Week 5 was a little light on drama, but there are always storylines to be found in every game. But digging into Week 5’s notable results, we here at SI are determined to find the answer to the question: Which team does the final score say more about?
USC 48, Colorado 41 says more about: USC
There’s just no way around it. If USC is going to play defense like this, it’s not a viable national championship contender—and it might not even be a viable Pac-12 championship contender.
Author: Michael
Don’t try it at home, kids.
The Jacksonville Jaguars and Atlanta Falcons played in Wembley Stadium to start off Sunday’s slate in Week 4, but having the game in London wasn’t the only gimmick. The game was broadcast as the “Toy Story Funday Football” game on ESPN+, an animated simulcast of the game set in Andy’s bedroom from the iconic Pixar movie.
The “Toy Story” broadcast was mostly fun and good even if it was a bit glitchy, as our Mark Schofield detailed in his review.
Ask Brewers owner Mark Attanasio how in the world his team does it. Ask him how a team that plays in the majors’ smallest television market, that has not produced a top-five offensive team in the National League for more than a decade and annually keeps a payroll below major league average can win more games over the past seven years than every NL team but the Dodgers and Braves. Ask and Attanasio will begin with stability.
“One of the main common denominators is we have the same field staff and baseball ops staff,” Attanasio says.
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Christian McCaffrey showed why he’s the rare RB who can win NFL MVP
In the National Football League, the MVP award has become something of a quarterback award. A QB has won the award in 10 straight seasons, and 14 of the last 15 MVP awards have been secured by a quarterback. The last non-QB to bring home MVP honors? Adrian Peterson back in 2012.
Is this the year Christian McCaffrey breaks that streak?
If Sunday is any indication, it very well might be.
It didn’t take long for Rory McIlroy to turn the page from Team Europe’s dominant 2023 Ryder Cup victory and look ahead to the 2025 Ryder Cup at Bethpage Black. Before the champagne really got flowing in Rome, McIlroy took the time to guarantee that his European squad would retain the Ryder Cup in two years’ time in New York.
“I’ve said this for the last probably six or seven years to anyone that will listen: I think one of the biggest accomplishments in golf right now is winning an away Ryder Cup,’’ McIlroy said. “And that’s what we’re going to do at Bethpage.
Amazon can’t muster enthusiasm for their ‘primetime’ Thursday Night Football matchup. And they’re not hiding how bored to tears they are about having to broadcast a ‘heavyweight matchup’ between the Washington Commanders (1-3) and Chicago Bears (0-4).
Thoughts and prayers to whoever has to promote the Thursday night game of Bears vs Commanders… sheesh
— Jason Deger (@Jasondeger) October 2, 2023
Amazon should pay us to watch Bears-Commanders on Thursday.
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Somewhere in Houston, perhaps outside NRG Stadium where the Texans play, a statue of Lovie Smith should be erected.
Sounds weird because Smith was fired in January after only one year as the Texans head coach. But before that happened, Smith helped author a 32-31 victory over the Indianapolis Colts in the 2022 season finale.
And that victory knocked the Texans out of the spot for the first overall selection in the April draft. So the Texans had virtually no choice but to draft C.J. Stroud with the No. 2 pick.
And Stroud is the draft’s best quarterback so far.
Taylor Swift attended the Chiefs–Jets game on Sunday night where she got to see Travis Kelce and Kansas City pull out another win, though this one turned out to be a lot closer of a game than many thought it would be.
The pop star was seen arriving at MetLife Stadium with a number of other celebrities and NBC later showed a nice moment that Swift shared with Kelce’s mom.
There was, however, one strange cutaway to Swift by NBC after Patrick Mahomes threw an interception.
Chicago had us all briefly fooled on Sunday, leading Denver 28-7. After the Broncos wound up coming all the way back to win, there’s no saving Matt Eberflus’ job.