Andy

Yeah, that was absolutely a killer. I’m seriously not trying to take anything away from the Aggies, but Arkansas should have won that game. Then there were those miraculous 3rd down conversions in the 4th quarter with Max Johnson throwing passes up for grabs off his back foot. I hate this game, every year, even when the Hogs win. ATM postgame win expectancy was 32 percent, FWIW, so you're not wrong. Basically any time a team wins a close game in which they had a 99-yard fumble return TD, that's an escape job.

Good for him. He'd have passed Bonds by now if he'd never left St. Louis and no one will ever be able to tell me different.

Meanwhile Carolina finds a way to lose another game. I was so fired up about Matt Rhule when he was hired but he is a bad NFL coach. Carolina is now an incomprehensible 1-25 under him when they allow 17 or more points. The owner ordering panic trades for any scrap-heap QB that comes available every year isn't helping.

With full acknowledgment that Tom Brady is the undisputed laughable-if-you-even-argue-it GOAT, it's very frustrating that when he does suck, either his team's elite defense or ridiculous penalties on the opposing defense or both bail him out more often than not.

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

In Snood-approved news, Kansas is smacking around Houston, which went 12-2 last season, on the road. They might seriously be good.

The ND one nearly had a crazy finish. Two different Cal players had a chance to come down with their Hail Mary. I definitely did not need to be reminded. Bat it backwards, fellas!

I got lucky enough to catch this live. What a freaking finish.

I adore the wording of that tweet. Never change, NYC media.

Why can't we ever do this when it's STL's playoff positioning at stake?

Amazon Prime is it unless you get the local stations from one of the two cities involved. The Bears TNF game will be on a Chicago station.

I mentioned it in the CFB thread but Cal +10.5 at Notre Dame is ridiculous because ND is literally good at nothing right now. Maybe Cal just really really sucks (they did just beat UNLV by 6) but they'd have to in order to fail to cover that.

Cal opened as a 12-point underdog in South Bend and it's already been bet down to 10.5. I'm not a gambler, but as ND is going to be down to its 2nd-string QB (starter rumored to have broken his collarbone) on an offense that was a [expletive] train wreck to begin with, that seems like an opportunity.

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

The Sun Belt should get a CFP bid. I'm sort of kidding. Sort of.

SEC coming in clutch with a roughing the passer call on 3rd down that every CFB writer on Twitter says was ridiculous.

Oklahoma State 2021 (Gundy said so) UConn 2009 South Florida 2011 Boston College 1993 Northwestern 1995 Air Force 1996 Navy 2007 Duke 2016 Tulsa 2010 Louisville 2014 Marshall Just an off the top of my head selection of some of the biggest wins (or damn close) in program history that 30 years of watching this horsefeathering team has treated me to. I can't wait to have to fire Freeman in two years because he sucks ass and then everyone gets to do the "Notre Dame is racist" dance again.

The Sun Belt must be really horsefeathering good at football

If not already answered, that was pushed to winter meetings or possibly ST for a vote. Unfortunately I think I've seen several snippets over the past couple years about players liking it, and I doubt the owners are going to step in to save us from that.

"Neutral" as in scheduling a northern / western team to play somewhere in the deep south? Neutral as is not on campus. 2021 they played Miami in Atlanta. 2017 they played Florida State in Atlanta. 2024 they are scheduled to play Wisconsin in Madison. I hate that I'm defending Alabama but is it weak to play a team like Louisville if the game is in Florida? Or USC in Texas? It's definitely a lot more fun now that they're playing home-and-homes. And starting in 2025, they have two Power 5 OOC games scheduled every year through 2034 - ND, Ohio State, Oklahoma State, West Virginia, Florida State and others. There's also an Oklahoma series in there that will be folded into the SEC schedule.

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Brian Kelly and insane Sunday night openers - name a more iconic duo

Sunday Night Football averaged 19.3 million viewers last year. Hitting 15 million on a streaming service seems realllll optimistic.

Jordan Travis on the other hand looks out of this world good. Every time I look up he's evading an unblocked rusher and dropping a dime. Just delivered a perfect TD pass just as an unblocked guy was coming in for the most obvious targeting in the history of the rule. Glad my team doesn't have to deal with him this year.

Tyler Buchner looked like exactly the same QB as when he last played 9 months ago, which is frustrating. I'm all aboard the Marcus Freeman hype train but it's going to be an annoying week of the easiest Twitter wisecrack of all time about him being the most-hyped 0-2 coach in history.