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<p>Purple does not get a soft landing after Oxford. Texas A&amp;M comes to Tiger Stadium Saturday, Sept. 26, 6:30 p.m. CT on ABC — first true road game of the year for Mike Elko’s bunch, night kick in Death Valley, and a Week 4 SEC scrap that already feels like a season hinge. Good Bull Hunting and Aggies Wire both framed it that way Monday: LSU fell 32–24 at Ole Miss, A&amp;M fell 31–21 at home to Kentucky, and whoever loses this one walks into October at 2–2 and 0–2 in the league.</p><p><br></p><p>The series still leans purple historically, but the Aggies have taken five of the last eight and the last two meetings, including last year’s 49–25 wreck in Baton Rouge when Marcel Reed ran wild. Reed has seven touchdowns against the Tigers across those two games, five of them on the ground, per Good Bull Hunting’s first glance. That is the tape Blake Baker’s front has to answer. Sam Leavitt still owns the purple headset after the Magnolia Bowl comeback that fell short. Aggies Wire says star tight end Trey’Dez Green — LSU’s leading receiver through three weeks — is unlikely to face A&amp;M after getting carted off in Oxford, with a return expected sooner rather than later. Corner Dashawn Spears is reportedly done for the year. A&amp;M is dealing with its own nicks: Terry Bussey hurt on the opening kick against Kentucky and not expected back soon; freshman back KJ Edwards also left that game.</p><p><br></p><p>The national remote that matters beyond Baton Rouge is No. 1 Texas at No. 14 Tennessee on Saturday — noon ET window, Neyland, both still undefeated entering the week per ESPN’s preview board. Fine. Watch Arch Manning on the road if you want. This desk’s Saturday night is Death Valley, purple trying to get to 3–1 before McNeese, A&amp;M trying not to start conference play 0–2 after getting punched at home by Kentucky.</p><p><br></p><p>Oxford already happened. The scoreboard already hurt. Saturday is about whether purple can sound like Death Valley again with A&amp;M in town — or whether Reed gets another night in purple.</p>

Oxford is in the books the wrong way. A&M is next — Death Valley, Saturday night.

<p>Week 2 paid the right names and burned the quiet stars.</p><p><br></p><p>JSN went nuclear, CeeDee feasted, Chase bounced back — and Monday Night still has Giants-Rams left.</p><p><br></p><p>By Rhett Landry</p><p><br></p><p>Week 2 did not put on the same fireworks show as the opener, and that is fine. You still got paid if you rode the right names, and you still got burned if you trusted a quiet night from a star. The Giants and Rams still have Monday Night left at SoFi, so anybody with skin in that game waits until after dark. Everybody else can start sorting the wire.</p><p><br></p><p>Seattle put Jaxon Smith-Njigba on another planet. ESPN had him at 42.5 fantasy points with Drew Lock under center, a personal best after the breakthrough year he already posted in 2025. That is not a fluke flash. Lock found him at every level, and Week 3 against Washington looks like another invitation.</p><p><br></p><p>Dallas ate Washington alive, and CeeDee Lamb was the main course. Eight catches on nine targets, 153 yards, two scores, 35.3 points in the late window. Dak Prescott threw for four touchdowns and nearly 30 fantasy points himself. Jake Ferguson snuck into the TE1 conversation with two red-zone scores. If you sat Lamb after a quiet week, you already know how that felt.</p><p><br></p><p>Philadelphia got weird and still found a way. Saquon Barkley took a stinger early, came back briefly, then shut it down pending an MRI. DeVonta Smith did not care. He took a 38 percent target share with A.J. Brown gone to New England and dropped 27.7 points, the kind of night managers will point back to if this really is his WR1 year. Dallas Goedert left with a knee; Tank Bigsby got the early and red-zone work when Barkley was out, and ESPN’s Tristan Cockcroft flagged him as the Week 3 pickup if Saquon's MRI goes sideways.</p><p><br></p><p>Ja’Marr Chase reminded everybody why you do not panic after one dud. After a 3.2-point Week 1, he caught seven of nine for 75 and two touchdowns against Houston and finished with 26.5. Talent wins. Trust your first-rounder.</p><p><br></p><p>New Orleans kept rolling. Tyler Shough threw for 252 and a score, ran for another, and cleared 22 fantasy points for the second straight week. Chris Olave ate ten targets for 86 and a touchdown. FantasyPros has Shough inside the top five in scoring through two weeks, right next to Bryce Young, who carved Atlanta for 287, three passing scores, and a rushing touchdown in a 34-3 blowout. Young is a real streamer now, not a novelty.</p><p><br></p><p>Travis Kelce looked like Travis Kelce again on Sunday night. Nine of eleven targets, 101 yards, a touchdown, 25.1 points. Play speed in the route and after the catch. TE1 for Miami next week, no debate.</p><p><br></p><p>The ugly board was longer. Bijan Robinson managed only 11.1 against Carolina in a game Atlanta never had a chance to finish. Justin Jefferson went quiet in a wet Chicago afternoon. Drake London is stuck until Michael Penix or Tua Tagovailoa get healthy. Marvin Harrison Jr. ran routes and caught nothing on one target; FantasyPros is already telling managers in standard leagues it is not crazy to cut him. On the wire that actually matters, ESPN flagged Browns rookie Denzel Boston (rostered in about a quarter of leagues) after 95 yards and a score in back-to-back weeks with a touchdown.</p><p><br></p><p>Injuries will decide half the waiver scrum. Caleb Williams left late with a hamstring; early word leans mild, a couple weeks, not IR, but Bagent is the name for now and Chicago’s pass catchers take a hit if that sticks. Jayden Daniels dislocated the same left elbow again and Marcus Mariota finished the game. Daniels missed three weeks with it last year. If you are staring at that hole, Young is the claim ESPN and FantasyPros both keep circling. Jayden Reed left Green Bay on a backboard with a neck injury. Alec Pierce limped out for Indy; Josh Downs ate the volume.</p><p><br></p><p>TreVeyon Henderson finally cracked the New England door after Rhamondre Stevenson fumbled early. FantasyPros had Henderson on 16 carries for 76 and a touchdown while Stevenson’s snaps dried up. Boom-or-bust until the receiving work shows up, but the depth chart moved.</p><p><br></p><p>Monday night still belongs to the Giants and Rams. File your Sunday ledger, claim the names the tape already proved, and leave the SoFi box score for after midnight.</p><p><br></p><p>More on The Field: <a href="https://capitolandcleats.com/the-field" data-mce-href="https://capitolandcleats.com/the-field">https://capitolandcleats.com/the-field</a></p><p>Related: <a href="https://capitolandcleats.com/blog/week-1-didnt-whisper-it-yelled" data-mce-href="https://capitolandcleats.com/blog/week-1-didnt-whisper-it-yelled">https://capitolandcleats.com/blog/week-1-didnt-whisper-it-yelled</a></p><p>Related: https://capitolandcleats.com/blog/oxford-took-the-magnolia-bowl-texas-gets-the-nfl-remote-today</p>

Week 2 paid the right names and burned the quiet stars.

<p>Jacob Bridgeman came from five back, posted a career-best 61, and won the inaugural Biltmore Championship by two.</p><p><br></p><p>Jacob Bridgeman came into Sunday five shots back at The Cliffs at Walnut Cove and left with the trophy for the inaugural Biltmore Championship Asheville. The South Carolina kid posted a career-best 10-under 61, finished at 26-under 258, and beat PGA Tour rookie Ben James by two. That is a second Tour win this season for Bridgeman, who already had The Genesis Invitational on the résumé, and it is a heck of a tune-up the week before he shows up at Medinah as one of Brandt Snedeker’s Presidents Cup picks.</p><p><br></p><p>The golf was soft and silly after the rain. Preferred lies all week. Everybody knew low was out there. J.T. Poston, the local favorite and course member, hung a bogey-free 60 and nearly made it a 59 before a 25-footer slipped by. James matched Bridgeman’s 61 and still came up short at 24-under 260 after birdieing three of his last four and scrambling for par on 18. Neal Shipley, who had owned the 54-hole lead after a bogey-free tear through 60 holes, could not keep up. He waited until the par-5 eighth for his first birdie, closed in 69, and tied Ricky Castillo (65) for third at 23-under 261.</p><p><br data-mce-bogus="1"></p><p>Bridgeman’s day was the putter. Eight birdies and an eagle, plus a couple of nervy pars that kept the chase alive — a 13-footer on 11 and a 12-footer after bunker-to-bunker on 12 — then three straight birdies to pull away. Family from Inman was in the gallery. Parents finally got to watch a Tour win in person.</p><p><br data-mce-bogus="1"></p><p>Jackson Koivun, another Snedeker pick and still 21, tied Poston for fifth at 21-under 263 after a 63-65 weekend. Haotong Li, Max Greyserman, and company stacked into a five-way tie for 10th at 19 under. Greyserman’s week nudged him inside the FedEx Cup Fall bubble at 97th; Shipley climbed from 183rd to 135th with the podium check, still hunting that top-100 card for 2027.</p><p><br data-mce-bogus="1"></p><p>Next up for Bridgeman is Presidents Cup week. For the Fall, Bank of Utah waits Oct. 1–4. On a rain-softened mountain course, the kid from an hour down the road wrote the first chapter with a 61 and a two-shot cushion. Hard to argue with that.</p><p><br data-mce-bogus="1"></p><p>More on The Field: <a href="https://capitolandcleats.com/the-field">https://capitolandcleats.com/the-field</a></p><p>Related: <a href="https://capitolandcleats.com/blog/shipleys-still-the-man-in-asheville-one-shot-one-round-left">https://capitolandcleats.com/blog/shipleys-still-the-man-in-asheville-one-shot-one-round-left</a></p><p>Related: https://capitolandcleats.com/blog/shipley-owns-friday-at-walnut-cove-fifteen-under-everybody-else-is-chasing</p>

Bridgeman steals Sunday at Walnut Cove. Sixty-one. Trophy. Presidents Cup next.

<p>Ole Miss 32–24 over No. 7 LSU — then Bengals-Texans and Commanders-Cowboys own the Sunday board.</p><p><br></p><p>By Rhett Landry</p><p><br></p><p>The Grove got what it wanted Saturday night. No. 8 Ole Miss beat No. 7 LSU 32–24 at Vaught-Hemingway, per LSUSports.net and the Rebel box. Trinidad Chambliss’s 14-yard keeper and a two-point conversion with 6:14 left finished a 13-play drive after purple had clawed all the way back to 24–24. Sam Leavitt’s late tipped pick on fourth-and-6 from the six ended it. Attendance: 70,033 — a Vaught record. Rebels are 3–0 and 1–0 in the SEC. Tigers are 2–1 and 0–1. Next purple date is Texas A&amp;M at home Saturday, Sep 26. Argue Kiffin’s return all you want. The scoreboard already did.</p><p><br></p><p>Sunday’s remote flips to Texas. Early window is Cincinnati at Houston, 11 a.m. MT on CBS — Bengals 1–0 on the road into an 0–1 Texans club that needs a home answer in Week 2, per the NFL’s Week 2 slate. Later is Washington at Dallas, 2:25 p.m. MT on FOX — both clubs 0–1, AT&amp;T Stadium, NFC East noise with September still young. Those are the two Texas windows this desk cares about today. Watch Houston try to get to .500. Watch Dallas try to avoid 0–2 with the Commanders in town.</p><p><br></p><p>Purple’s hangover is real. The Magnolia Bowl is final. The NFL board is live. Flip between NRG and Arlington if you have to — just don’t pretend Oxford didn’t happen.</p><p><br></p><p>More on The Field: https://capitolandcleats.com/the-field</p><p>Related: https://capitolandcleats.com/blog/leavitts-off-the-sheet-kick-is-tonight-oxford-is-already-loud</p><p>Related: https://capitolandcleats.com/blog/oxford-is-not-going-to-be-polite-about-this</p>

Oxford took the Magnolia Bowl. Texas gets the NFL remote today.

<p>November Is Settled. 2028 Is the Real Fight.</p><p><br></p><p>The Court blocked the midterm mail rewrite. Competence now means writing the next rule with a calendar, not a press conference.</p><p><br></p><p>By Camille Reid</p><p><br></p><p>The Supreme Court already told November no. The interesting fight is whether anyone in Washington can write a mail-ballot rule that survives past a campaign slogan.</p><p><br></p><p>On Sept. 14 the justices left intact a district court block on the Postal Service’s midterm mail restrictions, over dissents from Justices Samuel Alito and Clarence Thomas. Fox News reported Sunday that legal experts now see the bigger question as 2028: whether an executive order and postal regulations can set election-mail rules at all, or whether that power sits with Congress and the states. Manhattan Institute senior fellow Ilya Shapiro called it “not a slam dunk” and not a debate about whether mail voting is good or bad — “It’s about who gets to set the rule.”</p><p><br></p><p>That is the adult sentence. Culture prefers a morality play: mail ballots as sacred, or mail ballots as theft. Competence asks who has the statute, who has the lead time, and who stops treating the shadow docket like a campaign staff.</p><p><br></p><p>Justice Brett Kavanaugh’s concurrence left room for the Postal Service’s statutory argument under the postal code while refusing a last-minute midterm rewrite. Alito and Thomas would have granted the stay. Monday’s order settled November. It did not settle authority. If the administration wants different rules for 2028, the path is not another emergency plea after ballots are already in the truck. Build the rule, defend it on the merits, give clerks months — not days.</p><p><br></p><p>Meanwhile the midterm politics keep rewarding spectacle. Trump has floated a $5,000 “dividend” if Republicans keep Congress, a line even some Republicans treat as a bribe without a funding plan. Newsweek put the rough math at about $1.22 trillion for roughly 245 million adults, with tariff revenue nowhere near that and Congress still required to authorize anything. California Republicans in tight House races skipped the Dallas midterm convention and are talking local issues while the president tells the country to treat November like a personal referendum, the Los Angeles Times reported Sunday. Loyalty theater fills a room. Persuasion fills a district.</p><p><br></p><p>I am not asking anyone to stop believing mail rules matter. I am asking Washington to stop confusing an emergency stay with legislation. If Congress wants uniform mail standards, write them. If the Postal Service has lawful authority, prove it with time for implementation. If states run elections, say so and own the patchwork. What you do not get to do is invent chaos in September and call it reform in November.</p><p><br></p><p>The Hill story this morning is not that Trump lost a stay. He did. The story is whether the next fight is a statute with a calendar — or another press conference that assumes the Court will clean up the timing later.</p><p><br></p><p>More on The Hill: <a href="https://capitolandcleats.com/the-hill" data-mce-href="https://capitolandcleats.com/the-hill">https://capitolandcleats.com/the-hill</a></p><p>Related: <a href="https://capitolandcleats.com/blog/the-people-voted-the-court-erased-it" data-mce-href="https://capitolandcleats.com/blog/the-people-voted-the-court-erased-it">https://capitolandcleats.com/blog/the-people-voted-the-court-erased-it</a></p><p>Related: https://capitolandcleats.com/blog/the-court-didnt-rewrite-november-it-refused-to</p>

November Is Settled. 2028 Is the Real Fight.

<p>Neal Shipley’s bogey-free 65 kept him alone at 21 under through 54 holes at the Biltmore Championship.</p><p><br data-mce-bogus="1"></p><p>By Rhett Landry</p><p><br data-mce-bogus="1"></p><p>Neal Shipley is still the man in Asheville, and Saturday did not shake him loose.</p><p><br data-mce-bogus="1"></p><p>He walked off The Cliffs at Walnut Cove at 21 under after a bogey-free 65, one clear of Ben Kohles after both of them went out and shot the same number. Shipley’s week now reads 65-62-65 for 192. Kohles is 65-63-65 for 193. One shot. One round left. That is a Sunday you can taste.</p><p><br data-mce-bogus="1"></p><p>Ricky Castillo and Eric Cole are tied for third at 17 under. Castillo matched the leaders with a 65; Cole went one better with a 64. Jacob Bridgeman and Max Greyserman sit a shot further back at 16 under. Then the board gets loud: Haotong Li ripped a 61, 10 under on the day, and jumped into a knot at 15 under with Jackson Koivun (63), Marco Penge, and Seamus Power.</p><p><br data-mce-bogus="1"></p><p>Shipley and Kohles have owned this debut FedExCup Fall stop since Friday. They were 1-2 after two rounds, and they stayed 1-2 after three. Nobody stole the lead. Li just made sure the chase pack still has teeth.</p><p><br data-mce-bogus="1"></p><p>Final round is Sunday at Walnut Cove. Shipley has the chair. Kohles has the seat next to him. Everybody else has a mountain.</p><p><br data-mce-bogus="1"></p><p>Related</p><p><a href="https://capitolandcleats.com/blog/shipley-owns-friday-at-walnut-cove-fifteen-under-everybody-else-is-chasing">https://capitolandcleats.com/blog/shipley-owns-friday-at-walnut-cove-fifteen-under-everybody-else-is-chasing</a></p><p>https://capitolandcleats.com/blog/the-tours-back-in-the-mountains-greyserman-and-cole-own-round-1</p>

Shipley’s still the man in Asheville. One shot. One round left.

<p>No. 7 LSU at No. 8 Ole Miss — Magnolia Bowl, ABC, GameDay in The Grove, and the quarterback saga just ended with a blank line.</p><p><br></p><p>By Rhett Landry</p><p><br></p><p>Friday night the SEC availability report did the only thing that mattered for Saturday: Sam Leavitt’s name was gone. Field Level Media, ESPN, and CBS all had it. Doubtful Wednesday. Questionable Thursday. Cleared Friday. Under league language, that means he is expected to play when No. 7 LSU walks into Vaught-Hemingway against No. 8 Ole Miss tonight — 6:30 p.m. CT on ABC, Stripe Out, College GameDay already camping in The Grove since morning.</p><p><br></p><p>Argue the gamesmanship later. Oxford staff spent midweek telling ESPN they did not buy the original doubtful tag. Kiffin never put an injury on the Monday podium or the Thursday radio show. Fine. Tonight the ball still snaps, and the dual-threat Arizona State transfer who has started both games — 574 passing yards, two through the air, five on the ground through two weeks — is back on the depth chart without a designation. T.J. Dottery, the leading tackler, stays questionable. That is the only leftover scar on the sheet that still matters.</p><p><br data-mce-bogus="1"></p><p>Everything else was already written in mustard and state-police overtime. First top-10 LSU-Ole Miss meeting since 1962. Kiffin's first walk back into the building he left before Ole Miss's playoff run. Pete Golding on the home sideline. Trinidad Chambliss and Kewan Lacy - the backfield Kiffin himself called two Heisman names in the same offense - against a purple defense that has been as stingy as any in the country through Clemson and Tech. Home has won the last six in the series. Purple has not left Oxford with a win since the 2019 title year. Morgan Freeman is the GameDay guest picker. Mounted cops are in from Alabama. The lawsuit papers already hit the parking lot earlier in the week. None of that needs a refresher.</p><p><br data-mce-bogus="1"></p><p>Kiffin's Monday line still hangs over the bus: the hatred is on him, the pressure is on them, purple just gets to play. Oxford will try to make that a lie for three hours. Chambliss does not give the ball away. Lacy hits downhill. Golding knows Kiffin's offense from three years of practice tape. Blake Baker's defense has not faced a backfield like this yet. If Leavitt is truly clean, purple has its engine. If the week's drama was theater, the Grove will still boo the headset either way.</p><p><br data-mce-bogus="1"></p><p>Kick is tonight. The sheet is quiet. The town is not. Bring the Magnolia Bowl back to Baton Rouge - or spend Sunday explaining Oxford again.</p><p><br data-mce-bogus="1"></p><p>Related</p><p><a href="https://capitolandcleats.com/blog/leavitts-not-doubtful-anymore-hes-questionable-and-oxford-is-tomorrow">https://capitolandcleats.com/blog/leavitts-not-doubtful-anymore-hes-questionable-and-oxford-is-tomorrow</a></p><p>https://capitolandcleats.com/blog/oxford-is-not-going-to-be-polite-about-this</p>

Leavitt’s off the sheet. Kick is tonight. Oxford is already loud.

<p>Neal Shipley’s 62 turned the Biltmore Championship into a one-name leaderboard through 36.</p><p><br></p><p>By Rhett Landry</p><p><br></p><p>Neal Shipley just turned Friday at Walnut Cove into a statement day.</p><p><br></p><p>The Cliffs at Walnut Cove gave up a 62, Shipley signed for nine under on the round, and the FedExCup Fall opener suddenly has a clear number at the top of the board: 15 under through 36. Ben Kohles is right there at 14 under after a 63 of his own. Everybody else is chasing.</p><p><br></p><p>That is a long way from Thursday’s co-lead. Eric Cole and Max Greyserman opened with matching 64s. Cole posted a 68 Friday and slipped to solo fifth at 10 under. Greyserman’s 67 kept him tied for third at 11 under with Ricky Castillo, who ripped a 62 of his own after an opening 69. Seamus Power is in the mix at nine under (66-67), tied for sixth with Jackson Suber, Jacob Bridgeman, and Pontus Nyholm.</p><p><br></p><p>The cut landed at three under. Plenty of names who showed up in Asheville for a Fall start will be watching the weekend from the couch.</p><p><br></p><p>Shipley’s round had the kind of early fireworks that change a leaderboard before lunch — birdie, birdie, eagle — and he never really let the day cool off. Kohles answered with eight under of his own. When two guys go nuclear on the same Friday, the rest of the field gets a simple memo: you are already a shot or two behind before Saturday’s tee sheet even prints.</p><p><br></p><p>Weekend golf in the mountains, preferred lies still in play after the rain, and a leaderboard that finally has a name in bold at the top. Shipley’s got the stick. Kohles has one shot. Castillo and Greyserman are the first names in the chase pack. Cole’s still in the room. Power made the cut and gets two more days at it.</p><p><br></p><p>Saturday at Walnut Cove should be loud.</p><p><br></p><p>Related</p><p>https://capitolandcleats.com/blog/the-tours-back-in-the-mountains-greyserman-and-cole-own-round-1</p><p>https://capitolandcleats.com/blog/leavitts-not-doubtful-anymore-hes-questionable-and-oxford-is-tomorrow</p>

Shipley owns Friday at Walnut Cove. Fifteen under. Everybody else is chasing.

<p>Thursday’s SEC sheet moved the Magnolia Bowl from panic to a coin flip under center.</p><p><br data-mce-bogus="1"></p><p>By Rhett Landry</p><p><br data-mce-bogus="1"></p><p>Twenty-four hours after No. 10 hit the first availability report as doubtful, Sam Leavitt is back to questionable. Field Level Media and WAFB both had the Thursday upgrade. Matt Moscona reported back spasms kept him out of Wednesday’s workout and that he returned Thursday morning. CBS and On3 still talk throwing-shoulder soreness. The SEC sheet does not name the body part. It names the odds: questionable means about a 50 percent chance. Fridays report and the final sheet ninety minutes before kick still decide whether purple’s dual-threat starter walks into the Vaught or whether Landen Clark / Husan Longstreet inherit the Grove noise.</p><p><br data-mce-bogus="1"></p><p>That is the only update that matters one day out. Everything else was already loud. No. 7 LSU at No. 8 Ole Miss, 6:30 p.m. CT Saturday on ABC. College GameDay in The Grove from 8 a.m. CT — Morgan Freeman as guest picker, Pete Golding live on set, first Grove show since 2021, per ESPN’s press shop. First top-10 LSU–Ole Miss meeting since 1962. Home has won the last six in the series. Purple has not left Oxford with a win since the 2019 title year. Kiffin walks into the building he left.</p><p><br data-mce-bogus="1"></p><p>Troopers are tripled. The lawsuit papers already hit the parking lot. None of that changed Thursday. The quarterback designation did.</p><p><br data-mce-bogus="1"></p><p>T.J. Dottery stays questionable. Tylen Singleton bumped to probable. Whit Weeks and Trey’Dez Green came off the sheet in some write-ups. Three players remain out. Ole Miss is still bringing Trinidad Chambliss and Kewan Lacy into the teeth of a defense that has been as mean as any in the country through two weeks. If Leavitt goes, purple has its dual-threat engine. If he does not, Clark’s mop-up 7-of-10 for 109 and a score is the depth chart on paper — and Oxford is not mop-up.</p><p><br data-mce-bogus="1"></p><p>Lane Kiffin did not put Leavitt on the Monday podium and did not put him on the Thursday radio show. Oxford staff sources told ESPN they were skeptical of the original doubtful tag. Fine. Argue gamesmanship on Monday. Tomorrow is about whether No. 10 is under center when the Stripe Out hits kickoff.</p><p><br data-mce-bogus="1"></p><p>One more availability report tonight. Then the bus. Then The Grove. Then we find out if questionable meant ready — or just closer than doubtful.</p><p><br data-mce-bogus="1"></p><p>Related</p><p><a href="https://capitolandcleats.com/blog/sam-leavitt-is-doubtful-oxford-just-got-louder">https://capitolandcleats.com/blog/sam-leavitt-is-doubtful-oxford-just-got-louder</a></p><p>https://capitolandcleats.com/blog/oxford-is-not-going-to-be-polite-about-this</p>

Leavitt’s not doubtful anymore. He’s questionable — and Oxford is tomorrow.

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  <h2>This Week’s Lines</h2>
  <p class="sub">Mon Sep 21, 2026 · DraftKings via ESPN · Lines move · 21+</p>
  <h3>College Football — Week 4</h3>
  <div class="row"><div><div class="g"><a href="https://www.espn.com/college-football/game/_/gameId/401856702" target="_blank" rel="noopener">No. 23 Texas A&amp;M at No. 10 LSU</a></div><div class="m">Sat Sep 26, 5:30 p.m. MT · ABC</div></div><div class="l">LSU -9.5 / O/U 52.5</div></div>
  <div class="row"><div><div class="g"><a href="https://www.espn.com/college-football/game/_/gameId/401856704" target="_blank" rel="noopener">No. 1 Texas at No. 14 Tennessee</a></div><div class="m">Sat Sep 26, 10:00 a.m. MT · ABC</div></div><div class="l">TEX -4.5 / O/U 56.5</div></div>
  <div class="row"><div><div class="g"><a href="https://www.espn.com/college-football/game/_/gameId/401856699" target="_blank" rel="noopener">No. 4 Ole Miss at No. 21 Florida</a></div><div class="m">Sat Sep 26, 1:30 p.m. MT · ABC</div></div><div class="l">FLA -3.5 / O/U 60.5</div></div>
  <div class="row"><div><div class="g"><a href="https://www.espn.com/college-football/game/_/gameId/401858469" target="_blank" rel="noopener">No. 20 Oregon at No. 12 USC</a></div><div class="m">Sat Sep 26, 5:30 p.m. MT · NBC</div></div><div class="l">ORE -3 / O/U 62.5</div></div>
  <div class="row"><div><div class="g"><a href="https://www.espn.com/college-football/game/_/gameId/401858463" target="_blank" rel="noopener">No. 17 Iowa at No. 18 Michigan</a></div><div class="m">Sat Sep 26, 1:30 p.m. MT · CBS</div></div><div class="l">MICH -5.5 / O/U 38.5</div></div>
  <div class="row"><div><div class="g"><a href="https://www.espn.com/college-football/game/_/gameId/401856703" target="_blank" rel="noopener">No. 19 Missouri at No. 24 Mississippi State</a></div><div class="m">Sat Sep 26, 5:45 p.m. MT · SEC Network</div></div><div class="l">MSST -6.5 / O/U 58.5</div></div>
  <h3>NFL — Week 3</h3>
  <div class="row"><div><div class="g"><a href="https://www.espn.com/nfl/game/_/gameId/401872951" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Houston at Indianapolis</a></div><div class="m">Sun Sep 27, 11:00 a.m. MT · CBS</div></div><div class="l">HOU -3 / O/U 43.5</div></div>
  <div class="row"><div><div class="g"><a href="https://www.espn.com/nfl/game/_/gameId/401872960" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Baltimore vs Dallas (Brazil)</a></div><div class="m">Sun Sep 27, 2:25 p.m. MT · CBS</div></div><div class="l">BAL -3 / O/U 52.5</div></div>
  <div class="row"><div><div class="g"><a href="https://www.espn.com/nfl/game/_/gameId/401872959" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Minnesota at Tampa Bay</a></div><div class="m">Sun Sep 27, 2:05 p.m. MT · FOX</div></div><div class="l">MIN -1.5 / O/U 42.5</div></div>
  <div class="row"><div><div class="g"><a href="https://www.espn.com/nfl/game/_/gameId/401872962" target="_blank" rel="noopener">L.A. Rams at Denver</a></div><div class="m">Sun Sep 27, 6:20 p.m. MT · NBC</div></div><div class="l">LAR -2.5 / O/U 45.5</div></div>
  <div class="row"><div><div class="g"><a href="https://www.espn.com/nfl/game/_/gameId/401872949" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Carolina at Cleveland</a></div><div class="m">Sun Sep 27, 11:00 a.m. MT · FOX</div></div><div class="l">CAR -3 / O/U 42.5</div></div>
  <div class="row"><div><div class="g"><a href="https://www.espn.com/nfl/game/_/gameId/401872957" target="_blank" rel="noopener">New England at Jacksonville</a></div><div class="m">Sun Sep 27, 11:00 a.m. MT · CBS</div></div><div class="l">JAX -3 / O/U 44.5</div></div>
  <p class="note">LSU / Texans / Cowboys always on. Week 2 NFL finals off board. Source: DraftKings via ESPN site.api Sep 21. Closest NFL: MIN 1.5, LAR 2.5, CAR 3, JAX 3. Never invent.</p>
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