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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.

Don’t Watch This; Watch That: Your Week 11 Guide to the College Football Schedule and Playing Basketball in Shipyards

ALL HAIL THE BUILDERS

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.