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10:33 a.m.

This morning, we packed up the car at 6 a.m. and started the three hour drive from Houston to Austin. The rest of the family is slowly gathering at grandma's house, but the Thanksgiving meal is just a pregame to the main event tonight. Surely, if we start eating Thanksgiving dinner in an hour, I'll slip out of the food coma by kickoff, right?

But now,the sky doesn't look as nice as the turkey smells. Sunlight is non-existent, but the clouds aren't dark with rain, at least not yet anyway. The cloud cover casts a gray aura over the city, setting an ominous scene for the Lone Star Showdown.

And it doesn't look much better for game time. Right now, it's a muggy 72 degrees, but by 7 p.m. kickoff, the temperature will drop at least 20 degrees and the chances of rain shoot up to 50 percent. The rain may turn a heated game ugly and, depending on the score, make 100,000 burnt orange fans even more miserable. Neither rain, nor snow, nor sleet, nor hail will keep this blogger from the game, though I may be huddled on a cold, wet metal bleacher seat blogging from my Blackberry under a drenched poncho.