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<p>Gold Fills the Valley. The First SEC Win Still Has to Be Taken.</p><p><br data-mce-bogus="1"></p><p>No. 10 LSU hosts No. 23 Texas A&amp;M on Wear Gold / Champions Day — Fridays report thins the Aggies’ backfield, and Death Valley opens the home SEC book tonight.</p><p><br data-mce-bogus="1"></p><p>By Rhett Landry</p><p><br data-mce-bogus="1"></p><p>BATON ROUGE — The lots opened at 7 a.m. The gold is already walking campus. No. 10 LSU (21, 0–1 SEC) finally gets its first home SEC night of 2026, and No. 23 Texas A&amp;M (2–1, 0–1 SEC) is the visitor walking into Tiger Stadium on ABC with the same empty league column purple is carrying out of Oxford.</p><p><br data-mce-bogus="1"></p><p>This is Wear Gold. This is Champions Day. Louisiana Sports posted the full stadium clock Saturday morning: Victory Hill in the late afternoon, guest captains Jarvis Landry, Early Doucet, and Brad Wing before the Golden Band’s pregame, then kickoff at 6:44 p.m. CT. The TV window has said 6:30 all week. The stadium timeline says the ball comes out a few minutes later. Either way, the lights are for real, and both sides are still hunting that first SEC win after LSU’s 32–24 loss at Ole Miss and A&amp;Ms 31–21 home drop to Kentucky.</p><p><br data-mce-bogus="1"></p><p>Friday’s SEC availability report did not rewrite LSU’s board. Tight end Trey’Dez Green, safety Dashawn Spears, and wideout Phillip Wright III remain out. Corner Ja’Keem Jackson stays questionable. Tamarcus Cooley is off the report after Thursday’s upgrade — he is available, which matters with Spears done for the year and the star spot already a patch job. That is the same thinned roster this desk has been writing all week. Game day does not invent healthy bodies.</p><p><br data-mce-bogus="1"></p><p>The new line on the other sideline is the backfield. Texas A&amp;M running back Jamarion Morrow was downgraded from questionable to doubtful on Friday’s report, per KBTX and the TigerHype write-up of the SEC list. Wideout Terry Bussey is out. Ashton Bethel-Roman remains questionable. A final report still drops 90 minutes before kick, so statuses can still move. Until then, the Aggies Friday news is Morrow’s downgrade — a thinner rotation around Marcel Reed on a night when Death Valley is already loud enough without gifts.</p><p><br data-mce-bogus="1"></p><p>Oxford still sits on the film. The crowd does not care. Gold fills the bowl, the band marches the hill, and the first league win in this building is still sitting there for whoever takes it. Kick is tonight. Take it.</p>

Gold Fills the Valley. The First SEC Win Still Has to Be Taken.

<p>The Court let the government check who is on the rolls. Good.</p><p><br data-mce-bogus="1"></p><p>Six weeks from a midterm, the Supreme Court did something simple. It let the federal government resume checking voter citizenship against Social Security records.</p><p><br data-mce-bogus="1"></p><p>An unsigned opinion paused a June order from a D.C. federal judge that had shut down Homeland Security’s overhaul of the SAVE program. That overhaul added Social Security data and bulk searches. The League of Women Voters and the Electronic Privacy Information Center sued. The majority said those groups may have standing, but they are unlikely to win. A 1996 immigration statute lets the department get citizenship data from Social Security “notwithstanding any other provision” of law.</p><p><br data-mce-bogus="1"></p><p>That is the law talking. Not a mood.</p><p><br data-mce-bogus="1"></p><p>Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson dissented, joined by Justices Sotomayor and Kagan. She called the interim ruling “questionable, complained about incomplete briefing, and warned about harm to lawful voters — naturalized citizens with stale Social Security files. Fair warning. Fix the files. Do not ban the check.</p><p><br data-mce-bogus="1"></p><p>The administration told the Court the system had already verified more than 65 million voters in 26 states as citizens and flagged 28,635 as possible noncitizens. Those are the numbers they put on paper. Critics say the data can err. So can a roll that never gets tested.</p><p><br data-mce-bogus="1"></p><p>Federal law still bars states from mass removals of ineligible voters in the 90 days before a federal election. The majority noted that limit. Individual checks remain. A December argument will ask whether that 90-day bar covers removing noncitizens. Until then, the country can still ask a basic question: is this person a citizen?</p><p><br data-mce-bogus="1"></p><p>Privacy is not a shield for a blank box on citizenship. States run elections. The federal government may answer a lawful data request. A court that treats verification as a scandal has forgotten what a republic is for.</p><p><br data-mce-bogus="1"></p><p>November 3 will decide Congress. Clean rolls are not a conspiracy. They are maintenance. Run the checks. Argue the hard cases in December. Do not pretend asking for citizenship is the crime.</p>

Citizenship is not a privacy violation

<p>The Internationals sweep Friday foursomes 5–0 at Medinah and flip the Presidents Cup board to a 7–3 lead.</p><p><br></p><p>Medinah woke up with the Americans ahead by a point. It went to bed with the Internationals holding a four-point lead and five clean foursomes wins in the book.</p><p><br></p><p>Session 2 at the Presidents Cup finished Friday as a shutout. The International Team took all five alternate-shot matches and flipped the board from a 3–2 U.S. edge after Thursday’s four-ball to a 7–3 International lead heading into the weekend at Medinah Country Club outside Chicago.</p><p><br></p><p>Corey Conners and Nick Taylor got the first one, knocking off Scottie Scheffler and Sam Burns 1-up in the opener. Sungjae Im and Hideki Matsuyama followed with a 3-and-2 win over Russell Henley and Jacob Bridgeman. Ryan Fox and Min Woo Lee edged Collin Morikawa and Wyndham Clark 1-up. Adam Scott and Christiaan Bezuidenhout beat Justin Thomas and Cameron Young 3 and 2. Tom Kim and Si Woo Kim closed it out 4 and 3 against Patrick Cantlay and Xander Schauffele.</p><p><br></p><p>That is a full session, and it is the kind of day that changes how a Cup feels. The U.S. still has Saturday’s double session and Sunday singles left, and the first team to 15½ points takes the trophy. But Friday’s foursomes belonged entirely to the visitors.</p><p><br></p><p>Across the Atlantic, the FedEx Open de France wrapped Round 2 at Le Golf National. Matt Fitzpatrick held the halfway lead at 13 under after a 64, one clear of Jeff Winther. Defending champion Michael Kim sat third at 11 under after a 68. Ryan Gerard was among those tied for fourth.</p><p><br></p><p>Back in Illinois, the scoreboard is the story. Thursday’s narrow American lead is gone. The Internationals own the Friday card, and Medinah waits on Saturday to see whether the hosts can climb back into this Cup.</p>

Sweep That Flipped Medinah

<p>Cooley Cleared — Now Come the Lights</p><p><br data-mce-bogus="1"></p><p>Thursday’s availability report clears Tamarcus Cooley for Saturday’s ABC night against Texas A&amp;M as both sides chase a first SEC win.</p><p><br data-mce-bogus="1"></p><p>By Rhett Landry</p><p><br data-mce-bogus="1"></p><p>No. 10 LSU (2–1, 0–1 SEC) hosts No. 23 Texas A&amp;M (2–1, 0–1 SEC) Saturday at 6:30 p.m. CT on ABC in Death Valley. It is the first meeting between Lane Kiffin and Mike Elko as opposing head coaches, and both sides already own an SEC loss they would rather forget.</p><p><br data-mce-bogus="1"></p><p>Thursday’s SEC availability report handed the Tigers a real lift. Starting safety Tamarcus Cooley, listed questionable Wednesday, came off the report entirely — the usual sign he will be available Saturday, per The Times-Picayune / NOLA.com and And The Valley Shook. With Dashawn Spears done for the year after a torn ACL at Ole Miss, Cooley is the body you need upright if you are stacking another piece into that STAR role. Corner Ja’Keem Jackson remains questionable. Tight end Trey’Dez Green, Spears, and receiver Phillip Wright III are out. Spears and Wright are season-enders; Green’s mother said on social media the tight end avoided ligament tears after the Ole Miss hit, and Kiffin has not put a return date on him (NOLA.com).</p><p><br data-mce-bogus="1"></p><p>Across the ball, Elko has already confirmed do-it-all receiver Terry Bussey is out for the season. Running back Jamarion Morrow and receiver Ashton Bethel-Roman stay questionable on the Aggies’ side of the Thursday report (Sports Illustrated).</p><p><br data-mce-bogus="1"></p><p>Both teams are hunting a first league win before October. LSU fell 32–24 at Ole Miss after crawling out of a 24–7 hole. Texas A&amp;M dropped a home game to Kentucky, 31–21. ESPN has Sam Leavitt at 732 yards, three touchdowns, and five interceptions through three games, with Dilin Jones leading the rush at 285 yards and three scores. Marcel Reed sits at 632 yards, six touchdowns, and three interceptions for A&amp;M after a rough night against Kentucky.</p><p><br data-mce-bogus="1"></p><p>The Aggies have won the last two meetings, including a 49–25 trip through Baton Rouge last season&nbsp; A&amp;M’s first win in Death Valley since 1994 (KBTX). That history walks into Tiger Stadium with them. The crowd walks in louder.</p><p><br data-mce-bogus="1"></p><p>Saturday night. ABC. Two boards at 0–1. Cooley cleared. The rest of the holes are still holes. Death Valley does not care about your depth chart once the lights hit.</p><p><br data-mce-bogus="1"></p>

Cooley Cleared — Now Come the Lights

<p>The U.S. closes Presidents Cup Day 1 four-ball 3-2 at Medinah. In Paris, Michael Kim opens the FedEx Open de France with a bogey-free 63.</p><p><br data-mce-bogus="1"></p><p>Thursday finally put a scoreboard on the Presidents Cup, and it did not come gift-wrapped for the United States.</p><p><br data-mce-bogus="1"></p><p>At Medinah Country Club’s Course No. 3 outside Chicago, Brandt Snedeker’s U.S. side took three of five four-ball matches and closed the opening session 3-2 over Geoff Ogilvy’s Internationals. Thirty points are on the table across four days. First team to 15.5 walks off with the cup. The Americans are chasing an 11th straight win in an event they own historically — 13-1-1 overall, with the Internationals’ only outright title still sitting in 1998 — and a one-point cushion after Day 1 is a start, not a coronation.</p><p><br data-mce-bogus="1"></p><p>The opener delivered the day’s tightest drama. World No. 1 Scottie Scheffler and Sam Burns, a pair that had been 0-3-1 together in prior Presidents Cup and Ryder Cup action, edged Min Woo Lee and Sungjae Im, 1-up. Im and Lee missed chances to seize the lead on Nos. 10 through 12. Burns answered Im’s birdie at the water-laden 13th with a dart at 14. On 17, Lee had to hole an eight-footer for par after Im’s long birdie attempt ran well by. At the last, Scheffler got up-and-down from a short-sided bunker to tap-in range, and Im’s 41-foot birdie try to salvage a half carried too much speed. Full point, U.S.</p><p><br data-mce-bogus="1"></p><p>Japan answered in Match 2. Hideki Matsuyama and Ryo Hisatsune — only the second all-Japanese pairing in Presidents Cup history — took down Cameron Young and Xander Schauffele, 3 and 1. Young found water with an approach; Schauffele could not save the hole. The Internationals won the ninth to go 2-up and never gave the lead back.</p><p><br data-mce-bogus="1"></p><p>Justin Thomas and Presidents Cup rookie Jackson Koivun posted the Americans’ first point of the week, closing Corey Conners and Nico Echavarria 4 and 3. Thomas moves to 11-3-2 overall in this event and a perfect 7-0-0 in four-ball. Koivun birdied the par-5 third, yanked one out of bounds on the fourth, and got bailed out by Thomas birdies at four and five before finding his footing again. Thomas birdied 14 and 15 to finish it.</p><p><br data-mce-bogus="1"></p><p>Wyndham Clark and Collin Morikawa guaranteed the U.S. the session with a 3-and-2 win over Ryan Fox and Adam Scott. Clark birdied three of the first four holes and led the field Thursday in strokes gained putting. Morikawa nearly aced the par-3 16th; Scott answered with a 15-foot birdie that still was not enough.</p><p><br data-mce-bogus="1"></p><p>The Internationals’ second point came from the Kim pairing. Tom Kim and Si Woo Kim never really let Chris Gotterup and Patrick Cantlay settle, recovering after the Americans got the match back to all square on six and closing it 3 and 2. Tom Kim nearly aced the 165-yard 16th to punctuate it.</p><p><br data-mce-bogus="1"></p><p>Friday shifts to foursomes at Medinah. Same cup. Same slim American lead. Plenty of golf left.</p><p><br data-mce-bogus="1"></p><p>Elsewhere on Thursday, the FedEx Open de France opened at Le Golf National outside Paris. Defending champion Michael Kim posted a bogey-free 8-under 63 — eight birdies, first trip around the renovated venue after last year’s win came at Saint-Nom-La-Bretèche — and leads by two. Seven players share second at 65: Jason Scrivener, Kristoffer Reitan, Thriston Lawrence, Matteo Manassero, Gregorio De Leo, Matt Fitzpatrick, and Sam Bairstow. Viktor Hovland and Ryan Gerard sit at 67. Tommy Fleetwood opened with a 69.</p><p><br data-mce-bogus="1"></p><p>Two boards. One Thursday. Medinah has the cup on the line; Paris has a title defense already two clear.</p>

Narrow Lead at Medinah

<p>Wednesday’s SEC availability report did what Monday’s pressers only hinted at. Tight end Trey’Dez Green is OUT for Saturday. Safety Dashawn Spears is OUT. Wideout Phillip Wright III is OUT. Corner Ja’Keem Jackson is doubtful. Safety Tamarcus Cooley is questionable. That is the board No. 10 LSU (2–1, 0–1 SEC) carries into a 6:30 p.m. CT ABC night against No. 23 Texas A&amp;M (2–1, 0–1) in Tiger Stadium — first SEC win still sitting there for whoever takes it.</p><p>Green’s OUT line was the one everybody waited on. The Zachary tight end leads the Tigers with 222 receiving yards on 14 catches. He left Oxford early in the fourth after a catch-and-run, and his mother’s Sunday Facebook note — MRI with no torn ligaments, no surgery, “some bad sprains and bruises, miss “some games” — was the best version of bad news September hands you. KBTX and And The Valley Shook both logged him OUT on the first midweek sheet. Spears, the Denham Springs junior who started the first three, is already done for the year with the ACL. Wright III is season-ending too. Depth is not a slogan this week. It is the depth chart.</p><p>Lane Kiffin spent Wednesday talking about the other half of the Oxford hangover: Sam Leavitt. Protection, crowd noise, music playing through the snap with the center’s hand on the ball — those were Kiffin’s words on why the night got ragged under center, per WWL/Audacy’s Jeff Palermo. “So there are a lot of things to improve on around him and he’ll do better and play better this week.” Fair. Death Valley is supposed to flip that script. The visitor hears the noise. The home center does not.</p><p>Mike Elko’s Aggies bring their own sheet. Terry Bussey is OUT for the season after the Kentucky kickoff. Running back Jamarion Morrow and wideout Ashton Bethel-Roman are questionable after missing that 31–21 home loss, per KBTX’s Wednesday report. Elko’s line to the media this week was process over panic: go back to work, prove Kentucky wasn’t who they are. Marcel Reed still walks into Baton Rouge with two straight wins over purple on the ledger and legs that Tuesday’s Field already spent a full column trying to cage. The injury sheet does not erase that tape. It just tells you who will not be on the grass when the lights come up.</p><p>So Thursday is simple. Green sits. Spears sits. Wright sits. Jackson is a doubt. Cooley is a question. Purple still has to make Tiger Stadium feel like Saturday night against a ranked visitor that wants the same first conference win. The availability report already told the truth. Death Valley has to answer it.</p>

Green Is Officially Out. Spears Too. Death Valley Still Opens Saturday.

<p>CNN, MS NOW, and Politico get their hard passes back for 14 days while the lawsuit moves.</p><p><br data-mce-bogus="1"></p><p>A federal judge ordered early Thursday that the White House restore access for CNN, MS NOW, and Politico. NBC News reported U.S. District Judge Timothy Kelly granted a 14-day temporary restraining order, finding President Donald Trumps ban on the three outlets was likely unconstitutional and that their credentials were pulled without due process. That is not a final win. It is a court telling the executive branch it cannot freeze out reporters for the tone of their coverage and call it process.</p><p><br data-mce-bogus="1"></p><p>I write this with a baby monitor somewhere in the house. Press access is not a media club fight. It is how parents find out what the White House is doing on war, taxes, and schools before the spin hardens. Trump announced the ban on Truth Social last Friday, citing “FAKE NEWS,” per NBC News. Kelly rejected the later national-security gloss, BBC News reported, noting the record did not show that yanking those hard passes would protect security.</p><p><br data-mce-bogus="1"></p><p>The Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press, the White House Correspondents’ Association, and a group of 49 news organizations filed a brief backing the outlets, NBC News said. Empathy for a president who hates hostile coverage is human. Excusing a ban that skips the rules courts already set for hard-pass revocations is not. The White House sent letters Tuesday offering written contests by Friday. Kelly still found the process inadequate under D.C. Circuit precedent.</p><p><br data-mce-bogus="1"></p><p>On Capitol Hill, the contrast is sharp. The Hill reported Senate Majority Leader John Thune saying banning outlets is “not my policy, and that the courts will decide the White House fight. Senate Republicans told The Hill they are fine with reporters moving freely around the Capitol even as the White House tried to lock three doors. That split matters. One branch still lets the public’s proxies ask questions in the hallway.</p><p><br data-mce-bogus="1"></p><p>Fourteen days is short. The lawsuit continues. If the ban comes back without real standards published in advance, voters should treat that as the story, not the insults on Truth Social. Kids grow up under whoever holds the briefing room. They deserve more than a guest list written in anger.</p><figure id="figure-hn6djv4wygmufkldzf"><img id="hn6djv4wygmufkldzf" src="https://cdn.durable.co/blocks/24be3VZ8qBJ0LF46OjhDx87F4GRcLtbWetIQ9Dy4XrEWj6ZbQcfkVuZD5ys0eHNc.png" alt="" title="" class="object-cover bg-gray-100 " style="aspect-ratio: 16/9; object-position: center center;" data-corners="default" data-aspect="16:9" data-caption="" data-positionX="undefined" data-positionY="undefined" data-fullWidth="false"/></figure>

A Judge Just Put the White House Press Ban on Ice

<p>BATON ROUGE — Oxford still sits in the film room like a bad tooth. No. 10 LSU (2–1, 0–1 SEC) erased a 24–7 hole against No. 8 Ole Miss, tied it at 24, then watched Trinidad Chambliss finish a 32–24 Magnolia Bowl that Lane Kiffin told the local media Monday was “right there to be won.” Two open guys in the end zone. A field goal from the three. An interception with under a minute. “Tell the Truth Monday” under Kiffin — the old Orgeron staple — did not soft-pedal any of it.</p><p><br data-mce-bogus="1"></p><p>Then the roster news landed harder than the scoreboard.</p><p><br data-mce-bogus="1"></p><p>Dashawn Spears, the junior star from Denham Springs who had started all three games, is done for the year with a torn ACL in his left knee. Kiffin called him “a really unique player” and “a special player” and admitted it is “going to be a really tough loss.” Trey’Dez Green, the Zachary tight end who leads LSU with 222 receiving yards on 14 catches, is expected to miss Saturday against Texas A&amp;M and possibly a game or two after that — no torn ligaments, per Tiger Rag sourcing, which is the best version of bad news you get in September. Phillip Wright III is already season-ending. Reliford and Anding never made it out of the preseason. Kiffin’s count Monday: fifth and sixth guys lost for the year since he got here. “That’s a crazy number. It’s unfortunate.” Sophomore CJ Jimcoily and redshirt freshman Jhase Thomas are the names at star. Matt Grace and Malachi Thomas are the TE depth Kiffin said you sign for nights like this.</p><p><br data-mce-bogus="1"></p><p>That is the board. Wednesday is not about pretending otherwise.</p><p><br data-mce-bogus="1"></p><p>It is about what the locker room said when the mics came back on.</p><p><br data-mce-bogus="1"></p><p>Wideout Winnie Watkins Jr. and safety Ty Benefield faced the media Tuesday (Reveille, Sept. 23) with the only posture that works after an SEC opener that got away. “We put that in the past,” Benefield said. “The locker room is ready to go for A&amp;M.” Watkins: “We definitely gotta come together and just understand that if we went 0-1 we gotta find a way to get back to our self. We got a long season, we gotta keep stacking days.” On Green: “I’m telling everybody keep praying for him, keep Trey’Dez in your prayers. It’s a very unfortunate thing that happened.” Benefield again, when the conversation turned to whoever lines up across from him Saturday: “I want to go against the best competition. I don’t care who’s in front of me.” And the line that belongs on a locker-room wall: he wants “all parts of any fight.”</p><p><br data-mce-bogus="1"></p><p>Good. Because No. 23 Texas A&amp;M (2–1, 0–1 SEC) is walking into Death Valley on Saturday at 6:30 p.m. CT on ABC looking for the same first SEC win LSU is. The Aggies fell 31–21 to Kentucky and tumbled from No. 9. Terry Bussey is out for the season. Marcel Reed remains the problem with legs — Tuesday’s Field already spent a full column on whether purple can put a cage on them — and Benefield’s “best competition” line is the defensive answer without replaying that tape. This week’s job is simpler and meaner: stack the days, fill the holes, and make Tiger Stadium do what it does on a Saturday night when both sides are 0–1 in the league and bleeding bodies.</p><p><br data-mce-bogus="1"></p><p>Ed Orgeron, ill for weeks and missing practices and all three games, was heard booming from the football ops building after Kiffin’s Monday session. Tiger Rag floated that he may have a chance to be on the sideline Saturday. If Coach O’s voice is back in the valley while Jimcoily and Thomas try to wear Spears’ star and Grace/Thomas try to wear Green’s snaps, that is not nostalgia — that is the week.</p><p><br data-mce-bogus="1"></p><p>Oxford haunted them on film. A&amp;M does not care. Death Valley starts at 6:30. Stack the days. Want all parts of the fight. First SEC win is still sitting there for whoever takes it.</p>

All Parts of the Fight: Purple Stacks Days With a Thinned Roster and Death Valley Waiting

<p>Monday’s column was the hangover. Tuesday is the homework. No. 10 LSU (2–1, 0–1 SEC) hosts No. 23 Texas A&amp;M (2–1, 0–1) Saturday at 6:30 p.m. CT on ABC in Tiger Stadium, and the midweek tape that matters is not another Oxford recap. It is Marcel Reed against a defensive front that has to keep him inside the white lines.</p><p><br data-mce-bogus="1"></p><p>Lane Kiffin put the numbers on the table after Oxford: in the last two meetings with the Tigers, Reed carried 22 times for 272 yards and five rushing touchdowns — just under eight yards a pop — while completing 14 of 23 for 272 yards and two scores through the air, per LSU Football Report’s presser write-up. That is why the buzzword this week is a cage rush, or a fence rush. Contain first. Chase second. Or Death Valley gets another purple-and-gold highlight reel that does not belong to purple and gold.</p><p><br data-mce-bogus="1"></p><p>Mike Elko’s Monday answer from Kyle Field was the other half of the week. Saturday against Kentucky “wasnt up to the standard,” he told the media on 12th Man’s LSU Game Week tape, and the challenge now is to respond on the road against a top-10 team in an electric environment. Fair. The Aggies still have Reed’s mobility after ten carries for 80 yards and a rushing score in that 31–21 home loss, and they still have two straight wins over LSU on the ledger. Elko is undefeated against the Tigers in two seasons at A&amp;M. That streak does not care about poll drops.</p><p><br data-mce-bogus="1"></p><p>The roster bruise that changes the script for Sam Leavitt is TreyDez Green. LSU Wire and Tiger Rag both tracked the Sunday update: MRI showed no ligament tears after the Oxford cart-off, but Green’s mother said he will miss some games with bad sprains and bruises. Kiffin called the Green and Dashawn Spears situations “not ideal for sure,” with Spears season-ending and Green’s Saturday availability still waiting on the Wednesday SEC report. Behind Green sit junior transfers Zach Grace and Malachi Thomas — neither had a catch in relief at Ole Miss. That is a different middle of the field if the 6-foot-7 leading receiver (222 yards entering the week) is in street clothes when Reed walks into Death Valley.</p><p><br data-mce-bogus="1"></p><p>So the midweek ask is concrete. Can Blake Baker’s front fence Reed the way Kentucky could not? Can Leavitt find the next body when Green is out? Can purple answer a 0–1 SEC start at home under the lights instead of arguing about rankings that already moved? Saturday night does the grading. The homework started yesterday.</p>

The week is about Marcel Reed’s legs — and whether purple can put a cage on them.

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  <h2>This Week’s Lines</h2>
  <p class="sub">Sat Sep 26, 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 · total moved 53.552.5</div></div><div class="l">LSU -8.5 / 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</div></div><div class="l">TEX -5.5 / O/U 54.5</div></div>
  <div class="row"><div><div class="g"><a href="https://www.espn.com/college-football/game/_/gameId/401856700" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Oklahoma at No. 2 Georgia</a></div><div class="m">Sat Sep 26, 1:30 p.m. MT</div></div><div class="l">UGA -13.5 / O/U 44.5</div></div>
  <div class="row"><div><div class="g"><a href="https://www.espn.com/college-football/game/_/gameId/401858467" target="_blank" rel="noopener">No. 3 Notre Dame at Purdue</a></div><div class="m">Sat Sep 26, 12:00 p.m. MT</div></div><div class="l">ND -27.5 / O/U 57.5</div></div>
  <div class="row"><div><div class="g"><a href="https://www.espn.com/college-football/story/_/id/50032888/ole-miss-rb-kewan-lacy-not-expected-play-vs-florida" 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  Lacy not expected (ESPN)</div></div><div class="l">FLA -3.5 / O/U 58.5</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</div></div><div class="l">ORE -3.5 / O/U 61.5</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 · Collins out (ESPN)</div></div><div class="l">HOU -1.5 / O/U 42.5</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 (Rio)</a></div><div class="m">Sun Sep 27, 2:25 p.m. MT</div></div><div class="l">BAL -3.5 / O/U 53.5</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</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/401872949" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Carolina at Cleveland</a></div><div class="m">Sun Sep 27, 11:00 a.m. MT</div></div><div class="l">CAR -2.5 / O/U 42.5</div></div>
  <div class="row"><div><div class="g"><a href="https://www.espn.com/nfl/game/_/gameId/401872956" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Tennessee at N.Y. Giants</a></div><div class="m">Sun Sep 27, 11:00 a.m. MT</div></div><div class="l">NYG -2.5 / O/U 37.5</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  SNF</div></div><div class="l">LAR -2.5 / O/U 44.5</div></div>
  <p class="note">LSU / Texans / Cowboys always on. Mon Sep 21 slate replaced: LSU total 52.5 hold / spread to -8.5; OU@UGA + ND@Purdue on; NFL closest now MIN/CAR/NYG/LAR; TNF ATL@GB final off. Source: DraftKings via ESPN site.api Sat Sep 26 ~8:13 AM MT (Football Bot). Never invent.</p>
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