Another new year at PCA leads to surprises including the heart breaking news that Nicole will not be attending PCA this year because of her OMGD (obsessive male gender disorder). Thus, Nicole is sent to an all-girls school. After everyone settles into their new rooms, Chase tells Zoey he wants to talk with her privately. Lola and Quinn tell Zoey that Chase wants to tell her he's in love with her, but Zoey doesn't believe them. Meanwhile, Michael and Logan are fighting for the single bed in their new room. Chase decides not to ruin his friendship with Zoey, so he decides not to have a crush on her anymore by dating a new girl, Rebecca.

After developing a crush on Lisa (Lisa Tucker), Michael becomes too nervous to perform in the Open Mic night, causing him to throw up on her and making Lisa like another guy. Can Michael still get the girl of his dreams? Meanwhile, Logan and Chase are having a go-kart race.

After seeing Zoey stopping a fight, the wrestling coach wants Zoey to join the team. But then when days pass, she doesn't get a chance to wrestle anyone. Then later on, she finds out that she will be wrestling in the tournament and facing the undefeated champion, Chuck Javers. Meanwhile, Lola wants to be a reporter and, thanks to Quinn, gets to be a commentator for the wrestling match.

After a deceased relative of Zoey's sends her tons of boxes of ribs, Zoey, Chase, Micheal, and Logan agree to have a rib cook-off. After a fierce feud between Micheal and Logan, they decide to compete against each other with Zoey on Micheal's team, and Chase on Logan's. Quinn accidentally blows Mark's eyebrows off in an experiment gone awry.

Logan's father sends him a package from Japan, complete with a new Japanese cell phone and a horror movie. When Dustin watches the horror movie, he becomes so frightened that he has to start sleeping in Zoey's dorm room. Meanwhile, someone is pulling the fire alarm in the boys' dorm room and the boys set out to find the culprit. All the while, Michael does his best to coin a new phrase... "Drippin'."