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Big 12 Cob of the Week: Can A Fat Man Fit Under A Bus, Texas A&M, and Colorado

Todd Reesing tries to protect himself while the KU program comes down around him. It won't help. If that's Mangino above him he'd better run now. The impact crater will be enormous.

More photos » by Orlin Wagner - AP

Todd Reesing tries to protect himself while the KU program comes down around him. It won't help. If that's Mangino above him he'd better run now. The impact crater will be enormous.

I got tired of waiting for Corn Blight to give me a nomination so the heck with him I'm going to do one of my own. Maybe it's not fair to Husker Mike and Jlew because it didn't happen last week but it happened because of last week. I going to make this nomination because its the 800-pound gorilla ha ha ha that can't be ignored even though everyone in Kansas want us to.

Q: Can Mark Mangino fit under a bus?

A: Only if it's a really big bus.

My nomination goes to Kansas athletic director Lew Perkins. It's pretty clear by now that Perkins wants Mangino gone, to the point that he's released university documents detailing an example of Mangino's bad behavior. Oh. Maybe Perkins didn't release those they were leaked! We've heard about Mangino "putting his finger in the chest of a player" as if its a bad thing. First he could have put his finger somewhere else we'd have to hear about and second there are 300 pound guys running into each other as part of the sport. If some player can't handle his coach putting his finger in his chest perhaps he could take up a board game like Clue or better yet Chutes N Ladders. 

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Your Vote for the Big 12 Cob of the Week:

  169 votes | Results

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Mark Mangino's Nebraska Strategy: Hold On Every Play (Good vs Evil Edition)

Late last night in Lawrence, Kansas, a large man is wracking his brain for answers.....

Icondevil_mediumSo.... how you going to handle them?

Iconmarkmangino_medium Who?

Icondevil_medium Don't pretend. I know what you're thinking.

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Big 12 Cob of the Week: Missouri's Defense, KSU Fans And Texas A&M's Hopes... All Fading

Photo Caption Contest!!!!!

More photos » by JACK DEMPSEY - AP

Photo Caption Contest!!!!!

What a week in the Big 12! An odd week in that neither Nebraska or Colorado got nominated for Cobs, perhaps setting up a monumental showdown at the end of the season where Nebraska must win in Boulder to win the Big 12 North or lose it to some other less worthy team. 

What is going on in the photo above? Are we witnessing the joyous grasp of victory, or is there fraternization going on within the Buffs football team? Caption that photo in the comments section!

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Your Vote for the Big 12 Cob of the Week?

  126 votes | Results

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Nebraska and Oklahoma - Just Old Friends Getting Together Again.....

 
 
I was having lunch with my dear friend Nebraska this week when an "old friend" happened by......

Iconbarryswitzer_mediumHey, Nebraska! How you doing, sweetheart! You look great! As wonderful as ever!!! 

Iconhuskergirl_medium Barry! Oh, it's so good to see you! 

Iconbarryswitzer_medium I miss the times we had together. Wish we could see each other more often! (sees Tom Obsorne and quickly saunters off after him). Don't you ever change! (wink)

Iconcobby_medium That's a little disgusting.

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Big 12 Cob of the Week: Todd Reesing, Big Leads, And Colorado's Downward Spiral - Pick The Ultimate Suckage!

Darrell Scott - can you blame him for wanting to transfer? No. When the ship's on fire, it's every rat for himself, ain't it?

More photos » by J.D. Pooley - AP

Darrell Scott - can you blame him for wanting to transfer? No. When the ship's on fire, it's every rat for himself, ain't it?

Boy, it's getting tough to pick these. Normally you have your good teams and your bad teams, but this year we have half-good and half-bad teams and they trade positions every quarter. Everyone but Texas that is. Texas has done one thing really well so far this season and that's crush the hopes out of everyone else in the South.

The Big 12 North is still fun for everyone! Everyone's still special and everyone still has a chance to be a winner! Unless you're Colorado.....  I think.

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Your Pick for Big 12 Cob of the Week?
Colorado - for sinking to new lows beyond what we thought was possible
121 votes
Todd Reesing - for being the metaphorical representation of his failing team
28 votes
Oklahoma and Missouri's second half - get a big lead, take a nap, wonder where it went
7 votes

156 votes | Poll has closed

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Big 12 Cob of The Week: Niles Paul, Nebraska Coaches And Dan Hawkins Keeps His Idiot Streak Alive!

Paul Rhoads did not suck this week. The coaches that opposed him.... well, they're nominated, aren't they?

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Paul Rhoads did not suck this week. The coaches that opposed him.... well, they're nominated, aren't they?

What a wretched, wretched week, and I'm not just talking about Nebraska, I'm talking about most of the Big 12 North. Well, not even the whole Big 12 North, but Nebraska, Missouri, and Kansas. The three teams that was expected to win the upper half of the conference can't get out of their own way. Neither can Colorado. Or Texas Tech. Better include Texas A&M in that. And Oklahoma State for the Dez Bryant thing. And Oklahoma because their offensive line got their quarterback killed and they just suck this season. 

Come to think of it, just about everything and everyone in the Big 12 sucks with the exception of Texas, Iowa State and Kansas State. The first because they keep winning. The latter because everyone thought they were jokes at the start of the season when the joke is on all of us. Maybe the media and the fans suck too.

Maybe it's just one giant season of SUCK. 

You know how this works right? Every week we nominate three of the worst performances in the Big 12. You vote on them, picking the weekly winner. At the end of the year we have a Big 12 Cob of the Year, a cobapalooza, and we select the Big 12 Cob of the Year! 

The way this year is going, everyone will get a chance to win, especially Dan Hawkins! 

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Your Choice For the Big 12 Cob of the Week:
Dan Hawkins starring in "Idiotic Handling of Quarterbacks - The Sequel"!
42 votes
Niles Paul - for not paying attention to little things like holding onto the ball
85 votes
Nebraska's Coaching Staff - for letting Iowa State show up more prepared and losing to them in Lincoln for the first time in 32 years
122 votes

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Big 12 Cob Of The Week: Aggies, Jayhawks and Huskers - Is that a hint of accusation in your eye?

Some dude from Texas A&M trying to give Brandon Banks a huge. No wonder they can't play defense down there!

More photos » by Charlie Riedel - AP

Some dude from Texas A&M trying to give Brandon Banks a huge. No wonder they can't play defense down there!

I was thinking about nominating Corn Blight for his earlier post about getting rid of the black shirts, but I have a feeling he'd ban me for a week or two, so we'll just let that one go. He clearly needs to drink more kool-aid. Or get a better attitude. 

Once again this week there's plenty of poor performances to go around. If Husker fans think they've got it bad with that performance against Texas Tech, well, how'd you like to be Kansas or Texas A&M this week? If those aren't weird enough, what about Kansas State? Talk about your mood swings. 

And nobody nominated the Big 12 North after we've all figured out that we're the last year's ACC? Wow. You guys need to pick it up a notch. 

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Your vote for Big 12 Cob Of the Week!
Texas A&M - becoming the psycho girlfriend of the Big 12
24 votes
Kansas Jayhawks - for losing to Colorado. There went the Big 12 North!
22 votes
Nebraska's offense - for a horrid performance against Tech
90 votes
Husker fans for having such high expectations for the offense
32 votes

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Exposed! - Mike Leach Intends to Use Two Quarterbacks, One As "Suh Bait"

Mike Leach - accepted as offensive genius, but really a diabolical sneaky bastard.

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Mike Leach - accepted as offensive genius, but really a diabolical sneaky bastard.

Using Corn Nation's vast and elaborate network of spies, we have obtained information about a new offensive information that the diabolical (quirky) offensive genius Mike Leach (code name "Captain Weiner") intends to unveil against Nebraska. 

The formation is specifically designed to counter the ferocious, unstoppable, force otherwise known as Ndamukong Suh (code name "House of Spears"). 

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