Welcome to This Week in Our Dumb Beautiful Sport, a weekly look at the chaos that reigns over the most perfectly imperfect world of college football.
Week 2 reminded us that in college football, just when you think someone might have it figured out, they hire Billy Napier. We got SEC meltdowns, spit-fueled collapses, coaches pretending to be Herb Brooks, and fans giving up $25K just to talk trash. It’s dumb. It’s beautiful. And it’s still the greatest sport in the world.
Sun Belt Billy Strikes Again
For reasons that are entirely unclear (although I suspect 2024 LSU’s inability to defend DJ Lagway had something to do with this), Florida was a trendy pick to be one of the top teams of 2025.