Andy

Ohio State is the only other team in a similar boat and they at least have a couple of semi dominating performances. MSU has none of those. They've played exactly nobody so far, and their only good win, the reason they shot up the polls to begin with, is being devalued by the week. They're lucky they're as high as they are, Florida and A&M should be ahead of them.

So USC coach Steve Sarkisian has been placed on indefinite leave, likely for the rest of the season. Reading between the lines of reports, it sounds like he showed up to work piss drunk today. Alcohol problem has resurfaced

Top 25 games ------------------------------ Penn State at (1) Ohio State (8 pm, ABC) West Virginia at (2) Baylor (12 pm, FOX) (3) TCU at Iowa State (7 pm, ESPN2) Arizona State at (4) Utah (10 pm, ESPN) Boston College at (5) Clemson (7 pm, ESPNU) (8) Florida at (6) LSU (7 pm, ESPN) (7) Michigan State at (12) Michigan (3:30 pm, ESPN) (10) Alabama at (9) Texas A&M (3:30 pm, CBS) Louisville at (11) Florida State (12 pm, ESPN) (13) Ole Miss at Memphis (12 pm, ABC/ESPN2) USC at (14) Notre Dame (7:30 pm, NBC) (18) UCLA at (15) Stanford (10:30 pm Thursday, ESPN) (17) Iowa at (20) Northwestern (12 pm, ABC/ESPN2) (19) Oklahoma at Kansas State (3:30 pm, ABC) (21) Boise State at Utah State (9 pm Friday, CBSSN) (22) Toledo at Eastern Michigan (12 pm, ESPN3) (24) Houston at Tulane (9 pm Friday, ESPNU) Other nationally available games --------------------------------------------------- Arkansas State at South Alabama (8 pm Tuesday, ESPN2) Auburn at Kentucky (7 pm Thursday, ESPN) Western Kentucky at North Texas (7:30 pm Thursday, CBSSN) Cincinnati at BYU (8 pm Friday, ESPN) UNLV at Fresno State (10:30 pm Friday, ESPN2) Texas Tech at Kansas (12 pm, FS1) Purdue at Wisconsin (12 pm, BTN) South Florida at UConn (12 pm, ESPNU) Tulsa at East Carolina (12 pm, ESPNEWS) Louisiana Tech at Mississippi State (12 pm, SEC Network) Florida International at Middle Tennessee (12 pm, FSN) Bucknell at Army (12 pm, CBSSN) Western Michigan at Ohio (12 pm, CSN Chicago/ESPN3) Pittsburgh at Georgia Tech (12:30 pm, ACC Network/ESPN3) Buffalo at Central Michigan (1 pm, ESPN3) Northern Illinois at Miami (OH) (2:30 pm, ESPN3) Akron at Bowling Green (3 pm, ESPN3) Georgia State at Ball State (3 pm, ESPN3) Nebraska at Minnesota (3:30 pm, ESPN2) Rutgers at Indiana (3:30 pm, BTN) Virginia Tech at Miami (3:30 pm, ESPNU) Syracuse at Virginia (3:30 pm, FSN/ESPN3) Air Force at Colorado State (3:30 pm, CBSSN) Idaho at Troy (3:30 pm, ESPN3) Kent State at UMass (3:30 pm, ESPN3) Vanderbilt at South Carolina (4 pm, SEC Network) Oregon State at Washington State (4 pm, Pac-12 Network) Nevada at Wyoming (4 pm, ESPN3) New Mexico State at Georgia Southern (6 pm, ESPN3) Wake Forest at North Carolina (7 pm, FSN/ESPN3) Appalachian State at UL Monroe (7 pm, ESPN3) Missouri at Georgia (7:30 pm, SEC Network) UCF at Temple (7:30 pm, CBSSN) Arizona at Colorado (9 pm, FS1) Oregon at Washington (10:30 pm, ESPN2) San Diego State at San Jose State (10:30 pm, ESPNU)

I'm friends with a Bears fan that is totally in the tank for him and is mildly annoyed that the Bears are probably not bad enough to take him at #1.

If I were you I would probably go Tuesday. But Monday is going to be fun as [expletive]. No loser in that decision.

There's no reason it should. We've kicked the asses of both their pitchers in these games and in one we have the guy having the greatest stretch in the history of the sport. I expect to win this series at Wrigley. And it will be [expletive] glorious.

It's entirely possible no one is good. Seriously, has anyone really stood out this year?

Get ready for the Arrieta train

Alright Hector, let's go

GTFO Wong

Holy [expletive] Cahill!

Two tattooed balls and they get outs

The BFIB will never shut the [expletive] up for the rest of our lives if they sweep this stupid series

Just skip to UM vs Ohio State for the B1G title

Must win this game. Beating any playoff team 3 games in a row is difficult, beating these [expletive] 3 in a row is a really big ask.

what kind of idiot spends the (not small sum) money on a personalized jersey for a guy who doesn't even play baseball the team has won 2 world series in the past 10 years and he buys something to mock a different team? Thats just so weird He updates that jersey every year, and that sign is at least 2 years old. Will Leitch posted a picture of it (mocking him) in his article today from when the jersey read 104.

Buck Martinez was the best part of whatever baseball video game he was a part of. I've always wanted a Lobster Cola. Extreme Doilies.

my humble act (about facing lackey) aside, i'd totally go to that and then cheer loudly when all the great things happen. I wouldn't do that myself. I want to be able to be my normal insane self during a big game and I'd feel obliged to tamp it down if I was in the home of the enemy.

Switching them made so much sense (LHP pitching to mostly righties, put your better outfielder in LF) that I almost retroactively wonder why Joe originally had Schwarber in LF. No harm done, though. Of course, Coghlan probably isn't a ton better than Schwarber (do the defensive metrics still rate Coghlan super high for whatever reason?), so it doesn't make much difference.

Still don't hate them. It'll take a lot more than one idiotic plunking in a playoff game to get them up my list of teams I want to see disbanded.

I do not agree with this sentiment. There are pros and cons. Ross is obviously far inferior to Miggy with the bat, but he's a better thrower to bases, which could help with Lester pitching. I wish we were facing a lefty so Ross would at least stand some chance of being useful at the plate, but it's fine. I'm sure Joe will immediately PH Montero if/when Lester comes out.

Ah. I didn't realize you were going for the backhand slap there. Well played.

Maybe they shouldn't cut the B10 out of their schedule. The best B1G team they play asked out of the 2014-15 games so they could play Oregon. And I don't think ND anticipated Michigan was going to fall ass over tea-kettle into one of the top 10 coaches in the whole sport. ND should know a thing or two about how blue blood football teams don't stay down forever. I didn't mean to say UM would be down forever, just that I don't think anyone expected they'd luck into Jim Harbaugh and turn things around basically instantaneously. And that post is somewhat ironic considering ND has been good exactly 3 times in my 20 or so years following the team, and that's charitably including 2006, a year in which every good team they played slaughtered them. As far as I'm concerned, they have been down forever.

Maybe they shouldn't cut the B10 out of their schedule. The best B1G team they play asked out of the 2014-15 games so they could play Oregon. And I don't think ND anticipated Michigan was going to fall ass over tea-kettle into one of the top 10 coaches in the whole sport.

I'm really surprised Berry isn't on the roster, although I guess I don't have a good candidate for whom to bench him either. I guess against Molina, you figure you won't be doing a lot of running anyway.