Andy

Not a typo as we have a tie at #25 this week.

Top 25 games (1) Alabama at Vanderbilt (4:15 pm, SEC Network) Iowa at (3) Ohio State (3:30 pm, CBS) (4) Tennessee at Arkansas (7:30 pm, ABC) Auburn at (5) Georgia (3:30 pm, ABC) Michigan State at (6) Oregon (9 pm Friday, FOX) UCLA at (7) Penn State (12 pm, FOX) (8) Miami at California (10:30 pm, ESPN) (9) Missouri at (25) Texas A&M (12 pm, ABC) (10) Michigan at Washington (7:30 pm, NBC) (11) USC at Minnesota (7:30 pm, BTN) (12) Ole Miss at South Carolina (3:30 pm, ESPN) (15) Clemson at Florida State (7 pm, ESPN) Baylor at (16) Iowa State (7:30 pm, FOX) Utah State at (21) Boise State (7 pm, FS2) SMU at (22) Louisville (12 pm, ESPN) (23) Indiana at Northwestern (3:30 pm, BTN) Syracuse at (25) UNLV (9 pm Friday, FS1) Other nationally available games Thursday Texas State at Troy (7 pm, ESPNU) Sam Houston at UTEP (9 pm, CBSSN) Friday Jacksonville State at Kennesaw State (7 pm, CBSSN) Houston at TCU (7:30 pm, ESPN) Saturday TV Navy at Air Force (12 pm, CBS) Pittsburgh at North Carolina (12 pm, ESPN2) Purdue at Wisconsin (12 pm, BTN) Wake Forest at NC State (12 pm, CW) Army at Tulsa (12 pm, ESPNU) Boston College at Virginia (12 pm, ACC Network) UMass at Northern Illinois (12 pm, CBSSN) East Carolina at Charlotte (3:30 pm, ESPNU) Virginia Tech at Stanford (3:30 pm, ACC Network) Temple at UConn (3:30 pm, CBSSN) West Virginia at Oklahoma State (4 pm, ESPN2) Rutgers at Nebraska (4 pm, FS1) Colorado State at Oregon State (6:30 pm, CW) James Madison at UL Monroe (7 pm, ESPNU) Nevada at San Jose State (7:30 pm, TruTV) UCF at Florida (7:45 pm, SEC Network) Kansas at Arizona State (8 pm, ESPN2) Duke at Georgia Tech (8 pm, ACC Network) Hawaii at San Diego State (8 pm, CBSSN) Texas Tech at Arizona (11 pm, FOX) Saturday Streaming (all ESPN+ unless noted) Tulane at UAB (1 pm) Western Michigan at Ball State (2 pm) Appalachian State at Marshall (3:30 pm) Bowling Green at Akron (3:30 pm) Miami (OH) at Toledo (3:30 pm) Old Dominion at Coastal Carolina (7 pm) South Alabama at Arkansas State (7 pm) UL Lafayette at Southern Miss (7 pm)

ND opened as 5 point favorites, closed at 6.5. Win by 7. Vegas always knows

Refs employed by a conference make a bad call that benefits team the conference stands to make playoff money off of. Stunning.

I think I agree but man I do not envy the replay official. That might have been the first replay I've ever seen where I had absolutely no opinion on what the correct ruling should've been.

Mustache man is back with more bad news

Totally normal sport we have.

I have no quarrels with your post, really, but I quoted this part just to note that this passage illustrates why it was a bad idea to sink a bunch of resources into a guy like Hector Neris, whose underlying numbers last season were screaming that a large regression was coming. I also just looked up his Astros numbers since he signed there and funnily enough he has a worse ERA than he did in Chicago (in only 13 1/3 innings, granted) despite a far better WHIP. Go figure.

I don't care for the use of 'luck' when discussing Pythag records and BABIP and the like. Most of the time, one-run wins, in the moment, are earned. That said, it's not a sustainable strategy - you wouldn't go out of your way to try to build a team to win the most one-run games or have the highest BABIP, because such a plan almost certainly wouldn't work. You don't see teams consistently lead baseball in those statistics because it's borderline impossible to do repeatedly.

First QB in the league with 300+ and 3 TD in a game. First time since Bryce Young was drafted that Carolina led a football game at the snap of the ball in the 4th quarter. (Both their wins last year were on last second FGs.) All the truthers trying to tell us we were overreacting and Stroud would've been just as bad with our roster were stupidly wrong and I knew it the entire time. I'm not very smart (evidence - I wanted to draft him in the first place) but sometimes I get one right and it was clear this dude was toast almost immediately.

Top 25 games Mississippi State at (1) Texas (4:15 pm, SEC Network) (2) Georgia at (4) Alabama (7:30 pm, ABC) (3) Ohio State at Michigan State (7:30 pm, Peacock) Kentucky at (6) Ole Miss (12 pm, ABC) Virginia Tech at (7) Miami (7:30 pm Friday, ESPN) (8) Oregon at UCLA (11 pm, FOX) (19) Illinois at (9) Penn State (7:30 pm, NBC) Arizona at (10) Utah (10:15 pm, ESPN) Minnesota at (12) Michigan (12 pm, FOX) Wisconsin at (13) USC (3:30 pm, CBS) South Alabama at (14) LSU (7:45 pm, SEC Network) (15) Louisville at (16) Notre Dame (3:30 pm, Peacock) Stanford at (17) Clemson (7 pm, ESPN) (18) Iowa State at Houston (7 pm, FS1) (20) Oklahoma State at (23) Kansas State (12 pm, ESPN) (21) Oklahoma at Auburn (3:30 pm, ABC) (22) BYU at Baylor (12 pm, FS1) Arkansas vs (24) Texas A&M - in Arlington, TX (3:30 pm, ESPN) Washington State at (25) Boise State (10 pm, FS1) Other nationally available games Thursday Army at Temple (7:30 pm, ESPN) Friday Washington at Rutgers (8 pm, FOX) Saturday TV Navy at UAB (12 pm, ESPN2) Maryland at Indiana (12 pm, BTN) Northern Illinois at NC State (12 pm, CW) Western Kentucky at Boston College (12 pm, ACC Network) South Florida at Tulane (12 pm, ESPNU) Buffalo at UConn (12 pm, CBSSN) Colorado at UCF (3:30 pm, FOX) Fresno State at UNLV (3:30 pm, FS1) Georgia Southern at Georgia State (3:30 pm, ESPNU) UL Lafayette at Wake Forest (3:30 pm, ACC Network) San Diego State at Central Michigan (3:30 pm, CBSSN) North Carolina at Duke (4 pm, ESPN2) Middle Tennessee at Memphis (7:30 pm, ESPNU) Cincinnati at Texas Tech (8 pm, ESPN2) Florida State at SMU (8 pm, ACC Network) Air Force at Wyoming (8 pm, CBSSN) Saturday Streaming (all ESPN+ unless noted) Holy Cross at Syracuse (12 pm) Nebraska at Purdue (12 pm, Peacock) Ball State at James Madison (1:30 pm) Texas State at Sam Houston (3 pm) Akron at Ohio (3:30 pm) Eastern Michigan at Kent State (3:30 pm) TCU at Kansas (3:30 pm) UMass at Miami (OH) (3:30 pm) Western Michigan at Marshall (3:30 pm) UTSA at East Carolina (4 pm) Old Dominion at Bowling Green (5 pm) Louisiana Tech at FIU (6 pm) UT Martin at Kennesaw State (6 pm) Wagner at Florida Atlantic (6 pm) Charlotte at Rice (7 pm) Tulsa at North Texas (7 pm) UL Monroe at Troy (7 pm) New Mexico at New Mexico State (8 pm)

In case any ND fan was clinging to the hope that NIU was some kind of elite MAC school, they lost to Buffalo in overtime in their first game since the disaster 2 weeks ago.

Seems to be a pattern in that conference

He did make a pretty freakin' great throw off his back foot with a rusher bearing down on him, but just because he cosplays as Mahomes sometimes doesn't mean announcers need to go insane with the comparisons.

Mooney wrote about that on The Athletic. Easily my favorite thing Counsell has done or said in 10 months as manager.

Had no idea the pitch was so fast, but cool milestone for Happ:

Zobrist last played in MLB with the Cubs, it's not really necessary. Matt Adams' MLB career did not end with STL.

What did he say? He declined comment on whether Tepper was involved. Schefter (I know, but still) reported that Canales and the front office made the call, not Tepper. I'm inclined to believe this was a coach/FO decision; Bryce was playing such pathetic football (he faced the lowest pressure rate of any QB in week 2 and still threw for 84 yards) they were going to lose the locker room if they kept running him out there. And while Tepper is a chode, he seems to be making more of an effort to stay in the background, which he should have done 3 disastrous decisions ago, but whatever. From a fan perspective it's dumb that they're probably going to play themselves out of the #1 pick through Dalton's competence, but I'm not the guys busting my ass running routes with no reasonable hope of getting an accurate pass from the quarterback.

He has no no-trade provision. If he opts in he can be traded and the opt-in for 2026 goes with him to wherever he'd end up.

Funny (not funny) story: The two local games here yesterday were those 2 starring and winning in separate games, then the Sunday Night game was the guy we passed over for Bryce, who is already elite, versus the guy we traded away to get him (admittedly, that hasn't worked out that well yet). It's like my favorite team's incompetence is a gift and every team gets their chance to benefit from it.

Very on brand for this franchise, don't bench Bryce Young when he sucked ass and we didn't have our own #1 pick but bench him when the most likely scenario is that they continue to suck, just not enough to get the #1 pick.

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

He would have last year if we hadn't, you know, become the first horsefeathers team in the history of the NFL to trade away the #1 overall pick a year ahead of time.

Carolina's first first down today came with 4 minutes left in the first half. Bryce Young then threw an interception on the next play. At that point in the game he was 5/7 for 12 yards with that pick. No digits missing. Twelve.

Every MAC team plays paycheck games, but sometimes (and for whatever reason it feels like Kent State is often in this group) their schools can really go overboard. Don't know what on field benefit there can be for teams to get repeatedly smashed like that. Related, Ball State lost 62-0 to Miami, but at least their only other paycheck game is Vanderbilt. Hopefully that one won't be too terrible.