Andy

One of my biggest pet peeves in football officiating these days is the thing where they have to pretend obvious incomplete passes are potentially fumbles on the one in a thousand chance that one of them actually is a fumble.

Top 25 games ------------------------------ (11) Kentucky at (1) Georgia (3:30 pm, CBS) Purdue at (2) Iowa (3:30 pm, ABC) UCF at (3) Cincinnati (12 pm, ABC) TCU at (4) Oklahoma (7:30 pm, ABC) (5) Alabama at Mississippi State (7 pm, ESPN) California at (9) Oregon (10:30 pm Friday, ESPN) (10) Michigan State at Indiana (12 pm, FS1) (12) Oklahoma State at (25) Texas (12 pm, FOX) (13) Ole Miss at Tennessee (7:30 pm, SEC Network) Auburn at (17) Arkansas (12 pm, CBS) (18) Arizona State at Utah (11 pm, ESPN) (19) BYU at Baylor (3:30 pm, ESPN) (20) Florida at LSU (12 pm, ESPN) (21) Texas A&M at Missouri (12 pm, SEC Network) (22) NC State at Boston College (7:30 pm, ACC Network) (24) San Diego State at San Jose State (10:30 pm Friday, CBSSN) Other nationally available games --------------------------------------------------- Tuesday Appalachian State at UL Lafayette (7:30 pm, ESPN2) Thursday Navy at Memphis (7:30 pm, ESPN) Georgia Southern at South Alabama (7:30 pm, ESPNU) Friday Clemson at Syracuse (7 pm, ESPN) Marshall at North Texas (7 pm, CBSSN) Saturday TV Nebraska at Minnesota (12 pm, ESPN2) Rutgers at Northwestern (12 pm, BTN) Tulsa at South Florida (12 pm, ESPNU) Duke at Virginia (12:30 pm, Regional Sports Networks/ESPN3) Pittsburgh at Virginia Tech (3:30 pm, ESPN2) Miami at North Carolina (3:30 pm, ACC Network) Kent State at Western Michigan (3:30 pm, ESPNU) Fresno State at Wyoming (3:30 pm, FS2) Toledo at Central Michigan (3:30 pm, CBSSN) Arizona at Colorado (3:30 pm, Pac-12 Network) Vanderbilt at South Carolina (4 pm, SEC Network) Utah State at UNLV (7 pm, CBSSN) Iowa State at Kansas State (7:30 pm, ESPN2) Stanford at Washington State (7:30 pm, ESPNU) Army at Wisconsin (8 pm, BTN) UCLA at Washington (8:30 pm, FOX) Air Force at Boise State (9 pm, FS1) Hawaii at Nevada (10:30 pm, CBSSN) Saturday Streaming Ohio at Buffalo (12 pm, ESPN+) Ball State at Eastern Michigan (2 pm, ESPN+) Akron at Miami (OH) (2:30 pm, ESPN+) Troy at Texas State (3 pm, ESPN+) Western Kentucky at Old Dominion (3:30 pm, ESPN3) UAB at Southern Miss (3:30 pm, Stadium) Bowling Green at Northern Illinois (3:30 pm, ESPN+) Texas Tech at Kansas (4 pm, ESPN+) Rice at UTSA (6 pm, ESPN+) Colorado State at New Mexico (7 pm, Stadium) Liberty at UL Monroe (7 pm, ESPN+) Louisiana Tech at UTEP (9 pm, ESPN+)

In the AP Cincinnati is rated ahead of Oklahoma as they should be. PSU also stayed ahead of Michigan as voters likely gave them a mini pass for what happened after Clifford went out.

There is not much worse in sports fan world than watching your team's chances in a big game go down in flames because the QB is just lost.

What a horsefeathering insane day When I made a complaining post about ND you couldn't have ever convinced me that by the end of the day they would hold the longest winning streak against unranked teams in the country (they now have 36, Bama had 100).

How Notre Dame, whose entire identity is built around the offensive line, ended up with maybe the worst line in the entire country, one that is awful at literally every horsefeathering possible thing an offensive line is tasked with doing, is a question. And on top of that, Kelly keeps running Jack "No Pocket Awareness of Any Kind" Coan out behind that line.

Most teams still wear their colors at home right? Does that mean the Bulls are going to wear white almost every game? I like the white jerseys at home too but not at the expense of rarely wearing the red jerseys. I think there's been a fair bit of color vs. color in the Nikefied NBA, so I wouldn't necessarily expect white on the road just because the other team wears a colored jersey.

i mean it's been 4 full seasons granted i can't blame you for not watching enough to get used to it It doesn't seem like it's been that long. I'm not in the Bulls' TV territory so I've hardly seen any games in a long time.

I like the white jerseys at home even though the reds look cooler. It just looks weird when they wear red at home after all this time.

Panthers trading for Stephon Gilmore is a pretty exciting win-now move. All they gave up was some in-season cap space (couldn't care less) and a 2023 6th-rounder. Very worthy gamble.

We are going to lose it anyway.

Schwarber making Cole his bitch just like he did 6 years ago!

No rooting interest tonight, but it would be cool if Rizzo or Schwarber did something. On that topic, not that this is a surprise really, but they are both batting leadoff, and it's the first time two players who were teammates the year before are opposing each other as leadoff hitters on different teams in a playoff game.

Crazy factoid regarding PSU/Iowa: It's the first regular-season B1G conference game to be a top-5 matchup without Michigan or Ohio State involved since 1962 (Wisconsin/Minnesota). Iowa and MSU met as top-5 opponents in '15, but in the league title game.

I think you guys were in the top 10 when they made that call. Alas. Maybe the pregame atmosphere could be fun, though.

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

I don't think anyone serious thought that LSU was in position to create a dynasty. Certainly this fall-off is more precipitous than expected, but the Burrow/Brady thing was the all-time example of lightning in a bottle.

Was at the ND/Cincinnati game. I was fully prepared to lose, but I was hoping it would be more 'Cincinnati is really good and we're just less good' and less 'ND hands them 10 points with dumb-ass turnovers, commits a dumb-ass red zone turnover too and Cincinnati just does enough to avoid screwing up that advantage'.

I have to keep reminding myself that this team probably still isn't that good, but being 3-0 with a roster chock full of promising talent at most positions is a pretty nice place to be right now. How many weeks you think CMC misses? However many it is, I bet it'll be more than the team thinks. I know paying RBs is stupid but it would've been nice if he could've had one good season after getting the contract before turning into an injury machine. C'est la vie.

I have to keep reminding myself that this team probably still isn't that good, but being 3-0 with a roster chock full of promising talent at most positions is a pretty nice place to be right now.

Cardinals postseason will last a grand total of 1 game should the play the LAD White Sox will get 1 home game and be done Brewers will be done in the NLCS at the latest You and I both know very well that the Cardinals are somehow going to end up winning the WS. That franchise is just blessed that way. Seriously. They have easily the worst team to ever win it (06), maybe the 2nd-worst (11) and if they hadn't gagged a 3-1 lead to SF in 12, they'd probably have won that year too with a playoff spot that had never existed before the season. This is what they do.

I know absolutely nothing, but the article does say the fall appears to be 'suspicious'. I hope that ends up being unfounded.

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

I find a lot of irony in 2021 finally providing what promises to be a fun and interesting race for the 3 non-Bama CFP spots when they announced just months ago they were going to expand for the stated reason (unstated reason was more money) that the race for the spots was getting too boring.

Wisconsin is no good at all and when they went ahead 13-10 and ND had its 3rd-string QB in the game due to injuries. I had a brief moment of annoyance at the idea that Wisconsin was going to get a poll boost from beating a not-very-good ND team and then Michigan would in turn get a poll boost from beating them like a drum next week (which they will). Then Chris Tyree went 98 yards for a TD and at least I don't have to worry about that anymore.