Andy

The actual Army/Navy game can't affect anything because it will be played after the CFP is set, but the two would meet in the AAC championship if what you are hoping for comes to pass, with the winner likely getting that spot. This creates the deeply funny possibility of the teams playing in back to back weeks with only the first game having any actual stakes - and the deeply fun possibility of that first game being played on one of the academy campuses, as AAC title games always take place at campus sites.

Not sure what happened there, brain fart

Top 25 games (1) Texas vs (18) Oklahoma - in Dallas (3:30 pm, ABC) (2) Ohio State at (3) Oregon (7:30 pm, NBC) (4) Penn State at USC (3:30 pm, CBS) Mississippi State at (5) Georgia (4:15 pm, SEC Network) South Carolina at (7) Alabama (12 pm, ABC) Florida at (8) Tennessee (7 pm, ESPN) (9) Ole Miss at (13) LSU (7:30 pm, ABC) (10) Clemson at Wake Forest (12 pm, ESPN) Stanford at (11) Notre Dame (3:30 pm, NBC) (11) Iowa State at West Virginia (8 pm, FOX) Arizona at (14) BYU (4 pm, FOX) (16) Utah at Arizona State (10:30 pm Friday, ESPN) (17) Boise State at Hawaii (11 pm, CBSSN) (18) Kansas State at Colorado (10:15 pm, ESPN) (21) Missouri at UMass (12 pm, ESPN2) California at (22) Pittsburgh (3:30 pm, ESPN) Purdue at (23) Illinois (3:30 pm, FS1) Other nationally available games Tuesday FIU at Liberty (7 pm, CBSSN) Wednesday New Mexico State at Jacksonville State (7:30 pm, ESPN2) Thursday Coastal Carolina at James Madison (7:30 pm, ESPN2) UTEP at Western Kentucky (8 pm, ESPNU) Middle Tennessee at Louisiana Tech (8 pm, CBSSN) Friday Memphis at South Florida (7 pm, ESPN) Northwestern at Maryland (8 pm, FOX) UNLV at Utah State (9 pm, CBSSN) Saturday TV Washington at Iowa (12 pm, FOX) Wisconsin at Rutgers (12 pm, BTN) Georgia Tech at North Carolina (12 pm, CW) Toledo at Buffalo (12 pm, ESPNU) UAB at Army (12 pm, CBSSN) Cincinnati at UCF (3:30 pm, ESPN2) San Jose State at Colorado State (3:30 pm, TruTV) Louisville at Virginia (3:30 pm, ACC Network) San Diego State at Wyoming (3:30 pm, CBSSN) Ohio at Central Michigan (4 pm, ESPNU) North Texas at Florida Atlantic (7 pm, ESPN2) Washington State at Fresno State (7 pm, FS1) Air Force at New Mexico (7 pm, TruTV) Oregon State at Nevada (7:30 pm, CBSSN) Vanderbilt at Kentucky (7:45 pm, SEC Network) Marshall at Georgia Southern (8 pm, ESPNU) Syracuse at NC State (8 pm, ACC Network) Minnesota at UCLA (9 pm, BTN) Saturday Streaming (all ESPN+) Ball State at Kent State (12 pm) Miami (OH) at Eastern Michigan (2 pm) Akron at Western Michigan (3:30 pm) Northern Illinois at Bowling Green (3:30 pm) Old Dominion at Georgia State (3:30 pm) Southern Miss at UL Monroe (5 pm) Arkansas State at Texas State (7 pm) UTSA at Rice (7 pm) Appalachian State at UL Lafayette (7:30 pm)

What a freaking week. Four of the top 11 go down to unranked teams and #9 Missouri got smoked by #25. And who knows, Miami might yet lose.

Missouri was kinda giving off fraud vibes after the BC and Vandy games but clowning them like that is quite impressive. Good to see Weigman back in form as well.

Working in the Bears' favor here - LB Shaq Thompson suffered a season-ending injury last week and his backup, Josey Jewell, is also likely out for this game because he got hurt after Thompson did.

MLB wanted this. No one cares about the regular season in any sport unless there's some theoretical chance of a postseason berth, but because the only way to make that a thing most of the season is to have a thousand playoff teams, we have to create systems that make the regular season mean little. This would be largely fine if baseball wasn't an inherently random sport where even the worst team in the majors can (usually) beat the best team 35-40% of the time. I can't stand it in concept, though because the Astros got bounced I'll accept it this year.

And then strikes out the next 2 to get out of the inning. I really hope the Tigers steamroll these guys.

I'm fine with Rose in the HOF now, but after Ron Santo had to wait until after he died for absolutely no reason at all, Rose and those who gambled on baseball when they knew they weren't allowed to can wait until after they die as far as I'm concerned.

The 2021 season literally accounts for all 36 of those, for whatever that is worth.

Today in 'I feel old'...

https://www.mlb.com/news/mlb-announces-changes-to-uniforms-for-all-star-game-regular-season Apparently the uniforms being fully fixed for 2025 was a white lie. Somehow, due to 'production delays,' only the road uniforms will be ready for 2025 and the home uniforms won't be ready until 2026. They'd better have fixed the damn letters by 2025, even if the full implementation isn't ready yet. This is way more important to me than it should be. Oh, and the ASG will again feature regular uniforms being worn by the players, not the stupid garbage of the past few years.

One of my favorite things about Kyle was how at his peak he was shutting everybody down but every opposing fan base (especially St. Louis) was constantly complaining about why their guys couldn't hit this soft-tosser. One of the all-time outlier success stories. Something feels narratively correct about such an outlier being the one who outlasted all the other 2016 Cubs. I'm going to miss him a lot.

That struck me as an overreaction, but they do now have the best win in the country, so not egregious, to use a Jim Deshaies-ism.

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)