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Happy Halloween from Bourbon Street As you read this, I will be loaded up in the family truckster on the way to find Stephen's house for Halloween. I've got an astronaut, an Ariel, and an elephant, and I'll be discount soccer Cleats shoes going as a middle aged man with a badly sprained ankle who still thinks he can run around like a fool. Tonight's matchup takes us to New Orleans, where it may be difficult to tell that it is actually Halloween on Bourbon Street. Ben Roethlisberger will try to avoid Butterfingers near the goal line (no Snickers please). The Saints special teams will try to avoid a repeat of what Reggie did last week. It will be a battle twix't the last two Super Bowl coaching smarties. James Harrison is still on notice from the league to avoid Jawbreakers, but look for the Steelers defense tostill pack a Crunch, even with Aaron Smith out for the year. When New Orleans has the ball,watchfor Brees to spread it around to his Three Musketeers (Colston, Henderson and Shockey)and theM&M's (Moore and Meachem) because they will have difficulty running effectivelyagainst Pittsburghwhen relying on the Whatchamacallit at running back in place of Reggie Bush and Pierre Thomas.Okay, I've run out of horrible puns, and its time to get the costumes on. Here's your last tip: If life gives you too much candy corn, combine it with a handful of peanuts. It's a delight. Happy Halloween, and I'll join you in a few hours in watching the Steelers at Saints, so don't spoil it for me. The Roundup: Tiki Barber Claims Hes Broke; Lenos Ratings vs. Conans Ratings; USA-Algeria Previews Nina Dobrev, for fans of Vampire Diaries �� imagine buying a great piece

of art, only to find another piece, 6x more valuable, underneath �� Mexican drug cartels now threatening US cops �� law schools boosting GPAs to help graduates in rough job market �� guess he really wanted people to slow down, huh �� in case you missed the Scoprion kick in last night's 2 Escobars �� on a big day for soccer �C Cheryl Cole �� the World Cup is inspiring baby names �� guy cracks a beer while trapped after flipping his car while drunk driving ��Just to become a free agent for a few weeks �C even if he signs with the Cavs for three years �C LeBron is giving up $6 million. [Plain-Dealer]USA-Slovenia last week, averaged 3.91 million households, according to the network, the most ever on ESPN for a soccer match. The game also averaged 5.2 million total viewers, the third-most ever for ESPN behind Italy-Germany in 2006 and U.S.-Germany quarterfinal in 2002. [Media Life]USA-Algeria, 10 am, ESPN. See you in the comments. [NYT, LA Times, NYDN]In a salary dump, Corey Maggette is dealt from Golden State to Milwaukee. What becomes of John Salmons now [JS Online]Tiki Barber better get it together and drop this, I'm discount soccer Cleats shoes broke angle. If it keeps this up, he won't have much of a future in broadcasting. You screwed up, now pay up. [NY Post]Everyone wants Chris Paul. Shocker! [Yahoo]Jay Leno's ratings Worse than Conan's. [TV By Numbers]Pistons forward Charlie Villanueva faces a charge of domestic assault. [Truro Daily News]Stanley McChrystal did the impossible �C he knocked the BP disaster out of the headlines with these quotes. [Rolling Stone]Another annoying soccer column about how there is too much diving and not enough scoring. [Sun-Times]Mark Teixeira used to be a

huge Kurt Cobain fan �C so much so, he wanted to change his first name to Kurt. [Walk Off Walk]Stephen A. Smith is confident the 76ers will draft Evan Turner second tomorrow night. [Inquirer]Graeme McDowell's US Open win at Pebble Beach registered higher ratings than Lucas Glover's 2009 US Open win. [Bloomberg]If you were in North Korea yesterday, you probably didn't hear about the touchdown Portugal hung Adidas Soccer Cleats on them at the World Cup. [SI]The movie rights have been optioned for Fifty-Nine in '84: Old Hoss Radbourn, Barehanded Baseball, and the Greatest Season a Pitcher Ever Had. [Hollywood Reporter]Who eats bugs Mexicans, according to Salma Hayek.Featured in a World Cup commercial, only to fail miserably and be sent home.Your urge will be to close this out after 30 seconds and weep for her children. But see if you can get all the way to the 1:49 mark, you might laugh. Its Unfair But Boise State Does Not Deserve a Place in a Title Game Boise St. plays Virginia Tech tonight. Its the only top team on their schedule. Given their initial ranking, a win and subsequent undefeated season would make them serious contenders for a place in the national title game, a place they would not deserve. Boise St. plays not just a non-AQ schedule, but one of the easiest schedules in FBS. Even going undefeated they do not merit a place in a title game. They deserve the chance to compete for a national title, but only in a playoff.The Broncos started #3 in the country. The Florida Gators are rated #4. Here are their respective schedules by APPR rankings compiled from 2004 to 2009. There are 120 teams in the FBS.Boise St.1-25: Virginia Tech (4) 25-50:

Oregon State (35) 50-75: Fresno State (75) 75-100: Nevada (77), Hawaii (88), Wyoming (94), Toledo (98) 100-120: Louisiana Tech (103), Utah St. (111), San Jose St. (114), Idaho (118), New Mexico St. (119)Florida1-25: Alabama (3), LSU (7), Georgia (9), Florida St. (17), Tennessee (25) 25-50: South Florida (30), South Carolina (33), Kentucky (45) 50-75: Vanderbilt (57), Mississippi St. (63) 75-100: 100-120: Miami of Ohio (102), Appalachin St. (FCS) * Florida would have to play title game.The teams facing Boise St. and Florida are nowhere near equivalent. Boise Sts average opponent ranking is 86.3. Giving App State a value of 120 (probably not crediting them enough), Floridas is 42.6. Boise St. plays two teams with an APPR ranking of 74 or higher. Florida plays 10. Florida plays three of the top 10 teams in FBS. Boise St. plays four of the bottom ten.Lets say Boise St. beats Virginia Tech and finishes undefeated. Florida wins the SEC with one loss to Alabama. Florida would still have six wins better than Boise St.s second best win (seven counting title game). It is harder to lose only one game with Florida's schedule than go undefeated with Boise St's. Most teams in the top AQ conferences could make the same claim.Boise St.s situation is unfair. Their pitiful schedule prevents them proving themselves worthy for a national title, however good they may be. They cant get better teams to play them because they are good. The solution to that is not to, as Gregg Doyel puts it, make Boise St. a cause out of sympathy and pretend their accomplishments justify a place in the title game. It is to give them a legit opportunity to earn their way to that title game through

a playoff.[Photo via Getty]