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College Football Open Thread

by Betty Cracker|  October 15, 201611:47 am| 38 Comments

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I’m sidelined with a messed-up Achilles’ tendon, so I’m piled up on the sofa with my foot iced and elevated and preparing to take in the sporting action. Here’s the top 25 match-ups:

2016-10-15

Cole’s ‘Eers are undefeated! I had no idea. I’ll eschew that game to watch the ‘Dawgs and ‘Dores (interested since it’s an SEC match-up but indifferent to the outcome), then I’ll catch the first half hour of Alabama vs. Tennessee (Roll Tide!) until the Gators play Mizzou.

Ole Miss and Arkansas should be interesting. I’ll be pulling for Ole Miss since that was my grandfather’s school. Among the evening games, the Buckeyes vs. the Badgers looks like the most interesting (Go Badgers!).

Open thread!

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  1. 1.

    Yutsano

    October 15, 2016 at 11:50 am

    A friend is a Badger, so I’m okay if they lay waste to the Buckeyes.

    Also: GO BRONCS!!!

  2. 2.

    different-church-lady

    October 15, 2016 at 11:53 am

    CORTIZONE SHOT AND BACK ON THE FIELD!

  3. 3.

    Mike J

    October 15, 2016 at 11:58 am

    @different-church-lady: Magic spray.

  4. 4.

    p.a.

    October 15, 2016 at 12:14 pm

    @different-church-lady: Rub some dirt on it!

  5. 5.

    WereBear

    October 15, 2016 at 12:16 pm

    @different-church-lady: Walk it off!

  6. 6.

    germy

    October 15, 2016 at 12:18 pm

    LUNARIAN: Then when your Congress has passed a law it goes directly to the Supreme Court in order that it may at once be known whether it is constitutional?

    TERRESTRIAN: O no; it does not require the approval of the Supreme Court until having perhaps been enforced for many years somebody objects to its operation against himself—I mean his client. The President, if he approves it, begins to execute it at once.

    LUNARIAN: Ah, the executive power is a part of the legislative. Do your policemen also have to approve the local ordinances that they enforce?

    TERRESTRIAN: Not yet—at least not in their character of constables. Generally speaking, though, all laws require the approval of those whom they are intended to restrain.

    LUNARIAN: I see. The death warrant is not valid until signed by the murderer.

    TERRESTRIAN: My friend, you put it too strongly; we are not so consistent.

    LUNARIAN: But this system of maintaining an expensive judicial machinery to pass upon the validity of laws only after they have long been executed, and then only when brought before the court by some private person—does it not cause great confusion?

    TERRESTRIAN: It does.

    LUNARIAN: Why then should not your laws, previously to being executed, be validated, not by the signature of your President, but by that of the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court?

    TERRESTRIAN: There is no precedent for any such course.

    LUNARIAN: Precedent. What is that?

    TERRESTRIAN: It has been defined by five hundred lawyers in three volumes each. So how can any one know?

    (Ambrose Bierce)

  7. 7.

    Steeplejack (phone)

    October 15, 2016 at 12:19 pm

    Akron Zips? WTF?

  8. 8.

    germy

    October 15, 2016 at 12:19 pm

    LUNARIAN, n. An inhabitant of the moon, as distinguished from Lunatic, one whom the moon inhabits. The Lunarians have been described by Lucian, Locke and other observers, but without much agreement. For example, Bragellos avers their anatomical identity with Man, but Professor Newcomb says they are more like the hill tribes of Vermont.

    (Ambrose Bierce)

  9. 9.

    ShadeTail

    October 15, 2016 at 12:24 pm

    I’m sidelined with a messed-up Achilles’ tendon,

    Channeling our blog host, it seems?

  10. 10.

    eclare

    October 15, 2016 at 12:28 pm

    @Steeplejack (phone): A Bowden coaches them, at least last time we played them. Go Vols!

  11. 11.

    Kenneth Kohl

    October 15, 2016 at 12:49 pm

    Go Buckeyes!

  12. 12.

    Prescott Cactus

    October 15, 2016 at 12:51 pm

    @Betty Cracker:

    Get well soon !

  13. 13.

    ET

    October 15, 2016 at 12:52 pm

    @eclare: Roll Tide!

  14. 14.

    Mike J

    October 15, 2016 at 1:07 pm

    Trump mains Hanzo

  15. 15.

    Citizen_X

    October 15, 2016 at 1:08 pm

    OT (because Texas doesn’t play till tonight, and kinda suck this year anyway), here’s a nice satirical bit from Alexandra Petri about the horror that is Hillary. Nice use of Lovecraftian elements.

  16. 16.

    Some Guy

    October 15, 2016 at 1:34 pm

    Section 44, row 26.

    Beat the Tigers. And now that the SEC has forced LSU to reschedule our game. BEAT them too.

  17. 17.

    Some Guy

    October 15, 2016 at 1:41 pm

    Mizzoo better get ready for some payback for the beat down they gave us in the Swamp 2 years ago.

  18. 18.

    smintheus

    October 15, 2016 at 1:42 pm

    A refreshingly honest article about Trump supporters by Dylan Matthews.

  19. 19.

    PsiFighter37

    October 15, 2016 at 1:50 pm

    I am seeing that Trump suggests that Clinton is doing coke. Talk about projection at its finest…

  20. 20.

    Mike J

    October 15, 2016 at 1:51 pm

    Trump accuses Clinton of using performance enhancing drugs to beat him in debates.

    I wish that was a joke.

  21. 21.

    germy

    October 15, 2016 at 1:51 pm

    @smintheus:

    The message this research sends is very, very clear. There is a segment of the Republican Party that is opposed to racial equality. It has increased in numbers in reaction to the election of a black president. The result was that an anti–racial equality candidate won the Republican nomination.

    Given that the US is one recession away from a Republican winning the presidency, this is a concerning development.

  22. 22.

    jeffreyw

    October 15, 2016 at 1:54 pm

    Thread needz moar kitteh!

  23. 23.

    eclare

    October 15, 2016 at 1:55 pm

    @ET: Unless they play UT, I agree! Gotta pull for the family!

  24. 24.

    John Revolta

    October 15, 2016 at 2:00 pm

    @Mike J: But wait- I thought Trump won both debates! I have it on the best and classiest authority!

  25. 25.

    germy

    October 15, 2016 at 2:01 pm

    @jeffreyw: Always needz more kitteh.

  26. 26.

    WaterGirl

    October 15, 2016 at 2:13 pm

    @jeffreyw: That was interesting. Did you do that?

  27. 27.

    ThresherK (GPad)

    October 15, 2016 at 2:16 pm

    Has Betty’s injury shown up in the betting lines yet?

  28. 28.

    Soylent Green

    October 15, 2016 at 2:24 pm

    What the hell happened to my Oregon Ducks? We’re all in shock here.

  29. 29.

    jeffreyw

    October 15, 2016 at 2:26 pm

    @WaterGirl: Snapseed and Prisma apps, I was playing around this morning and that was a result.

  30. 30.

    eclare

    October 15, 2016 at 2:40 pm

    @jeffreyw: Nice! Interesting to see the actual photo and the filtered view!

  31. 31.

    gene108

    October 15, 2016 at 2:57 pm

    I hate ACC refs. Doesn’t matter the sport. They are all corrupt shills for the league office.

  32. 32.

    SRW1

    October 15, 2016 at 3:17 pm

    I’m sidelined with a messed-up Achilles’ tendon,

    You also a Klopp victim?*

    *Prolly inscrutable cause it’s the ‘wrong’ kinda football.

  33. 33.

    raven

    October 15, 2016 at 4:00 pm

    Well that sucked.

  34. 34.

    john b.

    October 15, 2016 at 4:10 pm

    Well. I’m going to go run off the stink of NC State Shit.

  35. 35.

    gene108

    October 15, 2016 at 4:13 pm

    @raven:

    Tell me about it

  36. 36.

    gene108

    October 15, 2016 at 4:14 pm

    @john b.:

    Not possible…always so damn close…

  37. 37.

    raven

    October 15, 2016 at 4:26 pm

    @gene108: Beautiful day for a game, mid 70’s a little breeze. That’s it.

  38. 38.

    Geoduck

    October 15, 2016 at 5:32 pm

    @Soylent Green: It’s simple: The UW Huskies are finally getting around to re-asserting their dominance. The natural order has been restored! :-)

    But seriously, as a Husky fan, it’s been a loooong fifteen years wandering in the wilderness.

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