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NFL Week 4 Good Cop, Bad Cop Precaps

The NFL season has started but how do you know which games to watch and which to skip? Ask our favorite police duo with their good cop, bad cop precaps of all the Week 3 matchups in the National Football League this weekend. To see which games will be televised in your area, check out 506sports.com’s essential NFL maps. If you’re worried about watching too much football or if you’re negotiating for a little break during the weekend, read our weekly feature, Do Not Watch This Game.

Week 4

Sunday, September 28, at 1:00 p.m. ET

Buffalo Bills at Houston Texans

Good cop: What a revealing game! Two teams that started the season with two wins and followed them with a loss! Who will bounce back and who won’t?!

Bad cop: I’ll tell you what will bounce — most of the passes thrown by the two quarterbacks in this game. They’re both terrible.

Carolina Panthers at Baltimore Ravens

Good cop: After thirteen years on the Panthers, wide receiver Steve Smith plays against them for the first time! Drama!

Bad cop: You’re gonna be let down. Do not watch this game.

Green Bay Packers at Chicago Bears

Good cop: If you don’t want to watch this game, you must not like football! Two traditional rivals, playing outside on grass, throwing the ball left and right, it’s going to be exciting!

Bad cop: It’s a moderately interesting game of football. Moderately.

Detroit Lions at New York Jets

Good cop: Calvin Johnson, Geno Smith — exciting players with interesting first names and boring last names!

Bad cop: Geno is exciting only if you like interceptions. You don’t like interceptions, you’re the good cop.

Tenessee Titans at Indianapolis Colts

Good cop: Colts quarterback Andrew Luck has been the best in the league through three games! This could be the start of a new era!

Bad cop: If you’re planning on watching this game, pay attention to the Titans and you’ll see the beginning of a new error.

Miami Dolphins at Oakland Raiders

Good cop: This game is in London! How classy!

Bad cop: This game is so bad, the NFL put an ocean between it and NFL headquarters.

Tampa Bay Buccaneers at Pittsburgh Steelers

Good cop: Can the Buccaneers bounce back after last week’s poor performance? I want to know!

Bad cop: Well, they can’t get worse. They’ll bounce back, but only high enough to lose by fifteen points.

SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 28, AT 4:05 and 4:25 P.M. ET

Jacksonville Jaguars at San Diego Chargers

Good cop: Jags rookie quarterback Blake Bortles gets his first NFL start!

Bad cop: Wait, is it too late to send this game to England too? Yikes. I think the NFL might have picked the wrong game to deport.

Atlanta Falcons at Minnesota Vikings

Good cop: The greatest show on turf (this year) goes on the road to play another first time rookie starter, Teddy Bridgewater!

Bad cop: The Vikings are an increasingly troubled franchise. Suspended running back, injured quarterback, what’s next?

Philadelphia Eagles at San Francisco 49ers

Good cop: In the first three games of the season, the Eagles have been bad in the first half and amazing in the second half while the 49ers have been excellent in the first half of games and terrible in the second! I can’t wait to see this game be 50-0 at the end of the first half and 50-50 at the end of the second!

Bad cop: Wait. How do you get to 50? Six touchdowns, two field goals, and a safety? What a random and unlikely score.

SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 21, AT 8:30 P.M. ET

New Orleans Saints at Dallas Cowboys

Good cop: Talk about teams that sling the ball around! Tony Romo and Drew Brees? What a matchup!

Bad cop: Your information and enthusiasm is so five years ago. Romo is a shell of himself physically and Brees isn’t so hot either.

MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 29, AT 8:30 P.M. ET

New England Patriots at Kansas City Chiefs

Good cop: I can’t wait for Bill Bellichick and Tom Brady to break out Mark Twain’s famous line after this game! The reports of their demise are greatly exaggerated!

Bad cop: Reports of the Chiefs’ demise are not.

Cue Cards 9-26-14

Cue Cards is a series designed to assist with the common small talk about high-profile recent sporting events that is so omnipresent in the workplace, the bar, and other social settings.

Yesterday — Thursday, September 25

A Fitting Farewell to Derek Jeter — Derek Jeter has been the shortstop of the New York Yankees for as long as I can remember. It seems like forever. In actuality, it’s been since 1996. He’s retiring after this year and last night was his last game at home in Yankee Stadium. He’s a divisive player, partially because the Yankees are at once the most popular and the most hated team in the league, but also because he’s widely thought of as a great player but a close study of his statistics often leaves room for doubt about how good he actually is. Last night, he further cemented his legend as a winner by hitting a single in the bottom of the ninth inning which helped his teammate score the winning run. Basically, as soon as he hit that ball, the game was over and the Yankees had won. Believe it or not, there were plenty of damp eyes among Yankees fans in the stadium and at home.
Line: You couldn’t have written a more Jeter-like ending if you had tried.
The Good Night for New York Continued in Football — Meanwhile, back in the NFL, the New York Giants were beating the Washington Redskins 45 – 14. Everything that could go wrong, went wrong for Washington, and everything that could go right, went right for New York. After many seasons playing with the same offensive coach and offensive strategy, the Giants installed a new coach and a new strategy over this past off-season. They started the season looking horribly. It’s possible they are a bad team that had a good night but it’s also possible that they just needed some time to get used to new ways of playing. On Washington’s side of the ball, the enthusiasm they had for quarterback Kirk Cousins when he took over for injured Robert Griffin III might be waning slightly (okay, dramatically) after he threw four interceptions in the second half.
Line: Maybe Kirk Cousins isn’t the savior everyone thought he was.
The Ryder Cup Begins — Not strictly, yesterday’s action, this international golf tournament started very early in the morning, East Coast time. So far, the European team is slightly ahead of the team from the United States, but that’s not bad for the U.S. because we were underdogs coming into the tournament. Play continues at 8:15 a.m. ET. If you’re curious about how the Ryder Cup works, read my explanation of it here.

Do Not Watch This Game 9.27.14 Weekend Edition

For sports fans, the weekend is a cornucopia of wonderful games to watch. This is particularly true in the fall with its traditional pattern of College Football on Saturday and NFL Football on Sunday and Monday. As the parent, child, girlfriend, boyfriend, partner, husband, wife, roommate, or best friend of a sports fan, this can be a challenge. It must be true that some games are more important to watch than others but it’s hard to know which is which. As a sports fan, the power of habit and hundreds of thousands of marketing dollars get in the way of remembering to take a break from sports and do something with your parent, child, girlfriend, boyfriend, partner, husband, wife, roommate, or best friend. To aid all of us in this, and just because it’s fun, I’m going to write a weekly post highlighting a single game that is ideal for skipping. Use this to help tell yourself or someone else: “Do not watch this game!”

Sunday, 1:00 p.m. ET, NFL Football, Baltimore Ravens vs. Carolina Panthers. It’s on CBS but do not watch this game!

I’ll start this week by copping to the truth about this game — there is a reason to watch it. There’s a single plot that will be played out on Sunday that’s almost fascinating enough to make the game worth watching. Steve Smith Sr. was a wide receiver on the Panthers team for 13 years. He’s their all time leader in basically every receiving statistic out there. He was also the heart of the team for more than a decade. At 5’9″, he’s a lot smaller than you’d expect for a player of this reputation, but what he lacks in size, he’s made up for in furious intensity. He’s a great player. Over this past summer, the Carolina Panthers let Steve Smith walk. He walked right into the Baltimore Ravens starting lineup and has been one of their best players this year. Now, he gets to play against his old team. This story is the focus of this game — the Charlotte Observer called this “Steve Smith Week.”

You know what? That’s going to make for a really frustrating game to watch. Revenge fantasies very rarely come to fruition in sports, especially not in football where there are so many players on each team and so many factors which go into winning or losing. Smith is likely to have a couple big plays that, if you want to, you could point to as being a big narrative deal. But no one player, not even Steve Smith, can decide the outcome of a game. There are larger issues at hand — can Cam Newton’s offensive line keep him from adding another injury to his bruised ribs and sprained ankle? Who will run the ball for the Panthers since their running back core looks like an ambulance corps? Can the Panthers’ defensive line win over a Baltimore offensive line that hasn’t allowed a sack in two games?

The coverage of this game is going to be so slanted towards the Steve Smith story that it’s going to be frustrating to listen to and a let-down to watch. Do not watch this game!

Of course, if you or the fan in your life is a Baltimore Ravens or Carolina Panthers fan, this isn’t a good game to skip. As an alternate, skip the Sunday early afternoon game between the New Orleans and the Dallas Cowboys. Why? Because the Cowboys have the worst pass defense in the league and the Saints are going to feast on them like they’re étouffée.

Cue Cards 9-25-14

Cue Cards is a series designed to assist with the common small talk about high-profile recent sporting events that is so omnipresent in the workplace, the bar, and other social settings.

Yesterday — Wednesday, September 24

More champagne in baseball — It’s traditional in baseball to celebrate division titles or even just making the playoffs in flamboyant fashion. This tradition has evolved over time and today it involves wearing ski goggles and spraying champagne all over the locker room. For a sport whose regular season is an almost-every-day grind with teams playing 162 games over only around 180 days, the release is well earned. Yesterday the L.A. Dodgers clinched their division, the National League West division and celebrated ecstatically after beating the San Francisco Giants 9-1.
Line: I should celebrate my next achievement at work that way… Wonder what would happen to me if I did?
ESPN VIP suspended — Bill Simmons is one of the biggest names in sports media. He’s one of the original independent bloggers but as long since moved into the mainstream media within ESPN. He’s now a television personality, the driving force behind Grantland.com, a television producer, and one of the biggest podcasters out there. None of that kept ESPN from suspending him for three weeks for (we assume) critical comments he made about NFL commissioner Roger Goodell on his latest podcast. This suspension is a big news item because of Simmons’ celebrity and because it fans the flames of outrage among people already angry at sports establishments. There’s a #freesimmons going around on twitter with some great stuff which, as of now is the third highest trending topic on all of twitter. The first is just “Bill Simmons”… so yeah, people are paying attention to this story.
Line: No matter how big you get, you’re still an employee, I guess. [Lots of people are also saying:] Wow, that’s one more week than the NFL originally gave Ray Rice for the domestic violence itself.

Cue Cards 9-24-14

Cue Cards is a series designed to assist with the common small talk about high-profile recent sporting events that is so omnipresent in the workplace, the bar, and other social settings.

Yesterday — Tuesday, September 23

The Pirates Make the Playoffs — Before last year, the Pirates hadn’t made the playoffs since 1992. Now they’ve made it twice in a row! That’s an impressive turn-around for the long-suffering franchise. They clinched their playoff spot last night by beating the Atlanta Braves 3-2. They don’t get to rest now though, because playoff seeding is a big deal and they still have a chance to catch some of the teams ahead of them, including their division leader, the St. Louis Cardinals. According to Playoff Magic, the Cardinals magic number over the Pirates is four. And if you don’t know what that means, you should read this!
Line: I’m excited the Pirates are back in the playoffs. I love their throwback caps!
Hockey? Hockey is back? — That’s right! Preseason hockey began this week. Of the big sports, hockey probably has the smallest fan base but their fans tend to be passionate about the sport. With temperatures still in the seventies across the country, it’s hard to believe it’s hockey season again, but it will be soon.
Line: Did you know hockey preseason games have started?

Cue Cards 9-23-14

Cue Cards is a series designed to assist with the common small talk about high-profile recent sporting events that is so omnipresent in the workplace, the bar, and other social settings.

Yesterday — Monday, September 22

The Bears ground the Jets — There’s really only one thing in the sports world that happened yesterday which will create conversation today, and that’s the Chicago Bears beating the New York Jets 27-19 on Monday Night Football. It wasn’t an unexpected result, the Bears seem like they are pretty good and Jets seem like they’re tragically flawed in many of the ways they often are: mediocre quarterback, unreliable wide-receivers, slightly dysfunctional organization. The most notable aspect of the game last night was how many injuries there were on particular positional groupings. By the end of the game, the Bears were scraping the bottom of the barrel for their defensive backs but the Jets were missing their best wide receiver so it was hard for them to take advantage of it.
Line: [Jets quarterback] Geno Smith shows just enough promise to keep luring you in without delivering.
Fantasy, fantasy, fantasy — Tuesdays after otherwise quiet Mondays are the perfect time for fantasy football owners to crow or gripe about their teams. They “absolutely crushed” their league this week or they “lost by a fraction of a point because [name of player] had a touchdown called back because of [penalty, usually offensive holding]” or because they started [player] when they should have started [other player.]
Line: [Nod head, make sympathetic noises, and then launch into telling them about your hobby of fishing/crocheting/model trains/historic reenactment. Fair is fair.]

Cue Cards 9-22-14

Cue Cards is a series designed to assist with the common small talk about high-profile recent sporting events that is so omnipresent in the workplace, the bar, and other social settings.

Yesterday — Sunday, September 21

Another rollicking NFL Sunday — As with most Mondays in the fall, this will be the dominant conversation topic among sports fans. Prepare yourself for water-cooler talk with our NFL One Liners that not only give you a little information about what happened in each game but also a line to say if asked what you think.
Line: The highlight of yesterday’s games was when the rematch of last year’s Super Bowl, between the Seattle Seahawks and the Denver Broncos, went into overtime.
Jeter’s last weekend game — Yankees star, Derek Jeter, has been on a retirement tour all season. Every last is celebrated. Yesterday, he had his last weekend home game at Yankee stadium. The Yankees won, 5-2 over the Blue Jays, and Jeter had a very good game.
Line: I’m glad Jeter is playing well again, it was a little sad when it looked like he’d be leaving the game playing so poorly.
Manchester United stink — Talking about the Yankees, the Yankees of British soccer, Manchester United, continues to have a nightmare of a season. They lost 5-3 to Leicester yesterday. This leaves them with one win in five games this season. That’s like the Yankees going 5-28 to start a season!
Line: The bigger they are, the harder they fall, eh… eh…?

Week Three NFL One Liners

On Mondays during in the fall, the conversation is so dominated by NFL football that the expression “Monday morning quarterback” has entered the vernacular. The phrase is defined by Google as “a person who passes judgment on and criticizes something after the event.” With the popularity of fantasy football, we now have Monday morning quarterbacks talking about football from two different perspectives. We want you to be able to participate in this great tradition, so all fall we’ll be running NFL One Liners on Monday. Use these tiny synopses throughout the day:

Week 3

SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 21, AT 1:00 P.M. ET

San Diego Chargers 22, at Buffalo Bills 10

After beating the defending champion Seattle Seahawks last week, the Chargers went on the road and subdued the undefeated Buffalo Bills. Buffalo fans are up there in terms of nervous fan bases, so prepare to do some comforting if you’re friends with a Bills fan.
Line: The Chargers might be for real this year.

Baltimore Ravens 23, at Cleveland Browns 21

Heartbreak for the Cleveland fans after their team gave up a late lead to big-brother-rival Baltimore Ravens.
Line: Cleveland deserves good things after the way they’ve started this year. I hope this is a bump in the road, not a fall into the same old pit of despair.

Tennessee Titans 7, at Cincinnati Bengals 33

The Chargers might be for real, the Bengals ARE for real. This game was no contest. The Titans might as well have saved themselves the trip if it weren’t for the frequent flier miles they racked up. (NFL teams have chartered planes, there are no frequent flier miles.)
Line: The Bengals are for real.

Dallas Cowboys 34, at St. Louis Rams 31

The drama-drama-drama Cowboys went down 21-0 before stumbling back to a close victory over a team starting its third quarterback of the year.
Line: Sure, the Cowboys won, but they shouldn’t feel good about winning like that.

Green Bay Packers 7, at Detroit Lions 19

The Packers are normally the victor in games against the Lions but they weren’t able to keep their star quarterback, Aaron Rodgers upright consistently enough to win this week.
Line: Do we give the Packers too much respect on reputation? Maybe they’re not that good this year.

Houston Texans 17, at New York Giants 30

The heretofore horrible Giants took out their frustration on the undefeated Texans.
Line: In past years, the Giants have been like one of those horror movie villains that just won’t die. Can they pull it off again?

Indianapolis Colts 44, at Jacksonville Jaguars 17

The Jaguars are terrible. Our “good cop” was right though, we did see rookie quarterback Blake Bortles get his first NFL playing time in this game. He looked half-decent and has already been announced as next week’s starter.
Line: It’s Week 3 and the Jaguars are already playing for next year.

Minnesota Vikings 9, at New Orleans Saints 20

The Saints were desperate after losing their first two games and they showed it, jumping up to a 13 point lead and never really letting the Vikings back into the game.
Line: Okay, the Saints are back!

Oakland Raiders 9, at New England Patriots 16

This game was way closer than most people would have expected. The Patriots, although 2-1, are not inspiring a lot of confidence the way they’re playing.
Line: What is going on up there in New England? They only beat the Raiders by seven?

Washington Redskins 34, at Philadelphia Eagles 37

This game was an offense lover’s paradise, with both teams scoring a lot and failing to defend very much. There was a rare bench-clearing brawl between these two teams which resulted in not much other than a couple of ejected players.
Line: [Former Eagle] Desean Jackson may have gotten some revenge by catching a long touchdown but the Eagles had the last laugh.

SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 21, AT 4:05 and 4:25 P.M. ET

San Francisco 49ers 14, at Arizona Cardinals 23

The Cardinals were widely thought of as the best team to miss the playoffs last year. The 49ers have made it at least to the conference finals the last three years. If the results of this game are to believed, things could be turning around in their NFC West division.

Line: This might be the Cardinals’ year!

Denver Broncos 20, at Seattle Seahawks 26

I mistakenly turned this game off two separate times when I thought the Seahawks had conclusively won it. Instead, Peyton Manning led the Broncos back and back and back… and then lost in overtime.
Line: I’m not sure if losing this way is better or worse for the morale of the Broncos than losing by a wider margin would have been.

Kansas City Chiefs 34, at Miami Dolphins 15

Just when you think you know something about the NFL, the results of a game seem to prove you wrong. We thought the Chiefs were falling apart. We thought the Dolphins were strong. Now, we just don’t know.
Line: The more you know, the less you know.

SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 21, AT 8:30 P.M. ET

Pittsburgh Steelers 37, at Carolina Panthers 19

After looking like it was going to be a close, low-scoring game during the first half, the Steelers broke the game open with 28 points in the second half. Despite Carolina’s defense being thought of as one of the best in the league, the Steelers were able to run all over them. On the other side of the ball, the Steelers defense really beat up on Panthers quarterback Cam Newton.
Line: The Panthers better protect Cam Newton better if they want him to play for the rest of the year.

NFL Week 3 Good Cop, Bad Cop Precaps

Week 3

Sunday, September 21, at 1:00 p.m. ET

San Diego Chargers at Buffalo Bills

Good cop: Whoa, are we starting off this week with a humdinger! These teams are so hot, I wouldn’t watch this game without sunglasses! The Chargers just beat the defending champion Seahawks last week and the Bills are off to a great 2-0 start!

Bad cop: You again? Every week, I have to deal with your unrealistic expectations for football games. The Bills are a mirage that’s due to disappear any moment and the Chargers are a West Coast team flying east for an early game. Their biological clocks won’t be ticking “like this” and neither is mine over this game.

Baltimore Ravens at Cleveland Browns

Good cop: The surprising 2-0 Browns host a divisional opponent! I’m overwhelmed with enthusiasm!

Bad cop: Name a non-quarterback that plays offense on either team. Okay, you can’t, huh? There’s a reason for that. This game isn’t that exciting.

Tennessee Titans at Cincinnati Bengals

Good cop: Any entertainment featuring players named Giovanni Bernard and Bishop Sankey, whether it’s a football game or an exhibit on 14th century Italian art is worth paying attention to!

Bad cop: Cincinnati’s defense eats renaissance painters for lunch. 35-7, Bengals.

Dallas Cowboys at St. Louis Rams

Good cop: The Cowboys have one of the best offenses in the league, the Rams, one of the best defenses! I can’t wait!

Bad cop: What are we supposed to do when the Rams offense is out there against the Cowboys defense? Talk about a movable object meeting a stoppable force. Pshh.

Green Bay Packers at Detroit Lions

Good cop: These divisional opponents always have exciting, high scoring games! Packer Aaron Rodgers makes me proud to write in green! Lions’ wide-receiver Calvin Johnson makes me wish I wrote in blue!

Bad cop: Ink? Color? What is this, the NICL? National Ink Color League? What are you talking about?

Houston Texans at New York Giants

Good cop: The Texans are off to a great start, 2-0, after going 2-14 last season! They’re the model the Giants need to look at for how to recover! And they’re playing each other!

Bad cop: Sheesh. Wasn’t this game on last week? I swore the Giants played some boring team and lost last week, why would anyone want to watch it again?

Indianapolis Colts at Jacksonville Jaguars

Good cop: Will this be the week we see Jaguars exciting rookie quarterback Black Bortles!!?

Bad cop: Bortles? You’re trying to get me to watch this game by saying the word “Bortles?” I don’t even know what a Bortles is.

Minnesota Vikings at New Orleans Saints

Good cop: It’s the season’s first “must win” game! At 0-2, the Saints have to win!

Bad cop: They will.

Oakland Raiders at New England Patriots

Good cop: It’s a rematch of the famous “tuck rule” game that launched Tom Brady’s career!

Bad cop: That was 13 years ago. Since then, these two teams have taken slightly different paths. Do not watch this game.

Washington Redskins at Philadelphia Eagles

Good cop: I am so excited for this game! Rival teams! A player (DeSean Jackson) who was ceremoniously dumped from the Eagles and signed by the Redskins who wants his revenge! What a great game!

Bad cop: It’s a good plot but will the game live up to it? It’s a shame Jackson hurt his shoulder and his quarterback dislocated his ankle the last time Washington played. Might be a bust.

SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 21, AT 4:05 and 4:25 P.M. ET

San Francisco 49ers at Arizona Cardinals

Good cop: Wow, the 49ers were humiliated by the Bears last week! They are going to be ready for this game against their rival, the Cardinals.

Bad cop: Were they embarrassed or are they just not very good?

Denver Broncos at Seattle Seahawks

Good cop: It’s the game of the week! A rematch of the last Super Bowl! This is the first time that there’s been a Super Bowl rematch during the regular season since 1997!

Bad cop: If the Broncos got crushed in a neutral field, what makes you think they’ll be able to put up a fight in Seattle, where the Seahawks are virtually unbeatable. Also, look over there!

Kansas City Chiefs at Miami Dolphins

Good cop: I love this game! Ahhhemshghsghs!

Bad cop: What was that? You love it because you don’t have to watch it since you’ll be watching the Broncos play the Seahawks?

SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 21, AT 8:30 P.M. ET

Pittsburgh Steelers at Carolina Panthers

Good cop: Two of the biggest, strongest quarterbacks to ever play the game face off in a national showdown!

Bad cop: It’s not a size-off of quarterbacks, it’s a football game. The Steelers defense isn’t very good anymore and the Panthers’ is virtually unbeatable. Too obvious.

MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 22, AT 8:30 P.M. ET

Chicago Bears at New York Jets

Good cop: These teams always have dramatic games! The Jets just lost because one of their coaches, named Mornhinweg, I might add, mistakenly called a time out! The Bears roared back in the second half of last week’s game to beat the 49ers!

Bad cop: Loving dysfunctional teams? Isn’t that supposed to be my schtick?

Cue Cards 9-19-14

Cue Cards is a series designed to assist with the common small talk about high-profile recent sporting events that is so omnipresent in the workplace, the bar, and other social settings.

Yesterday — Thursday, September 18

The U.S. Women’s National Soccer team rolls — Our women’s soccer team is to international soccer what our men’s national basketball team is to basketball. Dominant. Perhaps they aren’t quite as overwhelmingly dominant as the men’s basketball team but you wouldn’t know that from the easy 4-0 victory over Mexico last night. This followed an 8-0 win over the same team in their previous game. According to Liviu Bird of Sports Illustrated, these two games against Mexico are actually likely to be more challenging than any teams the team will face in official qualifying games for the 2015 World Cup.
Line: If only we could develop male soccer players in this country as well as we do women, we’d have been able to give goalie Tim Howard some support in the men’s World Cup in Brazil.
The Atlanta Falcons swoop the Tampa Bay Buccaneers — Last night’s NFL game was compelling like a fender bender is. The Falcons scored the first 56 points of the game. 56!! The Bucs? Well, they fumbled and bumbled and slipped and fell. It was ugly.
Line: I know they’re professionals and all but how can you not feel sympathy for a group of guys who just had their absolute worst day on the job watched by millions of people?
Auburn survives Kansas State — There was a rare high-profile college football game on Thursday last night. The Auburn Tigers have national championship aspirations and the way college football is set up, teams basically can’t lose more than one game all season if they want a chance at the championship. It’s far better to be undefeated. The Kansas State Wildcats showed a lot of talent and heart by putting a real scare into the Tigers late in the game.
Line: The good thing about college football is that the regular season is so important, the games feel like playoff games.