Lane 'Volunteers' for a whoopin

Don't worry, I'll get into Bears-Packers in-depth later in the week. Two quick thoughts:

1) Jay Cutler deserves as much blame for this loss as Nathan Vasher, Pat Mannelly, the receivers who stopped their routes, etc. You can't throw four picks and expect to win on the road versus a good team.

2) While the loss stung bad, the worst news was that Brian Urlacher may need wrist surgery. No telling how long he'll be sidelined (UPDATE: He's out for the year, which is HORRIBLE news), but the defense is completely different with #54 on the bench.

Football Thought of the Week

Last Saturday's college football action was everything a fan could have hoped for. In Ann Arbor, Notre Dame and Michigan traded big plays and points for three hours, putting on a roller coaster affair that ended with a last-minute drive orchistrated by a freshmen QB making his second ever start. In Columbus, USC and Ohio State put on a game worthy of their top-10 rankings, a thrilling afair which the Buckeyes dominated and the Trojans somehow won. And in Stillwater, the most-obvious overrated team in the land fell, as Houston took out Oklahoma State.

This Saturday's college football action should be everything that a University of Florida fan could ask for. That's because the Tennessee Volunteers head into Gainseville to take on the National Champs, and oh what a game it should be. Vegas lists Florida as a 25-point favorite, and based on the history of UF coach Urban Meyer, I'll take the Gators to cover...by halftime.

Last February, when he was hired as the Vols new head coach, Lane Kiffiin talked about how excited he was to have the job. Specifically he discussed a tradition he was looking forward to taking part in somewhere down the road.

"I'm really looking forward to embracing some of the great traditions at the University of Tennessee, for instance the Vol Walk, running through the T, singing Rocky Top all night long after we beat Florida next year," Kiffin said. "It will be a blast."

There's no doubt that Meyer is reminding his squad every day this week about that quote. Beating Tennessee has always been a priority for the Florida coach, a reason he's 11-1 during his Gators tenure against rivals Florida State, Georgia and Tennessee. The last two years, Florida has beaten the Vols by a combined score of 89-26. But extracting revenge is another priority. Every slight to the Gators is used as fuel, and there's no bigger slight than saying your looking forward to going into the Swamp and taking out Tim Tebow's crew.

Oh, and did I mention that Tennessee lost last week at home to UCLA and that the Gators return not only Tebow but all 11 defensive starters from last season's title winning team? 25 points should be nothing.