Happy Saturday! We’ve got week 2 in college football and we’ve got a marquee matchup! Let’s talk some tennis first and then we’ll go through the lineup.

US Open Finals

Men’s Singles

No. 3 Daniil Medvedev upset No. 1 Carlos Alcaraz in the semifinal match on Friday and it only took 4 sets. Medvedev won the

In the other semifinal match No. 2 Novak Djokovic defeated unranked Ben Shelton in straight sets.

Djokovic will take on Medvedev on Sunday in the US Open Finals. The two met in 2021 at the US Open where Medvedev upset Djokovic for his first and only grand slam title.

Women’s Final

No. 2 Aryna Sabalenka will take on No. 6 Coco Gauff at Arthur Ashe Stadium at 4pm ET. You can watch live on ESPN.

Team USA

Team USA fell to Team Germany in the FIBA World Cup Seminfinals 113-111 on Friday morning. Despite a strong offensive performance, the American team struggled defensively, allowing six German players to score in double digits, with three surpassing 20 points. Team USA will now play against Team Canada in the bronze medal match and Germany advances to face Serbia in the championship.

College Football

We’re back with week 2 of college football and we’ve got a major matchup in primetime.

Let’s dig into the schedule.

Speaking of Prime

Coach Prime will lead the Colorado Buffalo in their first home game against the Nebraska Cornhuskers at Noon today on FOX. Nebraska is getting 2.5 points in the matchup after being a 7.5 point favorite a week ago. Can Coach Prime lead Colorado to a 2-0 start?

#20 Ole Miss at #24 Tulane

We have two matchups between top 25 teams today and this is one of them. Ole Miss travels to New Orleans for a 3:30 pm ET kickoff. The game will be on ESPN2. Ole Miss is 7 point favorites and the O/U is 66.5. You might be expecting points tonight as Ole Miss put up 73 and Tulane put up 37 points last week.

Primetime Matchup

The #3 Alabama Crimson Tide welcome the #11 Texas Longhorns for a primetime matchup. Alabama defeated Texas by a 1 point margin last season and the Longhorns are heading to Tuscaloosa in attempt to get a tough road win. Both teams won their season openers by convincing margins last week, with Alabama topping Middle Tennessee State and Texas defeating Rice.

Alabama is a 7-point favorite over Texas and the O/U is 53.5 points.

Can Texas cover this game? Texas is 7-2-1 all-time against the spread vs Alabama, and the last year’s 1 point loss came in game in which starting quarterback Quinn Ewers suffered a mid-game injury.

We’re taking Texas against the spread and the under in this game.

Game time is set for 7 pm ET and will be on ESPN.

If you’re looking for the full schedule for all the games today, you can find them here.

That’s all for today. Enjoy the games and we’ll be back tomorrow.

-The Daily Breakroom