Andy

And it's going to suck. The only good thing that came out of the BCS was it made every game affect every other one in the title picture. If every power conference gets an automatic bid, there's no reason for anyone in B1G country to care about an SEC game, and vice versa. ND could finish #5 this year and I'd still be vehemently against any further playoff expansion.

Seattle wasn't even [expletive] trying to rush the passer and still sacked Cam two straight times on that last drive. What a joke.

BREAKING: Blowing multiple red-zone possessions and forcing the 27th-ranked defense in the league to hold up for an entire game is not a winning game plan.

New TV rules this year permit the NFL to flex games between networks for better exposure for games they deem better matchups. Texans/Titans is on FOX today. Pats/Bills was on FOX a couple weeks ago.

Updated with committee Top 25 Top 25 games ------------------------ Arkansas at (1) Mississippi State (7:15 pm, ESPN2) (2) Florida State at (25) Louisville (7:30 pm Thursday, ESPN) (3) Auburn at (4) Ole Miss (7 pm, ESPN) Stanford at (5) Oregon (7:30 pm, FOX) (7) TCU at (20) West Virginia (3:30 pm, ABC/ESPN2) Oklahoma State at (9) Kansas State (8 pm, ABC/ESPN3) (10) Notre Dame vs Navy – in Landover, MD (8 pm, CBS) Florida vs (11) Georgia – in Jacksonville (3:30 pm, CBS) (12) Arizona at (22) UCLA (10:30 pm, ESPN) Kansas at (13) Baylor (4 pm, FS1) (17) Utah at (14) Arizona State (11 pm, FS1) Purdue at (15) Nebraska (3:30 pm, ABC/ESPN2) Illinois at (16) Ohio State (8 pm, ABC/ESPN3) (18) Oklahoma at Iowa State (12 pm, FS1) (23) East Carolina at Temple (12 pm, ESPNEWS) (24) Duke at Pittsburgh (12 pm, ESPNU) Other nationally available games --------------------------------------- Troy at Georgia Southern (7:30 pm Thursday, ESPNU) Cincinnati at Tulane (8 pm Friday, ESPN2) Tulsa at Memphis (8 pm Friday, ESPNU) Air Force at Army (11:30 am, CBS) Wisconsin at Rutgers (12 pm, ESPN) Maryland at Penn State (12 pm, ESPN2) Northwestern at Iowa (12 pm, BTN) UL Monroe at Texas A&M (12 pm, SEC Network) UCF at UConn (12 pm, CBSSN) Boston College at Virginia Tech (12:30 pm, ACC Network/ESPN3) North Carolina at Miami (12:30 pm, ACC Network/ESPN3) Washington at Colorado (1 pm, Pac-12 Network) Central Michigan at Eastern Michigan (1 pm, ESPN3) Western Michigan at Miami (OH) (2:30 pm, ESPN3) Western Kentucky at Louisiana Tech (3 pm, FSN) NC State at Syracuse (3 pm, FSN South/ESPN3) Indiana at Michigan (3:30 pm, BTN) Virginia at Georgia Tech (3:30 pm, ESPNU) BYU at Middle Tennessee (3:30 pm, CBSSN) Georgia State at Appalachian State (3:30 pm, ESPN3) Kentucky at Missouri (4 pm, SEC Network) Houston at South Florida (4 pm, ESPNEWS) USC at Washington State (4:30 pm, Pac-12 Network) Arkansas State at Idaho (5 pm, ESPN3) South Alabama at UL Lafayette (5 pm, ESPN3) Old Dominion at Vanderbilt (7 pm, ESPNU) Colorado State at San Jose State (7 pm, CBSSN) Texas at Texas Tech (7:30 pm, FS1) Tennessee at South Carolina (7:30 pm, SEC Network) San Diego State at Nevada (10:30 pm, CBSSN) California at Oregon State (10:30 pm, Pac-12 Network) Wyoming at Fresno State (10:45 pm, ESPN2)

So apparently Utah ran an obvious pick play on their game winning TD that of course wasn't flagged. I didn't need to know that.

I expect [expletive] like that out of Les Miles. Stewart Mandel said if Les had done that, it would've worked. Hard to argue.

Winter meetings are in the winter. January or early February, I believe.

One baseball reporter tweeted that it's through 2016. Don't know if any financials are available.

I Googled and found an article about Yunel Escobar that said Maddon and the bilingual bench coach (Dave Martinez) met with him before the waiver deadline to assure him he wouldn't be moved. Since the writer specifically mentioned Martinez was bilingual, I'm guessing Maddon isn't.

You're not alone. I'm not disinterested in the NFL, but I've been watching fewer and fewer games that don't involve Carolina. A lot of that has to do with being married to a non-football fan, granted, but I've actually gotten to the point where I don't mind watching only a day and a half straight of football and not two days.

Whatever the Dodgers said about Mattingly, it seems hard to believe he's not headed to LA.

In the last 3 weeks, I have faced the teams that ranked 2nd, 1st and 1st in my 14-team league in scoring for that week, including, this week, a guy who traded Aaron Rodgers in a rebuilding effort DURING THE WEEK before facing me.

Yes, seriously. I also don't like Jameis Winston, Ben Rotlisberger, Ray Lewis, etc. for similar reasons. There are some things more important than sports. Not sure why you'd think I'd hate Notre Dame when I live 2000 miles away and don't run into too many of their fans here. Sorry then. But a lot of people around here like to parade the tragedy around to embarrass ND when it's a far from cut and dry situation. We have a famous [expletive] local radio guy who tweeted out the girls name a bunch of times during the game last night. Maybe the campus police were incompetent in not responding to the case more quickly, but the football program didn't do anything wrong and what the player was accused of was being a creep relatively benign compared to jameis accusations. That said, Brian Kelly was negligent in the death of that freshman camera man. So I'm surprised people don't go straight for that because there real isn't an argument there. I would suggest dropping the subject, because anyone that wants to know about it already does and has made their judgment on it.

My opponent this week has already exceeded his projection and still has his QB, Roethlisberger, and Odell Beckham to go. He had Denard Robinson, who's going to outscore anyone on my team. After a 5-0 start my team is going down in flames.

At 3-3-1, Carolina remains alone atop the NFC South. Whoever is the top wild-card is going to destroy the champion of this garbage division.

You pity the Panthers themselves? My math is off, as it often is when I'm bellyaching about how awful this team is. The [expletive] thing is, we're in salary-cap hell for basically ever. There's no end in sight.

Top 25 games ------------------------ (1) Mississippi State at Kentucky (3:30 pm, CBS) (3) Ole Miss at (24) LSU (7:15 pm, ESPN) (4) Alabama at Tennessee (7:30 pm, ESPN2) South Carolina at (5) Auburn (7:30 pm, SEC Network) (6) Oregon at California (10 pm Friday, FS1) Michigan at (8) Michigan State (3:30 pm, ABC) Texas Tech at (10) TCU (3:30 pm, FOX) Texas at (11) Kansas State (12 pm, ESPN) (13) Ohio State at Penn State (8 pm, ABC) (14) Arizona State at Washington (10:45 pm, ESPN) (15) Arizona at Washington State (6 pm, Pac-12 Network) Rutgers at (16) Nebraska (12 pm, ESPN2) UConn at (18) East Carolina (7 pm Thursday, ESPNU) (20) USC at (19) Utah (10 pm, FS1) Syracuse at (21) Clemson (7 pm, ESPNU) (22) West Virginia at Oklahoma State (3:30 pm, ESPN) Florida Atlantic at (23) Marshall (3:30 pm, FS1) (25) UCLA at Colorado (2 pm, Pac-12 Network) Other nationally available games --------------------------------------- Arkansas State at UL Lafayette (8 pm Tuesday, ESPN2) Miami at Virginia Tech (8 pm Thursday, ESPN) South Florida at Cincinnati (7 pm Friday, ESPN2) Troy at South Alabama (7:30 pm Friday, ESPNU) BYU at Boise State (9 pm Friday, ESPN/2) Minnesota at Illinois (12 pm, ESPNU) Memphis at SMU (12 pm, ESPNEWS) Maryland at Wisconsin (12 pm, BTN) UAB at Arkansas (12 pm, SEC Network) North Texas at Rice (12 pm, FSN) North Carolina at Virginia (12:30 pm, ACC Network/ESPN3) San Jose State at Navy (1 pm, CBSSN) Northern Illinois at Eastern Michigan (1 pm, ESPN3) Akron at Ball State (2 pm, ESPN3) Georgia Southern at Georgia State (2 pm, ESPN3) Ohio at Western Michigan (2 pm, ESPN3) UMass at Toledo (2 pm, ESPN3) Oregon State at Stanford (3:30 pm, ESPN2) Georgia Tech at Pittsburgh (3:30 pm, ESPNU) Boston College at Wake Forest (3:30 pm, FSN) Central Michigan at Buffalo (3:30 pm, ESPN3) UNLV at Utah State (4 pm, ESPNEWS) Vanderbilt at Missouri (4 pm, SEC Network) Temple at UCF (5 pm, CBSSN) Texas State at UL Monroe (7 pm, ESPN3)

I pity the 19 teams in the league that don't get to play this [expletive] joke of a defense.

Carolina committed two straight offsides penalties after 3rd and 11 on GB's first drive and then had 12 men on the field while getting a stop on 3rd and 3 on the second. This will be the worst playoff team ever if they somehow win the South.

It was originally announced as being on Fuller (7), but the official box score evidently lists it as being on Prosise (20), which makes more sense. Watching the replay, Prosise was probably being held as much as he was initiating contact, but tough to expect an official to catch the distinction in the heat of the moment.

With ESPN running the playoff, I wouldn't bet on it. That being said, there aren't any great teams, so maybe enough will lose so that they'll have no choice. Right call on the OPI. Prosise totally blew it. He didn't have to make the contact so obvious. come on man, ESPN isn't going to conspire to keep ND out. If they get blown out here, sure. They won't drop much in the polls at all. You're probably right, I'm just pissed (and a few beers deep) and sick of hearing about how ND was 'David' in this game. There was never a doubt in my mind this game was going to be competitive. FSU came in with a resume almost identical to ND's and people overreacted to the UNC trap game last week. Thank God there's a bye next week.

With ESPN running the playoff, I wouldn't bet on it. That being said, there aren't any great teams, so maybe enough will lose so that they'll have no choice. Right call on the OPI. Prosise totally blew it. He didn't have to make the contact so obvious.

Oh sure, punt, because the defense has been able to stop them once the entire [expletive] half. Are you kidding me?

Winston has activated the No-Effing-Way chip from Madden