Dunno if you were with us last weekend, but it was pretty dire from an entertainment perspective. And Lesser Footy is on another interminable international break. Thank fuck the footy g-ds have blessed us with some tasty matchups this 12 October.
Oklahoma (-10.5) v. Texas @ Cotton Bowl, Dallas, TX (Noon, Fox)
Ah the good old Red River SHOOTOUT, where one can’t possibly ever set the o/u high enough. Unless Hippo tries to bet it, which he ain’t. Winner takes yuuuuuuuge lead in the Big Twaaaaalve race, and the spot for bitching about Notre Fucking Dame getting in the playoff ahead of ’em. Boomer Sooner.
Mississippi State (-6.5) at Tennessee (Noon, SECN)
Man alive, my long ded granddaddy (that’s the nicest person I ever met, not the raycess one) would have hated to see his beloved Vols laid this low, where one watches much like how one watches a gruesome traffic accident.
Alabama (-17) at Texas A&M (3:30, CBS)
Finally, a team that MIGHT make Roll Damn Tide at least have to try. But I still don’t expect much in terms of breaking a sweat. The likes of Jimbo Fisher ain’t gonna beat Nick Saban, especially when he has lesser talent on hand.
Michigan State (+10.5) at Wisconsin (3:30, BTN)
God, I can’t even remember how long it has been since I previewed a BTN game. The league generally sucks and/or is uncompetitive, but gets outsized teevee coverage. Sparty has been iffy so far, but this seems like the kind of matchup that they win, and fall back into anonymity afterward.
Washington State (-1.0) at Arizona State (3:30, PAC-12)
0-2 Wazzu is favoured in the desert, against a ranked opponent. Look, everybody knows Herm Edwards is eventually reverting to the mean. Sooner rather than later. Plus, I thought they avoided daytime games in AZ, due to not wanting folks to die out there?
Texas Tech (+11.0) at Baylor (4:00, FS1)
This line is ridiculous, unless BayBay really started to pay-pay again. Heavily. Or there was a massacre on the Guns Up!! campus. I try not to watch the news that much.
Iowa State (-10.0) at West By God Virginia (4:00, ESPN)
Again, that spread. On the road? No. Just no. Maybe WCS will get happy daytime whiskey for a change?
Ole Miss (+12.5) at Missouri (7:00, ESPN2)
One of those quasi-random matchups that I have a funny feeling will entertain. My track record ain’t great in this genre (as in most).
Florida (+13.5) at LSU (8:00, ESPN)
Finally, the good stuff. I really like contests like this, under the lights in an insane place, with strength against strength. In this instance, you are talking about LSU’s prolific passing game against Florida’s lockdown pass defense. Methinks people are still lending too much weight to how bad UF looked in their opener, but it seems like every game with Miami turns into a mutual diarrhea fest. This team can play, in that fundamentally sound Dan Mullen way.
Utah (-15.0) at Oregon State (8:00, PAC-12)
Will Team Secular Big Love be a little hard on the (Niiiiiiiiiice) Beavers? Vegas sure thinks so. I think I disagree.
Wyoming (+3.5) at San Diego State (10:30, CBSSN)
Coming down off the swamp-based sugar high, there is this little Mountain West tweaker matchup. These teams both REALLY want to run, and control time of possession. Each has a Power-5 scalp to their resume, so I think it merits one’s attention.
Evening post up, folks.
Wow! Alabama has a punter?!
They grab whichever soccer player is nearest the bus when they leave for the game.
BLEERGH is really raining down His Fury upon JV Houston.
Being 1-hit for 15+ innings is pretty dispiriting
Per ESPN 47th-string Color Commentator, a Quarterback running directly out-of-bounds with his foot going down out of bounds can be knocked 10 yards out-of-bounds and into the kicker’s net because he was still technically “in bounds”.
Now he got his helmet knocked off. I guess this thing policed itself.
Is the ref for Clemson/FSU an albino?
Spent the afternoon sampling beers from the greater Fredericksburg, VA craft brewers and now I’m watching Son of Clem re-enact the Seminole War. HOW THE FUCK WE DOIN’, MEN?
Ohio State isn’t playing. I’m busy trying to find the purpose of today in the bottom of a pint of ice cream.
Was the Center of the Universe Brewery there? That’s the place my son works for.
They were. I’ve had several of their offerings, not a bad one in the bunch.
Well, if there was a 6 ft 4 in tall, very hefty young man with a full beard, it was probably my son.
@Yeah Right: There’s an Al Michaels YUUUGE difference between the effect of milk consumption and beef consumption on climate change. One cow can provide a LOT of milk per lifetime. It can only provide a relatively small amount of beef per lifetime. Hence the need for more cattle.
Keep drinking the milk and stop eating steaks if you’re that concerned about the issue.
A veggie burger isn’t that bad. Besides, if we ever travel to Mars or beyond, they’re not gonna to be loading cows into the pantry.
‘Member back when Florida State was good at teh footballing?
Pepperidge Farm ‘members…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kyfriipc61A
– University of Georgia Bulldogs
GOOD JERB, fuckers du cousins!
Off to the movies. Going to see Joker to brighten up my day.
Great movie!
Here’s my problem with most of the critics…
Many critics: “I’m a life long Joker fan and I like him having a multiple choice life. However, I hated the Joker movie because it’s dark, too violent and he has a multiple choice life.”
Makes you want to bang your head on a table for how stupid that take is
My take:
“Its hyper-violent and he’s too psychotic!” – Critics
Its THE JOKER! What did you expect?! That’s like complaining that sex scenes in Adult Movies are getting in the way of the plot.”
“They didn’t even show the toppings on the pizza that was accidentally delivered to the sorority house!”
We need an uber-smug #BFIB/Yanks World Series. The internet would stroke out.
I most humbly decline to concur, good sir.
No, no, the density of smugness could cause a smugness singularity that might actually rival the smugness density of New England, causing instability in the space time continuum Dr. Who could not repair.
I respectfully disagree. Besides, we already had a NYM/NYY World Series. That’s enough.
I don’t give a shit who wins the NL; I’d just like the see the Yanks somehow get past Houston.
also, officially #BFIB time WOO!!!!!
goes without saying, everyone’s on UConn/Tulane now?
“Alabama is merching down the field.”
-Crimson Tide Marketing Team
“Georgia? No longer on our mind.”
-Playoff Committee
Here come a miss
Nailed it!
-Blair Walsh
-Also me, jinxing kickers
DAMN U GOOD
/also, see that ded QB on the sidelines making double “white power OK” after the brown fella missed??
I did not.
Well, there’s the replay. Gotta say it looked more like he was praising Jeebus, who, in the QB’s mind anyway, is white as a sheet.
I thought he was signaling three because its a field goal.
“Antonio Brown hopes to return to the NFL”
And the Titanic hoped to make it to New York.
like the Ginger Hammer would EVER let him suit up for anyone other than the P*ts
He committed sexual assault. It’s not like he knelt during our stupid national anthem in a ceremony paid for by the DOD.
…and I hope to know the touch of a woman.