8:16 PM Jay Glazer of Fox Sports has news that might seem mystifying to casual NFL fans, but not to serious Miami Dolphins followers: "dolphins are deactivating joey porter tomorrow, coach's decision"

8:03 PM USC beat reporter Scott Wolf of the L.A. Daily News is notorious among diehard USC fans for his somewhat negative coverage of the Trojans. He didn't let us down today with this blog entry: "Airfares to El Paso are quite reasonable if you act quickly."

7:42 PM About every four years, doesn't Notre Dame's season always seem to have an English Premier League relegation feel to it?

7:33 PM Chris Dufresne of the Los Angeles Times on USC's Matt Barkley: "Barkley had four turnovers, three int and one fumble, all led to Stanford TDs....He played like a true freshman, because he is." (Stanford happy redshirt freshman Andrew Luck didn't.)