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First half of the show was a HHH-calibre burial of the new cast members. Hilarious.

Fantastic effort by Bama's defense. I was really impressed by true freshman Eddie Jackson making his first start against quality competition. He wasn't perfect, but he was a difference maker out there. Bama has only allowed one TD outside of the A&M game. OL is still shit. Fortunately, we've got so many stud playmakers, it's inevitable that at least one of them will bust a big score. As long as the D is playing like this, that's all you really need, I guess.

You just can't do anything with Mike Evans. He's too tall, his arms are too long, and he jumps too damn high.

Can't remember the last time Bama put the ball on the ground 3 times in a game. This fucking team.

ARGH. THIS OL. SO MUCH HATE FOR IT.

Thanks, UGA. I feel like we're going to need that cushion win over LSU at some point.

God, this Bama OL is terrible. No wonder Saban is trying to sign 8 this year.

Looks like FSU has BC in hand now. Winston reminds me a lot of Russell Wilson.

SPOILERFAIL

Les has something up his sleeve on this 4th down. He's very conspicuously whispering into his headset. EDIT: or not. Just Les being Les.

Looks like this might be that game for FSU.

We've got another Bama/A&M on our hands in Athens.

South Alabama is a good program. Had a rough year playing their first season of a predominantly FBS schedule last year, but they're on the rise.

Man, Clowney has turned into such a joke this season. Midway through the 2nd quarter, ESPN ran a graphic saying he had played "all 18 snaps at DE." And I was like, HE'S ONLY PLAYED 18 SNAPS IN A QUARTER AND A HALF?

I'm really I'm really interested to see if LSU is for real today. With all the focus on Bama and A&M this season, I thought they were the sleeper to win the West. They even got to sit back and watch those two go at each other first. I see a lot of things I like from them, but that TCU win doesn't look as impressive now, and I thought Auburn gave them a tough game in the second half once the torrential downpour stopped.

I've got my Crimson Tide on upset alert tonight. Ole Miss is a very tricky team to play with their gimmick offense. I think Bama will need to score 30 to 35 to win this one. If the offense plays like it did agains A&M, there's no problem. If it plays like it did against VT and Colorado State, Bama is going down.

He's just executive producing. The writer who co-created Saul (I think it's Peter Gould, who wrote and directed "Granite State") will run it.

If BREAKING BAD sticks the landing tomorrow night, yeah. Last season of THE WIRE is a mess. Still a good show by that point, but the newspaper stuff was the worst and the fake serial killer stuff was just goofy.

FSW should be along any minute now.

HAHAHAHA. I know how this is going to end.

When is a new Vince Gilligan show not a new Vince Gilligan show? When it's the upcoming BATTLE CREEK on CBS. I was in shock when I saw the headline that his next show was going to be on CBS. That's like Picasso trading in his paintbrushes for HAVING NO HANDS. But then I read the story, and it made more sense. It's an old script from 10 years ago that CBS passed on, and now that Gillgian is hot shit, they're going forward with it. He isn't running it, and the pilot is being rewritten by whoever is. He *might* direct the pilot, but that's it. It's basically a cheap cash-in for Gilligan, and more power to him. He can use that CBS money to really take his time on whatever his real next show is. IF there's a next show. I'm hopeful he doesn't pull a David Chase vanish into the nether realm.

I liked the second episode of BROOKLYN NINE-NINE, but it's still not totally clicking for me. Second episode was a textbook case of "repeat the pilot," which is fine. I think they have a really good handle on Samberg, Braugher, and Crews at this point. If they can figure out all the other supporting characters, it'll really take off. Hopefully they get a chance. That's a tough timeslot.

I'm seeing that, as well. Or not seeing it. Whichever. It looks like the forums just stopped updating around noontime.

The more press I read, the more inclined I am to give Gordon & Gansa a pass, because they clearly wanted Brody dead a long time ago, and it's only interference by the network that brought us seasons 3 through 8 of DEXTER that has kept him alive. The whole "doomed romance" angle is just Gordon & Gansa trying to make the best of Showtime sabotaging their show. And I have come to terms with that. That said, I'm still not sure that's a show I want to watch, and it will be up to them to convince me otherwise this season.

Yeah, it doesn't look bad, just the complete tonal opposite of what I'd expect of a movie titled "Need For Speed." I mean, I haven't played a game in that series in probably a dozen years, so maybe they've evolved into something gritty and noir-ish and this is completely in keeping with that, but I was just expecting something a little more in line with the F&F franchise, not "Breaking Bad with badass cars." It's also entirely possible that the trailer was cut that way and released this week specifically to ride the current wave of Breaking Bad hysteria.