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Hear me out. I'm not saying Sam Leavitt is going to put up Joey B's 60 TDs or replicate the single greatest individual season in CFB history. But look at the circumstantial parallels if he decides to come back for his senior year in 2027 instead of leaving for the draft as a mid-round pick.

Assuming Leavitt manages to settle down, limits the turnovers, and guides us into the College Football Playoff this year, the foundation for a massive senior year jump is entirely there:

1. A Real Offseason / Further Removed from Injury: People forget Leavitt missed a ton of critical spring reps because he was recovering from Lisfranc surgery. He's been learning Lane Kiffin's offense completely on the fly in live SEC action. A full, healthy spring completely changes a quarterback's timing.

2. Year 2 in Kiffin’s System: Look at how Daniels, Burrow or many other modern QBs looked in their first full year starting vs. their second. Giving Kiffin a second consecutive season to tailor the playbook around a veteran Leavitt—without the early-season "Jekyll and Hyde" growing pains—would be lethal.

3. The Physical Elite Baseline: Unlike Burrow in 2018, who people thought had a weak arm, nobody doubts Leavitt's raw physical traits. The arm talent and mobility are already elite. If his draft stock is hovering around the 4th round right now due to the high interception rate, coming back fully healthy with a CFP run under his belt could easily vault him into the top half of the 1st round (which also implies we have an awesome 2027 season).

Am I drinking the purple Kool-Aid after the A&M game, or is the timeline matching up?

Face value

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Always wait until game day to buy your tickets. There will be some available

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Unless you’re a season ticket holder and can just order them at face value.

Look, I get the frustration with the Baton Rouge gridlock. The Mississippi River cuts off our entire west side escape route, and our campus layout doesn't exactly dump right onto an open eight-lane interstate. It's a logistical nightmare.

But bailing on the team in the 3rd quarter to "beat the traffic" is a massive illusion.

I’ve personally been to games at Clemson, Auburn, Tennessee, South Carolina, Florida, Notre Dame, Ohio State, and Penn State. Guess what? They all turn into a parking lot.

Tennessee has a river bottleneck blocking half their escape routes.

Beaver Stadium (Penn State) proves that even being surrounded by wide-open rural space doesn't solve the issue; you still have to funnel thousands of cars into specific highway entry points. Memorial Stadium (Clemson) sits in a tight college town geography where thousands of vehicles are forced onto narrow two-lane roads like Perimeter Road and Highway 93 to escape (took us three hours to get to Greenville last year post-game). Notre Dame Stadium faces the exact same constraint, relying heavily on standard local avenues (like State Road 933 and Edison Road) to feed into the toll road, turning South Bend into an absolute crawl.

Ohio State and South Carolina have city infrastructure right next to them, and they still turn into total gridlock. Ever sat in that traffic snarl trying to get to 315 after leaving the Shoe?

When you pack 80,000 to 105,000 people into one concentrated footprint (plus those there just to tailgate), the laws of physics take over. It doesn't matter if you have a major highway artery next to the stadium or not; when 25,000 cars hit the exact same merge point at the exact same second, everything breaks down.

Leaving in the 3rd quarter doesn't actually save you that much time—it just trades your stadium seat for a driver's seat while you stare at brake lights. If you're going to be stuck in traffic anyway, you might as well stay, lose your voice, and support the team.

To those who say, well I can do what I want - you sure can, just giving my opinion. Just don't cite our traffic as the worst in the country because it is NOT.

I didn’t switch to bourbon last night until halftime, so there. Can’t ignore science.

Including the best QB in the country. LSU retained 34% of returning snaps. This is Ole Miss's LAST chance before going back to 7 or 8 wins a year. Kiffin isn't losing to UL Monroe or Troy this year. Bring on the Aggies.

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That Clemson

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Clemson was an awesome road trip and Greenville is very cool. Baton Rouge may have more hotels but it’s a $hithole. Give me the “smaller” college towns any day.

practice typically starts around 3:30 - 4:00.

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Im not sure you understand how betting lines work

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Probably a litter better than your ability to recognize sarcasm.

For the Commanders?