I know all eyes are on the Commonwealth today (sickening, by the way), but let's all just take a step back for a second and enjoy the simpler things in life.We're here.An actual college football Friday.
Labor Day weekend.One of the most underrated weekends of the entire calendar year.WEEK ONE UPSET SPECIAL: THESE THREE COLLEGE FOOTBALL TEAMS SHOULD BE ON UPSET ALERT THIS WEEKENDFootball last night.
Football tonight.And tomorrow.
And the next day.And the day AFTER that! But wait, there's more!After Monday, we take a full 48 hours off before the NFL season kicks off on Wednesday.Lordy.
She's here, and she's just as beautiful as I imagined.How lucky are we? What a blessing.Let's roll.WNBA star and Missouri Tigers alum Sophie Cunningham is seen on the sidelines during an SEC football game between the Texas A&M Aggies and Missouri Tigers at Memorial Stadium in Columbia, Missouri, on Nov.
8, 2025.(Scott Winters/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images)Welcome to a Friday Nightcaps — the one where Sophie Cunningham supports the vets like a patriot, and then gets us fired up for football season ...
again, like a patriot.What else? I've got a poor woman getting trucked on the sidelines in Piscataway last night, an absolute UNIT in the high school football ranks, and the Buffaloes were FEELING it after upsetting Georgia Tech.What a scene!OK, grab you whatever you'd like on this first Friday of September — dealer's choice today! — and settle in for a Friday 'Cap!There she is — your Week 1 viewing schedule.It's perfect.Honestly, though? Not the greatest Week 1 the sport has given us.
LSU-Clemson is obviously the headliner tomorrow, but there's not a ton of great games before it.The early games are a slog (except for North Texas-Indiana on FOX, of course!).The 3:30 hour gives us Baylor-Auburn and Boise State-Oregon, for those pining for the old SEC on CBS theme song.CLEMSON'S DABO SWINNEY THROWS SHADE AT LANE KIFFIN, LSU OVER BRINGING IN NFL PLAYERS: 'IT'S EMBARRASSI...