The Charity Bowl: Give for a Good Cause!

*UPDATES BELOW*

Seeing as this might be the only chance for anything associated with Michigan to participate in a bowl this year, we here at the MZone wanted to throw our support behind a good cause currently taking shape across the cfb blogosphere.

In the wake of the devastating cyclone in Myanmar, the tornadoes seeming all across the middle section of the country, the earthquake in China as well as the everyday needs in our own communities, Orson at EDSBS and Kevin at Fanblogs.com are asking college football fans to show their school spirit and help those in need today by making a donation to the American Red Cross, CARE, or the International Rescue Committee.

In turn, they'll rank the total donation by school and display it this week at Fanblogs and Every Day Should Be Saturday. The winning school will have its colors displayed at EDSBS and logo/mascot shown on every page at Fanblogs.

The particulars:

1) Make a donation online to the American Red Cross, CARE, or the International Rescue Committee.

2) Email the donation confirmation to kevin@fanblogs.com and state your team affiliation by 8pm EDT on Wednesday, May 14th.

3) Results will be displayed at Every Day Should Be Saturday and Fanblogs throughout the week, with the final results shown by Thursday, May 15th.

4) The winning school will have its colors displayed at EDSBS and logo/mascot shown on every page at Fanblogs.

And while it's not listed, I've added...

5) It's a chance for Benny and I to show our parents the MZone for a change and say, "See, look at all the good in the world we do with this!" ("No, ma, not the semi-naked ASU cheerleader story. Above that.")

So do whatever you can if you can and help paint the cfb blogosphere Maize and Blue!

UPDATE: According to Fanblogs, Meeeeechigan was the Day 1 Charity Bowl leader with its fans having donated $1,000. Florida was in second with $500.

UPDATE II: As of 7am Wednesday morning, over $11K has been raised via the CFB blogosphere and the top of the donation chart looks like this...

1. Michigan - $2,985.002. Ohio State - $2,305.00 3. Florida - $1,570.004. Texas - $480.005. Auburn - $355.00

And today, the last day of the Charity Bowl, comes with a twist: it's Rival Smackdown Day. So when you you make your donation today, note if it is FOR your school or AGAINST your rival.

Ed. Note: As of this writing, there is no truth to the rumor that Scott Frost is lobbying for Michigan to have to split the mythical donation title with Nebraska due to the fact that Tom Osborne retired 11 years ago.

(HT: OoC)