Time To Get Away – 6 November 2021 Lesser Goodness

Look, I have given up on human society.  It just gets worse by the day.  Retreat into the only consistently (well, mostly consistent) good thing in life, sportsball!  I also heard the best cover ever on the radio this week, just edging out my previous shempion (“Mrs. Robinson” by The Lemonheads):

Who’s ready for some Premiership?  Another fucking international break next week UGH.

I mean, the Manchester Derby is worth waking up fer.  But good news!  Our daylight saving time still legs England’s, so ain’t super early (8:30, NBCSN).  Ole hasn’t often had to trade his cheshire cat grin for his Very Disappointed Dad face in this matchup…but that might change this season.  Then again, Pep’s crew ain’t exactly in peak form, neither.  Everybody say Wakey’s name thrice so he shows up!

The 10:00 window is likewise at 11:00 for us.  Only Palace/Wolves are being broadcast (NBCSN), but one can stream Chelsea/Burnley or Bees/Trashbirds, depending on your personal masochism level.

Spotlight dance?  Brighton and House of Saud FC (1:30, NBC)?  Meh.

Three games at 9:00 on Sunday, led by New Manager Bump Spurs kicking the tar shit out of my Toffees (NBCSN).  Leeds and Leicester (Peacock) looks better for the neutral.  Will Fronk’s boys be a legitimate contender this season, in a fairly open Prem?  Beating the Vile Redshite this Sunday would be quite the marker laid down (11:30, NBCSN).

JV pickins be slim as fuck.  Feel free to nap.

Wake Forest (+2.5) at U*NC (Noon, ABC)

I hate previewing these monkeyfuckers, but Hippo needs a Deacs win badly.  State goes to Winston-Salem next week, and they need them at full Billy Big Bollocks for my Shitty Wolves to have any shot whatsoever.  This is a non-conference game, because 2020s.

Ohio State (-14.5) at Nebraska (Noon, Fox)

Yes, the options were shite, but even so…the dross that Fox national picked.  I guess this could be a banana skin?  Scott Frost is 100% a ded man walking, even if he pulls a shocker here.  MOAR LIEK all in teh stink imo.

Kansas State (-24.5) at Kansas (Noon, FS1)

Yes, that’s really the spread.  Failure Pile in a Sadness Bowl, chuh chuh.

Michigan State (-3) at Purdue (3:30, ABC)

Now this?  THIS is a legitimate banana skin fixture.  Sparty is high as high can be, and they do NOT have the overwhelming personnel advantages of a tOSU or Okiehoma.  Buyer beware.

Auburn (+4.5) at Texas A&M (3:30, CBS)

Second position in the SEC West?  It just means MOAR obvs.  But shit, at least we get a match between two half-decent squadrons.

Mississippi State (+4.5) at Arkansas (4:00, SECN)

Look, if you can’t get interested in Dread Pirate Mike Leach’s Cowbells against Jerral’s Pig Sooey bunch?  Just go down the tracks already, quit playing for attention.

I’d like to say it gets better tonight, but…no.  Sorry for lying earlier, this is the most consistent goodness: