T-Minus 4 Hours 30 Minutes

ALLSTATE SUGAR BOWL - I am blogging to you live from the Superdome parking lot here in beautiful New Orleans thanks to a very nice LSU fan whose computer I have, err, borrowed. There's going to be a lot of talk during the game tonight about how Notre Dame could lose a record ninth straight bowl game, but I'm basically ignoring all that. I could try to explain to you how we actually won all those bowl games or how we still get the $13 million regardless of who wins the actual game, but this is irrelevant. What is relevant is that we will be saying a final farewell to Brady Quinn before he departs to rejuvenate the hapless Detroit Lions.

Fun fact: Notre Dame and LSU have never faced each other in the Allstate Sugar Bowl, a bit of trivia that favors the Irish, since Notre Dame is 150-0 when playing a team they have already played for the first time in the particular bowl they are playing in today.

How is Notre Dame going to win today? We are going to throw at you and we are going throw at you hard. Brady Quinn has been practicing his throwing technique and he is now able to throw a football through a brick wall. What this means is that instead of our receivers having to run precise routes, they can just stand behind a cornerback and Brady will through the ball through that player's torso for an easy completion. After we run about 12 plays (one youngster might try to play one more play after having a ball thrown through his torso, but it's probably not a good idea), LSU will be down to its second stringers who we will easily walk over for the victory.

After the win, the team will be traveling to Foxborough to play the New York Jets on Sunday on route to a Super Bowl title, so that should be pretty exciting. I hope Eric Mangini is prepared for the amount of pain he is going to feel when the Genius gives him a supersonic wedgie before the game.