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<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.

<p>Nearly two million ballots were not enough.</p><p><br></p><p>By Everett Kane</p><p><br></p><p>Washington voters passed Initiative 2066 in November 2024. Nearly two million of them. The measure protected natural gas as an energy choice and pushed back on mandates that raise the cost of heat, kitchens, and small business. The Building Industry Association of Washington gathered more than half a million signatures in six weeks to put it on the ballot.</p><p><br></p><p>On Thursday, the Washington Supreme Court killed it 6–3.</p><p><br></p><p>The majority said I-2066 violated the state Constitution’s single-subject rule. Four distinct subjects, they wrote — gas access, air regulators, building codes, and a Decarbonization Act severability piece — packed into one initiative. They said they could not tell which parts voters would have passed alone, so the whole thing dies. No severing. No salvage. Final word under state law.</p><p><br></p><p>Justice Salvador Mungia dissented for thirty pages. The first power the people reserved, he wrote, was the initiative. Courts should not give that power lip service. When citizens disagree with the legislature, they get to restrict it — if they stay inside the Constitution.</p><p><br></p><p>The greens celebrated. Washington Conservation Action called it a win for a healthy, affordable future. The Sierra Club called the initiative logrolling. Seattles city attorney said a “slender statewide majority” had been “deceptively engineered.” That is elite talk for the voters lost.</p><p><br></p><p>Greg Lane of BIAW said the goal posts keep moving and the court will step in to protect government from the people. Anthony Anton of the Washington Hospitality Association said nearly two million voters understood what rising energy mandates do to a restaurant or a hotel. The underlying cost problem did not vanish with the opinion.</p><p><br></p><p>Single-subject rules exist for a reason. Logrolling is real. So is a judiciary that treats a statewide majority as an inconvenience whenever the product is fossil fuel. If the ballot title was dirty, say so and send it back clean. Do not teach voters that the safest energy vote is the one the court already likes.</p><p><br></p><p>Heat is not a seminar. Kitchens are not a press release. When a court voids two million votes on gas, the bill shows up as degrees and dollars. That is the consequence. Write another initiative if you must. Do not pretend the people never spoke.</p><p><br></p><p>Related</p><p><a href="https://capitolandcleats.com/blog/the-court-didnt-rewrite-november-it-refused-to" data-mce-href="https://capitolandcleats.com/blog/the-court-didnt-rewrite-november-it-refused-to">https://capitolandcleats.com/blog/the-court-didnt-rewrite-november-it-refused-to</a></p><p>https://capitolandcleats.com/blog/dallas-cheered-swing-seats-still-need-a-reason</p>

The people voted. The court erased it.

<p>FedExCup Fall opened at the Biltmore Championship with matching 64s at The Cliffs at Walnut Cove.</p><p><br data-mce-bogus="1"></p><p>By Rhett Landry</p><p><br data-mce-bogus="1"></p><p>The Tour is back in the mountains, and the FedExCup Fall opened with a green carpet at The Cliffs at Walnut Cove.</p><p><br data-mce-bogus="1"></p><p>Max Greyserman and Eric Cole shared the clubhouse lead Thursday after opening 7-under 64s at the Biltmore Championship in Asheville, the first of eight Fall events on the PGA Tour calendar. Six players sat one shot back at 6-under 65 — Ben Kohles, Chris Kirk, Mackenzie Hughes, Jackson Suber, Peter Malnati, and Neal Shipley — per the Tour’s Round 1 leaderboard.</p><p><br data-mce-bogus="1"></p><p>The course let the birdie hunters eat. Seamus Power, coming off a missed cut at the Amgen Irish Open, bogeyed the par-5 third, then piled up birdies the rest of the way for a 5-under 66 and a share of ninth, according to RTé Sport. Cam Davis, Pierceson Coody, Jacob Bridgeman, Harry Higgs, Austin Smotherman, Gordon Sargent, and Pontus Nyholm also checked in at 66.</p><p><br data-mce-bogus="1"></p><p>A few bigger names kept pace without grabbing the lead. Billy Horschel, Lucas Glover, and Nick Taylor were among a pack at 4-under 67. Tony Finau had a day he’d like to forget — 7-over 78&nbsp; while Rasmus Højgaard withdrew after posting 78.</p><p><br data-mce-bogus="1"></p><p>Three more rounds left in Asheville. Greyserman and Cole own the first tee marker; everybody else is chasing from Walnut Cove’s hills.</p><p><br data-mce-bogus="1"></p><p>Related:</p><p>- Sam Leavitt is doubtful: <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>- Oxford is not going to be polite: https://capitolandcleats.com/blog/oxford-is-not-going-to-be-polite-about-this</p>

The Tour’s back in the mountains. Greyserman and Cole own Round 1.

<p>LSU’s starting quarterback is on the first SEC availability report two days before the Magnolia Bowl — and purple still has to win in a stadium it hasn’t left with since 2019.</p><p><br data-mce-bogus="1"></p><p>By Rhett Landry</p><p><br data-mce-bogus="1"></p><p>The security story and the parking-lot lawsuit papers can wait a beat. Wednesday night’s first SEC availability report is the thing that actually changes Saturday. No. 7 LSU listed quarterback Sam Leavitt as doubtful for the trip to No. 8 Ole Miss, Field Level Media and CBS Sports both had it. Matt Zenitz reported an upper-body issue and that Leavitt did not throw in Wednesday’s practice. On3 had it as a sore throwing shoulder and limited work all week. He looked fine after the Tech win. He did not look fine on the sheet.</p><p><br data-mce-bogus="1"></p><p>Doubtful, under the league’s language, means roughly a 25 percent chance to play — unlikely, not dead. Updated reports land Thursday and Friday, with a final sheet ninety minutes before kickoff. Until then, every Oxford graphic has a new question mark under the visiting headset. Landen Clark, the Elon transfer, has been the No. 2 through two weeks: 7-of-10 for 109 yards and a touchdown in mop-up. That’s the depth chart on paper. Saturday night in the Vaught is not mop-up.</p><p><br data-mce-bogus="1"></p><p>The rest of the sheet still matters. Linebackers T.J. Dottery and Ty Singleton are questionable. Whit Weeks, Trey’Dez Green, Davhon Keys and Aliou Bah are probable. Three players are out. Ole Miss has its own nicks&nbsp; Makhi Frazier and Tommy Kinsler questionable — but the national eye just moved to purple’s quarterback room. Kick is still 6:30 p.m. CT Saturday on ABC. College GameDay is still in The Grove at 8 a.m. CT. Stripe Out. First top-10 LSUOle Miss meeting since 1962. First SEC game for both 2–0 clubs. All of that was already enough before Leavitt’s name hit doubtful.</p><p><br data-mce-bogus="1"></p><p>Lane Kiffin did not put an injury on the Monday podium. He put prep and poise there. Now the prep has a different problem: can you win the Magnolia Bowl if the guy who has started both games is limited or sidelined? Purple hasn’t left Oxford with a win since the 2019 title run. Chambliss and Lacy are waiting either way. The Grove will be rude either way. The difference is whether No. 10 is under center when the ball is kicked.</p><p><br data-mce-bogus="1"></p><p>Two days. Watch the Thursday sheet. Then the Friday sheet. Then the bus to Oxford.</p><p><br data-mce-bogus="1"></p><p>Related:</p><p>- Oxford is not going to be polite: <a href="https://capitolandcleats.com/blog/oxford-is-not-going-to-be-polite-about-this">https://capitolandcleats.com/blog/oxford-is-not-going-to-be-polite-about-this</a></p><p>- Kiffin won’t throw a touchdown: https://capitolandcleats.com/blog/kiffin-wont-throw-a-touchdown-chambliss-might</p>

Sam Leavitt is doubtful. Oxford just got louder.

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  <div class="row"><div><div class="g"><a href="https://www.espn.com/nfl/game/_/gameId/401872936" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Green Bay at N.Y. Jets</a></div><div class="m">Sun Sep 20, 11:00 a.m. MT  FOX</div></div><div class="l">GB -3.5 / O/U 44.5</div></div>
  <div class="row"><div><div class="g"><a href="https://www.espn.com/nfl/game/_/gameId/401872943" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Seattle at Arizona</a></div><div class="m">Sun Sep 20, 2:25 p.m. MT · FOX</div></div><div class="l">SEA -3.5 / O/U 40.5</div></div>
  <p class="note">Week 3 CFB board FINAL and off (Ole Miss 32–24 LSU close LSU -3/58.5; Louisville 41–31 SMU; Florida 44–39 Auburn; Clemson 28–20 UNC; Georgia 45–17 Arkansas; TTU 28–26 HOU Fri). Next full CFB five Monday. LSU / Texans / Cowboys always on. Closest NFL: CAR 2.5, DEN 2.5, GB 3.5, SEA 3.5. Source: DraftKings via ESPN. Never invent.</p>
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