Andy

If the Rams start fading out of the playoff race there's no guarantee Kupp comes back this season. That alone would scare me off this one.

I imagine Donovan's going to be taking the fall at some point, doubt he deserves it but that's how it goes.

UVA cancels Saturday's game against Coastal Carolina in the wake of this week's shooting.

Almost happened to me. I won by 1, thank goodness

It's not because A&M stinks - the new ESPN/SEC deal gives ESPN the right to put one (cupcake) game a year for every conference team on ESPN+. Bama and Mississippi State also have their ESPN+ games this weekend, most of the league had them in September. What a horsefeathering stupid deal. Sick of this streaming crap. The other day I tried to put a Dayton game on tv for my wife (her alma mater) and it was streaming only. Xfinity’s espn app was broken and wouldn’t play the game, so I pulled it up on my phone and attempted to cast it to my tv and that wouldn’t work either. After 10 mins of trying I gave up and decided to watch something else. You probably know this already, but the B1G's new TV deals that start next year include a handful of football games and a lot of basketball games on Peacock. Michigan specifically isn't gonna be dealing with too much of that, but that's the world we're in now.

Florida vs Vanderbilt is on the network proper at the same time. A&M is on the ESPN app, but if you get SEC Network you have access to it. I sit corrected. Jimbo has turned this program into an even bigger dumpster fire than I realized. I cannot remember the last time we had a game that wasn't televised. It's not because A&M stinks - the new ESPN/SEC deal gives ESPN the right to put one (cupcake) game a year for every conference team on ESPN+. Bama and Mississippi State also have their ESPN+ games this weekend, most of the league had them in September.

Florida vs Vanderbilt is on the network proper at the same time. A&M is on the ESPN app, but if you get SEC Network you have access to it.

Top 25 games ------------------------------ (1) Georgia at Kentucky (3:30 pm, CBS) (2) Ohio State at Maryland (3:30 pm, ABC) Illinois at (3) Michigan (12 pm, ABC) (4) TCU at Baylor (12 pm, FOX) (5) Tennessee at South Carolina (7 pm, ESPN) UAB at (6) LSU (9 pm, ESPN2) (7) USC at (16) UCLA (8 pm, FOX) Austin Peay at (8) Alabama (12 pm, ESPN+) Miami at (9) Clemson (3:30 pm, ESPN) (10) Utah at (12) Oregon (10:30 pm, ESPN) (11) Penn State at Rutgers (3:30 pm, BTN) Georgia Tech at (13) North Carolina (5:30 pm, ESPN2) (14) Ole Miss at Arkansas (7:30 pm, SEC Network) (15) Kansas State at West Virginia (2 pm, ESPN+) Colorado at (17) Washington (9 pm, Pac-12 Network) Boston College at (18) Notre Dame (2:30 pm, NBC) UL Lafayette at (19) Florida State (12 pm, RSN/ESPN3) Navy at (20) UCF (11 am, ESPN2) SMU at (21) Tulane (7:30 pm Thursday, ESPN) (22) Oklahoma State at Oklahoma (7:30 pm, ABC) (23) Oregon State at Arizona State (2:15 pm, ESPN2) (24) NC State at Louisville (3:30 pm, ACC Network) (25) Cincinnati at Temple (4 pm, ESPNU) Other nationally available games --------------------------------------------------- Tuesday Ohio at Ball State (7 pm, ESPN2) Bowling Green at Toledo (7 pm, ESPNU) Wednesday Eastern Michigan at Kent State (6 pm, ESPN2) Miami (OH) at Northern Illinois (7 pm, CBSSN) Western Michigan at Central Michigan (8 pm, ESPNU) Friday South Florida at Tulsa (9 pm, ESPN2) San Diego State at New Mexico (9:45 pm, FS1) Saturday TV Wisconsin at Nebraska (12 pm, ESPN) Northwestern at Purdue (12 pm, FS1) Indiana at Michigan State (12 pm, BTN) Florida at Vanderbilt (12 pm, SEC Network) Duke at Pittsburgh (12 pm, ACC Network) UConn at Army (12 pm, CBSSN) Washington State at Arizona (2 pm, Pac-12 Network) Texas at Kansas (3:30 pm, FS1) South Alabama at Southern Miss (3:30 pm, NFL Network) Akron at Buffalo (3:30 pm, CBSSN) Utah Tech at BYU (3:30 pm, BYUTV/ESPN3) Iowa at Minnesota (4 pm, FOX) Western Kentucky at Auburn (4 pm, SEC Network) Stanford at California (5:30 pm, Pac-12 Network) Texas Tech at Iowa State (7 pm, FS1) Boise State at Wyoming (7 pm, CBSSN) New Mexico State at Missouri (7:30 pm, ESPNU) Syracuse at Wake Forest (8 pm, ACC Network) Colorado State at Air Force (9 pm, FS2) San Jose State at Utah State (9:45 pm, FS1) Fresno State at Nevada (10:30 pm, CBSSN) Saturday Streaming East Tennessee State at Mississippi State (12 pm, ESPN+) UMass at Texas A&M (12 pm, ESPN+) Virginia Tech at Liberty (12 pm, ESPN+) UTSA at Rice (1 pm, ESPN+) North Alabama at Memphis (2 pm, ESPN+) Georgia State at James Madison (2 pm, ESPN+) Houston at East Carolina (2 pm, ESPN+) Old Dominion at Appalachian State (2:30 pm, ESPN+) Louisiana Tech at Charlotte (3:30 pm, ESPN3) UL Monroe at Troy (3:30 pm, ESPN+) Florida Atlantic at Middle Tennessee (3:30 pm, ESPN+) Florida International at UTEP (4 pm, ESPN+) Arkansas State at Texas State (5 pm, ESPN3) Marshall at Georgia Southern (6 pm, ESPN+)

It will be fascinating, if it comes to it, to see how the committee handles a 12-1 ACC champ versus 11-1 Ohio State/Michigan loser that everyone will know is better but has done nothing whatsoever to prove it largely because of what a crapshow the rest of the B1G is. Although it occurs to me that if the loser is OSU (and I'm getting increasingly confident it will be), the common opponent of Notre Dame might help vault them over the ACC champ.

That news broke last week I believe. It was a straight-up deal for Urquidy and was actually vetoed by Dusty with concern that Willy wouldn't be happy in a time-sharing role and he would just be gunning for his own numbers. He actually said this stuff. To be fair to Dusty, ownership never approved the trade so it probably wouldn't have happened regardless of Dusty's opinion. I just loved that Dusty take. One of those takes where you know it's coming before you even see it.

This thread posted solely to warn the public that if Tampa Bay loses to Seattle on Sunday my terrible team is right back to being a game out of first place and still owns the tiebreakers on all of the other three teams in the division

Didn't really matter much as my entire offense somehow put up like 55 points. Brutal performance by literally everyone in the lineup. Drake scored 22 points on my bench and I lost by 7. Fantasy is dumb.

Rizzo opted out.

Sammy had 6 more bWAR in his career than McGriff (3 more fWAR), so at an absolute minimum if he's on this thing Sammy should be.

He's still going to make the playoffs because he's in the worst division maybe ever. He must have used up every ounce of bad luck he'll ever have in his life when Bernard Pollard tore up his knee.

Didn't really matter much as my entire offense somehow put up like 55 points. Brutal performance by literally everyone in the lineup.

According to Jeff Passan's article today, there was a deal in place to trade Contreras straight up for Jose Urquidy but the Astros owner refused to approve it and Dusty was against it on the grounds of Contreras was a free agent and would be gunning for his own numbers.

Top 25 games ------------------------------ (1) Georgia at Mississippi State (7 pm, ESPN) Indiana at (2) Ohio State (12 pm, FOX) Nebraska at (3) Michigan (3:30 pm, ABC) (4) TCU at (18) Texas (7:30 pm, ABC) Missouri at (5) Tennessee (12 pm, CBS) (25) Washington at (6) Oregon (7 pm, FOX) (7) LSU at Arkansas (12 pm, ESPN) Colorado at (8) USC (9:30 pm Friday, FS1) (9) Alabama at (11) Ole Miss (3:30 pm, CBS) Louisville at (10) Clemson (3:30 pm, ESPN) Arizona at (12) UCLA (10:30 pm, FOX) Stanford at (13) Utah (10 pm, ESPN) Maryland at (14) Penn State (3:30 pm, FOX) (15) North Carolina at Wake Forest (7:30 pm, ESPN2) Boston College at (16) NC State (3:30 pm, ACC Network) (22) UCF at (17) Tulane (3:30 pm, ESPN2) (19) Kansas State at Baylor (7 pm, FS1) (20) Notre Dame vs Navy - in Baltimore (12 pm, ABC) Purdue at (21) Illinois (12 pm, ESPN2) (23) Florida State at Syracuse (8 pm, ACC Network) Vanderbilt at (24) Kentucky (12 pm, SEC Network) Other nationally available games --------------------------------------------------- Tuesday Eastern Michigan at Akron (7 pm, CBSSN) Ohio at Miami (OH) (7:30 pm, ESPN2) Ball State at Toledo (8 pm, ESPN) Wednesday Buffalo at Central Michigan (7 pm, ESPN2) Northern Illinois at Western Michigan (7 pm, ESPNU) Kent State at Bowling Green (7 pm, CBSSN) Thursday Tulsa at Memphis (7:30 pm, ESPN) Georgia Southern at UL Lafayette (7:30 pm, ESPN2) Friday East Carolina at Cincinnati (8 pm, ESPN2) Fresno State at UNLV (10:30 pm, CBSSN) Saturday TV Oklahoma at West Virginia (12 pm, FS1) Rutgers at Michigan State (12 pm, BTN) SMU at South Florida (12 pm, ESPNU) Virginia Tech at Duke (12 pm, RSN/ESPN3) Liberty at UConn (12 pm, CBSSN) Pittsburgh at Virginia (12 pm, ACC Network) Wisconsin at Iowa (3:30 pm, FS1) Northwestern at Minnesota (3:30 pm, BTN) Miami at Georgia Tech (3:30 pm, RSN/ESPN3) Iowa State at Oklahoma State (3:30 pm, ESPNU) Army at Troy (3:30 pm, NFL Network) New Mexico at Air Force (3:30 pm, CBSSN) Arizona State at Washington State (3:30 pm, Pac-12 Network) South Carolina at Florida (4 pm, SEC Network) Wyoming at Colorado State (7 pm, CBSSN) Southern Miss at Coastal Carolina (7:30 pm, ESPNU) Texas A&M at Auburn (7:30 pm, SEC Network) California at Oregon State (9 pm, Pac-12 Network) San Jose State at San Diego State (10:30 pm, FS1) Boise State at Nevada (10:30 pm, CBSSN) Saturday Streaming James Madison at Old Dominion (1 pm, ESPN+) UL Monroe at Georgia State (1 pm, ESPN+) Rice at Western Kentucky (2 pm, ESPN+) UMass at Arkansas State (3 pm, ESPN3) Temple at Houston (3 pm, ESPN+) Charlotte at Middle Tennessee (3:30 pm, ESPN3) North Texas at UAB (3:30 pm, Stadium) Louisiana Tech at UTSA (3:30 pm, ESPN+) Appalachian State at Marshall (3:30 pm, ESPN+) Texas State at South Alabama (5 pm, ESPN+) Florida Atlantic at Florida International (7 pm, Stadium) Kansas at Texas Tech (7 pm, ESPN+)

I haven't had this problem all year but I don't really know who to bench between Jakobi Meyers, DJ Moore, Deon Jackson and Kenyan Drake. Only 2 can play and one has to be a WR. Right now I'm just rolling with Yahoo's projections and benching Meyers and Drake.

I'm much too happy to be annoyed about this and wasn't even going to bring it up, but since Brian did himself:

I thought they were cheating with their pitchers before the trash can crap even came out. And frankly as great as he is I'm still very skeptical that Justin Verlander is pitching the best baseball of his life at age 38 or whatever he is without any weird horsefeathers happening.

OK, Kelly can beat Alabama as many times as he wants if ND destroys a top-5 team the same night each time it happens

Clemson isn't very good and will likely lose before the ACC Championship game Notre Dame is a smaller underdog Saturday (+4) than they were in the 2020 version of this game despite a hilariously huge downgrade at the most important position since then, so it seems like Vegas doesn't think much of Clemson.

Just looking at the rankings it seems like the committee doesn't think the B1G or the ACC are any good, so yeah the Michigan/Clemson thing seems odd given that context. I'm still confused by the Penn State thing given their best accomplishment so far was basically doing what Notre Dame did against Ohio State (hang in just long enough to get sat on in the end). But whatever, as usual this will all sort itself out and these weekly shows are dumb.

I don't generally care what Brian Kelly does with his time these days but if he beats Alabama while ND is likely getting waxed by Clemson in large part because of the gaping horsefeathers hole in the QB room he was responsible for, the takes will be unbearable, so Roll Tide.