Jane, Stop This Crazy Thing

Pitting Florida and Cincinnati, the Allstate Sugar Bowl is this season's recipient of the "College Coaching Carousel" award. Bearcat program architect Brian Kelly was a local legend, right until he left for Notre Dame. Interim coach Jeff Quinn, who will lead the team this week, is bound for Buffalo once the whistle blows. Butch Jones, the Central Michigan transplant hired to replace Kelly, will watch the game, but isn't coaching, just hovering. Meanwhile, Florida's Urban Meyer announced his resignation last Saturday, then un-resigned Sunday, adrift in a vaguely defined leave of absence. Gator interim coach Steve Addazio will call the shots, but who knows how long he'll be doing so. It's also the final hurrah for UF defensive coordinator Charlie Strong, whose bags are packed for the head job at Louisville. Both Meyer and Kelly have dominant personalities and hands-on approaches, so we'll soon see which team is best able to approximate business as usual. And it used to be you couldn't tell the players without a scorecard.

All Those Bowls and a Bag of Chips

With college football's seemingly bottomless bowl season filling countless hours of television time, a Quinnipiac University Polling Institute survey released this morning shows 63 percent favor getting rid of the current Bowl Championship Series and replacing it with a playoff system similar to college basketball's March Madness tournament. Only 26 percent want to keep the BCS, but the majority of almost 2,000 polled don't want to see Congress get involved. Earlier this month, a House subcommittee approved legislation that would make it illegal to promote a national championship game "or make a similar representation," unless it results from a playoff. While there is no Senate version of the bill, President Obama has voiced his support on the campaign trail. Setting aside health-care, global warming, the economy, national defense, environmental issues, foreign trade and immigration for a moment, a politically-correct solution is certainly just around the corner.

Tennis Ace Serves Two Queens

After seven months without a title, a five-set finals defeat at the Australian Open to rival Rafael Nadal, and an angry racket-breaking incident in Miami, the seas have once again calmed in the world of Roger Federer. The 28-year-old Swiss tennis phenom finished as the tour's Number 1-ranked player following the year-end championships in London last week and exuded a regal air of serenity as he clasped the glass trophy for the fifth time in his illustrious career. Federer has now been ranked Number 1 for 259 weeks, trailing only Pete Sampras (286), Ivan Lendl (270) and Jimmy Connors (268) on the all-time list. In less than a two month span earlier this season, Federer captured the only major title to elude him, the French Open, took down Andy Roddick in an unforgettable fifth set at Wimbledon that required thirty games, broke Sampras' record for Grand Slam singles titles, and became a father to twin daughters. With the girls' arrival, expect the singles king to be playing plenty of doubles.