Morning, scamps! I’m filling in for Otis today but there’s some much anticipated games coming up today on this cool Saturday. Did all the big games happen during a week where no one anticipated upsets (Alabama and Tennessee, still looking at you, and giggling)? Will the anticipated matchups be duds?
Let’s see what’s on tap:
It’s Homecoming weekend here at the McDonough house, so I’ll be watching in between hair spraying, making bouquets, and painting nails. Not sure what my daughters will be doing but my weekend is my weekend dammit.
Seriously, there’s some good games on the slate right from the jump. I bet the Nerds will be licking their chops to kick Geoff’s ass in Chapel Hill, and I believe he will oblige. I don’t think Beamer Ball will stand a chance at BDS, though the energy meter for the crowd should be interesting to watch as the LANKs (Lackadaisical Assholes Negating Kalen) take the field after the Nashville Miracle occurred.
The Red River Rivalry, brought to you by Disney, comes on at 3:30 and they’ve deemed this to be the best rivalry in the SEC now. Seriously. I believe Texas won’t see their first real test this year until next weekend and they’ve comfortably made that in the Longhorn’s favor with a night game and limited Georgia ticket sales. Also this:
The Sooners have lost every one of their starting wide receivers for this game, so I’d imagine running is going to occur. Penn State and Pittsburgh are competing to keep their CFP hopes alive against West Coast teams. Real east coast west coast rivalry going on there, and we know Cal can surprise people.
For the night cap, what do you do? Ohio State and Oregon have the first regular season playoff game for the BIG, Tennessee and Florida are in a cat fight for credibility, as will Kiffin and Kelly as the Ole Miss walking wounded limp in to Baton Rouge after LSU had a bye week. Kansas State, with CFP hopes in the “who the hell wants to win this thing” Big XII puts it on the line against Amazon Prime’s hype machine for Big XII after dark. Apparently, Boise State has a really good running back, but you’re going to have to stay up late to see him.
What’re you watching today? Where’s the upsets and storylines coming from this slate that we’ll be talking about in the coming week?
Who’s staying up for the Hawaii game?
Homecoming week? Daughters? JP, don’t forget to set aside some time for shotgun cleaning right about the time the dates show up.
I believe I updated my profile pic, you can see my stance on the subject, even when they were much younger than today! They don’t date out of respect for the possible victims…(:
It hasn’t even been half of a season, and I’m already tired of the treatment Texas has gotten from the SEC office and the media.
How do Pitt v Cal and Cincy v UCF get a better channel than a top 5 SEC team that draws more eyeballs than all 4 of those teams combined?? I’m so done with this ESPN contract.
I really don’t understand if they were going to put us on the SEC Network, why didn’t they put us in the prime time slot.
Cocks D is showing up…look what happens when you set the edge and blitz Milroe…
From 14-0 to 14-12 in the final two minutes of the first half.
So far I’ve had one bammer tell me that Saban is coming back and another say he hopes bammer loses. Good times.
Btw, I’ve started telling them they are our South Carolina: play out of their minds vs us and then play mediocre football against everyone else. They love it. Try it out.
Amazing what happens when you don’t spot Alabama 4 turnovers and 4 easy scores. Also when they didn’t schedule this at night and you get a flat BDS. If it holds up, they’ll fire DeBoer before he can shake Beamer’s hand after the game.
If there’s one thing you need to know about the 2024 Alabama team, it showed after the last interception. Bama players taunting the Carolina players, folks y’all just escaped your second backbreaking loss in consecutive weeks, these guys aren’t champions…
Bonkers ending. South Cackalacky blew it. How in the holy hell did we lose to this Bama team? Oh, yeah–the O was comatose for the first half, we didn’t set the edge, and we whiffed when we blitzed.
How did we lose to this Bama team?
Apparently our defense really is as bad as it looked in the first half against Alabama.
Ohio State goes down to Lanning’s Ducks.