happened on the job, but at least give him PGA/beach volleyball duty so we don’t see him as often and when we do see him he can wear sunglasses. He freaks me out.

4. No high definition college football. This one is kind of weird. ESPN has at least a couple college football games a week in HD, while before this weekend ABC had shown one all season. I really hope they get this fixed by next season, they’ve got to at least be able to do one game every Saturday in HD.

5. Mike Lupica. A few weeks ago he attacked the Longhorns for running up the score against Kansas by kicking a field goal in the first half. Clearly doesn’t watch much (if any) college football but still has a strong opinion on it. One of the best examples of the media’s East Coast bias.

6. Nick Lachey on Gameday. How many millions of dollars do you want to bet he’s gone next year now that he’s no longer Mr. Jessica Simpson? I think there’s a better chance he’s working at Chili’s next year than at ESPN.

7. Fake news conferences. Seriously, what in the world were they thinking?

8. Stephen A. Smith. He’s an annoying ass when talking about the NBA, he’s an incompetent jackass when it comes to everything else. He’d almost be tolerable if he stuck to basketball.

9. Big and Rich. It’s as if they found as many ways as possible to ruin Gameday this season. These guys are genre-defying terrible.

10. Max Kellerman. He’s not even on ESPN anymore but I blame them for his existence. How do you take a boxing analyst and make him the host of a show? Nothing’s worse than stupid and opinionated.

Funny version of Bud Light commercials mocking Jackson and most announcers.

Horns continued domination of Big 12, now set their sites on the nation.