BIG NOOOOOOOD SATURDAY PREGAME HANGOUT

Good morning! We've got a long day of Bee One Gee football ahead of us. Let's get prepared by reading a few articles, shooting the shit, and talking ball.

Imagine that this post is like a very mellow coffee and breakfast with Pat McAfee! But now imagine that he's nowhere to be seen or heard from. Ahhhh. That's better.

Let's get to it:

• Predictions and your weekly DWT;WT from our friends over at a wonderful and similarly named but unrelated publication!
• Hey, there's a lot of weird stuff going on at North Carolina, even ignoring their first FBS win last night (of which I was on the wrong side of a $20 bet. Dammit). Anyways. Like a junket to Saudi Arabia in search of cash? FOIABall has more.
• Fellow indie/new publication Basket Under Review has a daily basketball recap email! Good stuff, go get smart before the season starts on Monday.
• Speaking of bball: we have a lot of that stuff around these parts! Get all of our basketball content here; get BoilerUp89's most recent non-con schedule ranking article here!
• From Matt Brown's Extra Points: What in the hell is going on at LSU?!
• And lastly, the Most French Story of All Time, also a reminder to always buy wine at the store: Cyclist falls down 130-foot ravine in France, survives 3 days by drinking wine he had in shopping bag.

A quick interstitial before the silliness. Millions of our fellow Americans will begin going without food assistance, known as SNAP or food stamps, as of this morning, because of the impacts of the month-long government shutdown. If you have the ability to do so, I would ask that you give to your local food bank. If you don't know where your local food bank is, check here. The need is real. The moment is dire. Please consider doing what you can. It matters more than we can possibly know. Please go do good. It matters.

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