You may have noticed the sidebar that as a member blog of the SB Nation network, Corn Nation has chosen to participate in a social media contest to support public schools through a system where teachers can request financial support of a project and have people like you (and me) give them money directly to support it.

I'll be honest - I don't really care all that much about our social media contest. If a bunch of people who run fashion blogs beat our group.... well, that is embarrassing, isn't it?

Even so, I do care about the future of Nebraska youth because they are the chosen, the ones who will help us in winning the Big 12 North on a consistent basis, then after that, take over the world! 

Therefore, through the program, I hand-picked some causes below that we could support. All are in Nebraska. Please help Corn Nation support Nebraska kids by selecting the "Corn Nation" giving page on the left and give to the cause of your choice. I'm going to periodically bump this post's date and time stamp to through it back up on the front page throughout October.

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The winner this week is 'george' with a 10-2 record.

A huge number of people went 6-6, and I, your incredibly great pick 'em guy went 2-10. 2-10. Wow. That's worse than sucking. I could have gone 6-6 just doing the default picks (using the system to pick and not entering my own). Maybe that's the best course of action for me. 

I now stand tied at 66th out of 115 people. Thank God I don't bet on any of this stuff, Mrs CN would have me tossed. 

Last week's winner was "Man Against the World" with a 5-1 record. So, 'george' and 'Man Against the World' can contact me for a free Corn Nation T-Shirt, as modeled below by Klaus Bierbauch. 

Don't forget what we're playing for! The grand prize winner will receive a copy of the 1995 National Championship Season DVD Box Set from our affiliate Best of Big Red! 

Oh, and those Corn Nation T-Shirts? They're now on sale. 

Last week's weekly winner was Grayhound, with a perfect 14-0 record, while this week's winner is Huskerhorsepower, coming in at 9-3. Both of you may contact me with your mailing address, and your t-shirt size, and I'll send you each an official Corn Nation T-Shirt, as modeled below by our very own Klaus Bierbauch.

We will be putting the t-shirts on sale here at CN as soon as I get my laptop back from repair (and rescue the web site code). If you're interested for now, please send me an email.

Overall standings are as follows:

1 - Man Against the World
2 - BigC1972
3 - obxsmitty
4 - Huskerhorsepower's
5 - zoomerjoe

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 A "Salute to the Troops" event will be held in Lincoln this coming weekend. The weekend event begins on Saturday with a tour of athletic facilities and Memorial Stadium culminating with a "Tunnel Walk" as the troops and their families walk to the fifty-yard line. After the tours the group will assemble at the Cornhusker Marriott Hotel for a Virginia Tech-Nebraska TV game watch party. On Sunday morning a brunch will conclude the weekend activities with an appearance by Nebraska Heisman trophy winner Eric Crouch.

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CN's own JLew won week one of this year's Pick 'Em game as hosted by Fun Office Pools, with yours truly coming in third, which is pretty amazing in itself because I did very poorly in the other two pick 'em games I joined. The leaders are as follows: 

First week winners win a free copy of the Nebraska football yearbook Cornhusker Kickoff 2009. If you're on the list of week one winners as shown above, please contact me - cornnation@gmail.com - with your address and we'll have a copy of the yearbook sent to you. Please include your funofficepools screen name as part of your email. 

You can still join if you like. To participate, just join our pool. It's free to play, and FunOfficePools.com is spam-free as well. The pool will run the entire regular season, concluding on December 6th with, among other games, the conference championship games. 

The grand prize winner will receive a copy of the 1995 National Championship Season DVD Box Set from our affiliate Best of Big Red! 

Game day is finally here! College marching bands are one of the great traditions of college football game day, so I thought I'd give some props to one of the best bands in the land - the Pride of All Nebraska - The Cornhusker Marching Band! 

I suppose there's some who believe that modern-day electronics and big stadium sound systems have taken away from the prominence of a college marching band, but for all this new-fangled stuff there' s still nothing that gets the Husker football spirit going than "Hail Varsity". 

I contacted Anthony M. Falcone, the Associate Director of Bands at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, to ask him for more information about the Marching Red. That interview after the jump. 

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The University of Nebraska Union Bookstore will be sponsoring a book signing, "Meet the Authors" event before the Florida Atlantic game this Saturday! 

We'll be outside the Union from 2:00 to 3:00 pm, then move inside until 5:00 pm. Yours truly will be there along with several of the authors, including Husker Mike, who contributed to your favorite Nebraska football yearbook. 

So - if you're looking to pick up some quality reading material, or just want to stop by and see what kind of nutballs would write this much about Nebraska football without making a living at it, come on by!