October 1Oct 1 Popular Post What a fucking bye week. A pure celebration of college football, and most of the teams that I assume the vast majority of us wanted to win won their games, leaving us looking as content as Puddles in a whiteout: Now it's time for Texas to start our SEC schedule with a trip to the Swamp, along with some other strong games. Thursday Sam Houston State @ New Mexico State (-2) (9/8 CBSSN): This is not one of the strong games. At least Las Cruces is pretty? Friday Charlotte @ South Florida (-25) (7/6 ESPN2): USF is just barely out of the Top 25 and a serious contender for the G5 Playoff slot. Come watch them pummel a bad Charlotte team. Western Kentucky @ Delaware (-2) (7/6 CBSSN): Hey, it's our newest FBS school! The Fightin' Blue Hens already have wins against UConn and FIU and should be a match for perennial CUSA contenders WKU. QB Nick Minicucci (born 2005) can watch fellow UDel alum Joe Flacco (born 1985) play on Sunday - wild! New Mexico @ San Jose State (-2) (10/9 FS1): As a Texas fan who enjoys the comedy stylings of Nico Iamaleava, I've seen both of these teams play. Should be a fun one! West Virginia @ #23 BYU (-19) (10:30/9:30 ESPN): BYU gets another deep late night assignment and stays under the national radar as they plunder Sark's playbook of fun reverses. WVU is plumbing new depths of badness under RichRod 2.0, losing at home 48-14 to an unexceptional Utah squad. Saturday Early Games #14 Iowa State (-2) @ Cincinnati (12/11 ESPN2): Good day to get a slow warmup start into college football - the nooners are bad. This could be a fun trap game, though. Cincy looks revitalized somehow in a make-or-break year for Satterfield, and Nippert is a really fun, loud little stadium. Clemson (-14) @ North Carolina (12/11 ESPN): Appointment viewing for the Sickos among us - watch two heavily hyped disappointment have a slap fight in Chapel Hill. Air Force @ Navy (-7) (12/11 CBS): If the football product is bad this viewing window, you might as well max out the pageantry with a Commander in Chief's Cup faceoff in Annapolis. USAFA's only win is against Bucknell, but undefeated Navy looks like they could be a real threat in the dangerous AAC. Mid Afternoon #9 Texas (-7) @ Florida (3:30/2:30 ESPN): We're back! Will the Gators have any desire to save Billy Napier's job? Will the Texas offense show up? Will Florida score any points on the Texas defense? #16 Vanderbilt @ #10 Alabama (-12) (3:30/2:30 ABC): Bama won't exactly be overlooking Vandy after last year's embarassment and with Gameday coming to town, but this could still be a big emotional letdown. Kalen DeBoer's problem last year in Tuscaloosa was an inability to win the "small" games. Does this quality anymore? And is Diego Pavia a potential Heisman winner? #25 Virginia @ Louisville (-7) (3:30/2:30 ESPN2): Ranked Wahoos! Virginia comes into Louisville as pretty heavy underdogs, but lucked out in that their loss to NC State was "out of conference". The Cardinals are undefeated and ready to show up on the national stage. A surprisingly consequential matchup in the ACC! Primetime #3 Miami (-5) @ #18 Florida State (7:30/6:30 ABC): Hell yeah, a primetime in-state rivalry with the high-flying Canes facing a wounded Noles team. Cristobal and Norvell are high-delta coaches and this is the state of Florida, this could be really chaotic. PS: Squirrel White is ok after this reenactment of World War Z Minnesota @ #1 Ohio State (-22) (7:30/6:30 NBC): Yeah, not a lot of depth in this slot to be honest. Mississippi State @ #6 Texas A&M (-12) (7:45/6:45 SECN): Miss State is much improved from a very low floor, but this feels like another ratchet up the rollercoaster. RIP Pac-12 After Dark Duke (-2) @ California (10:30/9:30 ESPN): An Atlantic Coast battle on the shores of San Francisco Bay. Which team's faint ACC hopes will stay alive on a foggy night in Berkeley? Have fun, y'all. Even the quieter cfp weekends find ways to have some fireworks. Edited October 1Oct 1 by texifornia
October 1Oct 1 Quote Saturday Early Games #14 Iowa State (-2) @ Cincinnati (12/11 ESPN2): Good day to get a slow warmup start into college football - the nooners are bad. This could be a fun trap game, though. Cincy looks revitalized somehow in a make-or-break year for Satterfield, and Nippert is a really fun, loud little stadium. Clemson (-14) @ North Carolina (12/11 ESPN): Appointment viewing for the Sickos among us - watch two heavily hyped disappointment have a slap fight in Chapel Hill. Air Force @ Navy (-7) (12/11 CBS): If the football product is bad this viewing window, you might as well max out the pageantry with a Commander in Chief's Cup faceoff in Annapolis. USAFA's only win is against Bucknell, but undefeated Navy looks like they could be a real threat in the dangerous AAC. * Saturday
October 1Oct 1 TIL that Delaware moved to FBS. They were a very good not great FCS/I-AA program with some NCs and decently recent playoff success. A lot of local support and enthusiasm, a good tradition of winning. I really wonder about the economics of this and in the long run being worth it. I know if I were an alum I’d rather see my team do really well and be a FCS playoff contender against my old rivals than watch them just flounder about in the lower reaches of G5. Delaware will likely never sniff a CFP playoff.
October 2Oct 2 Author 3 hours ago, 956 Worldwide said: TIL that Delaware moved to FBS. They were a very good not great FCS/I-AA program with some NCs and decently recent playoff success. A lot of local support and enthusiasm, a good tradition of winning. I really wonder about the economics of this and in the long run being worth it. I know if I were an alum I’d rather see my team do really well and be a FCS playoff contender against my old rivals than watch them just flounder about in the lower reaches of G5. Delaware will likely never sniff a CFP playoff. To be fair, CUSA is trash, they're already respectable. App State and JMU fans seem to enjoy being able to watch their team on ESPN.
October 2Oct 2 I don't like Pavia or mouthy little runt QBs. Reminds me of Mayfield and Manziel. I hope he gets ground into dust.
October 2Oct 2 33 minutes ago, Hozz said: I don't like Pavia or mouthy little runt QBs. Reminds me of Mayfield and Manziel. I hope he gets ground into dust. If Pavia played for OU or aggy, or even Ohio State, there would probably be a 15+ page thread about him being mouthy, wanting a 7th year of eligibility, etc. Instead, everyone loves him because he plays for Vanderbilt. He's still a mouthy little jackass who needs to get a god damn job.
October 2Oct 2 1 hour ago, Hozz said: I don't like Pavia or mouthy little runt QBs. Reminds me of Mayfield and Manziel. I hope he gets ground into dust. After win vs jawja, Bama might have had a letdown performance until dumbass pavia pops off... Also in above article... At least part of Pavia's confidence in Vandy's chances against Bama comes from the fact that former Heisman Trophy winning quarterback Johnny Manziel now has his ear. Manziel has become friendly with Pavia since moving to Nashville, and he will be in attendance as Pavia tries to double up on wins over Alabama, exceeding Manziel's famous road upset of the Crimson Tide as quarterback for Texas A&M. "I beat [Alabama] once. Diego's got a chance to beat them twice," Manziel told On3. "That's the kind of s--t they build statues for."
October 2Oct 2 3 hours ago, The Dog said: My model favors Vandy a bit more. I'm wary of Vanderbilt's offense though. They haven't really been tested yet.
October 2Oct 2 2 minutes ago, JBJ said: My model favors Vandy a bit more. I'm wary of Vanderbilt's offense though. They haven't really been tested yet. That's what the Nerds said, too. They also noted that Vandy's offense hadn't performed any better against their opponents than anyone else. For example, both Vandy and Old Dominion hung 40+ on VT in their house.
October 2Oct 2 5 hours ago, The Dog said: Statsowar has Bama as a 9 point favorite, with a 65% win probability, but I think Nerds tends to be more accurate. Well fuck missed the post above. Edited October 2Oct 2 by Dark Horse
October 2Oct 2 You young 'uns that weren't around for pre-taunting penalty rule Miami vs Florida State don't know what you missed. Those games were bad ass. Dudes were doing throat slashes after every sack, guys were jawing after every three yard rush, hell punters were taking off their helmets after nailing a punt inside the five, etc. To this day I think the NCAA should waive the taunting penalty for big rivalry games like this.
October 2Oct 2 3 hours ago, JBJ said: My model favors Vandy a bit more. I'm wary of Vanderbilt's offense though. They haven't really been tested yet. Mine likes Bama by 9, but my spread mechanism is still being calibrated. Spreads are a crapshoot.
October 3Oct 3 17 hours ago, Js1 said: 27-12 sounds pretty on par with what I'd think I see Been thinking around here too...24-13 or so. And I'm a bit torn on Vandy/Bama. Don't really care who wins, would love both teams to pick up another loss. Fuck Bama, always. And maybe having Vandy be possibly undefeated coming to Austin would be fun...especially when we knock them off. Edited October 3Oct 3 by Drew
October 3Oct 3 On 10/1/2025 at 2:30 PM, 956 Worldwide said: Delaware will likely never sniff a CFP playoff. Still a lot of Dupont money in that state.
October 4Oct 4 Author 1 hour ago, Reese Bennett said: Still a lot of Dupont money in that state. I knew one of the heirs. Went to College of Charleston, not UDel
October 4Oct 4 2 hours ago, Hank_Hill said: Is someone hurt for Mississippi State? I expect A&M to win but -16.5 seems like a lot aggy has a new dead dog that they will be playing super duper hard for.
October 4Oct 4 1 hour ago, ztejas said: aggy has a new dead dog that they will be playing super duper hard for. Shit. Time to hedge my bet.
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