Last weekend, you probably noticed that the college and pro football seasons got into full swing.

You probably saw more of Lee Corso and Kirk Herbstreit than you did of your own family and friends.

And I’m guessing that the Iowa State-Iowa game had a lot to do with you e-mailing your professor about a “family emergency” that kept you from even starting your big assignment that was due Monday.

But if you were occupied by physics formulas and stale essays, here are some fairly obvious observations of football highlights from the weekend. As the angry bleach-blond rapper who shares one of my names says, “Let’s get down to business.”

— If the annual Florida-Georgia football clash is known as “The World’s Largest Outdoor Cocktail Party,” it only stands to reason that the yearly Iowa State-Iowa tussle should be called “The World’s Largest Outdoor Lame Taunt and Even Lamer Comeback Party.”

If I had a quarter for every time I saw an inebriated Hawkeye fan lean out the window of his parents’ Jetta and scream, “Iowa State sucks!” I’d have laundry money for the entire semester. Toss in a dime for every time an ISU fan with an IQ just slightly higher than his BAC smartly retorted, “No, Iowa sucks!” and I might have been able to afford cover at one of the Iowa City bars later that night.

— Sadly for Cyclone fans, the Cy-Hawk Trophy will reside in Iowa City for at least one more year. Sadly for the people who want the annual Iowa State-Iowa clash to rise to national prominence, most people still mistakenly think of a Cy-Hawk as the shot an aging Kareem Abdul-Jabbar invented in the 1980s.

— ISU fans can take this as a consolation prize. Iowa did win the game, but next week the typical Iowa student will still get to pay $10 to get into The Summit, $90 to buy a shirt that shows off his muscles and $5 to spill a Bud Light on a vapid, socialite bystander to the beat of a Kanye West song that’s been on the radio for more than a month. Congratulations.

— Notre Dame’s upset of Michigan might keep head coach Ty Willingham off the hot seat for another week, but it’s holding him back from his true calling. Picture this: an MTV “Made” episode where the ever-articulate Willingham struggles to communicate with Atlanta rappers the Ying-Yang Twins. The twins can spell neither Atlanta nor rappers, but Willingham uses tough love and discipline to push them toward completing their fifth-grade equivalency tests. Now that’s “must see” TV.

— New England’s Tom Brady continued to show why he will continue to play Zack Morris to Peyton Manning’s Screech after the Pats beat the Colts in a rematch of last year’s AFC title game. Sure, both tandems have their gifts, but Brady and the Zack Attack just have the cool factor that lets everyone know that they’ll lead the Super Bowl-winning drive and go home with Kelly Kapowski after the game. After seeing Manning fold yet again at the end of a big game and hearing him give multiple interviews in which he sounds like Professor Frink from “The Simpsons,” it’s hard to picture him ever getting the best of Brady, especially if he doesn’t start paying more than $8 for a haircut.

— Florida State quarterback Chris Rix set an all-time standard for futility after the Seminoles’ loss to Miami by becoming the first college QB to lose to the same team five times. Rix is about as popular as Charley, Frances and Ivan in northern Florida right now.