November Spawned This Lesser Footy

There are leaves in the yard (thankfully, I live in a townhouse now so NOT MY FOOKIN’ PROBLEM), a chill in the night/morning air.  At least some days, I did have to turn my air conditioning back on this Thursday.  But without question, it is November now, nut cuttin’ time for our Saturday-based footy.

Schedule-makers and INCORRECT Daylight Saving Time (first, UK – you have the week wrong, and second – there is no such thing as the sun) conspire to fuck us sideways, as there are NO FIXTURES prior to 11:00’s quad-box.  Not only that, but USA has chosen to broadcast….City of Men home to Fulham.  Yikes, as much faith as we have in Mighty Whitey, that’ll be a hammering.  Bees/Robins Hood is the best of the streaming options, I guess.

Another Spotlight Dance for Hippo’s beloved/disappointing (but seemingly not fatally so) Toffees, strangely in a home tie against Leicester (1:30, USA).  Man, I was much happier when the aging Foxes looked in relegation form.  Watch the natives get grumpy with the inevitable draw (GAMBLOR note – when I have this sense of foreboding, Everton usually end up losing by 2+ soccer points instead).

Sunday starts super early, like it SHOULD on Saturday, with London Derby goodness (7:00, USA).  As in, King’s Afrikan Water Pistols visiting the lovely Fulham neighboUrhood (to play Chelski).  Three at 9:00, with Hammers/Palace on USA and Men Untied/Villa streaming (plus another, but meh).  Fuck off with the 11:30 fixture, we have RedZone prep to do!

Sorry about the re-run shoulder/tit pic, but I really, really like it.  Plus, GO VOLS.

Texas Tech (+8.5) at TCU (Noon, Fox)

Early window, folks.  Not great.  Works our for me as an Evertonian, though.

Florida (+3.5) at Texas A&M (Noon, ESPN)

The good folks at Bonfire Cult are in ded fookin’ last in the SEC West, and I am sure Reacting Quite Reasonably.

Tennessee (+8) at Georgia (3:30, CBS)

Wow, more than a TD spread.  We haven’t seen the ‘Dawgs play a complete game since the opening weekend against Oregon.  Is that because they really can’t?  I guess we are about to find out.  Winner gets the East, loser hopes that the winner beats Bama in the SEC title game (otherwise they get itchy as the third 1-loss SEC team).

Michigan State (+17) at Illinois (3:30, BTN)

This sure is a lot of points for a team straight out of the 1970s, but Sparty is in a whole heap of turmoil.  Guess that can spiral one of two ways.  Anyway, gotta flip to something.

Washington State (-4.5) at Stanford (3:30, Pac-12)

The non-CBS main networks ain’t even trying to compete, so I will point to this with only some morbid curiousity.