Carla and Crappy Show: The Luck of the Ellie Edition

It’s Week Five of the college football season, and while we spend a good bit of time discussing Notre Dame, we need to begin by acknowledging the newest member of the #CnCShow team: BabyFox -- you can call her Ellie -- has arrived. Carla and David are both doing well, with the exception of the not-much-sleeping thing, and we’re hopeful that Ellie will be picking games by the end of the season. The Irish come up a couple times in deference to this week’s Jeopardy guest host, newly minted Notre Dame alum Gabby Biltz. She’s a big college football fan and an even bigger fan of chili dogs, which means she gets along famously with Crappy, with whom she worked as an intern a couple years ago. An Irish-centric show will obviously begin with a look at last weekend’s Notre Dame-Wisconsin game, which Gabby, a resident of Chicago, could have attended BUT DID NOT. We reach some conclusions about ND and the Badgers, and Crappy throws in a bonus prediction about Michigan-Wisconsin on Big Nude this week. AJ not only takes us through his slate G5/P12 football fun but manages to provide the show with its best tagline ever. And then after lamenting Cornell’s 0-2 start -- and the Battle of the ‘nells this weekend -- Gabby and Crappy turn to this week’s feature games: No. 8 Arkansas at No. 2 Georgia (noon, ESPN): Arkansas is the surprise school of the 2021 season, and Hoo Pig Sooey could add to its already impressive resume by beating the Bulldogs on the road. Will they? Let’s just say both Gabby and Crappy wish this game was in Fayetteville. No. 7 Cincinnati at No. 9 Notre Dame (2:30 p.m., NBC) This will be Gabby’s first ND football game since she graduated in the spring (and, not unimportantly, her first tailgate party since her junior year -- thanks, COVID). Will she see her beloved Irish win, as they always seem to do when these games are in South Bend? Spoiler alert: The Bearcats are better than Wisconsin. No. 12 Ole Miss at No. 1 Alabama (3:30 p.m., CBS): This is not your father’s SEC game. It’s going to get, as AJ says, pointsy. And if Alabama’s defense is in fact as shaky (by Bama standards) as it appeared in the Swamp two weeks ago, the Fightin’ Kiffins could give Nick Saban a massive headache by the end of the afternoon. Huge thanks to Gabby, for joining the #CnCShow guest host program and for making sure she had something other than Bud Light in her beer glass. Enjoy the games this weekend, everyone, and we’ll see you back here next week.