It’s Halloween week!  Those little ghosts and goblins will soon be hitting the streets on Friday evening in search of treats loaded with sugar and calories and carbs (oh, my!).

Be prepared. Be VERY prepared (and try to save a few of the best treats for yourself!)

The sports world has been quite busy this Halloween week.

You’ve already heard that Grim Reaper paid a visit to LSU.

Brian Kelly lost his head…coaching job on the day following Saturday night’s second-half chainsaw massacre at the hands of Texas A&M in Bat-on Boo-ge!

The Tigers’ football coach was dismissed on Sunday.  Texas A&M’s 8-0 football team played their version of the Monster Mash on 5-3 LSU during a terrifying second half on Saturday night.

The Aggies football team turned most of the 103,000 fans in Tiger Stadium into zombies beginning early in the second half as A&M scored 35 straight points in a 49-25 rout of LSU. 

Thousands of LSU’s walking dead woozily retreated from the aptly named “Death Valley” stadium even before the fourth quarter began.

LSU’s newly unemployed former coach may get the last laugh, though.  A ghoulish $53 million contract buyout through the year 2031 must be paid in monthly installments to now ex-coach Brian Kelly.

Halloween at LSU’s Tiger Stadium hasn’t always been this unpleasant

It was Halloween night in 1959 when LSU’s Billy Cannon ran a punt 89-yards for a touchdown against Ole Miss in the Tigers’ 7-3 victory over the Rebels.

The touchdown run and resulting victory propelled LSU to its first national title in football, and Billy Cannon was awarded the Heisman Trophy.

Time for a Halloween Sports quiz!

Q: What college sports team is known as the Demon Deacons?

A: Wake Forest

Here’s another.

Q: Which NFL team’s mascot was inspired by Edgar Allen Poe?

A: The Baltimore Ravens, of course!

Trick-or-Teeth!

Halloween is coming on Friday. In addition to millions of trick-or-treating kids, there are thousands of eager dentists counting the days before their bookings skyrocket.

One Louisiana university and its football team are celebrating a milestone event

Louisiana Tech University in Ruston is celebrating its 100th Homecoming this entire week.  The highlight comes on Halloween Friday as the 4-3 Bulldogs football team will play a rare Halloween night game against 0-7 spooky Sam Houston State.

The Bearkats from Huntsville, Texas are one of just two remaining FBS major college football teams without a victory this season.  Only 0-8 U-Mass has a worse record thus far in 2025. The next game for the “Boo”-Mass Minutemen will be Tuesday night on the road at the 3-6 Akron Zips.

Struggling Sam Houston has been losing by an average of nearly 28 points per game through its first seven outings.

Beware, Louisiana Tech Homecoming fans!  

Rumor has it that the Sam Houston Bearkats may have enlisted the help of a Halloween witch to place a hex on the Bulldogs team for Friday night’s game (7PM kickoff on CBS Sports Network).

There is a scary slate of Halloween-related football to be played this weekend!

Thursday night’s game featured Marshall sneaking into “Ghostal” Carolina.

Checking the pun-filled Saturday football calendar, there are a number of monstrous “mash”-ups being played as the kids spin in sugar-fueled circles after consuming too much Halloween candy.

My Halloween feature game has 1-7 Oklahoma State at 3-4 Kansas (3PM on ESPN+).

The orange and black OSU Cowboys decided to adopt a Halloween theme to their entire football season.  They have laid a Great Pumpkin on Oklahoma State’s loyal fans this fall.  This team has been scary-bad.  Even their coach for the past 21 years, Mike Gundy, was fired a month ago.

Linus, Sally and Snoopy have been waiting years to finally spot the Great Pumpkin.  Hey, Peanuts gang!  Take a visit to Stillwater, Oklahoma this fall to find the real one.

Other Halloween-themed college football games on Saturday include:

The Duke Boo Devils @ Clemson – 11AM

Indiana Boo-siers @ the Maryland Terror-pins– 2:30PM on CBS

Hunchback of Notre Dame @ Boo-ston College – 2:30PM on ESPN

Pur-Boo @ the Michigan WereWolverines @ 6PM

Georgia Tech @ the NC State WereWolfpack – 6:30PM on ESPN2

Wake Forest Demon Deacons @ Florida State – 6:30PM

Hawaii RainBoo Warriors @ San Jose State – 9:30PM

You might get a case of the heebie jeebies from these frightening FCS games Saturday:

Fordham tangles in the web of the Richmond Spiders – 1PM

Mississippi Valley State Delta Devils versus Boo-thune Cookman – 2PM

The Northwestern State Demons try to skewer the McNeese Cowboys – 6PM

Then…beware of the Beaver Moon!

Watch out, Washington State!

The unsuspecting 4-4 Cougars are traveling to play their only Pac-2 Conference game against the only other team in their conference.  A nationally televised game against 1-7 Oregon State will kick-off Saturday at 6:30PM Saturday on CBS.

This might just be a (Beaver) trap game!

The homestanding Oregon State Beavers are counting on some positive lunar effects courtesy of the upcoming full moon – aptly called the “Beaver Moon”!

OK, it doesn’t officially occur until Wednesday, but weird things can and do happen in the days preceding a full moon.

But…is anything scarier than this Sunday morning’s time change?

You may THINK you are going to enjoy going to bed Saturday night and finding an extra hour of time waiting for you on Sunday morning.

Don’t fall for it.  It’s a trap!

This weekend’s semiannual time change puts Daylight Savings Time onto the shelf as we return to Standard time.  Sunday morning allows us to “fall back”, right?

It’s actually a gigantic con job.  You may believe that we are receiving a splendid additional hour to use anyway we please on Sunday morning.

Bwa-ha-ha, but NO!

You are guaranteed to feel woozy all day Monday (and perhaps Tuesday and Wednesday) as your body rebels against this unnecessary time change.  Seeing the sun go down at 5PM next week brings a season of wintertime depression to many of us until this evil time change curse is finally lifted next March.

Now…where did I put that Halloween candy before the kids get here on Friday?

Happy Halloween!

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