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Mandel of The Athletic still has us in the Gator Bowl, but changed his pick for our opponent from Wake Forest to Clemson at some point this week.

I wouldn't have guessed it quite to this degree going in, but this was one we may as well have not even scheduled. I guess it did get some of the bench guys more playing time, but that's about it for anything worthwhile to take from this one. But we got more of a test than expected out of...

Mandel is sticking with his Wake Forest in the Gator Bowl pick.

They're playing that game in the mid-afternoon SEC Network slot, which is the least desirable slot from a TV scheduling standpoint. The noon ESPN slot is the third-best slot every week. It's better than the SEC Network primetime slot as far as the league and ESPN are concerned. Our South...

I agree that the fair-catch signal was inadequate, but it doesn't matter because he hit him before the ball got there. It was kick-catch interference either way. And since the targeting was called, it would've been a 15-yard penalty even if they'd decide it wasn't kick-catch interference at all.

For the record, it also could be one coach voting us 24th.

If you get SEC Network through your cable or live-streaming service, you DO NOT need a separate subscription to ESPN+. SEC Network+ is streaming only, but you access it with your cable or live-streaming credentials for no extra charge. For instance, if you get YouTube TV, just go to the ESPN app...

The higher seeded team should be the home team unless the higher seeded team is coming out of the loser's bracket and facing a team that's coming out of the winner's bracket IMO. So we should've had last at-bat yesterday, but Liberty should be the home team against Duke today because Duke has...

Friday at 6 p.m. on ESPN3 (which is say, streaming only).

I do.

Yeah, what it's worth is exactly squat, so...

Yeah, the remote announcing setup with no fans (or very few fans) in the stands has not done anything for the excitement level of these broadcasts. Some announcers have been pretty good in terms of manufacturing enough excitement to make it at least somewhat enjoyable, but those guys on Saturday...

If nothing else, this is an interesting idea they can try out. Maybe some in the NCAA office have wondered about having one city or state host the whole thing in an Olympics-style festival of sorts. I don't know that it's come up, but maybe it has. If it has, here's their chance to see how it goes.

Alright, so that No. 3 ranking does include the Alabama game. Even better.

Yeah, but this goes back to the tendency to look at one game we lost as more indicative of who the team really is than seven games we won. Arkansas will be interesting on Wednesday, as BTO pointed out, as they actually are a good 3-point shooting team, but I would expect a return to form rather...