This is not good. I hope it's not an omen.

It's Michigan Week and not a single Michigan Joke has graced my email box yet today. Time to get fired up folks. I know it's Thanksgiving. I know deer season is almost here. I can't help it the scheduling Gods have screwed things up. We just have to rise about that and be a little flexible. Beating that school up north will be just as sweet on the fourth Saturday, as it has been on the last six of the thirds!

Six in a row is no time to get complacent though. Just because it's been 2,557 days since the Wolverines last beat the Buckeyes is no guarantee it'll be 365 more. I mean think '69! No, on second thought don't even go there!

Just get the Beat Michigan buttons out, start the jokes flying. Shucks, you need to be practicing those suckers. You can start a new tradition this year. Just think how much fun that will be, springing one of them on your idot brother-in-law from Ann Arbor, at your mother-in-law's table, just as they are carving the family turkey.

Why, it doesn't get any better than that. Go Bucks!