I’ve had enough of the crumbling economy, the combat in Iraq and the so-old-its-molding presidential campaign.

Who cares about Nov. 4? I’m looking forward to Nov. 1, and the showdown in Jacksonville.

That’s right – it’s time to push the “essential issues” of the day aside, and focus on football.

That’s why I don’t want to read another opinions piece detailing why this unqualified student chose that candidate for this reason, or vice versa.

I hate to break it to you avid political scientists who write opinions columns, but your reasoning isn’t as profound as you think.

You aren’t really changing any minds, because neither major candidate is anything special – they’re both politics as usual.

They dodge questions and are owned by special interests groups.

So why get so pumped about the pending political revolution that will never come?

We don’t want to hear what a certain candidate has to be doing in the final period of the election.

We want to know if our guys are going to hold on and play through the fourth quarter of Saturday’s game.

That’s what’s on our minds.

We’re thinking about The World’s Largest Outdoor (Don’t-Say-Cocktail) Party.

We’re worrying about what will happen at the “neutral site” that’s about as neutral as Florida head coach Urban Meyer’s living room.

If LSU scored 38 points on us, how many will our defense allow Florida to put up?

We’re looking forward to our smooth, cool-as-ice coach dismantling stick-in-the-butt Meyer one more time.

Like he did when Meyer wrote about last year’s end zone celebration, saying “It was a bad deal. And it will forever be in the mind of Urban Meyer and in the mind of our football team . So we’ll handle it.”

St. Mark Richt admitted the celebration intensified the rivalry, but he took it a step further when he answered Meyer with “what really intensified the rivalry is that we won – OK?”

Wow – talk about a Bulldog’s bite!

So let me picture Tim Tebow crying again after his loss, maybe into Meyer’s shoulder as his coach starts speaking in the third person again:

“Urban Meyer is sorry that happened again Timmy, it was a bad deal.”

I’ll leave the specifics to the sports section, but I can see some pretty clear differences between the two teams.

They both have weapons, but Georgia has weapons with swagger.

When LSU fans called Tebow’s cell phone last year to leave messages talking trash before the UF-LSU game, he probably privately cried before publicly losing the game.

When LSU fans did the same to our Knowshon Moreno this year, he ran all over them and flipped the LSU student section a “call me” signal after his first touchdown last Saturday.

Now that is swank.

When it comes down to it, our head coach looks like Elvis, and theirs looks like a gopher.

Our quarterback will go to the NFL as a No. 1 pick (in 2009, right Matt?), while theirs will fade into obscurity after becoming a monk.

(Getting more of his usual fanfare, this time for being the first Heisman-winning monk.)

This perfect storm, brewing since last year, is now finally going to break.

We have a chance to slap them in the face – again – by winning.

If we win, we deny them their vengeance for our end zone celebration last year.

We have to do it.

After all, revenge is said to be sweet, but the denial of revenge?

That has got to be the sweetest.

Go Dogs.

- Marc McAfee is a senior from Kennesaw majoring in broadcast news.