Saturday Big Ten Football Open Thread

(4) Oregon Ducks @ Northwestern Wildcats

11AM | FOX | Oregon -28.5 | O/U 51.5

Wisconsin Badgers @ (19) Alabama Crimson Tide

11AM | ABC | Alabama -20.5 | O/U 46.5

Central Michigan Chippewas @ (23) Michigan Wolverines

11AM | BTN | Michigan -27 | O/U 42.5

Houston Baptist Huskies at Nebraska Cornhuskers

11am | FS1

Towson Tigers at Maryland Terrapins

11am | Le Coq

Southern Cal Trojans @ Purdue Boilermakers

2:30PM | CBS / Paramount | USC -20.5 | O/U 58.5

Villanova Wildcats at #2 Penn State Nittany Lions

2:30pm | FS1

Youngstown State Penguins at Michigan State Spartans

2:30pm | BTN

Norfolk State Spartans at Rutgers Scarlet Knights

2:30pm | BTN

THE Ohio Bobcats @ (1) Ohio State Buckeyes

6PM | Peacock | Ohio State -33.5 | O/U 53.5

Western Michigan Broncos @ (9) Illinois Fighting Illini

6PM | FS1 | Illinois -27.5 | O/U 51.5

Massachusetts Minutemen @ Iowa Hawkeyes

6:30PM | BTN | Iowa -33.5 | O/U 44.5

Minnesota Golden Gophers @ California Golden Bears

9:30PM | ESPN | Minnesota -2.5 | O/U 44.5

Gulls

My townspeople, beyond in the great world,
are many with whom it were far more
profitable for me to live than here with you.
These whirr about me calling, calling!
and for my own part I answer them, loud as I can,
but they, being free, pass!
I remain! Therefore, listen!
For you will not soon have another singer.

First I say this: you have seen
the strange birds, have you not, that sometimes
rest upon our river in winter?
Let them cause you to think well then of the storms
that drive many to shelter. These things
do not happen without reason.

And the next thing I say is this:
I saw an eagle once circling against the clouds
over one of our principal churches—
Easter, it was—a beautiful day!
three gulls came from above the river
and crossed slowly seaward!
Oh, I know you have your own hymns, I have heard them—
and because I knew they invoked some great protector
I could not be angry with you, no matter
how much they outraged true music—

You see, it is not necessary for us to leap at each other,
and, as I told you, in the end
the gulls moved seaward very quietly.