Daily Bullets – 8.31

Our first pick ’em group filled up pretty quickly so I’ve opened up another one, you can go here enter ID: 18377 and Password: neworleans to start filling up the new one. I haven’t decided if there will be prizes for both or just one grand prize. I’ll be making the same picks in both leagues.

Yaaaaaaaaay!! (NewsOK)

I’ve created a printable helmet schedule for football this year. Feel free to stick it on your fridge. (Schedule)

Cowgirls squeaked past my sister’s alma mater last night and improved to 5-0 in the process. (okstate.com)

The Herbies are out, I have many issues. First of all Nick freaking Foles does not have a better “pocket presence” (whatever that means) than Brandon Weeden. And Robert Griffin is not the country’s best-kept secret. Sorry, I’m on edge after all this Johnny Thomas/Michael Harrison stuff. (ESPN)

This headline made me giggle. (ESPN)

Good stuff from James Poling on Peter Uihlein’s crazy schedule. (O’Colly)

Ubben has 10 “fearless” predictions for the Big 12 this year. One of them is that Baylor will be in the conference title race late in the season. (ESPN)

OSU lands a hoops recruit who compares himself to KD. No, really. (Sporting News)

Column #2 from yours truly for the OC. Email me if you can’t see it on their site because you’ve used up your pageviews and I’ll send it to you. (O’Colly)

Good update on the athletic village by Thad Ayers. (O’Colly)

Here’s the presser from Louisiana’s coach on the OSU game. (Ragin Pagin)

NewsOK put its 104-page football preview online. You can sift through it here or just read my review here.

It’s embarrassing that a corner from Oregon got more votes in this than Brandon Weeden. (Heisman Pundit)

CBS has OSU in a return trip to the Cotton Bowl to square off with Arkansas. (CBS Sports)

Hat tip to reader Adam for getting this to me. Cowboys ranked #1 in the country as they look to three-peat in cross country. (USTFCCCA)

As a K-State alum are you proud of this?

Oh, Les…