President Trump will be at Bryant-Denny Stadium when No. 2 Alabama hosts No. 1 LSU in an epic SEC showdown.  Jon Rawl gets you ready for kickoff with a preview of all of the Week 11 games, including unbeatens Minnesota and Penn State tangling in Minneapolis. Also, OVC members UT Martin and Austin Peay go for conference supremacy in Clarksville, Tenn.

The annual Highlands Food & Wine Festival is this weekend in Highlands, N.C., and director Casey Reid previews the excitement in one of the region's most scenic locales.  Mississippi State Bulldogs insider Jeremiah Short has the scoop from Starkville, where Joe Moorhead's 4-5 football team is on the brink of bowl elimination.  And host Jon Rawl shares the 2019 Kirkus Prize winners for fiction, nonfiction and children's books.

Dolly Parton will join Carrie Underwood as hosts of the 53rd Annual CMA Awards on ABC.  Preshias Harris reports from Music Row with a preview of next week's awards frenzy in Nashville.  Kentucky elects Democratic candidate Andy Beshear as its next governor; while Mississippi sticks with a Republican for governor with Tate Reeves' election on Tuesday.  Also, CBS Sports Digital insider Jonathan Leifheit shares ACC basketball and football info.

Paula White, Mississippi-born televangelist and now President Trump's newest aide at The White House, discusses her new book "Something Greater: Finding Triumph Over Trials."  Big 12 and Barbecue Barrister Matt Heermans gets us ready for Week 11 of college football.  And host Jon Rawl shares info on an "assassination attempt" against him while watching football at Buffalo Wild Wings over the weekend.

"Toccopola Storyteller" Jerry Short analyzes President Trump's weekend visit to Tupelo, Miss., as the Magnolia State joins Kentucky and Virginia in holding statewide elections on Tuesday.  Short also connects the Whitewater investigation to Arkansas native Martha Mitchell (1918-1976).  Willie Taggart is fired as Florida State's football coach.  Also, the owner of popular North Carolina restaurant chain Snoopy's Hot Dogs dies at age 81.

Jacksonville hosts the Georgia Bulldogs and the Florida Gators at the "World's Largest Outdoor Cocktail Party."  Jon Rawl gets you ready for the Week 10 action, which includes the Memphis Tigers hosting their first-ever ESPN College GameDay on Beale Street.  ACC games of interest this weekend include Miami at Florida State and N.C. State at Wake Forest.  

Brad Edwards, ESPN College Football Insider, looks ahead to Week 10 of SEC Football, which includes a Top 10 arch-rivalry game in Jacksonville between Florida and Georgia.  The 35th Annual Frank Brown International Songwriters' Festival happens Nov. 7-17 in Pensacola, Fla., and festival director Andy Haynes helps preview the fun.  Also on this Halloween 2019, host Jon Rawl shares candy and Southern soft drink madness.

The Mississippi Gulf Coast welcomes Jon Rawl for a wedding like no other.  The leader of ISIS is killed by Delta Force; and our own retired Special Forces guru and Toccopola storyteller Jerry Short has thoughts on the successful raid in northwest Syria.  Plus, LSU leapfrogs Alabama to take the top spot in college football's latest AP Poll.

Week 9 of college football includes a Top 10 SEC West battle between the Auburn Tigers and the LSU Tigers. Oklahoma must survive a challenging road test at Kansas State.  Plus, General Gridiron is back with his fun outlook on the weekend.