Hey, didn't you used to be Jeff Gordon's drought? (Caught On The Fly).

* Welcome to COTF, where Fly's alwaaays ready for some football.

* The Spies say it wasn't just the Ohowihateohiostate fans in the stands going ga-ga over Maurice Clarett's debut. That was Archie Griffin's dropped jaw on the Horseshoe sideline. Watching Mo's bash-plus-dash ability's causing backers to have sssserious flashbacks of another Buckeye Hypesman, Eddie George (circa Columbus 1995, not Nashville 2001).

* Speaking of starting slingers, the QBs may be set in Dallas and Denver for Week 1, but you know a slooow start durra the gate'll make the guy holding the clipboard mighty popular. So after scanning the skeds, Fly's circled Week 5 to check back on Chad Hutchinson's and Stove Beuerlein's Q ratings.

* All eyes down Gainesville way are on Ron Zook before his first big game, but Fly's looking at the Gators' other big-time coach, Billy Donovan, who has to do some serious number crunching. Scouts're raving about European import Christian Drejer, saying his next stop's the NBA. But they were saying the same thing 'bout James White a year ago, and his P.T. could get squeezed with the new guy around. Playing together nicely wasn't this team's forte last year--ahem, Bratt Nelson--meaning Billy the Kid's first drill in October had ...