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Blu and Geoff award our 3/4 Season Awards (as always, winners can request a No Prize), major games in the MEAC and Big Sky leading to bigger games next week, Hunt for Red November (USF at Navy), Boise at SDSU, Kennesaw at Jax St, close escapes, and upsets Checkout our friends at the @sickoscommittee on their socials and their podcast https://open.spotify.com/show/4zQLV3eheXXpQ1PY96b454?si=db93dcf8...

Blu and Geoff the IU catch, the postal service, ACC chaos, a midatlantic matchup, some less than close games important for conference title races, running 26.2 miles and not dying, running 26.2 miles with news of a great victory and dying, games called "The Game", and The Game you just lost. Checkout our friends at the @sickoscommittee on their socials and their podcast https://open.spot...

Blu and Geoff discuss their Halloweens, the YTTV-Disney carriage dispute, and accordingly, games mostly not on the ESPN family of networks. Checkout our friends at the @sickoscommittee on their socials and their podcast https://open.spotify.com/show/4zQLV3eheXXpQ1PY96b454?si=db93dcf8472b4a42 Website: ⁠https://feedyourmascot.squarespace.com⁠ Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/feedyourmascot.bsky.soc...

Blue and Geoff discuss marching band drill, games that separated Big Ten 5-2s, some marginally level headed feelings about Purdue, the drop-the-ball-at-the-goal-line-twice-with-different-NFL-teams being a good coach, a couple of our favorite Midwestern Midseason Trophy Games, SDSU pitching shutouts, and a bunch of narrow escapes. Checkout our friends at the @sickoscommittee on their socials and th...

Blu and Geoff are back with our 2nd Quarter Season Awards (contact us for a No Prize), wacky Friday night games to accompany your apéritif-based cocktails, rivalries we are scared to lose, rivalries we are happy to have around, big upsets, and your undefeated and one loss teams. Checkout our friends at the @sickoscommittee on their socials and their podcast https://open.spotify.com/show/4zQLV3eheX...

Geoff joins Blu from the road to discuss hotel choices, checkout strategies, bagels, BYU at Arizona, Alabama at Mizzou, IU at Oregon, willing something very funny into existence , ULL at JMU, UMass at Kent State, a reminder UMass is a state flagship, a reminder MAC schools are R1 institutions, USF at UNT, and a man paying moderate amount of money and meeting a dog. One of the Boys by Victoria Zell...

Blu and Geoff are back to discuss yet another week of college football and also giving blood, the Kinsey Institute, pace of play strategies, mundane turnovers, and some incredible turnovers. Website: ⁠https://feedyourmascot.squarespace.com⁠ Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/feedyourmascot.bsky.social Instagram: ⁠https://www.instagram.com/feedyourmascot/⁠ Threads: @feedyourmascot  Schrodinger's soc...

With Geoff back, we discuss Oktoberfest, and then into the games of the week from the craziness in Charlottesville, to a dearth of points in DeKalb, to things popping in Champaign, to the Big Sky and both Universities of Louisiana, and everywhere in between. Website: ⁠https://feedyourmascot.squarespace.com⁠ Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/feedyourmascot.bsky.social Instagram: ⁠https://www.instag...

With Geoff many timezones away, friend of the show Brigit of the Sickos Committee has subbed in to discuss the Apple Cup and all of the other big matchups of the day. Website: ⁠https://feedyourmascot.squarespace.com⁠ Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/feedyourmascot.bsky.social Instagram: ⁠https://www.instagram.com/feedyourmascot/⁠ Threads: @feedyourmascot  Schrodinger's social network (Twitter...

For no particular reason, Blu asks Geoff for a bourbon review, and then we enter our Week 3 review of Clemson at GT, TAMU at ND, USC at Purdue, somehow feeling good about that for everyone, or not, KState at Arizona, UGA at Tennessee, our feelings on Tennessee's offense, Florida at LSU, feeling worse about both teams, The Backyard Brawl, UDel's first FBS win, and a series of tangents along...

We've all seen those ads, right? The ones with the guy claiming to want to save college sports. We brought on Matt Brown of Extra Points who just did some excellent research on the topic (https://www.extrapointsmb.com/p/here-s-why-you-re-suddenly-getting-save-college-sports-commercials-on-your-tv) on who this guy is, what he wants, why he wants it, and how exactly its saturating our Saturdays...

Blu and Geoff are back at it, discussing the nascent National Football League, some word choices by a certain Jerral Wayne Jones Sr., JMU-Louisville, the Border War, getting some use out of the already needed explicit tag, Michigan at OU, UVA at NC State, El Assico, and USF at UF. And yes, Geoff's pronunciation of Bill Belichick's name (and the spelling on socials as Biličić) is intentiona...

Week one has come and gone, and we are ready to recap some of the week's most interesting action. From Indianapolis to The Palouse to Miami and beyond, Week 1 had some *wacky* stuff (and a few blowouts). Website: ⁠https://feedyourmascot.squarespace.com⁠ Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/feedyourmascot.bsky.social Instagram: ⁠https://www.instagram.com/feedyourmascot/⁠ Threads: @feedyourmascot ...

Week 0 has happened are we are back on the mics with game reviews, from Ireland to Hawaii, and all points in between. Website: ⁠https://feedyourmascot.squarespace.com⁠ Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/feedyourmascot.bsky.social Instagram: ⁠https://www.instagram.com/feedyourmascot/⁠ Threads: @feedyourmascot  Schrodinger's social network (Twitter): ⁠https://twitter.com/feedyourmascot/⁠  Copyrig...

Blu and Geoff realized it was one week until football starts, so its time for our season preview of 5 (we mean 6) teams to watch this season. Not all of these teams will be good, but all will be interesting. Website: ⁠https://feedyourmascot.squarespace.com⁠ Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/feedyourmascot.bsky.social Instagram: ⁠https://www.instagram.com/feedyourmascot/⁠ Threads: @feedyourmascot ...

Akshay Easwaran of Game on Paper joins the pod to discuss exciting preseasons, disappointment of the actual seasons, new things with the site this season, what their data can and can't do, the growth of backseat GMs, the upcoming season of Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets football, and where he was for COTH in 2024. Find Akshay @akeaswaran and Game on Paper @gameonpaper Website: ⁠https://feedyourma...

A very special report on the Indianapolis Indians' upcoming Mascot Mania game, from how it was organized, to how 13 mascots from as far as Texas and Florida are coming to Indianapolis, to where everyone is changing, to what will be happening on the field. Info on the Game and Tickets: https://www.milb.com/indianapolis/tickets/mascot-mania Website: ⁠https://feedyourmascot.squarespace.com⁠ Blues...

Blu and Geoff are joined this week by Brigit of the Sickos Committee (@SickosCommittee) to discuss topics including gardening, food preservation, what to say to make sure your friends don't steal your seat, photography, rules about bring cameras places, film v digital, Big Sky Media Days, and the upcoming Big Sky football season. Website: ⁠https://feedyourmascot.squarespace.com⁠ Bluesky: https...

Geoff and Blu are back for a summer Q&A full of interdisciplinary engineering beefs, physics, metaphysics, games we are excited for, ticket advise, and much, much more. Website: ⁠https://feedyourmascot.squarespace.com⁠ Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/feedyourmascot.bsky.social Instagram: ⁠https://www.instagram.com/feedyourmascot/⁠ Threads: @feedyourmascot  Schrodinger's social network (T...

Blu and Geoff celebrate Independence Day with an episode of the history of sports on Holidays, from the Ashbourne Game, to Thanksgiving football, to baseball at the summer holidays, and beyond. And as usual in the summer, discuss some weather safety tips. Q&A form: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSc9jgf2tYd_EMuzlQoH_cn45nOcOwNgfrhDCzukpNRwQczOng/viewform?usp=header Sources: https://en...

Geoff is joined by food documentarian Adam Gottschalk of OTR (https://www.youtube.com/@OTRontheroad) to discuss how one goes from Charlottesville, VA to Bangkok, doing sports radio, sports food culture in Asia, following the American sports from abroad, and what sports mean as an expat. And the dogs say hello. Website: ⁠https://feedyourmascot.squarespace.com⁠ Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/feed...

Blu and Geoff back on their usual hinkyism, discussing nuclear physics history, the 1894 college football season, the great game reviews, long schedules, short schedules, the longest schedule, odd teams to play, a stadium sharing the name with a person, cool college names, and the very different power base of the sport. Website: ⁠https://feedyourmascot.squarespace.com⁠ Bluesky: https://bsky.app/pr...

Prof. Sam Ehrlich joins the pod to discuss grilling, the House settlement, how it opens up as many questions as it answers, the origins of the striped pants, IU being good at a sport (swimming), and a fun game about national titles by school. Website: ⁠https://feedyourmascot.squarespace.com⁠ Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/feedyourmascot.bsky.social Instagram: ⁠https://www.instagram.com/feedyour...

Blu and Geoff open discussion with the returning IU Bison, then follow up with the hottest and coldest college football games, and provide some useful weather safety tips. Sources https://www.weather.gov/grb/heat https://www.wpc.ncep.noaa.gov/html/heatindex.shtml https://www.omnicalculator.com/physics/wet-bulb https://www.sportsmillions.com/picks/college-football/hottest-games-college-football-his...

Blu and Geoff kickoff with some Indy 500 cooler planning, Indy 500 calendar discussion, and then head in to the chaotic world of commissions in college football (the one or two them), and then dive into the history of playing the national anthem at sporting events in the US (such as the Indy 500). Website: ⁠https://feedyourmascot.squarespace.com⁠ Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/feedyourmascot.bs...