Andy

I really wish this was Halloween weekend instead of it falling on the jam-packed slate of games the week after

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

Man, I'd love to be able to hire clowns like Orgeron and Chizik and win national titles anyway.

Clemson's offensive lines have never really been all that great over the past few years (by comparison to their other position groups, at least) and this year they're even worse. That's probably the biggest reason. There's also some CFB media chatter that Dabo's absolute refusal to dip into the transfer portal for talent is hurting them, but that could just be anecdotal.

He was also popping off postgame that the Astros hit Jose Abreu on purpose, without any real evidence that they did. He's such a damn clown and he reflects poorly on the entire organization.

I had no particular affinity for the Rays, and their still trying to make Tampa/Montreal ExRays a thing really killed whatever chance there was I was going to root for them. Unlike UMFan, I'm all in on rooting for guys I watched and loved for years, so if it's SF vs Boston, great. I'm also fine with any of the other remaining teams besides Houston, to be honest. I guess Milwaukee would be 2nd to last on my rooting index, but I'm not passionate about it at all.

I just got a kick out of him following the White Sox catcher tradition of horsefeathering with the umps and daring them to call him out in a playoff game, and with the guy who started that tradition calling the game, no less.

I guess I shouldn't care that Darnold and Carolina puked all over themselves to lose to a bad Eagles team today because Tampa is basically the NFL version of last year's Alabama anyway

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.