Saturday Morning Fourth Down Radio Hour

In which we continue to pivot towards prose and punt on video and audio.

Saturday Morning Fourth Down Radio Hour
Photo by Juliano Costa / Unsplash

Good morning! If you're an old hand here at the Republic, you probably know the drill. But if you're new here, welcome! You've stumbled upon the only college football pregame show that proudly features zero seconds of audio or video of Pat McAfee OR Urban Meyer. Primarily because we don't remotely have the budget for audio or video.

Let's spin through the OTR posts that you might have missed from earlier this week and then hit a few articles from our friends around the independent college football blogspace.

Grab some coffee and slap together a breakfast burrito. It's Saturday and there's football on soon.

And ya boy will be representing the Orange and Blue in Ohio Stadium WHAT UPPPP? (We're going to get hamblasted. And the Illini will too! 🙃)

WWBWWBD - Week 4
Find out what your “writers” are plotting to do this weekend.
Big Ten Football Week 4 Picks, Predictions, Previews
Illibuck! The Loser Bowl! (Should be renamed, but whatever.) USC-Oregon! A little something old, something new, something borrowed (let’s home we’re just borrowing Rutgers), something blue.
Week 4 College Football Schedule: Watch Texas-Tennessee? Nah
An ode to the small-town church cookbook. And UMass-Sacramento State.
Week 4: B1G Six Pack
FOR ENTERTAINMENT PURPOSES ONLY
Week 3 Power Poll: Big Ten Teams as Chairlifts and Aerial Tramways
LegitimatelyBronchial’s offering is going to be filled with highs and lows
B1G Football Survivor 2026 - Week 4
Exactly half of the cowards have picked the exact teams as me. I’m not calling you all copycats, but…
Blue Bloods, and Bad Calls: Checking in After Three Weeks
Was it a conspiracy? Or is it just incompetence over malice? Hey, why not both?
What The HELL, USC?!
Maybe the Trojan defense isn’t fixed after all.
Mitten Masterkey, Week 4: The Bronco bowl comes to Kalamazoo
Iowa-Michigan is a plenty big game, but the showdown at Waldo Stadium has the potential to be season-defining for the respective Broncos facing off.
THE 2026 BVP AWARD WATCH LIST
This list is made up, and so is every other award watch list ever written.
Here’s the Thing: Michigan
Remember that thing on Mortal Kombat where you had to fight yourself?
The Great Shushing
Northwestern’s final game on The Lake finally took place in the sort of tempestuous weather you would think you would get from putting a sta…

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Daytime Friday Football!

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All the way to Dabo in Berkely

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WWBWWBD - Week 4

WWBWWBD - Week 4

Find out what your "writers" are plotting to do this weekend.

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