Dave Doeren on the NC State and Raleigh media: "Since so many of the media have so nicely and eloquently critiqued me over my 14 years, I wanted to do a nice reporter-by-reporter critique back to you. I was going to go through your names one by one and put your pictures up and have T-shirts about all of you, but I decided not to do that. "But maybe later in a podcast down by the river with bottle of bourbon, that's going to happen." Definitely looking forward to this...

#USC HC Lincoln Riley: "I thought defensively we dominated maybe 90 percent of the plays in the game." Said they had a couple of critical errors letting ball get outside and critical penalties, but otherwise played well. Felt there was a lot to be encouraged by.

🚨 Pat McAfee GOES OFF on the University of Utah 😳 He says he’s never felt so uncomfortable, even bringing up what happened at UVU last year. “I did not enjoy the University of Utah.” HOLY SMOKES 💀

Oh how quick we forget that before Deion Sanders was hired, we had no money, no boosters, no fans in the stands, and the Regents were meeting to defund the program. I understand why you don’t like him. However, what’s your plan?

I asked Lincoln Riley if USC’s loss to Wisconsin was the sort that requires looking inward and doing things differently. “You have to own it,” Riley said, “but this is the same team that played a very different brand of football at Penn State two weeks ago.”

Folks will find a way to blame Steve Sarkisian.

Pat McAfee: "New York Times always saying it! 'This a**hole is shirtless at 9:02 a.m. Eastern!' Sorry, Coach. I'm ruining the whole sport; I'm ruining the whole sport because of this."

NEWS: NC State has fired coach Dave Doeren. The firing comes in the wake of a loss at Stanford on Friday night.

Texas is all in on AI. The school is launching Bevo Lab, a 25,000-square-foot sports AI hub, and coaches are already quizzing Google’s Gemini about opponents. @kirkgoldsberry: “The biggest mystery here is why did it take so freaking long for this to happen at a university?”

Sources: Maryland coach Mike Locksley has been dismissed. Maryland dropped to 2-5 on Saturday after a last-second loss to Rutgers. Locksley is 39-54 overall at Maryland, including his interim stint in 2015. Maryland is on a bye this week.