Done with 4 nights in a row. But, no time to slack off. There is what promises to be one of the greatest football games in the history of College Ball tonight. As it is Saturday morning for me, some details have to be attended to. The pellet reactor smoker is lit, and we have fission smoke. I’ll nap whilst the Cajun brined and injected turkey breast gets layered with my Yankee Smokers proprietary blend of wood pellets. The girls demand beer-can chicken. that will go an later.

A cigar is in order, as well as a shot and a beer whist Mrs Coldwarrior is at the gym. A Perla Del Mar Churchill, a fridge temperature Stoli shot, and a Cigar City Brewing Maduro chaser fits the bill nicely. The Perla Del Mar is something that every cigar lover should have in their humidor. It’s damn near perfect. I almost always buy my cigars at auction, these, I pay full price for, gladly.

#3 Clemson versus #1 LSU at 8:00 PM from Mercedes-Benz Stadium in N’Orleans. The pretenders and wanna-be over rated programs are weeded out. There are no Sooners, Tide, Buckeyes, or Ducks. It’s TIGERS all the way down!

LSU is giving 6 to Clemson (as of yesterday and I am going with that). That LSU offense is flat out great. They could beat some pro teams. Clemson is no slouch on O either. Both defenses are really good too. Clemson’s QB is undefeated, 25-0. And he’s ‘just’ Sophomore! ‘Clemson allows the fewest points of any team in the country (11.5 per game) and the second-fewest yards (264.1).’ but they don’t play in the SEC like LSU. It comes down to Clemson’s defense. LSU can make any D look foolish. I would not be surprised if LSU wins by 3 touchdowns.

Back to the 6 point spread.

38/69…1600/1000 thus far. That’s a 60% ROI (with fake money because I would never bet real money on a bunch of 20 y.o. kids, ever.). I’ll put $100 on Clemson to cover…but LSU wins. The bet is on the ‘line’, not on the eventual winner. I won’t bet more as I don’t have confidence. Clemson beat Ohio State with some late game heroics and a ‘bend don’t break’ defense. That might not work against the LSU machine.

Ohio State was over-rated again by the media, and are always over rated by their fans, sorry, my doppelgänger. But it’s the truth. Ohio State is in fact one Woody Hayes quality head-coach away from dominating NCAA ball. But, that only comes around once in a lifetime…and they had theirs. They have the talent but not the discipline.

The cigar is all but finished, my booze is done, the smoker is on auto-pilot. Nap time.

Have a great day. See yinz tonight.