Greetings from a chilly Rutgers Stadium, where the Scarlet Knights can take a big step towards postseason play with a win over Pittsburgh. If Rutgers (6-4) wins and Louisville (5-5) loses later today to South Florida, the Scarlet Knights would clinch at least the Big East's fifth bowl spot.

There's still a chance the Scarlet Knights could gain a berth to Sun Bowl on New Year's Eve in El Paso. But there's also a chance they could be left out of the bowl picture all together. That's why today's game is so important.

Pitt isn't good by any stretch of the imagination, but the Panthers are playing significantly better now than they were four or five weeks ago. They've won two of their last three and aren't mathematically eliminated from bowl contention or even from a share of the Big East championship.

The one thing Rutgers really should be afriad of is freshman running back LeSean McCoy, who's had the best season of any Big East running back not named Ray Rice. He's good enough to partially make up for Pitt's inept play at quarterback, where they start a true freshman, and wide receiver, where they start two sophomores.

We're still more than an hour away from kickoff, so grab a cup of coffee, make sure everyone else in your house knows the TV is yours for the next 12 hours, and get ready for a heck of a day in college football.