The Quad - Week 8 (A guide to four CFB games you can watch at once)
Knowing the Golden Hat has been secured by the Longhorns always lowers the pressure valve on a season. Obviously, a lot still lays before Texas and Steve Sarkisian, but they’ve conquered the Sooners at the very least. Beat your rivals. It’s what Webster’s should list beside the definition of a coach.
Wait, where am I? Oh my. I almost forgot, it’s Week 8 and it’s time to Quad! And I have to give you, dear reader, what four games you should be watching at once on Saturday. So let’s get into it, amigos.
As always, we’re giving you the perfect guide to quad. The rules stay the same: no Longhorn overlap, four games in the same time window, and one timeframe where you fire up the Quad.
Name: Steal One Saturday
Time: 3–4:00 CST
- Game 1: Ole Miss at Georgia (Dawgs -7.5)
- Game 2: Texas Tech at Arizona State (Red Raiders -6.5)
- Game 3: Texas A&M at Arkansas (Aggies -7.5)
- Game 4: Mississippi State at Florida (Gators -9.5)
Notes: The headliner is obviously Game One, where Lane Kiffin and the Rebels go to Athens to try and seize control of the SEC race. Georgia is a light-switch team, sometimes it’s on, other times it’s inexplicably off. But what was up with Ole Miss’ clunker last week against Washington State? We’ll find out tomorrow. It will be interesting if this is the week where quarterback Trinidad Chambliss (transfer from Ferris State) turns back into a pumpkin. Kirby Smart sure won’t let Kiffin take two games in a row against the Bulldogs easily. Especially not after Kiffin’s press conference trolling the other day.
Top 10
- 1New
Vanderbilt field storm
SEC announces fine decision
- 2Hot
More sign-stealing?
Lane Kiffin singles out OU
- 3
Bryant Wesco injury
Dabo Swinney reveals severity
- 4Trending
DJ Lagway
Addresses his future at Florida
- 5
Mike Elko
Shreds media over PSU question
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The Red Raiders and Sun Devils game looked a lot more enticing during the summer. That was before we knew Texas Tech was the armored G-Wagon of the Big 12 and before Kenny Dillingham’s ASU was beaten by Mississippi State and obliterated by Utah. But quarterback Sam Leavitt will be back in action versus Tech’s big-time front, making things more interesting in Tempe. That’s because Behren Morton has been ruled out for Tech, with Hutto’s own Will Hammond taking the reins. Hammond filled in nicely for Morton against Utah, but a full game against a desperate ASU could be a different story.
Also, how will the controversy of “pocketknife-gate” affect the Red Raiders’ locker room?*** Will it be a rallying cry or cause them to be distracted? Is this where Joey McGuire’s team (funded by Cody Campbell) breaks apart like a crusty tortilla that’s been left to bake on the field at Jones Stadium?
***”What’s pocket-knife gate?” Answer: only in college football.***
The aforementioned game and the ones in Fayetteville and Gainesville, give the underdogs the opportunity to steal something that doesn’t belong to them, a huge upset win. I’ll have my eye on the MSU/UF game to see how the other Bulldogs stack up against Florida. Yes, a Gator team that’s ready to oust its coach, but that Texas still recently lost to.
Arch Manning and company are in Starkville next weekend.
Movie Pairing (No Explanation Given): Point Break (1991)
