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<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.

<p>No. 7 LSU walks into a tripled-trooper Magnolia Bowl&nbsp; Kiffin’s return, a parking-lot lawsuit serve, and Oxfords first top-10 LSU night.</p><p><br data-mce-bogus="1"></p><p>By Rhett Landry</p><p><br data-mce-bogus="1"></p><p>Oxford is not going to be polite about this.</p><p><br data-mce-bogus="1"></p><p>No. 7 LSU walks into Vaught-Hemingway on Saturday night as a 2-0 team that still has to prove it can win in that stadium. The Tigers have not left Oxford with a W since the 2019 national championship season. The series there sits knotted at 11-11-1. This one is also the first top-10 LSU–Ole Miss pairing in Oxford in the history of the place, and the first top-10 meeting in the whole rivalry since 1962. ABC gets the show. The SEC opener for both programs gets the weight.</p><p><br data-mce-bogus="1"></p><p>Lane Kiffin knows the soundtrack. He spent six seasons building Ole Miss into a playoff outfit, then took the LSU job last Nov. 30 — a week before the Rebels got their first College Football Playoff bid under the program he left behind. Pete Golding finished that run with CFP wins and a semifinal trip. Kiffin said this week he expects “hatred” when he comes back. He is not wrong. Oxford already booed him out at the airport in December. Mustard bottles and golf balls have followed him into other returns. This one sits closer to home.</p><p><br data-mce-bogus="1"></p><p>Mississippi is treating the night like a security problem, not a pep rally. Ole Miss athletic director Keith Carter told reporters the National Guard is not on alert. That is the calm sentence. The operational sentence is uglier: Mississippi State Police presence for the game is being tripled from what LSU saw last week in Oxford against Charlotte — roughly 60 troopers instead of the usual 20 — with Louisiana State Police looping in and plainclothes officers spotted around the bowl. Escorting Kiffin to and from the field is a two-state job. Rivalry football always sells tickets. This version is selling overtime for state police.</p><p><br data-mce-bogus="1"></p><p>The paper trail got louder Tuesday. LSU defensive end Princewill Umanmielen&nbsp; one of the transfers who followed the coaching tree across the state line, along with linebacker T.J. Dottery and others — was served discovery papers in the parking lot outside the Tigers’ football facility, according to ESPN and court records out of Lafayette County. Ole Miss sued Umanmielen and LSU offensive lineman Devin Harper in July, seeking about $550,000 from Umanmielen and $400,000 from Harper in a breach-of-contract fight over revenue-sharing deals the Rebels say the players signed in early January before hitting the portal and landing in Baton Rouge. Interrogatories, document requests, admissions&nbsp; the dry legal stack — dropped five days before kickoff. LSU said it knew Ole Miss had been trying to serve him. Timing still does what timing always does in this rivalry: it pours gasoline.</p><p><br data-mce-bogus="1"></p><p>Ole Miss players are trying to keep the public quotes about Kiffin small. The game is the SEC opener. The rankings are real. The film is mutual. That is the adult version. The adult version still has to survive a Saturday night in Oxford when the visiting coach used to own the headset on the home sideline, half the building wants his head, and one of LSU’s defensive ends just got handed a stack of court paper outside the practice barn.</p><p><br data-mce-bogus="1"></p><p>Purple and gold do not apologize for walking into hostile country. They pack for it. Magnolia Bowl week just stopped being a preview and started being a scene. See you in Oxford.</p><p><br data-mce-bogus="1"></p><p>Related:</p><p>- Kiffin won’t throw a touchdown: <a href="https://capitolandcleats.com/blog/kiffin-wont-throw-a-touchdown-chambliss-might">https://capitolandcleats.com/blog/kiffin-wont-throw-a-touchdown-chambliss-might</a></p><p>- Baton Rouge woke up 2–0: https://capitolandcleats.com/blog/baton-rouge-woke-up-2-0-oxford-already-has-the-lights-on</p>

Oxford is not going to be polite about this.

<p>The justices left the mail-ballot rules already in motion. Trump went after the Court on Tuesday.</p><p><br data-mce-bogus="1"></p><p>By Camille Reid</p><p><br data-mce-bogus="1"></p><p>The Supreme Court did not crown mail ballots on Monday. It refused to let Washington rewrite the rulebook while envelopes were already leaving the post office.</p><p><br data-mce-bogus="1"></p><p>In Postal Service v. California, the justices denied the Justice Department’s emergency bid to lift a Boston injunction and let the Postal Service enforce new mail-ballot restrictions through the Nov. 3 midterms. The unsigned order was short and cold: the government was unlikely to win on the merits, and the equities did not favor a last-minute stay. U.S. District Judge Indira Talwanis block stays in place.</p><p><br data-mce-bogus="1"></p><p>That is not a romance about absentee democracy. It is a competence ruling. North Carolina and Alabama had already started mailing ballots. More states were days away from the same. Nearly three in ten voters nationwide cast by mail. Changing the pipeline after the first drop is how you manufacture chaos and then blame the other side for noticing.</p><p><br data-mce-bogus="1"></p><p>Justice Brett Kavanaugh’s concurrence is the tell. He left open the idea that the Postal Service may have statutory room to regulate election mail under 39 U.S.C. §401(2). What he would not bless was applying the new rule to 2026. State and local clerks, he wrote, do not have enough time to implement it reasonably before Election Day. Call that “arbitrary and capricious” under the Administrative Procedure Act, which is lawyer for: you waited too long and the calendar is not optional.</p><p><br data-mce-bogus="1"></p><p>Justices Samuel Alito and Clarence Thomas dissented. They would have granted the stay. Their view of Postal Service authority and standing will matter again — maybe for 2028, maybe sooner if another emergency lands on the shadow docket. Mondays order does not settle that fight. It settles November.</p><p><br data-mce-bogus="1"></p><p>President Trump answered Tuesday the way he answers every adverse order: by going after the Court, including justices he put there. He praised Alito and Thomas as “legends” and treated the rest as a betrayal. Attorney General Todd Blanche said the administration would comply and then promised the push for “free and fair elections” would not stop at November. Fine. Argue the statute. Build the rule with time for clerks to run it. Do not ask the Court to green-light a mid-cycle rewrite because the politics got loud.</p><p><br data-mce-bogus="1"></p><p>Republicans are defending a slim House majority. Democrats want the mail pipeline wide open. Both sides will spin Monday as destiny. It is not. It is a Court saying the midterms will run under the rules already in motion, not under a Postal Service rewrite that arrived after the first ballots hit the truck.</p><p><br data-mce-bogus="1"></p><p>If you want different mail rules, win them with lead time. Competence is not optional just because the calendar is short.</p><p><br data-mce-bogus="1"></p><p>Related:</p><p>- Mail ballots and the court: <a href="https://capitolandcleats.com/blog/mail-ballots-and-the-court">https://capitolandcleats.com/blog/mail-ballots-and-the-court</a></p><p>- Dallas cheered: https://capitolandcleats.com/blog/dallas-cheered-swing-seats-still-need-a-reason</p>

The Court Didn’t Rewrite November. It Refused to.

<p>Monday’s podium made Oxford about prep and poise — and the Heisman backfield waiting in the Vaught.</p><p><br data-mce-bogus="1"></p><p>By Rhett Landry</p><p><br data-mce-bogus="1"></p><p>Lane Kiffin spent Monday trying to shrink the story that will not shrink. WAFB and WWL both had the tape: No. 7 LSU at No. 8 Ole Miss Saturday, 6:30 p.m. CT on ABC, GameDay in The Grove, and the coach who used to own that sideline saying the cameras can chase him all week if they want. “Pete’s not going to tackle anyone. I’m not going to throw any touchdowns,” Kiffin said. “This is about the players being prepared really well and playing really well. Jeff Palermo’s WWL write-up this morning framed both coaches the same way — lower the temperature, no bulletin-board meat, first SEC game for two 20 teams that have to practice clean and play free when the Grove gets loud.</p><p><br data-mce-bogus="1"></p><p>Then Kiffin flipped the pressure. Ole Miss won 13 last year. LSU won seven. The Rebels bring back two Heisman names in the same backfield — Trinidad Chambliss and Kewan Lacy — and Kiffin asked out loud how often that happens. “Really, the pressure is on them,” he said. “You get to just go play.” That is either the calmest road-week message in SEC history or the loudest soft sell Oxford will hear before Saturday. Either way, purple’s defense has to live with Chambliss for sixty minutes. Kiffin called him mature, low-mistake, big-play in big games. The Reveille’s midweek frame is the same: LSU hasn’t seen a backfield like this through Clemson and Tech, and Blake Baker’s unit has to force short answers for a long time.</p><p><br data-mce-bogus="1"></p><p>Monday morning was also turnover film. Tech made the first half ugly — three Leavitt interceptions, a 100-yard pick-six, red-zone mess — before LSU blew it open 45–14. Kiffin told WAFB the giveaways were an offense-wide problem, not just a quarterback problem. Oxford will not gift you a soft second half if you put three balls in the wrong jersey again. Establish the run. Clean up the red zone. Survive Chambliss. Ignore the noise that will follow the visiting headset from the bus to the tunnel.</p><p><br data-mce-bogus="1"></p><p>Saturday is still the Magnolia Bowl with national TV and a Stripe Out. Monday was the week telling purple what actually decides it: practice, prep, poise — and whether Chambliss is the one throwing touchdowns while Kiffin watches from the wrong sideline.</p><p><br data-mce-bogus="1"></p><p>Related:</p><p>- Baton Rouge woke up 2–0: <a href="https://capitolandcleats.com/blog/baton-rouge-woke-up-2-0-oxford-already-has-the-lights-on">https://capitolandcleats.com/blog/baton-rouge-woke-up-2-0-oxford-already-has-the-lights-on</a></p><p>- 2–0 tastes fine: https://capitolandcleats.com/blog/2-0-tastes-fine-oxford-wont-care-about-the-first-half</p>

Kiffin won’t throw a touchdown. Chambliss might.

<p>No. 7 LSU just put Louisiana Tech in the rearview, and Saturday is the real one — Kiffin walking back into the Grove with College GameDay in the trees and ABC on the clock.</p><p><br></p><p>By Rhett Landry</p><p><br></p><p>WBRZ has it straight this morning: Lane Kiffin’s Tigers are No. 7 after a 2–0 run through Tiger Stadium, and the first road trip of the year is straight into No. 8 Ole Miss at Vaught-Hemingway. Kick is 6:30 p.m. CT Saturday on ABC — Ole Miss Athletics and LSUsports both have the window locked. Stripe Out in Oxford. College GameDay setting up in The Grove. First SEC game. First away game. The whole circus is pointed at one man walking into the stadium he left.</p><p><br></p><p>Kiffin is due at the podium after Monday practice around 11:15 a.m., per WBRZ, to talk about the 45–14 Tech win and the week that actually matters. You already know the box from Saturday. Tech made the first half ugly. LSU made the second half a statement. Oxford won’t grade on a curve. The Rebels are 2–0 too. This isnt a soft landing into conference play. It’s the Magnolia Bowl with national TV and a coach who used to call that sideline home.</p><p><br></p><p>While purple sorts film and travel, the league around them didn’t sit still. AL.com’s Week 3 SEC power board — published this morning — has Georgia first, Texas second, LSU third, Ole Miss fourth after a weekend that still feels loud. Texas took down Ohio State 24–23 in Austin. Georgia hung 70 on Western Kentucky. Alabama went into Lexington and beat Kentucky 45–17. Ole Miss handled Charlotte 41–9 in Oxford. Tennessee beat Georgia Tech 45–24 on the road. That’s the neighborhood LSU just entered with a 2–0 record and a target already painted on the bus.</p><p><br></p><p>And the other LSU noise finally cooled a notch. New Orleans CityBusiness reported today that SEC presidents and chancellors met Thursday, took no vote on membership, and announced no sanctions after the expulsion threat that had hung over the program. The league said talks continue toward “an appropriate resolution.” The federal lawsuit is still pending. Kiffin had already left DaeQuan Wright and Zxavian Harris off the opening-week roster — the practical fight that lit the fuse. Baton Rouge can breathe for a week. Oxford still gets the ball Saturday.</p><p><br data-mce-bogus="1"></p><p>Saturdays SEC board is a meat grinder even before purple kicks: Georgia at Arkansas on ABC in the morning window, Florida at Auburn at night, Kentucky at Texas A&amp;M in the afternoon. LSU’s game is the one the cameras will live on. Kiffin Bowl. Magnolia Bowl. Call it whatever you want. The Grove is going to be loud, GameDay is going to be smug, and 2–0 only buys you a seat on the plane.</p><p><br data-mce-bogus="1"></p><p>Purple’s undefeated. The calendar just got mean. Five days until Oxford finds out if the hangover talk was real or if Kiffin’s Tigers are ready for the night that actually counts.</p><p><br data-mce-bogus="1"></p><p>Related:</p><p>- 2–0 tastes fine: <a href="https://capitolandcleats.com/blog/2-0-tastes-fine-oxford-wont-care-about-the-first-half">https://capitolandcleats.com/blog/2-0-tastes-fine-oxford-wont-care-about-the-first-half</a></p><p>- Week 1 didnt whisper: https://capitolandcleats.com/blog/week-1-didnt-whisper-it-yelled</p><p><br></p><p><br></p><p><br></p><p><br></p>

Baton Rouge woke up 2–0. Oxford already has the lights on.

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  <h2>This Week’s Lines</h2>
  <p class="sub">Mon Sep 14, 2026  DraftKings via ESPN · Lines move · 21+</p>
  <h3>College Football — Week 3</h3>
  <div class="row"><div><div class="g"><a href="https://www.espn.com/college-football/game/_/gameId/401856688" target="_blank" rel="noopener">No. 7 LSU at No. 8 Ole Miss</a></div><div class="m">Sat Sep 19, 5:30 p.m. MT · ABC</div></div><div class="l">LSU -3 / O/U 58.5</div></div>
<div class="row"><div><div class="g"><a href="https://www.espn.com/college-football/game/_/gameId/401856811" target="_blank" rel="noopener">No. 22 Houston at No. 13 Texas Tech</a></div><div class="m">Fri Sep 18, 6:00 p.m. MT · FOX</div></div><div class="l">TTU -7.5 / O/U —</div></div>
<div class="row"><div><div class="g"><a href="https://www.espn.com/college-football/game/_/gameId/401858230" target="_blank" rel="noopener">No. 16 SMU at No. 23 Louisville</a></div><div class="m">Sat Sep 19, 1:30 p.m. MT · ESPN2</div></div><div class="l">LOU -1.5 / O/U 59.5</div></div>
<div class="row"><div><div class="g"><a href="https://www.espn.com/college-football/game/_/gameId/401856687" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Florida at Auburn</a></div><div class="m">Sat Sep 19, 5:00 p.m. MT · ESPN</div></div><div class="l">FLA -2.5 / O/U 52.5</div></div>
<div class="row"><div><div class="g"><a href="https://www.espn.com/college-football/game/_/gameId/401858229" target="_blank" rel="noopener">North Carolina at Clemson</a></div><div class="m">Sat Sep 19, 10:00 a.m. MT · ESPN</div></div><div class="l">CLEM -3.5 / O/U 44.5</div></div>
<div class="row"><div><div class="g"><a href="https://www.espn.com/college-football/game/_/gameId/401856686" target="_blank" rel="noopener">No. 2 Georgia at Arkansas</a></div><div class="m">Sat Sep 19, 10:00 a.m. MT · ABC</div></div><div class="l">UGA -24.5 / O/U 54.5</div></div>
  <h3>NFL — Week 2</h3>
  <div class="row"><div><div class="g"><a href="https://www.espn.com/nfl/game/_/gameId/401872934" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Cincinnati at Houston</a></div><div class="m">Sun Sep 20, 11:00 a.m. MT · CBS</div></div><div class="l">HOU -3 / O/U 46.5</div></div>
<div class="row"><div><div class="g"><a href="https://www.espn.com/nfl/game/_/gameId/401872944" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Washington at Dallas</a></div><div class="m">Sun Sep 20, 2:25 p.m. MT · FOX</div></div><div class="l">DAL -3.5 / O/U 50.5</div></div>
<div class="row"><div><div class="g"><a href="https://www.espn.com/nfl/game/_/gameId/401872933" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Carolina at Atlanta</a></div><div class="m">Sun Sep 20, 11:00 a.m. MT  FOX</div></div><div class="l">CAR -1.5 / O/U 43.5</div></div>
<div class="row"><div><div class="g"><a href="https://www.espn.com/nfl/game/_/gameId/401872940" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Jacksonville at Denver</a></div><div class="m">Sun Sep 20, 2:05 p.m. MT · CBS</div></div><div class="l">DEN -2.5 / O/U 44.5</div></div>
<div class="row"><div><div class="g"><a href="https://www.espn.com/nfl/game/_/gameId/401872932" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Detroit at Buffalo</a></div><div class="m">Thu Sep 17, 6:15 p.m. MT · Prime</div></div><div class="l">BUF -4.5 / O/U 53.5</div></div>
<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 -4.5 / O/U 44.5</div></div>
  <p class="note">LSU / Texans / Cowboys always on the board. Closest NFL: CAR, DEN, BUF, GB. Houston–Tech O/U not out yet. Source: DraftKings via ESPN. Never invent.</p>
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