Saturday mornings. A time for hope and optimism, a slow and simmering buildup of excitement until the glorious marathon begins. And today’s a bonus! No Aggie Football to torment ourselves with. No, today we dig in and watch, secretly nursing our various ancillary hopes for this Aggie team, applying subconscious benchmarks as the day progresses. Welcome to bye week.
11 a.m.:
You start off with Purdue at Penn State simply because you lack the wherewithal to change the channel once GameDay has ended. After a quarter or so you can tolerate no more, so for the next three hours you wander the B1G wasteland, jumping from Iowa-Michigan to Maryland-Rutgers, maybe catching a glimpse of Wisconsin extracting Kent State’s toenails with a rusty pair of channel locks.