Feel free to lean into whatever cliché you choose.
Here’s a good one: Reports of Seedy K’s demise were greatly exaggerated.
I’m baaaaaaaaaaaaaaack! A movie thing.
Another cinematic reference: Just when you thought it was safe to go into the water . . .
What is it investment houses admonish, past performances are not indicative of future results? Something like that.
You get the point.
Which point, ahem in case you don’t get it, is this.
If James Franklin in the second OT doesn’t call an out pattern — oft
intercepted — and Drew Allar doesn’t do what he’s done, throw the pick, your bouncing back predictator mighta dialed up a perfecto.
But no, the Sandusky Curse continues to plague the Nittany Lions.
Taking a silly flier on State College White Out Night cost me an unblemished weekend.
Because Notre Dame, Indiana, South Carolina and Louisville all took care of biz.
Though not directly factoring in, my Atherton Rebels fashioned another shut out Friday — their fourth of the season, 30-0 over Fern Creek. And, right after Waffle House scampered for the winning TD for the Hoosiers, my Detroit Tigers skid abated just enough at Fenway for them to advance to October baseball.
Plus I finally learned that the Steve Harvey whom ESPN’s Ryan McGee always references in his must read weekly column, Bottom Ten, is not the comedian game show host. But an LA sportswriter who was the first to do college football bottom ten lists.
Saturday was a good day.
4-1 ups the season W/L record to 21-13.
The kid is back.
This weekend’s winners:
Iowa State @ Cincinnati. Speaking of doing what he does, Scott Satterfield, who wins one about every season that he’s not supposed to, did just that last Saturday in Lawrence against Rock Chalk Jayhawk. The Bearcats have captured three in a row. They are again considered the slight underdog as undefeated league leader Iowa State visits Nippert. Can the visor do it two weekends in a row? Mayyyyyyybeeeee. But I’m stickin’ with the Cyclones.
Clemson @ North Carolina. So ineffectual has the Belichick/ Hudson era been so far in Chapel Hill, it’s easy to surmise this will be a shooting fish in a barrel confidence builder for the Dabos. But so disappointing have the 1-3 Tigers been, so just not good, it’s hardly a given. Is this the game when the Baby Blues prove the Grande Experiment was worth it? No. Klubnicks survive.
Miami @ Florida State. Big game for the ACC. Big game for CFP consideration. So, yeah, Biggest Game of the Weekend. Which is not to mention these two have a history. Which series the Canes lead 36-33. Wide Right. Several times. Wide Left. National championship implications through the decades. Like I said, this be a rivalry in the truest sense of the word. This is the season that Mario Cristobal lives up to expectations. Noles go down at to rival at home.
Kentucky @ Georgia. Mark Stoops despite the absurd buyout is the fastest riser on the Hot Seat list. Now that Bobby P took over for Sam Pittman at Arkansas. Which was, frankly, the one absolute give of the season. A visit to Athens is not exactly the antidote for Stoops’ travails. Especially against a pissed off Bulldog squad who fell yet again to the Crimson Tide. Even though Georgia has taken a step back, The. Wildcats. Have. No. Chance.
Virginia @ Louisville. In a weekend overflowing with truly fascinating football, the Cavaliers won arguably the most exciting game of all last time out. A back and forth Friday Night Lights W over Florida State at home. So, will the Wahoos arrive at the RR Yard with a quiet confidence, or still pumped from the upset? Or both. One never knows. That’s why they play the games. Louisville persevered despite an underwhelming effort in SteelTown. Let’s hope the Cards did a thorough clean up, paint up, fix up this week in practice. Cards stay undefeated.
— c d kaplan
