COLLEGE CONFERENCE DOSEY-DO UPDATE: Let me see if I've got this right—Texas A&M goes from the Bix XII to the SEC with West Virginia or Missouri as a possible Team #14 for the conference; Syracuse and Pittsburgh (two schools long seen as Big Ten possibles) may move from the Big East to the ACC; the Pac-12 may soon add Oklahoma and Oklahoma State, and then either Texas/Texas Tech or Kansas/Kansas State to reach 16 (Texas may also go ACC); and then things could get truly wacky:

According to one conference official, the Big East and Big 12 could merge, with Rutgers, Cincinnati, Connecticut, Louisville, South Florida, TCU, West Virginia joining forces with Baylor, Iowa State, Kansas, Kansas State and Missouri. That would leave the Big East/12 with 12 football-playing members and 20 for basketball (including Seton Hall, St. John’s, Marquette, DePaul, Georgetown, Providence, Notre Dame and Villanova).

Everyone's got a theory, and we are rapidly approaching a world with five megaconferences. If it helps bring in a college football playoff system I'm happy, but the idea of Syracuse no longer playing Villanova, Georgetown and UConn in hoops would suck.

NATION CERTIFIED FREE OF CORRUPTION OF BLOOD FOR 224 CONSECUTIVE YEARS:  Happy Constitution Day, everyone. As always, David Currie Reads The Constitution is as good a place as any to start, unless you need more of a melody:

THE CANADIAN PRINCE NOW DIPPING HIS ARMS IN THE PUDDING, AS IS TRADITION: Matt Zoller Seitz hands out his Alternative Emmys in the categories of "best individual episode of a drama, comedy and unscripted series; best monologue; best love scene; best comedy sequence; best cameo; best death scene; best action sequence; and best monster."

FYI: just comments; not Cover-It-Live tomorrow night. (I don't want to commit to three hours of this show with an Eagles' game against it.) And my early Necrology Applause-O-Meter prediction: Peter Falk edges out Elizabeth Taylor, Tom Bosley, Leslie Nielsen, and Stephen J. Cannell.

WILL YOU FEEL THE LOVE TONIGHT?  I can't be the only adult here giddy about getting to see The Lion King on a big screen again, and from the preview we saw before The Smurfs the 3-D looks extraordinary. Of the animated features marking Disney's turnaround -- this, The Little Mermaid, Beauty and the Beast, Aladdin -- it's by far my favorite, and Scar is a pantheon-level Disney villain.  (Aren't we due for Jeremy Irons being awesome in something again?)

I PREFER TO THINK OF IT AS AN EXODUS FROM AN UNDESIRABLE PLACE: Dan Kois recently re-watched all of Steven Soderbergh's films and classifies them as "three masterpieces, four classics, six worthwhile divertissements, four really fascinating films that get better with age, four interesting failures, and one movie that's all of the above."

One Soderbergh question I saw posed recently which I find fascinating: in Ocean's Eleven, what was the source of the fliers which filled the duffel bags?  Because they weren't in the vault.

THIS ONE EXPLORES THE SWEDISH CHEF'S DARK SIDE: There's another parody trailer for The Muppets out now, which, by its nature, doesn't tell us much more about the story, but does give us our first official glimpse of some of the other non-Muppet stars appearing in the film, including Rashida Jones, Rico Rodriguez, Sarah Silverman, and, yes, NPH.

BUT YOU NEVER THANK ME:  The 2011 Emmy Awards air Sunday night, and in one form or another (haven't decided yet whether to Cover-It-Live) we will be here for ongoing commentary and whatnot. Might as well start talking about all the Should/Will stuff, since others have already started (Vulture, HitFix) and we all have some strong thoughts on the need for an Amy Poehler win, the Mad Men v. Boardwalk Empire debate, and topics both various and sundry.

Nominees: in full; main categories.  (And our discussion from nomination day is here.)