Greg Robson

Freelance journalist. I love sports, cinema and folk music.

[Dom Izzo @DomIzzoWDAY]

Love all the declarative statements from fans and media of FCS teams after the CFP news today.

The G6 schools and administrators have no idea what’s going to happen, but yet the FCS folks know exactly what tomorrow and next month look like.

Making any predictions is folly.

[RedditCFB @RedditCFB]

Trying to understand the concept of #1 BYU (8-0) @ #2 Utah (8-0) on November 7 and it might actually break the Beehive State.

[Marty Smith @MartySmithESPN]

College football is such a gift.
Saturdays in the fall are precious.
Extreme ranges of emotion.
Beautifully unpredictable.
Identities that define entire regions.
Cherished traditions that cross generations.
Pride for who and what we are.
Just fabulous.

[John Ewing @johnewing]

What a day in College Football:

No. 1 Georgia ❌
No. 2 Notre Dame ❌
No. 5 Indiana ❌
No. 6 Alabama ❌
No. 7 Texas ❌
No. 13 Mizzou ❌
No. 16 Mississippi State ❌
No. 18 Oklahoma State ❌

Maybe a 24-team playoff will be fun!

[the Sports ON Tap @thesportsontap]

Alex Golesh's parents left Moscow with two kids, four hundred dollars and no English. Today as coach of Auburn he beat number 1 Georgia

His father was a telecommunications engineer. In New York he drove a truck.

His mother was a medical aide. She cleaned houses.

Their seven year old is the head coach at Auburn. Tonight he walked into Athens and beat number one Georgia on the road.

Here is the whole thing.

The Soviet Union was coming apart. Vladimir and Bella Golesh decided they were taking their sons out.

Here is the father, on why.

"We were scared."

"We didn't know exactly what life would be like. We just knew we had to get to America."

"Leaving Russia was the only decision."

It took about two years of paperwork and interviews before they could go. An aunt in New York sponsored them and met them at the airport.

They brought a few bags of clothes and four hundred dollars. Not one of them spoke the language.

They landed in Brooklyn and lived in a two bedroom apartment above a bodega. Alex was seven and learned English at school.

Now here is what he actually remembers about arriving in America.

Bananas.

"I loved bananas. That was like my thing."

"They were really hard to get. They were like a delicacy almost."

"Man, in America, you can get all the bananas you want."

That was the measure of the whole country to a seven year old. You could have as many bananas as you wanted.

He remembers the street vendors too, and wanting to try what he had only seen people on television having.

"I was like, I just want to try that."

"I thought it was the greatest thing I'd ever tasted."

Later the family moved to Ohio because it was cheaper to live there. And that is where he saw this sport for the first time.

Here is how he describes figuring out what he was watching.

"These dudes are running around and hitting people, and it's encouraged. Like, people are clapping for people smacking people."

"That was the first time I ever saw a college football game. I thought it was the coolest thing ever."

Here is his wife Alexis.

"I'm absolutely astonished every time I hear the story."

"Alex had never even seen American football."

And here is the line from him that explains all of it.

"When you're a kid, you don't really know what you don't have."

His father never stopped working. He drove for a pizza company, then managed a store, then ran a warehouse.

And his mother, who got off that plane unable to say one sentence in English, works for a language translation service now.

A man who fixed telephone lines in Moscow got in a truck in New York instead. His wife cleaned other people's houses. They did it with four hundred dollars and no way to ask anybody for help.

Tonight their kid walked into Sanford Stadium and beat the best team in the country in front of its own crowd. 27 to 24, on a field goal at the end.

Here is the last thing his father said about leaving.

"We are free."

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[FOX College Football @CFBONFOX]

And then there were SIX! Who's staying undefeated the longest?

[Sidelines - Ole Miss @SSN_OleMiss]

With Indana's loss today, Ole Miss now holds the longest home winning streak in the ENTIRE Power 4

The Rebels have won FIFTEEN straight games in Vaught-Hemingway Stadium, and are 25-1 at home since Pete Golding's arrival in 2023

Oxford, MS is truly THE place to be 🇹🇹

[ESPN Insights @ESPNInsights]

There was a 0.04% chance that Georgia, Notre Dame, Indiana, Alabama, and Texas would all lose entering the day per ESPN Analytics! 😮

[Gator Analytics @gatadata88]

Man, if Auburn can beat Georgia here, we’re going to have one of the biggest transitive Circles of Chaos in a while.

[Garrett Armbrust @4thandsaturday]

Lane Kiffin left Ole Miss to take the LSU job after leading his team to the CFP last season.

The national media claimed it was a better job because “they have more resources”

Lane Kiffin is 1-2 in SEC play at LSU and just lost to a first year HC. Grass isn’t always greener.

[Brett McMurphy @Brett_McMurphy]

🚨💥There is a college football or NFL game every single day for the next 61 days, starting tonight. The fun kicks off w/Western Kentucky at New Mexico State (8 ET) & North Texas at Tulsa (9 ET). Giddy up!🍺🍿🏈

[Bryan Fischer @BryanDFischer]

UCLA has improved more in four games under Bob Chesney than I've seen at USC in five years under Lincoln Riley.

[Greg Robson @GregoryRobson]

@NicoleAuerbach This is very scary. His body spasming after the hit was hard to watch.

[Greg Robson @GregoryRobson]

@MarkPacker I am crestfallen. Just wow.

[Shaun Goodwin @ShaunBroncoBeat]

Just saw College Gameday is going to Texas @ Tennessee. Second Texas game this season and 4/4 doing SEC teams 🫩

I’m not surprised. I just remember when it was a show for college football, not for the SEC.

There’s a game with actual CFP implications in Kalamazoo this weekend.

[Bartolo Colón @BColon40]

Probably (definitely) this. #LGM

[Northwestern Football @NUFBFamily]

LONG LIVE THE LAKE.

[Daniel Roberts @readDanwrite]

It took marrying a Southerner to get this New Englander to this point, but I now must declare: I think CFB Saturdays are much more fun than NFL Sundays.

[Jermaine Watkins @JermaineWatkins]

“Do you remember? The 21st night of September?”

Earth, Wind & Fire.

[Random SEC @therandomsec]

Random Take: College football is just levels ahead of the NFL as far as a product. Yes the football of the NFL is better. But it's just so hard to go from watching the pure emotion of Ole Miss/LSU last night to the lifeless corporate product of the NFL. I like the NFL but it's just not the same, even with all of the stuff happening in cfb.