Everyone has been making a big fuss over the past several days about the fact that you could dig 12 quarters out of your couch cushions and buy an ACC championship game ticket with that coin. Yes, if you go on StubHub right now, you can buy tickets to tomorrow night’s ACC title game between FSU and Georgia Tech for $3. And that’s awesome if you’re a fan of FSU. If you’re a Georgia Tech fan, I guess that’s okay, too, even though the Yellow Jackets are probably going to get their butts kicked. But it’s FSU and it’s an important game, so the Seminoles will probably find a way to disappoint their fans yet again.

But the real fun starts tonight, college football fans, and a lot of people are predicting that we’re going to see the most exciting conference championship game of the year tonight. Are they talking about the MAC Championship or the PAC-12? You’ll have to click to find out! But seriously, it’s the MAC game.

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My friends and I were joking this weekend, as I struggled through watching the UCF Knights blow their game against the Missouri Tigers and the Miami Dolphins really blow their game against the Arizona Cardinals, that I could just do these Faces of ‘Freude (new name, this one’s sticking) posts with pictures of me screaming at bar TVs for three hours every Saturday and Sunday. And yeah, once the Orlando Magic season starts, I may be able to power the entire planet with just my rage. But I’m not sure the world is ready for so many pictures of how handsome I am.

Thankfully, we have Derek Dooley and his derpy dome to fill the void. On the surface, a 3-2 record shouldn’t have a team’s fans searching for the world’s tallest bridge, but Dooley’s Tennessee Volunteers dropped to 0-2 in the SEC after yesterday’s exciting 51-44 loss to the Georgia Bulldogs. I like Dooley and I don’t have any problems with the Vols, so I think it’s encouraging that they’re putting up such a good fight. Hopefully they’ll start winning more so fans can finish washing away the Lane Kiffin stink.

But in the meantime, keep baking those frownies, college football fans.

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This gallery may not appeal to the more Hot-Cheerleaders-In-Slow-Motion-inclined members of the With Leather readership, but don’t be afraid to enjoy it, because at some point during the 1970s the Walt Disney Corporation teamed up with Wonder Bread to give away pennant stickers with loaves of bread that are literally nothing but Disney characters destroying college names with puns. Yes, that’s a sentence I’ve written.

As I see it, there are two fine ways to enjoy this:

1. Flipping through and trying to figure out which school each pennant represents, because some of them are a stretch.
2. Losing control of your neck and bashing your head against the desk in a full-body groan when you realize “Mickey Can Skate” is Michigan State, or whatever.

A third way to enjoy it is through the absurdity of the illustrations, like Cinderella doing 2,000 pounds of laundry in her ball gown or Goofy with a broken leg because you can only make so many puns about Tulane. And yes, ACC fans, here is where you learn about how Disney preappropriated your “dook” joke for Duke and made it about fowl royalty a decade or so before you were born. I kept expecting to see a Virginia Tech pennant where Shan Yu from Mulan is holding up a castrated turkey.

Note: Full credit for these goes to Disney, I guess, but credit for putting them on the Internet goes to Jason Liebig.

[h/t Disney Food Blog]

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Everyone seems bent out of shape about this Iowa-Georgia Tech Orange Bowl and how little national significance the game seems to have. That seems odd to me, because this is the kind of matchup we’d see in the first or second round of any national football tournament–two kinda good teams that had nice seasons but that nobody really finds worthy of their attention. And the trouble with that indifference is that it’s compounded when it comes from the two competing schools.

In 2010, unlike past years, the Orange Bowl ticket isn’t a tough get. Fans are practically giving tickets away. Clay Rowand, a Georgia Tech student, paid $125 face value for a ticket to the game. He had hope to unload it for around $80, he wound up getting just $40 for the tickets.[..]

There could be a number of explanations for the lackluster sales. Fans give multiple versions of why the game has the potential to be a dud at the box office. Gabriel Arronte, a fifth year senior, said “It’s a long trip, especially for Iowa, so I don’t know if they wouldn’t be able to make it.” Iowa fan Casey Reidell offered up a different explanation. “Georgia Tech fans don’t travel well. I think that’s part of the problem,” Reidell said. –CBS4 Miami.

On the other hand, if this were a playoff game, there likely would be a better chance of these teams playing closer to (if not in) one of their stadiums. But all of these arguments about a playoff are stupid. Arguing about the bowls is like arguing about the DH in the American League or Susan Sarandon’s movies–they’re not going away. The best we can do is hope that this game is more Bull Durham than Thelma and Louise.

Here’s another solid video of a running back breaking into a defensive back’s house and drinking his milk straight from the carton. The offending party is Georgia Tech’s Jonathan Dwyer, and this defensive back from Virginia gets his business owned so badly that he doesn’t even deserve a name anymore. How has Virginia been so terrible for so long? It probably has something to do with the fact that Charlottesville is so desolate, you have to drive for an hour before you even get to Nowhere. That’s great if you’re a reclusive former president. Not so much if you’re an 18-year-old kid looking to get his junk wet on the weekend.

Helmet sticker goes to Taylor for sending this in.

When it’s this early in the college football season, you can always count on at least one guy getting utterly destroyed on punt return coverage. And last night, Miami’s Jordan Futch accommodated with this demolition of Georgia Tech’s Steven Sylvester. I guess the missle defense program is alive and well. Futch hit that sumbitch so hard that he almost woke up in the Orange Bowl. We’re not far from seeing a punt return block that rips a wormhole into the space-time continuum. That works for me, as long as it’s on YouTube. Video’s after the jump. Read the rest of this entry »