Carla and Crappy Show: The Merriam-Webster Edition

2025-09-18

Last week, we all needed channel guides, streaming passwords, multiple devices, and apps for a weekend of college football watching. This week? Just grab a dictionary. Welcome to Week 4, friends, where Carla and Crappy have decided it’s time to start defining some key terms. College Kickers: The most unpredictable aspect of college football. Just ask Tennessee and Notre Dame. Cool Under Fire: The Georgia Tech offense and special teams unit, executing a game-winning field goal to perfection. See also: college k...

Last week, we all needed channel guides, streaming passwords, multiple devices, and apps for a weekend of college football watching. This week? Just grab a dictionary.

Welcome to Week 4, friends, where Carla and Crappy have decided it’s time to start defining some key terms.

College Kickers: The most unpredictable aspect of college football. Just ask Tennessee and Notre Dame.

Cool Under Fire: The Georgia Tech offense and special teams unit, executing a game-winning field goal to perfection. See also: college kickers.

Arkansas: A state currently with two of the more annoying teams in the sport.

Nerds: Georgia Tech and Vanderbilt are both ranked in the Top 25. In football. No, this isn’t an autocorrect error. (Editor’s note: We’re all thrilled about this.)

Mistake-Prone: Florida. Again.

Rivalry: The Backyard Brawl, in its purest form. RichRod actually got emotional after the win. And, as AJ notes, we get two more classic rivalries this week.

The Stanford Postulate: When Tree wins a game that it’s not supposed to. See: Saturday’s win over Boston College.

Transparency: What the ACC is doing with their video reviews and it’s fantastic.

Got all that? Also, in our effort to live up to the ACC’s standard of transparency, Clemson’s walk-off loss does not meet the definition of Clemsoning. Sorry to disappoint you.

What won’t disappoint you is this week’s #GroupOfFiveAfterDark report. While AJ wasn’t able to join the show live, he does offer a buffet of options, including two long-time traditional rivalry games, a big game in Oxford, and a late-night slate that may necessitate additional caffeination. (Sorry about that. But it’s a fantastic slate.)

After that, Carla and Crappy dig into some games that should offer us some more early-season defining moments.

Iowa at Rutgers (8 ET Friday, FOX): If you want to meet the definition of a true B1G football fan, you’ll have your eyes on this one Friday night. It’s gonna be a rock fight.

No. 17 Texas Tech at No. 16 Utah (Big Nude, FOX): Which of these teams will meet the definition of Big 12 contender? We should find out more in this game. And it should be a good one. Put your eyes here at kickoff. But not a moment before.

No. 22 Auburn at No. 11 Oklahoma (3:30 ET, ABC): We’ve known for a while that the definition of John Mateer is big-time offense. Is Auburn up to the task?

No. 21 Michigan at Nebraska (3:30 ET, CBS): Matt Rhule needs a defining win. Nebraska, we offer you Michigan. Can the Huskers finally take that next step?

South Carolina at No. 23 Missouri (7 ET, ESPN): Lots of questions here. Will LaNorris Sellers be able to go? Can Beau Pribula and the Mizzou run game get things going?

No. 9 Illinois at No. 19 Indiana (7:30 ET, NBC): We’re already very familiar with the definition of Annoying Bert. But are the Hoosiers as good as they were last year?

Our honorable mentions this week go to:

Berry at Carnegie Mellon (Noon ET, athletics.cmu.edu): The Tartans look to bounce back at home.
Dayton at Robert Morris (2 ET, ESPN+): An old-school rivalry renewed.
Gardner-Webb at Ohio (3:30 ET, ESPN+): Are the Bobcats making a run to playoff contention?
Marshall at MTSU (7 ET, ESPN+): It’s homecoming for the Blue Raiders. Jake Rose is on the TV call. (Also: Go, Regan!)
Georgia State at No. 20 Vanderbilt (7:30 ET, ESPNU): Can the Dores get revenge for last year’s inexplicable loss?