I decided to toss this thingy up a bit before the messiness that will begin at 4:30 eastern because there is quite a bit going on sports-wise on this fair Saturday.

The Autonation Cure Bowl sounds like a nasal remedy invented by Robert Smith-if you scan it quickly as I did. That one already started.

There is the New Mexico Bowl starring the good folks at Utah State and North Texas. Will they play football or have a tent-pitching/land-clearing competition. The natives in the area won’t be pleased no matter who ends up winning.

At 5:30 the Raycom Media Camellia Bowl featuring Georgia Southern and Eastern Michigan will kick off. Reports of members of the Eagles suffering from dysentery was proved to be false. Damn those scribblers at The Times-Picayune!

For those that like college basketball a number of top 25’ers are on in this window. #5 Michigan, #14 Buffalo(!), #25 Indiana, #23 Furman(! again), #19 Kentucky and #20 Arizona State all look to throw another W in the left-hand column of their record.

TO THE GAME!

Texans/Jets:

Any way I look at this tilt I can’t see New York winning. They just don’t match up well vs. Houston. Sure, that’s an easy thing to say of any 4-9 team playing their betters but them Jets are down to McGuire and Cannon running the ball in this rush-heavy offense. They are both below the 4 yards per carry threshold. The Texans have the league’s best or second-best rush D depending on what combo of stats you want to prioritize. So DARNOLD! with his 55.9% pass rate and 19 total turnovers is going to have to win the game with his arm to…. who? Robby Anderson is the best of a bad lot but he only stands out because Enunwa is down, Pryor is gone and Kearse is invisible. Don’t get me wrong, I’m sure at some point DARNOLD! is going to make some sort of throw that will cause my jaw to go slack but the Jets O is a shambles but I don’t blame the players one bit.

Huh. Cuse is up 3 on Old Dominion already…