Curt Cignetti taunts the CFP committee and then gets obliterated, Cam Skattebo freezes & Gracie Hunt checks in

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Well, here we are. Friday. We've made it!

The weather man tells me we're supposed to drop down to the 40s tonight here in Florida. We've got a full weekend of FOOTBALL in front of us. Thanksgiving is 13 days away.

I missed a meeting yesterday because Outlook was broken and I couldn't access the calendar with the Zoom link. What a pleasure.

Who has it better than us right now? Nobody! We're rolling.

Let's get after it.

Welcome to a Friday Nightcaps — the one where Curt Cignetti fires SHOTS at the CFP committee, and then promptly takes on heavy fire from fans in the comments section.

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Lordy, these rankings are divisive. Good thing we're expanding!

What else? I've got plenty of reader mail from the week to get to now that my email is no longer under a cyberattack (allegedly!), and did Cam Skattebo cost the Giants the game last night?

I know I know — he scored twice. But did y'all see what he did, or didn't do, on that third down play late in the fourth quarter? Wild. We'll dive in.

Grab you a sweatshirt if you're down here in FRIGID Florida, and settle in for a Friday 'Cap!

It's a Friday and we've got a lot to get to, so let's get this class started and see if we can get outta here a few minutes early ...

Once again, a Big Ten coach has the SEC on his mind. Last weekend, it was Illinois' Brett Bielema, who said his team would be ranked in the top-15 if they were in the SEC.

It's a fair point until you remember that Bielema went ... checks notes ... 11-29 in the SEC over his five seasons at Arkansas. That's a tough sell.

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The latest shot at the committee came from defending champ Curt Cignetti, who certainly has more street cred than Beilema. When Cig talks, folks listen. Doesn't mean he's right, but they at least don't laugh.

Here's what Cignetti had to say after the Hoosiers dropped five spots in this week's rankings even though they were on a bye week:

"Bad losses don't count anymore? 😂😂😂😂😂😂 Are first downs still 10 yards?🤡🤡🤡"

Thoughts? Look, I don't know who, exactly, Cignetti is singling out here. No. 1 Georgia, which lost to an unranked Auburn team a few weeks ago? No. 6 Texas? The Longhorns have lost to Florida (yuck) and Oklahoma (double yuck). Either way, it's an SEC team.

Here's the problem ... Indiana hasn't exactly faced a gauntlet this season. The Hoosiers have one loss — against Ohio State — and needed overtime to beat Michigan and Minnesota.

The SEC is just better than the Big Ten this year ... by a lot. It's a down year for the Big Ten. It happens. The committee is almost certainly punishing Indiana for the schedule compared to Texas or Georgia. Fair or not, that's what they're doing.

The always levelheaded folks on social media were QUICK to point that out:

Yeah, it's just a tough look to chirp and also have zero ranked wins this season. Zero. That could very well change tomorrow as Indiana faces No. 18 USC.

I assume the Hoosiers will win that game because USC under Lincoln Riley never meets the moment. Ever. But should they lose? It'll be open season when the next batch of rankings come out next week.

OK, let's leave Bloomington and head to New Jersey, where the Giants lost a game they should've won last night partly because Cam Skattebo appeared to ... do nothing? ... on a critical third down QB sneak:

I watched it live and was truly baffled. What in the world is going on here? Some folks on the internet think Skattebo was a decoy. OK? That still doesn't explain why he just sat there for two seconds while Jameis was fighting for his life trying to gain an extra two inches.

Did he just ... forget to move? Seriously, that's what it looks like to me. Did he zone out? It sounds like an absurd thing to even think, but this is Cam Skattebo we're talking about. He's a bit out there, if you hadn't noticed.

And don't get me wrong — I love Cam Skattebo. I'm a huge Skattebo guy. I bet on him to score a touchdown last night, so I owe him the whopping $22 I won if I ever see him.

But it was still ... odd. Just odd.

OK, let's rapid-fire this Friday class into a big weekend of FOOTBALL. First up? Earlier this week, I asked everyone when it was acceptable to put up the Christmas decorations.

Because it's a divisive topic, I received 14,000 responses.

From Greg in Amarillo:

I will put up the Christmas decorations while or when the weather is nice, AFTER Halloween, of course, give them a test light, but they don't get turned on regularly until Thanksgiving weekend. The inside of the house, including the tree, doesn't go up until Thanksgiving weekend.

From Gary B:

When in doubt go old school. As a kid growing up in the 70's everybody would start decorating for Christmas after Thanksgiving. It was corporate greed that tried to change that to Halloween.

From Jon C:

My family tradition is to put up decorations the weekend after Thanksgiving.  Plenty of ballgames to "watch" while decking the halls and trimming the tree (artificial).

And from Chris B:

Hey, Zach — The lights go out on Black Friday, because who wants to leave the house that day anyway? By 5:00 our house looks like a used car lot.

So, I have an admission to make that I'm not proud of ...

Our house is decorated for Christmas. My wife yanked all the Halloween stuff down last weekend (against my wishes), so our house was just in purgatory for days. It wasn't decorated for Halloween. We don't have a ton of fall decor. And there were boxes and bins everywhere.

I couldn't take it anymore. I knew I didn't want to make two trips to the attic, so I decided to bring the Halloween stuff up, and take the Christmas stuff down at the same time.

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Once the First Lady caught a whiff of those Christmas bins, it was game over. I didn't stand a chance.

So, we're decking the halls in Florida on Nov. 13. At least we made it to the double-digit portion of November. I held her off as long as I could.

Merry Christmas!

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OK, that's it for today — and this week. Good work, everyone. On the way out, here's Kansas City Chiefs Heiress Gracie Hunt gearing up for a big game against the Falcons on Sunday.

Have a big weekend, everyone.