Week 8 College Football Thread

I love my pulled pork. I've just never understood why otherwise sensible people would plop an ice cream scoop of cole slaw on it.

 

SOURCE: Jeremy Pruitt fired assistant coach Jimmy Brumbaugh DURING loss to Kentucky | Kentucky Sports Radio

 

Because it's delicious.

 

There will be plenty of interesting college football to watch this week, but absolutely none to bet on.

 

Mountain West off to a great start in its exhibition season.
Colorado State's Home Opener vs. New Mexico Canceled - Colorado State University Athletics

 

I wish Pitt would drop its program at halftime of the Notre Dame game. Actually, that would be awesome. Have Steve Levy or whatever asshole cut in and say, “we’re going to take you to another game in progress because Pitt just canceled it’s program with the Irish ahead 33-3.”

 

No accounting for taste. I don't like cole slaw when it *isn't* polluting perfectly good BBQ.

 

When I covered Liberty in the aughts, their coach, Danny Rocco, tried to make a huge deal out of the Coastal rivalry because they needed something to grasp on. Funny that may be a really interesting FBS game later this year.

 

It's been a while since I hung out on SJ and I'm not sure this is 100% germane, but this whole "Eyes of Texas" thing is some first-rate bat-shit craziness. I mean, going to the mat to defend a song with origins in blackface minstrelsy is the kind of nuttery I would expect from A&M.

 

I hate betting against LSU, but South Carolina +6 is mighty tempting. LSU's quarterback Myles Brennan is hurt, probably won't play, and Joe Burrow ain't walking through that door. All they have behind Brennan are a couple of freshmen who have never taken a college snap.

 

Speaking of LSU, this season just keeps getting better and better. Joe Burrow ain't walking through that door, and if Odell Beckham Jr. walks through that door somebody better call security pronto.

LSU football self-imposes penalties, bans former receiver Odell Beckham Jr. from facility for 2 years

 

What the UT president isn't saying in that statement is that part of their problem is that some band members are refusing to play the song. It looks like they'll be playing a recording at home games.


"The survey was sent to band members asking if they would be willing to play “The Eyes of Texas,” a song that has divided the university community in recent months over its ties to minstrel shows where performers wore blackface. The Daily Texan reported that a message sent to band members by leader Scott Hanna said the survey results wouldn’t affect whether the band performs at future games. The band has yet to play at a football game this season, due to safety restrictions related to the COVID-19 pandemic.

Band members are “evenly divided” over playing the song, the student newspaper reported, but responses from certain instrument sections would prevent the band from playing this week. The message from Hanna said many band members wanted to have further discussions about the song, which he said he would facilitate."


University of Texas Longhorn band won't play "The Eyes of Texas" this weekend after some members say they're unwilling