Can you feel the excitement of the weekend yet? You can't? Well, read these college football links to get you ready:

• Tailgating might be an issue after some of Georgia's grass-covered parking lots had to be shut down because of excessive rain, writes David Hale of the Macon Telegraph in this notebook.

• Georgia's freshmen have gotten used to being in Athens, writes Hale.

• Auburn's offense doesn't look anything like what Georgia's players are used to, writes Marc Weiszer of the Athens Banner-Herald. Andy Johnson of the Atlanta Journal-Constitution writes something similar.

• Bulldogs tight end picked up the slack in A.J. Green's absence last week, writes Weiszer in this notebook.

• Bill King describes the Auburn-Georgia rivalry as "feuding cousins" in his Junkyard Blawg. He also lists some keys to the game.

• Fellow beat writer Evan Woodbery of the Mobile Press-Register has a couple of excerpts from his book, "100 Things Auburn Fans Should Know & Do Before They Die," which makes a great stocking stuffer and can easily be purchased by clicking here. Here are the two excerpts that are up:

• Vince Dooley, an Auburn grad and a Georgia legend
• The 1971 showdown between Auburn and Georgia

• Jerry Hinnen of the War Eagle Reader swaps questions with Georgia fan and Hey Jenny Slater blogger Doug Gillett. Here's what they produced.

• ESPN blogger Chris Low is back with his Did You Know? SEC Style post.

• It's the Coach 'O' bowl in Oxford, Miss., this week, writes Low. That's in reference to Ed Orgeron returning to the school that he made relevant again through his recruiting, although he couldn't coach a lick and got canned.

• Michael Williams has been filling in for an injured Colin Peek at tight end for Alabama, but Peek is getting better, writes Michael Casagrande of the Decatur Daily.

• More on the arrested players at Tennessee. The Knoxville News Sentinel has video of the guys who were allegedly stuck up by the three Volunteer football players. It's really a must watch video, if only for this line of what one of the victims told the guy with the pellet gun: "We got nuthin' but a cheeeeese-burgers. He di'in't take that, though." Oh yeah, one of the guys thinks the three players should still be able to play.

• Terence Moore of FanHouse.com writes that Urban Meyer won't be able to resist Notre Dame this time.

• If Notre Dame loses to Pittsburgh, it will be 35-25 under Charlie Weis, the same record that got Bob Davie the boot in 2001, writes Mike Kern of the Philadelphia Daily News.

• This is taking a rivalry very seriously. The Idaho athletic director refused to get on a Horizon airplane sponsored by Boise State.

• Stewart Mandel of Sports Illustrated writes about how social media tools are impacting the college game like never before.

• This isn't college football, but this video shows why Jared Allen is easily my favorite Minnesota Viking. Long live the mullet!