Basketball season starts soon for football fans whose team is already done for the season.

Thursday, Oct. 20
Major League Baseball (Fox, time to be announced), Game two of the World Series between the Texas Rangers and the St. Louis Cardinals.

Friday, Oct. 21
College Football (ESPN2/ESPN 7-10 p.m.) two college football games on the ESPN networks featuring Big East teams: West Virginia at Syracuse and Rutgers at Louisville. USM should be calling the Big East commissioner to tell him how they could beat all four teams.

Saturday, Oct. 22
MLB (Fox TBA), The World Series travels from St. Louis to Texas as the Rangers take on the Cardinals in game three.

Sunday, Oct. 23
NFL (NBC 7:30-11 p.m.), New Orleans comes home for the first time in three weeks. The Saints look to bounce back after a loss to Tampa Bay against winless Indianapolis Colts.

Monday, Oct. 24
MLB (Fox, TBA), If necessary the Cardinals and the Rangers will meet up in game five of the fall classic.

Tuesday, Oct. 25
College football (ESPN2 7-10 p.m.), Troy hits the road to take on Florida International. It is a great week for my wife, Lacey, to be out of the country, because it is the first week with football every night.

Wednesday, Oct. 26
College football (ESPN 7-10 p.m.), More Big East football as Connecticut travels to Pittsburgh. How does one of the worst conferences in football get every team on TV?

At basically the mid-point of the college football season, only four Mississippi schools have winning records: Southern Miss (5-1), Jackson State (6-1) and Delta State (7-1) all have only one loss. Millsaps has a winning record, barely, at 4-3.

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