For One Last Time This Season: BEE ONE GEE Saturday Morning Hangout

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Good morning! We've got one last Saturday of a rapidly shrinking number of football games ahead of us. Let's get prepared by reading a few articles, shooting the shit, and talking ball. Enjoy it, for alas, the season's end rapidly approaches.

If I'm the first to tell you that Pat McAfee has a "music" album coming out, I apologize. But it's true (no, I'm not linking to it. Go find it yourself, you sicko.) In a world of McAfee's antics populating the pre-game show, let's steer away. Let's do something else! Let's pivot to words and away from douchebags.

(If you're looking for game previews or Xs and Os or that sort of thing, this isn't the place. Sorry.)

From OTR!

The Sherman Grants: Time to Vote!

In which we make a collective choice for a good cause.

Off Tackle RepublicAlmaOtter

What Games are on Tap This Weekend?

Conference Championships Galore!

Off Tackle RepublicTransient Buckeye

A Beer Review of Bell’s Two Hearted Ale in the Style of Hemingway’s “Big Two Hearted River”

Not a sponsored ad, but if Bell’s is interested, I’d take some freebies.

Off Tackle RepublicAlmaOtter

NCAA Volleyball Tournament starts today: A mini-preview of all nine Big Ten teams in the dance

Oh yeah, we’re talking vball!

Off Tackle RepublicBremen Keasey

The Rose Bowls of the Mind

More than slightly sentimental, this one. I apologize.

Off Tackle RepublicAlmaOtter

From Elsewhere (But Still Awesome)

How to secretly lobby the CFP Committee

FOIAball got the closed-door cases conferences make.

FOIAballDavid Covucci

The Lane Kiffin Saga Shows Why You Should Never Cry For Coaches | Defector

What’s a college football season if you don’t end it covered in shame? This year was even more shame-drenched than usual, especially if you held the most heralded position on the field: head coach. This season saw more mid-season coach firings than ever before, a knock-on effect of the arms race to get programs in…

Defector homeIsrael Daramola

A Short List of Songs That Could Be Repurposed Into Holiday Cash Grabs in a Hypothetical Remake of ‘Love Actually’

That, plus a tasty condiment, a cocktail CHALLENGE ACCEPTED, new music, and more! It’s Friday at the ACBN.

The Action Cookbook NewsletterScott Hines

Some thoughts on the Cookie Man and college football’s funniest coaching search so far

Plus notes on the SCORE Act and other notebook-emptying items

Extra PointsMatt Brown