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 Olena Bohovyk / Unsplash

Good morning! You probably know the drill here. But if you're new and you don't, hello! Please go ahead and smack that "About" button at the top of the page real quick like.

You're at the only Midwestern-centric, Big Ten-focused college pregame show that avoids any mention of that three-legged sports-adjacent clickbait factory or that jagoff former punter from West Virginia. We also eschew all audio or video, mostly because our budget is less than nothing.

Let's run 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 another pour of coffee and mix the pancake batter. It's Saturday. It's nearly time for football. Let's shoot the shit until then.

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Quiet morning slate, right?

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