While you let your blood pressure return to its normal resting rate, I hope you’ll join your Bulldog brethren and sistren in enjoying a solid evening slate of college football action.
Tennessee travels to the bad Columbia to take on Shane Beamer’s upset-minded Gamecocks (7:30, ESPN). You’d expect the Vols to roll in this one, but we’ve seen the Big Orange struggle in a raucous road environment and we’ve seen weird things happen to good teams at night in Willie Brice.
In the same time slot USC battles UCLA in a crosstown rivalry that the Trojans need to keep their playoff hopes alive (7:30, FOX).