On the cusp of the upcoming solid slate of matchups, it would’ve been easy to overlook last week where pregame show visits included games where the score differential was a combined 60-17. Hopefully, you didn’t sleep on it because you would’ve missed ARCH IS BACK after beating a hapless Sam Houston St. team, SEC joining the wussification of America by apologizing for a completely legal and correctly officiated play (seriously, there’s a ref that stands over the ball and doesn’t allow a snap if the defense is substituting, if that doesn’t happen then you must account for the 11 guys on the field on offense), Belichick continuing to lose credibility by letting his side piece dog walk him all over the sideline, Indiana getting close to fully transitioning to a football school, and UCF completely cucking arguably the best football coach of the past couple decades.
Week 5 Pro Tips:
- The old guard absorbed more bullets this week as we witnessed the end of the Mike Gundy era. After spending $300k to have the smallest D1 school in the country drive up the turnpike and kick their ass, they upped the ante and ponied up $15 mil to tell their coach of 20 seasons to take a hike. Maybe if they put that money into NIL instead of bad mistakes they’d be in a better spot. This will put even more pressure on Clemson to do something that prevents Dabo’s weekly meltdown.
- A couple weeks after we discussed the banter about Miss St. being the dingy truck stop version of a college town, they finally decided to embrace their destiny with the most bizarrely intriguing gameday event we’ve ever seen.
- In an unexpected turn of events, the most popular figure in college football might be a hand surgeon in Los Angeles. The team most benefiting this situation is the Texas Longhorns. If you believe the rumors around DJ Lagway and John Mateer projected to not play against them, the softest team in the SEC continues their string of handouts by playing over half of their first 11 conference games against backup QBs. It appears though that Texas has caught onto this pattern and decided they could get away with playing a backup qb as their starter this year. Bold strategy!
TOS GAME OF THE WEEK
#4 LSU @ #13 Ole Miss (-1.5) 2:30PM CDT, ABC
What we like about this game: Let’s be honest about this matchup, this game isn’t about the players. It is Brian Kelly vs. Lane Kiffin. One of these guys is an absolute poser attempting to re-build his reputation by succeeding in the most competitive conference and the other is a self-indulgent social media machine that needs his job more than he needs air to breathe. Yeah, we’re not sure which is which either, making this a game of pride and ego. For us, this only means one solid guarantee… POINTS!
What we love about this game: Any time the Lane Train is in the spotlight it’s never a dull moment. Then all of a sudden Landy Kiffin enters the chat. Is there any other sport where the coach of a marquee game has his daughter hard launch a relationship with a star player from the opposing team on the same week of a special where his main goal was to show he’s family first, including a segment where she completely influenced his decision to stay at his current job? This league!
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