Sunday’s 6-pack:
Some interesting college football spreads for next week:
— Stanford @ Syracuse (-9.5)
— Illinois @ Nebraska (-8.5)
— Kansas @ West Virginia (-2.5)
— Arkansas @ Auburn (-5)
— USC (-6) @ Michigan
— Utah @ Oklahoma State (-1.5)
Tweet of the Day
“We’re not gonna be working heavy in free agency. We’ve got guys on the field right now who need to improve their game. A lot of young players who just need to make adjustments to be more productive.”
White Sox general manager Chris Getz
Sunday’s quiz
In the movie
A Star is Born, what actor/comedian played Lady Gaga’s father?
Saturday’s quiz
In the old
Batman TV series, Vincent Price played the Egghead.
Friday’s quiz
Wade Phillips replaced Marv Levy as coach of the Buffalo Bills.
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— Georgia 13, Kentucky 12
#1 team in the country has a very narrow escape.
Kentucky led 9-6 after three quarters.
Georgia scored only TD of game with 12:20 left.
— LSU 36, South Carolina 33
Gamecocks led 17-0 early in second quarter.
LSU drove 55 yards, scored game-winning TD with 1:12 left.
Gamecocks ran for 243 yards, but missed a 49-yard FG at the gun.
South Carolina turned ball over three times, had 123 penalty yards.
— Memphis 20, Florida State 12
Seminoles were 13-1 last year, are 0-3 so far this year:
L21-24 vs Georgia Tech (-10)
L13-28 Boston College (-16.5)
L12-20 Memphis (-7)
Mike Norvell is a good coach, but he is squarely on the hot seat now; this is his contract situation going forward:
2024- $10M
2025- $10,150,000
2026- $10,300,000
2027- $10,450,000
2028- $10,600,000
2029- $10,750,000
2030- $10,900,000
2031- $11,050,000
— Meanwhile, in Gainesville……..
Texas A&M 33, Florida 20
Aggies led this game 20-0 at halftime.
A&M averaged 10.5 yards/pass attempt.
Gators lost their first two I-A games, 41-17/33-20; they’ve now lost their last seven I-A games, with only win in that span 45-7 over I-AA Samford.
Safe to say, the natives are restless in northern Florida.
— Pittsburgh 38, West Virginia 34
WVU led 34-24 with 3:30 left in the game.
Pitt had TD drives of 75-77 yards to pull out a dramatic win.
Teams combined to convert only 4 of 22 third down plays.
These rivals didn’t play from 2012-21, kind of an expen$ive deci$ion.
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Upsets of the Week:
UNLV (+10.5) 23, Kansas 20
Toledo (+10.5) 41, Mississippi State 17
Georgia State (+10) 36, Vanderbilt 32
Memphis (+7) 20, Florida State 12
Washington State (+5.5) 24, Washington 19
— Washington State 24, Washington 19
Coogs stopped Washington on 1-yard line with 1:07 left.
Apple Cup was played in the Seahawks’ stadium, lot earlier than usual.
Washington gained 452 yards, but had 16 penalties for 135 yards.
Coogs beat Washington for just third time in last 15 meetings.
— Oregon 49, Oregon State 14
Teams that got left behind went 1-1 vs their arch-rivals this weekend.
Ducks led by only 22-14 at halftime.
Ducks outgained the Beavers, 546-309.
Oregon had lost its previous two visits to Corvallis.
— Indiana 42, UCLA 13
Curt Cignetti is the new coach at Indiana; he is a really good coach.
Cignetti was 52-9 the last five years at James Madison.
Indiana was 9-12 on third down, Bruins 2-8
Total yardage: 430-238, Indiana.
Hoosiers overcame having 14 penalties for 127 yards.
— Auburn 45, New Mexico 19
Auburn’s new starting QB Hank Brown passed for 235 yards and 4 TD’s.
Auburn’s starting QB last week (Payton Thorne) was complaining this week about gamblers bugging him after Auburn lost games; he threw 4 INT’s last week. Then he got benched.
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Famous birthdays, September 15th:
Tommy Lee Jones, 78
Oliver Stone, 78
LeRoy Irvin, 67
Dan Marino, 63
Earnest Byner, 62
Sherman Douglas, 58
Jason Terry, 47
Mike Dunleavy Jr, 44
Tyler Fitzgerald, 27
— Central Florida 35, TCU 34
UCF threw a 20-yard TD pass with 0:36 left for the winning score.
Arkansas transfer Jefferson threw for 230 yards, 3 TD’s.
TCU led 31-10 with 5:00 left in third quarter.
Horned Frogs blocked two field goals and an extra point.
— Eastern Michigan 37, Jacksonville State 34 OT
EMU led this game 31-20 after three quarters.
Gamecocks kicked a 51-yard FG to tie game with 0:34 left.
Eagles were 10-19 on third down, Jax State was 3-12.
— Buffalo 34, UMass 3
Marquis Cooper had a 105-yard pick-6 for Buffalo.
— Texas 56, Tex-San Antonio 7
Texas QB Ewers was 14-16/185 passing before he got hurt.
Backup QB Manning (Peyton’s nephew) was 9-12/223, with 4 TD passes.
UTSA lost its last two games 49-10/56-7; they’re not good.
— How conferences did in
non-league games this week:
AAC 2-0 ATS as favorite, 3-6 as underdog
ACC 2-2 ATS as favorite, 2-2 as underdog
Big X 7-4 ATS as favorite, 1-0 as underdog
Big 18 3-3 ATS as favorite, 0-2 as underdog
Conference USA 1-0 ATS as favorite, 1-3 as underdog
Mid-American 2-0 ATS as favorite, 1-3 as underdog
Mountain West 2-0 ATS as favorite, 3-6 as underdog
SEC 5-5 ATS as favorite
Sun Belt 1-2 ATS as favorite, 3-2 as underdog