Forty names, games, teams and minutiae making news in college football (hangover cures sold separately in Stillwater):
First Quarter: The Texas A&M Conundrum
Amid what has been an unusually calm season down South, the SEC finally resumed acting up Sunday: Texas A&M (1) bit a $75 million bullet and fired Jimbo Fisher a day after he won a league game by 41 points with his third-string quarterback. The timing is weird but the result was inevitable, once the school reconciled with the fiscal irresponsibility of paying by far the biggest buyout in college sports history.