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We dive into a chaos-heavy sports week where FCS seeding flips, MLS redraws the calendar, and World Cup qualifying opens doors for surprise entrants. The stakes spike across rivalry games, while a few programs and federations make bold, risky bets on timing, talent, and identity.

• South Dakota State’s slide and what the committee values
• Bracketology snapshots, seeds, and the real bubble
• Rivalry week impact: Brawl of the Wild, Lehigh–Lafayette, Harvard–Yale
• MEAC decider in Dover and Celebration Bowl path
• FBS vs FCS upsets worth monitoring and why they matter
• MLS’s fall-to-spring pivot and USL’s opportunity
• International breaks, player availability, and transfer timing
• CONCACAF chaos: Suriname and Curacao push for first World Cup trips
• UEFA qualification pressure points and Nations League backdoors
• NHL pulse check: pace-setters, slides, and the Sweden series

“Stay tuned for tomorrow because I have a poem, maybe even an epic to read of the return of the rise of the ashes of Mason Rudolph.”

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