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4 Down TerritoryWeek 8 NFL Picks: The Season of the Witch
My wife loves Halloween. I love my wife. That means I’ve spent the last month listening to a Halloween playlist every time we get in the car to go to work or…
4 Down TerritoryWeek 8 Top 25: As Nasty As They Wanna Be
It’s all about the U now. Darian Mensah, Malachi Toney and the Miami Hurricanes have survived “spooky szn” unscathed, which is more than any SEC team and all…
4 Down TerritoryWeek 7 NFL Picks: Checking the Injury Report
This is always the worst part of the season from a gambling perspective. There’s enough data to form opinions about teams, but not enough to feel fully…
4 Down TerritoryWeek 6 NFL Picks: The Skinny Post
Another week of service in the good ol’ pediatric ICU for me means it’s time to bring back the skinny post. This weeks tiers are courtesy of the mouth of Randy…
4 Down TerritoryWeek 6 Top 25: A Crisis of Conscience
This morning was one of the first major tests for me with this ranking system. I put in all the scores correctly. I ran the program. And of course this is what…
4 Down TerritoryWeek 5 NFL Picks: Lucky Charms
Divulging deep personal confessions seems to be my running opener at this point, so here’s another one. Lucky Charms are not my favorite breakfast cereal. Not…
4 Down TerritoryWeek 5 Top 25: I’m Not A Homer, You’re A Homer
I should have seen this coming. Of course, the season I spend all summer working on an objective college football ranking system is the same season Alabama…
4 Down TerritoryWeek 4 NFL Picks: A Non-Music Guy’s Review of The Velvet Underground and Nico
Chuck Klosterman is my favorite contemporary author. I’ve never met him, but I think we have a decent amount in common. He loves football and basketball. Same…
4 Down TerritoryWeek 4 Top 25: Alright, Alright, Alright
Alright! This is starting to look like a Top 25 that someone might create with their eyeballs too. There are still a few (explainable) outliers from what I…
4 Down TerritoryWeek 3 NFL Picks: Who’s Afraid of the Dark?
You know how some people just don’t have it when it matters? Greg Norman. The ‘90s Bills (not Bulls). Chris Webber. Ralph Nader. There’s a long list of names…
4 Down TerritoryWeek 3 College Football Top 25: The Shape of Water
Don’t worry. I’m not going to treat you to a dissertation on the theory of college football rankings again. I won’t do that until the committee screws it up…
4 Down TerritoryWeek 2 NFL Picks: Stay Sharp or Get Sloppy
“Guys like us don’t change, Saul. We either stay sharp or we get sloppy, we don’t change.” In this respect, NFL teams are like professional…
4 Down TerritoryA Better College Football Top 25
College football has a problem. If we’re being honest, college football has an abundance of problems, but most of those fall firmly outside our…
4 Down TerritoryWeek 1 NFL Picks: The Rat Race
Getting things off your chest is supposedly healthy, so let’s open the season with a confession. Football season snuck up on me. Since my last column, prior to…
4 Down TerritoryThe Spread Offense: May 20, 2026 | Draft Thoughts and the Brendan Sorsby Saga
Brian and Sam are back with an offseason edition of the podcast. The boys thought it might be necessary to weigh in on the unfortunate Brendan Sorsby situation…
4 Down TerritorySuper Bowl Picks and Props: Beating the Ghosts
“Ghosts are real too. They live inside us, and sometimes, they win.” -Stephen King “I believe in ghosts, but we create them. We haunt ourselves.” -Laurie Halse…
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The Spread Offense: February 5, 2026 | Championship and Season Recap
After letting things marinate for a bit, Brian and Sam are back to breakdown a lackluster CFB championship game and discuss the season as a whole. Enjoy!
4 Down TerritoryNFL Championship Picks: On Legacy
This has never happened before, or at least if it has, I don’t remember it. We have made it to conference championship weekend and the player that’s most on my…
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The Spread Offense: January 18, 2026 | Championship Props and Picks
Sam and Brian present their favorite pod of the season: the championship props pod. Enjoy!
4 Down TerritoryNFL Division Round Picks: The Cardinal Virtues
Most people would consider gambling a vice. Don’t get me wrong, it definitely can be, but to the well-organized mind what is a vice but a lesson in virtue…
4 Down TerritoryNFL Wild Card Picks: Hitting Reset
Look, the regular season was a tough beat. This was my worst record in the five years I’ve been doing this column. I was under .500 wire-to-wire. Only put…
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The Spread Offense: January 7, 2026 | Most Surprising CFB Playoff Results and CFB Semifinal Picks
Sam and Brian discuss the CFB Quarterfinals in terms of most-to-least surprising results followed by semifinal picks. College football is winding down…
4 Down TerritoryWeek 18 NFL Picks: Pour One Out for the Regular Season
We’re almost there. We are three important games and thirteen meaningless games away from the NFL playoffs. Also, I can finally pop a bottle of bubbly for my…
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The Spread Offense: December 29, 2025 | Kyle Whittingham to Michigan, First Round Playoff Reactions, Second Round Playoff Picks and the Titleist “Shrink The Game” Parlay
Kyle Whittingham goes to Michigan. Sam gives his insight on Alabama’s win over Oklahoma. Brian and Sam sum up the other playoff games succinctly followed…