Andy

Rhule officially announced at Nebraska.

Take VERY much for what it's worth because it's from da Bum, but he grew up right by Purdue and always said Ohio State fans were by far the worst visiting fans he encountered.

Virginia vs Virginia Tech canceled.

Top 25 games ------------------------------ Georgia Tech at (1) Georgia (12 pm, ESPN) (3) Michigan at (2) Ohio State (12 pm, FOX) Iowa State at (4) TCU (4 pm, FOX) (5) LSU at Texas A&M (7 pm, ESPN) (15) Notre Dame at (6) USC (7:30 pm, ABC) Auburn at (7) Alabama (3:30 pm, CBS) South Carolina at (8) Clemson (12 pm, ABC) (9) Oregon at (21) Oregon State (3:30 pm, ABC) (10) Tennessee at Vanderbilt (7:30 pm, SEC Network) Michigan State at (11) Penn State (4 pm, FS1) Kansas at (12) Kansas State (8 pm, FOX) (13) Washington at Washington State (10:30 pm, ESPN) (14) Utah at Colorado (4 pm, Pac-12 Network) Florida at (16) Florida State (7:30 pm Friday, ABC) NC State at (17) North Carolina (3:30 pm Friday, ABC) (18) UCLA at California (4 pm Friday, FOX) (19) Tulane at (24) Cincinnati (12 pm Friday, ABC) Mississippi State at (20) Ole Miss (7 pm Thursday, ESPN) (22) UCF at South Florida (7 pm, ESPN2) Baylor at (23) Texas (12 pm Friday, ESPN) (25) Louisville at Kentucky (3 pm, SEC Network) Other nationally available games --------------------------------------------------- Tuesday Bowling Green at Ohio (7 pm, ESPNU) Ball State at Miami (OH) (7 pm, ESPN+) Friday Utah State at Boise State (12 pm, CBS) Toledo at Western Michigan (12 pm, ESPNU) Central Michigan at Eastern Michigan (12 pm, CBSSN) Arizona State at Arizona (3 pm, FS1) Arkansas at Missouri (3:30 pm, CBS) New Mexico at Colorado State (3:30 pm, CBSSN) Nebraska at Iowa (4 pm, BTN) Wyoming at Fresno State (10 pm, FS1) Saturday TV West Virginia at Oklahoma State (12 pm, ESPN2) Rutgers at Maryland (12 pm, BTN) Coastal Carolina at James Madison (12 pm, ESPNU) Western Kentucky at Florida Atlantic (12 pm, CBSSN) Minnesota at Wisconsin (3:30 pm, ESPN) Memphis at SMU (3:30 pm, ESPN2) Purdue at Indiana (3:30 pm, BTN - Regional) Illinois at Northwestern (3:30 pm, BTN - Regional) Troy at Arkansas State (3:30 pm, ESPNU) Wake Forest at Duke (3:30 pm, ACC Network) UAB at Louisiana Tech (3:30 pm, CBSSN) Oklahoma at Texas Tech (7:30 pm, FS1) Tulsa at Houston (7:30 pm, ESPNU) Syracuse at Boston College (7:30 pm, RSN/ESPN3) Pittsburgh at Miami (8 pm, ACC Network) Air Force at San Diego State (9 pm, CBSSN) BYU at Stanford (11 pm, FS1) Saturday Streaming New Mexico State at Liberty (12 pm, ESPN+) Georgia State at Marshall (12 pm, ESPN+) Army at UMass (12 pm, ESPN+) Old Dominion at South Alabama (12 pm, ESPN+) Kent State at Buffalo (1 pm, ESPN+) East Carolina at Temple (1 pm, ESPN+) Akron at Northern Illinois (1:30 pm, ESPN3) Rice at North Texas (2 pm, ESPN+) UTEP at UTSA (3:30 pm, Stadium) Southern Miss at UL Monroe (5 pm, ESPN+) UL Lafayette at Texas State (5 pm, ESPN+) Middle Tennessee at Florida International (6 pm, ESPN3) Appalachian State at Georgia Southern (6 pm, ESPN+)

USC and Tennessee might combine to make Ohio State vs Michigan a purely seeding game a week ahead of time. That's what I get for having the thought that it might be cool to have one last truly important and memorable regular season matchup of unbeatens before CFP expansion.

Lot of illini fans saying Michigan should have gotten flagged for a pick on that 4th down and looking at the replays they may be right. I’ll take the W. Looked ugly, illini are the second team in the last 2 seasons to physically dominate both Michigan lines, the other being Georgia. Illinois is legit, don’t care what their record says. Right, wrong or indifferent, conference employed officials are not making game changing calls against CFP hopefuls ever. Ohio State apparently saw UM struggle and decided to raise the stakes

Stuff like that is what makes it easy to dismiss LaVine as a stat compiler incapable of winning.

If the Rams start fading out of the playoff race there's no guarantee Kupp comes back this season. That alone would scare me off this one.

I imagine Donovan's going to be taking the fall at some point, doubt he deserves it but that's how it goes.

UVA cancels Saturday's game against Coastal Carolina in the wake of this week's shooting.

Almost happened to me. I won by 1, thank goodness

It's not because A&M stinks - the new ESPN/SEC deal gives ESPN the right to put one (cupcake) game a year for every conference team on ESPN+. Bama and Mississippi State also have their ESPN+ games this weekend, most of the league had them in September. What a horsefeathering stupid deal. Sick of this streaming crap. The other day I tried to put a Dayton game on tv for my wife (her alma mater) and it was streaming only. Xfinity’s espn app was broken and wouldn’t play the game, so I pulled it up on my phone and attempted to cast it to my tv and that wouldn’t work either. After 10 mins of trying I gave up and decided to watch something else. You probably know this already, but the B1G's new TV deals that start next year include a handful of football games and a lot of basketball games on Peacock. Michigan specifically isn't gonna be dealing with too much of that, but that's the world we're in now.

Florida vs Vanderbilt is on the network proper at the same time. A&M is on the ESPN app, but if you get SEC Network you have access to it. I sit corrected. Jimbo has turned this program into an even bigger dumpster fire than I realized. I cannot remember the last time we had a game that wasn't televised. It's not because A&M stinks - the new ESPN/SEC deal gives ESPN the right to put one (cupcake) game a year for every conference team on ESPN+. Bama and Mississippi State also have their ESPN+ games this weekend, most of the league had them in September.

Florida vs Vanderbilt is on the network proper at the same time. A&M is on the ESPN app, but if you get SEC Network you have access to it.

Top 25 games ------------------------------ (1) Georgia at Kentucky (3:30 pm, CBS) (2) Ohio State at Maryland (3:30 pm, ABC) Illinois at (3) Michigan (12 pm, ABC) (4) TCU at Baylor (12 pm, FOX) (5) Tennessee at South Carolina (7 pm, ESPN) UAB at (6) LSU (9 pm, ESPN2) (7) USC at (16) UCLA (8 pm, FOX) Austin Peay at (8) Alabama (12 pm, ESPN+) Miami at (9) Clemson (3:30 pm, ESPN) (10) Utah at (12) Oregon (10:30 pm, ESPN) (11) Penn State at Rutgers (3:30 pm, BTN) Georgia Tech at (13) North Carolina (5:30 pm, ESPN2) (14) Ole Miss at Arkansas (7:30 pm, SEC Network) (15) Kansas State at West Virginia (2 pm, ESPN+) Colorado at (17) Washington (9 pm, Pac-12 Network) Boston College at (18) Notre Dame (2:30 pm, NBC) UL Lafayette at (19) Florida State (12 pm, RSN/ESPN3) Navy at (20) UCF (11 am, ESPN2) SMU at (21) Tulane (7:30 pm Thursday, ESPN) (22) Oklahoma State at Oklahoma (7:30 pm, ABC) (23) Oregon State at Arizona State (2:15 pm, ESPN2) (24) NC State at Louisville (3:30 pm, ACC Network) (25) Cincinnati at Temple (4 pm, ESPNU) Other nationally available games --------------------------------------------------- Tuesday Ohio at Ball State (7 pm, ESPN2) Bowling Green at Toledo (7 pm, ESPNU) Wednesday Eastern Michigan at Kent State (6 pm, ESPN2) Miami (OH) at Northern Illinois (7 pm, CBSSN) Western Michigan at Central Michigan (8 pm, ESPNU) Friday South Florida at Tulsa (9 pm, ESPN2) San Diego State at New Mexico (9:45 pm, FS1) Saturday TV Wisconsin at Nebraska (12 pm, ESPN) Northwestern at Purdue (12 pm, FS1) Indiana at Michigan State (12 pm, BTN) Florida at Vanderbilt (12 pm, SEC Network) Duke at Pittsburgh (12 pm, ACC Network) UConn at Army (12 pm, CBSSN) Washington State at Arizona (2 pm, Pac-12 Network) Texas at Kansas (3:30 pm, FS1) South Alabama at Southern Miss (3:30 pm, NFL Network) Akron at Buffalo (3:30 pm, CBSSN) Utah Tech at BYU (3:30 pm, BYUTV/ESPN3) Iowa at Minnesota (4 pm, FOX) Western Kentucky at Auburn (4 pm, SEC Network) Stanford at California (5:30 pm, Pac-12 Network) Texas Tech at Iowa State (7 pm, FS1) Boise State at Wyoming (7 pm, CBSSN) New Mexico State at Missouri (7:30 pm, ESPNU) Syracuse at Wake Forest (8 pm, ACC Network) Colorado State at Air Force (9 pm, FS2) San Jose State at Utah State (9:45 pm, FS1) Fresno State at Nevada (10:30 pm, CBSSN) Saturday Streaming East Tennessee State at Mississippi State (12 pm, ESPN+) UMass at Texas A&M (12 pm, ESPN+) Virginia Tech at Liberty (12 pm, ESPN+) UTSA at Rice (1 pm, ESPN+) North Alabama at Memphis (2 pm, ESPN+) Georgia State at James Madison (2 pm, ESPN+) Houston at East Carolina (2 pm, ESPN+) Old Dominion at Appalachian State (2:30 pm, ESPN+) Louisiana Tech at Charlotte (3:30 pm, ESPN3) UL Monroe at Troy (3:30 pm, ESPN+) Florida Atlantic at Middle Tennessee (3:30 pm, ESPN+) Florida International at UTEP (4 pm, ESPN+) Arkansas State at Texas State (5 pm, ESPN3) Marshall at Georgia Southern (6 pm, ESPN+)

It will be fascinating, if it comes to it, to see how the committee handles a 12-1 ACC champ versus 11-1 Ohio State/Michigan loser that everyone will know is better but has done nothing whatsoever to prove it largely because of what a crapshow the rest of the B1G is. Although it occurs to me that if the loser is OSU (and I'm getting increasingly confident it will be), the common opponent of Notre Dame might help vault them over the ACC champ.

That news broke last week I believe. It was a straight-up deal for Urquidy and was actually vetoed by Dusty with concern that Willy wouldn't be happy in a time-sharing role and he would just be gunning for his own numbers. He actually said this stuff. To be fair to Dusty, ownership never approved the trade so it probably wouldn't have happened regardless of Dusty's opinion. I just loved that Dusty take. One of those takes where you know it's coming before you even see it.

This thread posted solely to warn the public that if Tampa Bay loses to Seattle on Sunday my terrible team is right back to being a game out of first place and still owns the tiebreakers on all of the other three teams in the division

Didn't really matter much as my entire offense somehow put up like 55 points. Brutal performance by literally everyone in the lineup. Drake scored 22 points on my bench and I lost by 7. Fantasy is dumb.

Rizzo opted out.

Sammy had 6 more bWAR in his career than McGriff (3 more fWAR), so at an absolute minimum if he's on this thing Sammy should be.

He's still going to make the playoffs because he's in the worst division maybe ever. He must have used up every ounce of bad luck he'll ever have in his life when Bernard Pollard tore up his knee.

Didn't really matter much as my entire offense somehow put up like 55 points. Brutal performance by literally everyone in the lineup.

According to Jeff Passan's article today, there was a deal in place to trade Contreras straight up for Jose Urquidy but the Astros owner refused to approve it and Dusty was against it on the grounds of Contreras was a free agent and would be gunning for his own numbers.

Top 25 games ------------------------------ (1) Georgia at Mississippi State (7 pm, ESPN) Indiana at (2) Ohio State (12 pm, FOX) Nebraska at (3) Michigan (3:30 pm, ABC) (4) TCU at (18) Texas (7:30 pm, ABC) Missouri at (5) Tennessee (12 pm, CBS) (25) Washington at (6) Oregon (7 pm, FOX) (7) LSU at Arkansas (12 pm, ESPN) Colorado at (8) USC (9:30 pm Friday, FS1) (9) Alabama at (11) Ole Miss (3:30 pm, CBS) Louisville at (10) Clemson (3:30 pm, ESPN) Arizona at (12) UCLA (10:30 pm, FOX) Stanford at (13) Utah (10 pm, ESPN) Maryland at (14) Penn State (3:30 pm, FOX) (15) North Carolina at Wake Forest (7:30 pm, ESPN2) Boston College at (16) NC State (3:30 pm, ACC Network) (22) UCF at (17) Tulane (3:30 pm, ESPN2) (19) Kansas State at Baylor (7 pm, FS1) (20) Notre Dame vs Navy - in Baltimore (12 pm, ABC) Purdue at (21) Illinois (12 pm, ESPN2) (23) Florida State at Syracuse (8 pm, ACC Network) Vanderbilt at (24) Kentucky (12 pm, SEC Network) Other nationally available games --------------------------------------------------- Tuesday Eastern Michigan at Akron (7 pm, CBSSN) Ohio at Miami (OH) (7:30 pm, ESPN2) Ball State at Toledo (8 pm, ESPN) Wednesday Buffalo at Central Michigan (7 pm, ESPN2) Northern Illinois at Western Michigan (7 pm, ESPNU) Kent State at Bowling Green (7 pm, CBSSN) Thursday Tulsa at Memphis (7:30 pm, ESPN) Georgia Southern at UL Lafayette (7:30 pm, ESPN2) Friday East Carolina at Cincinnati (8 pm, ESPN2) Fresno State at UNLV (10:30 pm, CBSSN) Saturday TV Oklahoma at West Virginia (12 pm, FS1) Rutgers at Michigan State (12 pm, BTN) SMU at South Florida (12 pm, ESPNU) Virginia Tech at Duke (12 pm, RSN/ESPN3) Liberty at UConn (12 pm, CBSSN) Pittsburgh at Virginia (12 pm, ACC Network) Wisconsin at Iowa (3:30 pm, FS1) Northwestern at Minnesota (3:30 pm, BTN) Miami at Georgia Tech (3:30 pm, RSN/ESPN3) Iowa State at Oklahoma State (3:30 pm, ESPNU) Army at Troy (3:30 pm, NFL Network) New Mexico at Air Force (3:30 pm, CBSSN) Arizona State at Washington State (3:30 pm, Pac-12 Network) South Carolina at Florida (4 pm, SEC Network) Wyoming at Colorado State (7 pm, CBSSN) Southern Miss at Coastal Carolina (7:30 pm, ESPNU) Texas A&M at Auburn (7:30 pm, SEC Network) California at Oregon State (9 pm, Pac-12 Network) San Jose State at San Diego State (10:30 pm, FS1) Boise State at Nevada (10:30 pm, CBSSN) Saturday Streaming James Madison at Old Dominion (1 pm, ESPN+) UL Monroe at Georgia State (1 pm, ESPN+) Rice at Western Kentucky (2 pm, ESPN+) UMass at Arkansas State (3 pm, ESPN3) Temple at Houston (3 pm, ESPN+) Charlotte at Middle Tennessee (3:30 pm, ESPN3) North Texas at UAB (3:30 pm, Stadium) Louisiana Tech at UTSA (3:30 pm, ESPN+) Appalachian State at Marshall (3:30 pm, ESPN+) Texas State at South Alabama (5 pm, ESPN+) Florida Atlantic at Florida International (7 pm, Stadium) Kansas at Texas Tech (7 pm, ESPN+)