Wow! Everytime we think we’ve hit the peak week of the season, the bar gets raised another notch! Before we jump into the biggest takeaways going into Week 10, let’s hit our quick list of things you might have missed that somehow seem like nothing thanks to the state of Louisiana. We had our boy Lane using his on-field postgame interview to spit daggers at opponents, an almost awesome fail mary at the 1 yard line, the first iteration of ref rankings (although not exactly what we proposed), a gaelic soccer player having zero football experience taking the G5 world by storm, the nation’s leading passer having never started a varsity high school game, Cam Newton landing a haymaker on a mascot for touching his hat, and holy batman….yes, a real life batman on campus. What an unbelievable sport this is, and that only scratches the surface of this week.
Week 10 Pro Tips:
- I mean, where do we even start with LSU? I guess maybe here. What started as just a funny and fairly well predicted ass kicking at Death Valley on Saturday night has turned into an all out Bravo reality show. After an invite-only meeting at the governor’s mansion – which didn’t include the AD – led to the decision to fire Brian Kelly, we started hearing from everyone on X how terrible Brian Kelly is as a person while also getting some fantastic memes, and this instantly became a must follow story. At the center of the story is this blowhard wannabe Saul Goodman that is somehow governor of Louisiana – while he doesn’t even appear to be believable as the mayor of Fansville in a DP commercial – absolutely eviscerating the AD and publicly stating during one of the hottest coaching markets in our time that they will never offer a contract with that amount of guaranteed money again. Clearly, this goes beyond football and it is objectively hilarious that his path forward now leaves no one in the AD role, HC role, or OC role – oh yeah, and they’re still completing the process of hiring a school president. Geaux Tigers!
- According to the preseason poll that everyone takes as the gospel, this week was supposed to be the apex of ranked games. Shocker – maybe those rankings were a little premature. Lucky for us, it’s not as big of a week as originally anticipated because any of us that are YoutubeTV subscribers may not even get to watch some of the biggest games on Saturday. While these two billion dollar companies fight for how to best screw us over, consumers are left to handle this dispute maturely by doing their best to influence change via X (PS, it worked for Chili’s). Just when we take one step forward as a society we again take two steps back, only this time we’re being owned by the high-pitched mouse whose cartoons totally sucked when we were kids.
- Coastal Carolina might be the epicenter of college football. Miscolored turf quirky enough to be noticed, but not obnoxious enough to be totally hated. Closest thing to an all-inclusive cfb resort with their FREE concessions. A live mascot that is small enough to hold in your hands but no one on the planet wants to mess with. Those are just the basics. This week they raised the bar even further with having the players change into GLOW IN THE DARK UNIFORMS AFTER PREGAME WARMUPS which led to an unbelievable entrance. Then they doubled down by kicking the band to the side at halftime for their costumed mascot to dominate a medieval battle that would rival a Red Panda show. Oh and their head coach passes out free pizzas to the students!
TOS GAME OF THE WEEK
#23 USC (4.5) @ Nebraska 6:30PM CDT, NBC
What we like about this game: Nebraska is going with the blackout theme and they aren’t skipping any details. Amid the rumors of Penn State interest, they’ve got their guy, Matt Rhule, fully locked up and ready to roll. On the other sideline is notorious Lurkin’ Lincoln, who’s known for secret convos and back door deals to get out of a precarious situation around this time in his tenure to find the next sucker to overpay him.
What we love about this game: We got the #1 passing offense vs. the #2 passing defense, something’s going to give here. Nebraska has some work to do against ranked teams having lost 28 straight; however USC absolutely sucks when traveling this far for Big 10 games. Chilly, Big 10 night game under the lights, Nebraska is due, USC is soft….give us Nebraska outright to win this one! And Lincoln to Florida?!
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