Don't Watch This; Watch That
Your weekly college football viewing guide, presented by MNWildcat!
Turkey, Tobacco, and Hoping for a Harbor: Don’t Watch This; Watch That, Thanksgiving Weekend
From the Burley Bowl to Big Ten rivalries, we’ll take you on a walk for Thanksgiving Weekend football.
The Upside-Down Sage on the Stage Is Watching You: DWT;WT, Week 13
Plus: the challenges we face trying to write our own stories in a post-COVID, still-AI’d world.
I Need a Cigarette: Don’t Watch This; Watch That, Week 11
Plus, oddly, a Jerry Kill conspiracy theory?
More Americans should have a third space, and that third space should be the vacant lot from Hey Arnold!
Don’t Watch This; Watch That — Your Week 10 Guide to the College Football Schedule
Don’t Watch This; Watch That: Your Week 9 Guide to Life, Love, and the College Football Schedule
A college football schedule guide that does more than ask "What’s the game featuring the two highest-ranked teams?"
¿Como se dice “PUNT” en Ingles? Don’t Watch This; Watch That, Week 8
No Veas Esto; Mira Aquello — guía de la semana 8 del calendario de fútbol americano universitario
Country Codes, Cannons, and Chagossians: Don’t Watch This; Watch That, Week 7
On diasporas and the need for a two-state solution to the Illinois-Penn State Conflict.
College Football Realignment is for the Birds: Don’t Watch This; Watch That, Week 6
A story about a bird...but in many ways, a story about us all. (Or something. Who knows. I’ve been drinking.)
When a College Becomes a Prison (No, For Real): Don’t Watch This; Watch That, Week 5
What happens when a community loses its institutions?
Which Big Ten teams are too scared to play AT a G5 school? DWT;WT, Week 4
Your Week 4 Guide to the college football schedule a weird obsession with Connecticut, and includes sexy mascots,
THROW RUTGERS FROM THE TRAIN: Don’t Watch This; Watch That, Week 3
All the games that are fit to watch—and then some.
How I’ll Die Thanks to a Radioactive Hurricane: Don’t Watch This; Watch That, Week 2
Your Week 2 Guide to the College Football Schedule
A Salute to the Hometown Haircut: Don’t Watch This; Watch That, Week 1
Plus: do we really need betting lines on FCS games?
BACKYARD’S BACK—ALRIGHT! Don’t Watch This; Watch That, Week 0
Plus, the return of Backyard Sports and why even if Pablo Sanchez came to Northwestern, he’d just transfer after a year, anyway.
Don’t Watch This; Watch That, Week 13 wishes it was riding the rails
Much like Deacon Hill, we’re taking an incomplete.
How has your stadium's neighborhood changed? Don't Watch This; Watch That, Week 12 Gets Historical and Aerial
...is checking out the historical digs.
Look out for Ghost Armadillos: Don’t Watch This; Watch That, Week 10
Watching out for those ghost armadillos as we roll down I-94.
Ranking*** the Rivalry Trophies: Don’t Watch This; Watch That, Week 9 asks PJ Fleck to please use Lysol
...in the order in which I’d like to sleep with them.
Choose Your Own Adventure: Don't Watch This; Watch That, Mid-Week 9 and Open Thread
Plus: weird enclaves and bad football! And a Game 7.
I Need a Meat Pounder: Don’t Watch This; Watch That, Week 8
Oktoberfest has proven it: I need a meat pounder.
AN OL' BRASSY IMPOSTER! Don't Watch This; Watch That, Midweek Edition
That, and some nice funk for you to listen to.
Your State Drives Too Slow: Don’t Watch This; Watch That, Week 7
A review of Midwestern speed limits. (It’s more exciting than it sounds?)
CURDERBURGERS AND TUESDAY FOOTBALL: A Mini, Midweek DWT;WT and Open Thread
Grab a burger, let's watch some absolutely reprehensible football!
Don’t Watch This; Watch That, Week 6: Nineteen Years Ago Today...
On the college football schedule and a happiness that eluded me for almost 19 years.
Mastering Tasks and Counting Down: Don’t Watch This; Watch That, Week 5
Your guide to the college football schedule hops across the pond and finds the purplest thing beginning with "N".
Don’t Watch This; Watch That is Taking 8 Hours for What We Will
I’ve done my 8 hours of work, now give me New Mexico State at Hawai’i!
Don’t Watch This; Watch That, Week 3: Needlessly Burning Fuel and Money in Airbnb Hell
Your Week 3 Guide to the College Football Schedule takes a trip down memory lane to Airbnb hell in New York City.
YO I HEARD YOU LIKE POTATOES: DWT;WT, Week 2, ft. the Spud Bowl
Yo, I heard you like potatoes...
I’m Not Ready for 18: Don’t Watch This; Watch That, Week 1
We’re not ready for 18. In any sense of the word.
DWT;WT, Week 0: College Football and the Problem of Bigness
Let’s take a little time to appreciate what makes college football so unique—starting tonight—as the bigness of FBS swallows up the traditions we love. A much quieter and more sinister problem stalks the small colleges of the United States.
Saturday Bowl Game Trivia, Schedule, and Open Thread
Featuring the live mascot I was born to play.