Chris Vernon of 92.9 ESPN Radio in Memphis joins the Dan Wetzel Football Podcast this week, primarily to talk about Notre Dame's chances against the SEC champion – which apparently no one believes will be Georgia. Vernon isn't very optimistic about the Irish.

The regular season's dull finish includes just one meaningful game that isn't expected to be close – 'Bama v Georgia – and some strange conference title games. Our discussions range from the quality of the movie "Rudy" to former Wolverine Tate Forcier to the prospects of N.C. State football to whether Jim Mora would leave UCLA for Tennessee to MACtion to the scouting talents of Mike Sherman and Charlie Weis to whether Johnny Football really deserves the Heisman.

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It's rambling but entertaining and since the season's almost over, take what you can get. It's free here. And on iTunes.

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There will be no suspension for Detroit's Ndamukong Suh this year. He got one last year for a stomp of Green Bay's Evan Dietrich-Smith on Thanksgiving. He avoided it this year for a foot to the groin of Houston's Matt Schaub on Thanksgiving.

"Our office has notified the Lions that Ndamukong Suh will not be suspended for last Thursday's incident," NFL spokesman Greg Aiello said in a statement. "It will be reviewed for a potential fine." 

Houston QB Matt Schaub isn't a fan of Detroit's Ndamukong Suh. (WXYZ Detroit video) It was a fair decision. There wasn't concrete evidence from the video that Suh deliberately kicked Schaub where it really hurts. It looked suspicious, but you could just as easily make the case that it was inadvertent, although the NFL hasn't gone that far. If the defensive tackle is fined, then the league thinks something happened.

Either way, if you were to tell NFL players, coaches and fans that someone might kick someone else in the groin this upcoming weekend and ask them for the most likely perpetrator, Suh would win in a landslide. That's

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EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. – Fifteen years old, with Burkitt's Lymphoma churning in his stomach, there was Adam Merchant, stepping out after Friday's practice in front of the New York Giants, his favorite team and Make-a-Wish first choice. Coach Tom Coughlin had charged him with the task of offering a few final words after a week of preparation and the kid didn't hold back, coming strong before concluding with a most simple message.

"Play like the world champions you are," Adam told his heroes. The Merchants from right to left: Adam, Adam Sr., and Cody rubbed elbows with the Giants. (Y! Sports)

Around that practice field the words hit hard and hit true, rocking all these big strong football players. The kid was getting emotional, the Giants players said, understandably overwhelmed by the moment. "It can be kind of nerve-racking to come talk to your favorite team," Eli Manning said. But the message was pointed and powerful.

The teenager from Barre, Vt. is a fighter, NFL-tough. That much they could all see and respect. His disease is already in a hopeful remission, although the battle

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EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. – Bill Belichick once famously quit the New York Jets, without ever coaching a game, by scribbling "I resign as HC of the NYJ" on a piece of paper.

The Jets' most attention-seeking fan, "Fireman Ed", aka former New York firefighter Ed Anzalone, used 275 words to do essentially the same thing. In a self-penned column in the Metro, the free newspaper handed out mostly at subway stations, Anzalone announced he will no longer attend games as "Fireman Ed."

Anzalone became famous for leading the "J-E-T-S, Jets, Jets, Jets" chants at home games while wearing a fireman's helmet.

Anzalone cited the coarsening of conditions at Jets games due to fans' anger at the team's struggles this season and the quarterback controversy between starter Mark Sanchez and backup Tim Tebow. Anzalone wears a Sanchez jersey to games and said he left Thursday's blowout loss to the New England Patriots at halftime due to heckling.

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The Gatorade-style bath dumped on Urban Meyer Saturday at Ohio Stadium must have felt a lot colder than the ones he got when he aided the actual Gators. Not much else changed though since Meyer took his act from the Florida sun to the perfectly grey and frozen Midwestern November skies.

Ohio State has one of the best coaches in America, a result-oriented, game-changing talent who might be able to do for the Big Ten what confused expansion plans likely won't – return the league to national relevance.

The Buckeyes downed Michigan 26-21 Saturday, moving to 12-0 on the season and sending shivers down not just Meyer's spine but through rest of the conference. If this is what Meyer can do in one year with a 6-7 team, then what happens when he gets more time with quarterback Braxton Miller and surrounds him with all of his own recruits?

NCAA sanctions will keep Ohio State from postseason play this season, but the Buckeyes are coming strong now. Meyer is coaching and recruiting like

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In what may be the perfect summation of college football today, former Ohio State football coach Jim Tressel was celebrated Saturday during the Buckeyes' 26-21 victory over Michigan even though it was his breaking of NCAA rules that led to the program's current postseason ban. That sanction cost 12-0 Ohio State a spot in the Big Ten title game and perhaps a shot at a national championship.

If you'd think being responsible for such a mess would keep a person from the stadium, let alone being lifted in the air to the roaring delight of over 100,000 fans in attendance, well, you don't understand college football. Ex-OSU coach Jim Tressel gathers with members of his '02 national championship team on Saturday . (AP)

Nothing makes sense except this: losing is about the only thing that creates boos and pretty much nothing you can do will make you less popular than the NCAA rulebook.

Tressel was fired in May 2011, the fallout of a scandal in which the chief violation was his failure to report to his own bosses and the NCAA a reliable tip that some of his players were trading

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Dan Wolken, a college sports columnist at USA Today, joins the Dan Wetzel Football Podcast this week to discuss the Big Ten's expansion with Maryland and Rutgers. How? Why? And what's next for college football, most notably the ACC and Big East is discussed in detail.

The BCS title chase is also a topic, with a look at Notre Dame, Alabama, Georgia and so on.

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Perhaps it's a testament to the inherent dishonesty of college athletics that so much of the buzz about Big Ten expansion – Maryland on Monday, Rutgers on Tuesday – is about the hunt for the true, secret reason.

Among so many athletic administrators this makes little sense to any known paradigm – why add two debt-ridden, poorly run athletic departments with historically blah football programs? Why make the Big Ten worse today than last week? Why dilute rivalries and brand? What's the upside, that Rutgers perhaps one day reaches its potential as a good-but-not-great program?

All this … for that?

Maryland Terrapins run onto the field before a game. (Getty)

Everyone acknowledges the money but then figures this is so unnecessary and counter to commissioner Jim Delany’s conservative nature that there has to be more.

So we get that Delany must be mad at Notre Dame. Or Delany wasn't going to let ACC commissioner John Swofford – heretofore the king of bad expansion based on unlikely projections, pie-in-the sky dreams and the fear of

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