RaceToTheTop

They are obviously going to be complimentary of any school in their final list, but the quotes make me think he's going to Kentucky.

Saturday, after Florida lost at Texas A&M, Florida coach Dan Mullen said that he wanted Florida's president to allow a full capacity crowd (90,000) for next week's game so that the Gators could get a home field advantage like Texas A&M had (for the record, A&M held their attendance to quarter capacity). Three days later, 21 Florida players and 2 assistant coaches have tested positive for covid and this week's LSU/Florida game is postponed. Also seems likely that the outbreak started prior to Florida traveling to A&M -- a couple of Florida players have come forward and said they had allergy-type symptoms prior to leaving for Texas but didn't report it to UF officials.

Titans are getting awfully close to have to miss a game and have no bye week available.

Tenn/Pitts will not play this week due to additional positives with Tennessee. Most likely scenario is the Baltimore/Pittsburgh game gets shifted to week 8 since they both have byes that week and Pittsburgh plays Tennessee in week 7 when Tennessee was to have a bye.

NE/KC postponed as Cam Newton tests positive (as well as a KC practice squad player). I assume that there are other tests in the process as I don't think they would postpone from one positive. Could be because of how late the positive came.

Haas was a walking pandemic at Purdue according to the girls who sued him.

Sounds like the game will occur on Monday or Tuesday pending test results.

I think we are learning that this year is going to result in more upsets than normal. K State takes down Oklahoma and Mississippi st up 10 on LSU with 3 1/2 minutes left.

Valparaiso high school football...went to state in 5A last year. Won their first two games this year (against Penn and LaPorte)......week three game cancelled against Griffith due to covid issues at Griffith. Week four game cancelled against Michigan City because of covid issues at Michigan City. Played in week five against Chesterton and won a hard fought game. Week 6 and 7 games now cancelled because of covid issues with the Valpo team (20 in quarantine). So seven weeks in, they will have only played three games. In other region football, Hammond schools are 100% virtual for the semester and had originally cancelled all contact sports. School board voted last week to allow contact sports. The four Hammond schools will start playing in week 7 and have three games each before playing in the sectional. The one good Hammond football team -- Morton -- was already struck hard with talent loss as they had Cincinnati recruit JoJo Johnson transferred to Merrillville last January. In August, after the Hammond schools announced that they were postponing fall sports, three other members of their football team transferred to Merrillville as well, including a D1 recruit defensive lineman and their starting quarterback who had thrown 17 touchdowns and no interceptions the year before. They would have had a decent team, now they've lost a lot of talent and will only have three games under their belt.

The Houston Cougars game against North Texas has been cancelled due to cases on the North Texas team. This the FOURTH opponent that has cancelled against the Cougars due to covid issues....SMU, Rice, and Baylor had cancelled already. Baylor had been a replacement after a previous cancellation,

With covid, teams with depth are going to be on the winning end a lot more often. I don’t think depth wise we match up with the big boys so that makes it even tougher.

Is it wrong to hope our Ohio State and Michigan games get covid cancelled?

Houston-Baylor cancelled after Baylor fails to meet the Big 12 minimum number of eligible players at a position to compete. The teams had scheduled each other for this weekend just a weekend ago after last weekend's openers against other teams were postponed.

The high school I teach at and keep stats for had our game cancelled this week due to 20 players on the opposing team being quarantined -- 15 starting today, 5 already under quarantine. We are ranked #3 i the 4A coach's poll and they are tenth......the truth is that we would likely beaten them pretty badly. Sagarin has us rated as 16 points better than them and last year we beat them 37-7 in the regular season and then 20-0 in the sectional (where they basically conceded in the second half and ran the ball every down just to keep the clock moving).

Maximum number of games dropped to 25. Minimum to qualify for the NCAA tournament is 13. Suggested by the committee was a minimum of 4 non-conference games. Personally, I hope the Big Ten drops the number of conference games to 18 instead of the 20 they've been doing if the non-conference schedule is going to be decreased. Get rid of the stupid conference games in early December.

Louisville is going to have send prostitutes to their recruits instead of having them come to campus to meet them. Y'all know someone at L'ville is working on a W.h.o.r.e Dash app. (periods put in so it didn't get blocked. We're all adults here....or at least we pretend to be).

Twitter world going back and forth right now on the “Oct 17 is a confirmed date” to “nothing confirmed yet”. Seriously wish that the media would stop trying to be first instead of trying to be right. It seems obvious that it will be starting up.....we’ve waited this long, so I wish that some of the “journalists” would sit back and wait to report instead of throwing darts on a start date.

What is this NHL you speak of?

The school I teach at has a former IU player (and NFL player) as our head coach and another former IU player and not-that-long-ago graduate as our receivers coach. The word they are hearing is the Big Ten season most likely will have a January start.

I'd be infinitely more concerned about fans packing bars or tailgating than I would be about the players. Luckily at IU, football fans can social distance tailgate. Or attend games in person....without putting restriction on ticket sales.

I might be late to the game, but do colleges have separate indoor and outdoor track and field teams? I'd think the indoor guys would man up and venture outside once in a while.

In his prime he was always socially distanced from the runners behind him.

Games this weekend so far haven’t been close at all. On paper they didn’t appear like they would be although I held out hope that Midfle Tenn St v Army wouldn’t be a blowout. Texas State did put up a fight against SMU.

Refs using electric whistles in the SMU/Texas St game. I will say that there is work to be done there as even in a near empty stadium they are hard to hear. But it has potential if they can get one to produce a frequency distinguishable from crowd noise.

44 players at Tennessee currently unavailable due to either positive covid tests or contact tracing. Yet they probably still would come back from down three scores to beat us in the fourth quarter.