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1. 

   11 Nov 2026

   FCS Top 25 – Lamar ends SFA’s Dream Season

   The winning streak is over. Stephen F. Austin’s school record 9-0 start came to a halt on Saturday in Beaumont, Texas. Four turnovers by the Lumberjacks (two fumbles and two interceptions) proved quite costly in a 45-28 loss to Southland Conference foe Lamar University.  The Cardinals improved to 8-2 for the season. Lamar seized the momentum early and held a 17-7 halftime lead over the high-scoring Lumberjacks.  SFA pulled within three points at 17-14 early in the third quarter.  The Cardinals quickly answered with a touchdown of their own. Lamar never trailed in this game. Both teams are now 6-1 in Southland Conference play. Lamar now holds the head-to-head tiebreaker to determine the conference champion. The Cardinals will host 3-7 East Texas A&M on Saturday and close the regular season with a tough road game at 5-5 McNeese in Lake Charles. SFA travels to 4-5 UT-Rio Grande to play the Vaqueros this Saturday.  The Lumberjacks will host winless Northwestern State (0-10) on Thursday, November 19 to end the regular season. Both Lamar and SFA are likely to earn a spot in the upcoming 24-team FCS playoffs with two more wins. Tarleton State reaches 10-0 with a most unusual victory The term “stats are for losers” was absolutely right when describing Saturday’s game between visiting Abilene Christian and unbeaten Tarleton State. The 10-0 Texans (the only unbeaten team remaining in the FCS) raced to a 14-0 first quarter lead and never trailed in this game.  It’s a good thing they got off to a fast start. Abilene Christian kept the football for the vast majority of this rather odd United Athletic Conference game. The visiting Wildcats controlled the ball for an astounding 43 ½ minutes of this game compared to only 16 ½ minutes for the victorious Texans.  ACU rolled-up 25 first downs compared to just 14 for Tarleton State. Final score?  Tarleton State 40, Abilene Christian 27. Texans quarterback Kaden Anderson passed just nine times during this game.  However, he completed seven of those passes for 213 yards and two touchdowns. It was the seventh game of the season in which top-ranked Tarleton State tallied 40 or more points. It’s a So-Con Showdown this Saturday in Tennessee! There’s a new kid in town trying to make-off with the So-Con football title in their first year in the conference. The Tennessee Tech Golden Eagles flew the coop from its long-time roost in the Ohio Valley Conference beginning this season.  Southern Conference football teams are now finding out that 9-1 Tennessee Tech is a force to be reckoned with. Enter Mercer. The 8-2 Bears have been a frequent representative of the So-Con in the FCS playoffs.  They must travel to Cookeville, Tennessee (east of Nashville) on Saturday to play the surging Golden Eagles. Kickoff is at 1:30PM CST on ESPN+. Tennessee Tech averages 36 points per game this year.  Mercer’s defense is #6 in the FCS and has allowed only 16 points per outing. Something’s gotta give. Both of these teams qualified for the FCS playoffs in 2025.  This should be a terrific match-up! It’s a trap (game)!  Campbell’s Fighting Camels travel into uncharted waters Campbell University’s football team has been one of the best feel-good stories of the 2026 FCS season.  The Fighting Camels improved to 8-2 on Saturday after taking a 45-38 home victory over Stony Brook (now 5-5). Campbell has been playing in the FCS since 2008 and has never won more than six football games in the regular season – before this year. The 2026 Fighting Camels are now involved in the school’s first football title chase in the Coastal Athletic Association.  Campbell is one game behind CAA leader Monmouth (also 8-2) with two games left to play. A regular season home finale showdown against the Monmouth Hawks is less than two weeks away.  A first-ever conference title and berth in the FCS playoffs may be on the line. But don’t lose sight of this week’s important game, Campbell fans! Elon University (located near Greensboro, NC) and Campbell are about 90 miles apart.  The 5-5 Phoenix have won six or more games every year for the past five seasons. Elon’s freshman running back Kamerin McDowell-Moore is having one heck of a rookie season.  He is #3 in the entire FCS with 1,353 rushing yards in just ten games this year. On the other side of the ball, Campbell quarterback Kamden Sixkiller is leading the FCS in passing with 3,016 yards through ten games. Something’s gotta give on Saturday in North Carolina! Elon will be trying to wreck Campbell University’s dream of winning its first conference title and making its initial FCS playoff appearance with an upset win this week. Did someone just mention the word “Fighting”? Grambling State University has a long history of successful football teams. Legendary coach and strict disciplinarian Eddie Robinson may be turning over in his grave if he knew how his former school’s football team has been conducted itself over the past two years. In November, 2025, a halftime brawl broke out at Grambling’s Eddie G. Robinson Memorial Stadium in a game against Bethune-Cookman. When the dust cleared, 18 Grambling players were suspended and nine from Bethune-Cookman. GSU was fined $40,000.  Bethune-Cookman was hit with a $25,000 fine for participating in last November’s amateurish slugfest. History repeated itself in north Louisiana last Saturday.  This time it was a different opponent. The 4-5 G-men lost at home to 6-3 University of Arkansas-Pine Bluff Golden Lions in a close 35-32 game. Numerous Grambling and UAPB football players then got into a large post-game brawl on the field for several minutes. This year’s pugilistic carnage scorecard totaled 14 two-game suspensions for Grambling players plus nine similar suspensions for UAPB’s faux boxers. Both schools were slapped with a $25,000 fine for failure to control their football players. And where is Grambling is traveling to play this Saturday? Yes, the Fighting Tigers from Grambling will face-off with 2025 sparring partner Bethune-Cookman (now 5-5) at Daytona Stadium in Florida. The opening bell is slated for 12 Noon CST. Let’s swing through the SwampSwamiSports.com FCS Top 25 for the week ending Saturday, November 7, 2026: The post FCS Top 25 – Lamar ends SFA’s Dream Season (https://swampswami.com/2026/11/10/fcs-top-25-lamar-ends-sfas-dream-season/) appeared first on SwampSwamiSports.com (https://swampswami.com).

2. 

   10 Nov 2026

   U talkin’ to me? Utah and UCLA grab top two spots in Top 25

   You never know what is going to happen in college football each weekend.  Last Saturday’s games included a few expected nail-biters along with a couple of quite unexpected blow-outs, too. Last week’s top-ranked Miami was K-O’ed by Notre Dame 31-24 on Saturday night in South Bend.  The Hurricanes dropped out of the top spot in this week’s latest SwampSwamiSports.com College Football Top 25. The Fighting Irish (now 8-1) led 24-3 early in the third quarter before the Miami offense awakened late.  Miami committed two turnovers in what was, otherwise, a statistically-balanced game. Notre Dame will close November with three ACC competitors.  Boston College (4-5) and 7-2 SMU each visit South Bend over the next two weeks.  Notre Dame then travels to Syracuse (4-5) on the final weekend of the regular season. A College Football Playoff berth is certain for the Irish with two victories in the final three games. Miami’s final three contests will be more difficult but all played at home.  Duke (7-2), Virginia Tech (6-3) and Boston College must travel to south Florida to play the Canes. Utah wins the “Holy War” over rival BYU 28-20 The so-called “Holy War” between Brigham Young and the University of Utah produced another thriller in Salt Lake City on Saturday. Utah quickly jumped out to a 14-0 first quarter lead.  Brigham Young then responded in the second quarter to lead 20-14 at halftime. BYU quarterback Bear Brockmeier had three of his four interceptions happen during the second half to quell possible scoring drives.  Utah capitalized and scored 14 second half points to win 28-20 and improve to 9-0. Brigham Young fell to 7-2 with the loss.  The Cougars must defeat 6-3 Baylor, win at 3-6 Kansas, and take down 5-4 Cincinnati on the final weekend to make their case for the playoffs. UCLA’s passing game produced big results as Bruins improved to 9-0 UCLA senior quarterback Ty Dieffenbach completed only nine passes in Saturday’s 34-20 road win at 5-4 Minnesota. Two of those passes went for 75-yard touchdowns in the second half to wide receiver Aiden Mizell.  UCLA produced a remarkable 303 yards via the air on just nine pass completions. Minnesota battled unbeaten UCLA to a 10-10 halftime tie.  UCLA’s #7-ranked defense came to the rescue in the second half as the Golden Gophers (now 5-4) were held to just 296 yards of total offense. UCLA will host 6-3 Illinois on Saturday.  The Bruins then hit the road at struggling 5-4 Michigan and return home to play crosstown rival USC (7-2) in the regular season finale.  The College Football Playoffs are a certainty if the Bruins win two of their final three games. LSU Coach Lane Kiffin’s 4th down gambling costs Tigers in loss to Alabama One of my favorite tunes by legendary rock group Blood, Sweat, and Tears was “Go Down Gambling!” That’s exactly what happened in Baton Rouge after the new head coach of the LSU Tigers went 0-4 on fourth down gambles against SEC rival Alabama.  Bama’s defense morphed into a Crimson Wall inside the 20 yard line as 7-2 Alabama beat LSU 31-13. LSU (now 6-3) moved up and down the field with ease at times of this game.  They also failed to cash-in with touchdowns in the red (scoring) zone on all but one occasion. Coach Lane Kiffin opted to gamble on fourth down four different times.  Alabama stopped the Tigers on each occasion and scored the game’s final 21 points over the final 16 minutes of this game. LSU’s chances in the College Football Playoff sank to nearly zero after the embarrassing loss on national television. The Tigers must beat 7-2 Texas this Saturday in Baton Rouge (6:30PM on ABC).  Then LSU must win road wins at 7-2 Tennessee and 3-6 Arkansas to close the season.  A 9-3 LSU must hope that other highly-ranked teams will go into a November slump. All of that is quite unlikely, but weird things sometimes occur during the final weeks of the football season. Did anyone get the number of that red bus in Oxford, Mississippi Saturday night? Georgia came into Oxford and absolutely crushed Ole Miss on Saturday night. The Bulldogs (now 8-1) scored four unanswered touchdowns to roll to a 28-0 halftime advantage over the stunned Rebels and their equally shocked home crowd. Georgia’s defense allowed just 252 total yards.  The loss may have scuttled Ole Miss’ playoff chances along with the Heisman Trophy hopes of their quarterback Trinidad Chambliss. Georgia now faces a tough home game against 6-3 Missouri on Saturday.  The Dawgs then travel to play vastly improved South Carolina (6-3) in Columbia before hosting intrastate rival Georgia Tech (2-7) to end the regular season. A win over either Missouri or South Carolina will likely punch a playoff ticket for Georgia. Kentucky serves-up three turnovers in a lopsided 34-6 loss at Tennessee The Kentucky Wildcats came into Knoxville with a gaudy 7-1 record built on near-flawless offensive performances.  Tennessee was at home with its playoff backs to the wall on Saturday. Much like Alabama did against LSU, the Tennessee defense failed to allow touchdowns whenever Kentucky moved into scoring range. The Volunteers then capitalized on three rare Kentucky offensive turnovers and closed the game by scoring 21 fourth quarter points.  Tennessee is now 7-2 after its win in a game which was closer than the final score indicated. Kentucky trailed only 13-6 coming into the deciding fourth quarter. Louisiana Tech is basking in the Sun (Belt, that is) The Bulldogs just opened-up a two game lead in the Sun Belt Western Division after clobbering Troy 41-17 on the Trojans’ home field Saturday.  Louisiana Tech surged to 7-2 overall and a perfect 5-0 conference mark in its inaugural Sun Belt football season. Tech’s defense continued to lead the way. Bulldog defenders created four fumbles (including a 67-yard scoop-and-score touchdown) and pilfered an interception in the school’s latest win. Louisiana Tech is home for both Southern Miss (3-6) and Arkansas State (3-6) over the next two weeks.  They will travel to Statesboro to play Sun Belt East leader Georgia Southern (5-4 overall – 4-1 in conference play) on Thanksgiving weekend. Here is the latest SwampSwamiSports.com College Football Top 25 for the week ending Saturday, November 7, 2026: The post U talkin’ to me? Utah and UCLA grab top two spots in Top 25 (https://swampswami.com/2026/11/09/u-talkin-to-me-utah-and-ucla-grab-top-two-spots-in-top-25/) appeared first on SwampSwamiSports.com (https://swampswami.com).

3. 

   6 Nov 2026

   LIV Golf to Liquidate – Hello, Korn Ferry Tour?

   LIV Golf’s attempt to resurrect itself into a version 2.0 was officially flushed (https://www.cbssports.com/golf/news/liv-golf-shutdown-imminent-bc-partners-pulls-funding/) down the Ty-Dee bowl Thursday morning in a New Jersey bankruptcy courtroom. According to early reports, the $300 million of financial support promised by private equity firm BC Partners was withdrawn this week.  A re-launch under the name of LIV Golf 2.0 was being planned. More than 50% (https://www.espn.com/golf/story/_/id/50390178/liv-golf-lacks-support-20-model-winds-operations) of the top LIV golfers failed to commit to participating in this proposed lower-cost new business plan for the struggling golf tour. TV’s Golf Channel quickly rolled out its analysts to discuss the past, present, and future for golfers who jumped to play in the five year old golf league. Former PGA player Brandel Chamblee (Golf Channel’s LIV Golf basher-in-chief) eloquently discussed this morning how LIV Golf had done irreparable damage to the great game of golf over the past five seasons. How, Brandel? The golfers receiving those huge signing bonuses to move to LIV Golf did quite well financially. Yes, they chose to take up-front money and play in fewer events than grinding it out weekly on the PGA Tour.  It was their decision.  They should bear any future consequences. LIV Golf offered a tournament purse which was nearly double of an average weekly PGA Tour event.  There were no cuts in LIV’s smaller field events.  A last place finisher in a LIV Golf event would still take home $50,000. LIV Golf spent money like the proverbial drunken sailor for five straight years. LIV Golf’s Jon Rahm won about $80 million in tournament earnings over the past three seasons. That amount is in addition to estimated $300 million signing bonus he received. PGA Tour golfers also benefited from the existence of LIV Golf. LIV Golf poached dozens of players away from the stodgy long-time golf tour.  In response, do you remember that the PGA Tour announced a merger with LIV Golf (https://www.nbcnews.com/business/business-news/pga-tour-liv-merger-why-how-much-money-what-happens-next-rcna87972) during the summer of 2023? Months passed with no word about those merger talks. In early 2024, the PGA Tour announced they had acquired $3 billion worth of funding from a private equity investment partner named Strategic Sports Group. The PGA Tour utilized some of that money to finance an increase in certain tournament payouts and to fund a new long-term incentive program encouraging PGA Tour players to stay put. Apparently, that proposed merger between LIV Golf and the PGA Tour was officially dead. The DP World Tour has benefited from LIV Golf’s existence. Several prominent LIV golfers have participated in various DP World Tour events in recent years.  Many LIV golfers have applied or will apply to become full-time members on the DP World Tour beginning in 2027. Golf fans around the world have benefited from LIV Golf.  Events were played in long-ignored golf-starved venues such as Adelaide, Australia and South Africa. LIV Golf drew a much younger audience to its tournaments. Who would have thought that golfers and fans would enjoy hearing music while the players are on the course. LIV Golf’s unique 4-man team competition encouraged each player to remain focused on team goals even if that individual golfer had no chance of winning the singles title on Sunday. I was a big fan of LIV Golf’s shotgun starts.  All golfers began play at the same time and under the same weather conditions.  The PGA Tour should consider doing the same – twice per day. The biggest losers were Saudi Arabia’s investors Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund flushed an estimated $6 billion to fund LIV Golf’s player signing bonuses and the over-inflated tournament purses during the past five seasons. The Saudi PIF assets are more than $1 trillion.  Even those massive losses posted by LIV Golf will cost their investors a mere .6% overall. That’s a blip on the financial radar. LIV Golf’s recent Chapter 11 bankruptcy hearing in New Jersey showed assets of $100-$500 million but liabilities of $500 million to $1 billion.  My worst case scenario (assets of $100 million and liabilities of $1 billion) means there might be as little as ten cents on the dollar available to creditors as LIV Golf winds-down the business. The Saudi PIF invested another $50 million this fall to finance LIV Golf’s continued operations during the Chapter 11 bankruptcy process.  The bankruptcy court will order the repayment of that $50 million as a preferred creditor. Most creditors are unsecured.  They will share whatever is left over after the secured creditors are taken care of. That likely means pennies on the dollar for unsecured claims during the wind-down of LIV Golf. That list includes dozens of LIV golfers, countless vendors and a host of other service providers who performed work for the company and were not paid.  They are part of the unsecured creditor class. What are the options for LIV Golf tour players now? The DP World Tour advised LIV golfers on October 12 that they must choose to participate entirely with their tour in 2027 or stick with LIV Golf 2.0 next season.  There will be no more jumping from one tour to another within the golf season. That announcement led to a thundering herd of popular former LIV golfers signing-up for the DP World Tour in recent weeks.  Several LIV golfers with European roots are hoping to play well enough in 2027 to earn a spot on the Ryder Cup team. It is much more complicated (of course) for LIV golfers wanting to return to the US-based PGA Tour. It seems like the long-time golf tour wants to inflict varying amounts of “punishment” on any former PGA Tour golfers who had the gall to leave for LIV Golf up to five years ago. The PGA Tour will use their microscope to examine each player’s transgressions and establish some form of required penitence. The PGA Tour has already negotiated a couple of “deals” in the past year.  They have allowed former major champions such as Brooks Koepka and Patrick Reed to return from LIV Golf – under certain conditions. Koepka’s plan involved writing a $5 million check to charity and not participating in any of the PGA Tour’s new limited field “Signature” events.  Those events had never taken place before LIV Golf arrived. Brooks Koepka ended his first year back with just one top ten finish in 16 PGA Tour events played.  He finished #94 in FedEx Cup points. Patrick Reed’s route back to the PGA Tour required a full year of waiting in exile. He spent 2026 on the DP World golf tour.  Reed won two events on that tour this year. He has been cleared to return to the traditional PGA Tour beginning in January. A number of popular American golfers who participated in LIV Golf events want to see what is required to return to play on the PGA Tour soon. However, PGA veterans such as Justin Thomas, Jordan Spieth, Rory McIlroy and others have spoken negatively about the break-away group of golfers who vamoosed to take the money offered by LIV Golf. The PGA Tour appears to be trying to appease its current players while realizing that fan favorites such as Bryson DeChambeau will bring thousands of additional fans to several of its tournament stops. Isn’t there a reasonable way to resolve this?  Of course!  Read on. Win/win idea – Allow LIV Golf stars to participate on the PGA’s Korn Ferry Tour in 2027 and 2028! This plan makes so much sense. The Korn Ferry Tour is owned by the PGA Tour.  It is a successful developmental league for up-and-coming golfers and a few former stars wanting to earn a chance to return.  Golfers finishing in the top 20 at season’s end receive a promotion to the PGA Tour for the following golf season. The 2026 Korn Ferry Tour schedule featured 25 events. All but four of its tournaments featured a total prize money of $1 million.  First place netted $180,000 in the majority of tournaments.  Most Korn Ferry events feature large fields of 140 or more golfers. In other words, Korn Ferry Tour golfers compete just as hard but for substantially less money as the PGA Tour’s players. Most Korn Ferry Tour events in 2026 were held in medium-sized US markets such as Knoxville, Tennessee, Raleigh, North Carolina, and Amarillo, Texas. Can you imagine the boost in local interest and ticket sales if former LIV Golf stars like Bryson DeChambeau, Dustin Johnson, and Bubba Watson were entered in the field? Golf fans in those communities would get a once in a lifetime opportunity to see a few of golf’s major champions in person at their local Korn Ferry Tour event in 2027. Bryson DeChambeau, Dustin Johnson, Bubba Watson, and other former LIV Golf stars should be given priority status to enter any Korn Ferry Tour event in 2027 and 2028.  If one or more former LIV golfer finishes the season in the top 20, he will have earned a spot back on the PGA Tour in the following season. For the sake of fairness, any non-LIV golfer bumped out of the top 20 would still receive his PGA Tour card over the next two seasons. Former LIV golfers who fail to reach the PGA Tour (via the Korn Ferry Tour) after the 2027 and 2028 seasons will lose their priority entrance status in future years. You’ve gotta prove that you still have game! The PGA Tour golfers can breathe easier knowing they won’t have to see or compete against former LIV Golf stars in 2027.  If a LIV golfer does earns a spot from a top 20 Korn Ferry Tour season in 2027 or 2028, his return will be based on recent merit. Most golf fans want to see the best players competing while in their prime. Forget the spiteful financial punishments such as Brooks Keopka was forced to make.  Most of the LIV golfers have plenty of money to cover almost any fine concocted by the PGA Tour. They simply want to PLAY GOLF! Make the LIV Golfers earn their way back onto the PGA Tour by performance – just like everyone else must do! The post LIV Golf to Liquidate – Hello, Korn Ferry Tour? (https://swampswami.com/2026/11/05/liv-golf-to-liquidate-hello-korn-ferry-tour/) appeared first on SwampSwamiSports.com (https://swampswami.com).

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