Football
- Virginia Tech and North Carolina square off on ESPN's Thursday night game this evening. While Gobbler Country is hoping Tech can protect its QB, Carolina March is bracing for a game "full of indignities" and looking forward to basketball season.
- Alligator Army is prepping for the Game Formerly Known as the World's Largest Cocktail Party by arguing for the removal of the game from Jacksonville and noting that Urban Meyer is in the unfamiliar position of using negative publicity to motivate his team.
Basketball
- Indiana blog Crimson Quarry characterizes Bob Knight's return of a $75,000 check as the latest episode in the NCAA's longest-running soap opera.
- Hammer and Rails continues its preview of Purdue basketball by looking at the Boilermakers' returning players.