Everyone I've talked to loves the Colts in this game, so, naturally, Homerism has been searching high and low for reasons to go with New Orleans. I haven't had much luck. The best I could come up with:

1. The Saints look like a "team of destiny."

Much like how the depression in the auto industry was supposed to be saved by a Michigan State victory in the NCAA tournament last year, I find the whole Katrina angle that has been affixed to this game somewhat hollow. On the other hand, it's tough to deny how The Big Easy has rallied around the plucky Saints, and vice versa. A Super Bowl win would make for a nice fairy-tale ending to this season, even if it's not going to rebuild ruined houses and lives.

Nothing gets college football fans as revved up in the offseason as a ballyhooed quarterback recruit. Oklahoma Sooners 2010 signee Blake Bell is one of those guys.

Recruiting services Scout, Rivals and ESPN ranked Bell between third and sixth among prep quarterbacks. That makes him the best quarterback prospect recruit OU has brought in since Rhett Bomar. Bell has all the attributes for a quarterback that scouts and fans drool over: 6-6, 215 lbs, athletic, mobile, strong arm.

After watching rising sophomore Landry Jones work through his ups and downs in 2009, Bell's arrival has plenty of OU fans wondering if he can give the incumbent a run for his money this year.

Once a national holiday for college football junkies, Signing Day has become as played out as Jack Bauer.

Thanks to Internet recruiting sites, fans often know where the vast majority of top prospects are headed months in advance of their actual signing. The pomp and circumstance of ceremonies in gyms and the tired hat game no longer provide those drama-filled moments of anticipation. In fact, most teams just want to make it through the day with their classes unscathed. Like New Years Eve in Bangkok, the goal is to not be missing a kidney the next morning.

After Corey Nelson's flip-flop this morning, the Texas A&M Aggies must feel like they just woke up in a bathtub full of ice. And in the cold-blooded world of recruiting, A&M's loss is the Oklahoma Sooners' gain.

Following a bizarre weekend of back and forth, it appeared Tuesday that the chances A&M's top recruit would jump ship for the Sooners were somewhere between slim and none. So imagine Sooner Nation's surprise to wake up Wednesday morning and find that somehow OU had traded longtime commit Jarrett Lake for Nelson.

The much discussed opening on the Oklahoma Sooners staff for a defensive ends coach has finally been filled by... a defensive backs coach.

And, as everyone expected, it's... a recently canned SEC defensive coordinator.

I can honestly say I don't know one person or Sooner pundit who ever mentioned ex-Georgia defensive coordinator Willie Martinez as a potential candidate to fill the spot left vacant when Chris Wilson left for Mississippi State. Presumably, Bobby Jack Wright will move back to coaching defensive ends, a position he held during OU's salad days of the early 2000s, and Martinez will handle the secondary.

It's the kind of headline that the Sean Hannitys and Glenn Becks of the world live for:

Obama administration to explore legality of BCS.

For the president's staunchest critics, this is shooting fish in a barrel.

Looks like it's pretty fun to be a Texas Longhorn these days.

(Aside from, ya know, actually having to live with yourself.)

It's true, recruiting geeks: Star prospect Jackson Jeffcoat plans to announce his institution of choice Friday morning at 11 am EST.

Usually, word has leaked out about such a hotly anticipated announcement by this point. Jeffcoat has played everything so close to the vest that his destination still remains a mystery. All that is known for sure is that Jeffcoat is picking between Houston, Oklahoma and Texas.

That hasn't stopped the recruiting gurus from speculating. ESPN's Bruce Feldman shares the opinion of most observers that Jeffcoat's going to be a Longhorn. For some reason, Austin American-Statesman beat writer Alan Trubow is thinking OU.

Then there's this little piece of espionage from Kevin Hageland, a writer for the illustrious McKinnie Courier-Gazette.

Clearly, I have no inside information on this. However, it seems like one of those situations that's "hope for the best, expect the worst."

I'd advise Sooner Nation not to get their hopes up. (And my apologies for the lame headline.)