There are several compelling noon ET Saturday kickoffs. LSU with their clearly impaired QB Garrett Nussmeier is paying a visit to the Vandy Pimp. This is real, the Vandy Robber Barons are a 2.5 point favorite. There are claims the last time Vandy was a favorite against LSU was in 1948. I am not sure when Las Vegas started to offer sports betting but the Flamingo was opened in 1946. Vanderbilt has a top notch medical school in case Brian Kelly has an apoplectic episode. ACC has a game with potential playoff implications. Undefeated Georgia Tech is traveling to Duke. Despite Georgia's Tech number 12 ranking, Duke is a one point home favorite.
The only question about THE Ohio State University's game at Camp Randall at 3:30 ET is whether Ryan Day will show mercy to Buckeye alum Luke Fickell. Of course, the SEC has the best game as Ole Miss is going between the hedges. This will be Ole Miss transfer QB Trinidad Chambliss' first SEC away start. There seems to be a gradual loss of confidence in Bulldog QB Gunner Stockton after his amazing play in the comeback at Tennessee. Georgia is a touchdown and hook home favorite. An alternative 4 pm ET kickoff occurs in Big 12 = 16 conference as the steam rolling Texas Tech Flying Tortillas visiting Tempe. The status of Sun Devil QB Sam Leavitt has been the story this week. Leavitt at the time of this post is listed as probable. Vegas has Tech as a touchdown and hook road favorite.
If you find yourself needing to an early bed time on Saturday there is the Insomnia Bowl at 7 pm as Iowa hosts to Cowardly Lions
Saturday night is a clicker and cigar night. There is a primetime 7:30 pm kickoff for the 3rd Saturday in October game as 'Bama hosts Tennessee. 'Bama QB Ty Simpson has rocketed up the Heisman and draft rankings. Alabama is a eight and hook home favorite. We have what could be perhaps the last USC vs. Notre Dame game. Notre Dame has been racking up easy wins against inferior opponents as CJ Carr has also been rising up the QB pole. The last time USC traveled to the Central time zone they were manhandled by Illinois. Weather might play a major role as the forecast is rain with winds from 15 - 20 MPH. USC is down to a walk on RB so the weather might be a negative factor against USC's offense. Vegas has zero faith in Lincoln Riley on the road the Domers are a 9 and a hook home favorite.
*** The only question about THE Ohio State University’s game at Camp Randall at 3:30 ET is whether Ryan Day will show mercy to Buckeye alum Luke Fickell. ***
Buckeyes need to remember that on any given game day, the underdog can pull an upset.
I like Wisconsin’s odds against Ohio State. I can’t really afford it, but I put money on the game. If fat Pritzker can win gambling, so can I.
Hook has to be the latest greatest term these days, huh.
Hunh....at first I thought the site was only listing broadcast games because I didn’t see Navy on the schedule, but then found out they have their 2nd bye of the season, which surprised me.
Digging into it I found this out: It is rare. Most college football teams only get one bye week per season. But in some years, especially when the calendar stretches to 14 Saturdays between Labor Day and Thanksgiving, the NCAA allows for two bye weeks. That’s what’s happening in 2025.
1. My team stinks the last 15 years so whatever.
2. Vanderbilt is really good...at children’s sex change mutilation surgery.
3. FSU sucks.
Go Hoosiers!
UConn against Boston College this weekend. Jim Mora gave UConn football life and the Huskies should win, since BC is 1-5.
I’ll be watching the tortilla team.
“Time for the game” on IOS has it all without the ads
A perfect Berkeley paradox: Big-money college football and an antiestablishment protest
JEFF TEDFORD LOOKED out of his office window and saw helicopters circling. Below, a crowd had gathered to watch the last holdouts finally descend from an oak tree beside California Memorial Stadium. TV news vans lined Piedmont Avenue in Berkeley, and rooftops across campus filled with people hoping for a glimpse of what was happening.
Tedford, Cal’s most successful coach of the modern era, had grown accustomed to the odd scene. Twenty-one months earlier, activists began a tree-sit in December 2006, with some actually living in trees, to protest the removal of an oak grove next to the stadium, part of a long-planned seismic retrofit and facilities upgrade project. The demonstration called itself Save the Oaks.
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The impasse had lasted nearly two years — from the 2006 Big Game to the start of the 2008 season. Cal football surged at the time, entering the top 10 in 2006, and rising to No. 2 nationally following a 5-0 start in 2007. Meanwhile, there was a photo shoot of naked protestors in the trees.
As Save the Oaks entered its final stage, university workers surrounded the last occupied tree with scaffolding, layering it upward until it reached the lingering protestors, with tarps above to shield them from whatever might fall. When the scaffolding rose, so did a temporary staircase inside. UC Berkeley police chief Vicky Harrison was lifted into the air in the basket of a cherry picker, and addressed the demonstrators.
“I said, ‘OK, guys, you had a good run. Let’s do this the easy way,’” Harrison said recently. “And then, of course, I did a little threatening where I basically said, ‘I’ve already talked to the district attorney. If anybody gets hurt, if any of the officers get hurt, if any of the tree guys get hurt, there’s going to be not misdemeanor charges, but felony charges.’”
The last protestors conceded. It was over.
“It ended very peacefully,” Harrison said.
The Pimp Lives, Vandy beats LSU!