Circa Friday Football Invitational | November 13, 2026 | Hour 2

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25 pro handicappers, $30,000 on the line. This is the Circa Friday Football Invitational, presented by Omaha Steaks on VSiN, the sports betting network. Here's your host, Matt Youmans.

Matt Youmans (1:35)

It's week 10 This is a football Friday night, and we are in the elimination phase of the Circa Friday Football Invitational. Two of the 25 contestants were cut after last week's games. Two more will be cut this week. And I know Paul Stone hopes he is not one of them. He's going to try to stay alive. This show is brought to you by Omaha Steaks, the official sponsor of tailgating. Head to omahosteaks.com/vsin for some great offers. You can see the Coconut Shrimp and the Meatball Subs out there on the display tonight. Order now. There's a QR code on the screen.

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It appears, Paul, that you have switched from UT to Houston. Are you now a Houston Cougars fan? What's going on here with that hat?

Paul Stone (2:33)

Well, you know, I've upped my hat collection in the all-season, Matt. It was one of my primary goals this year. So I've got several new hats and decided to wear the Houston hat tonight since the Cougars are teeing it up with the Colorado Buffaloes here in about two hours and change in Boulder. So it doesn't really mean anything. I just got a lot of different hats these days.

Matt Youmans (2:55)

Yeah, that play did not make your card tonight, by the way, the Houston Colorado game. There was some action on the board today in that game and some line movement. Paul Stone, I want to get your assessment here. What's happening with I don't know if it's chaos quite yet, but there's a lot of confusion of what's going on with the college football schedule for Saturday. A lot of teams having travel difficulties. One of those is your team, the Texas Longhorns.

How are they going to get to Baton Rouge? Are they going to bust there? What do you make of everything that's happened today?

Paul Stone (3:25)

Yeah, I mean, I've been doing this a long time. Obviously, Matt, I've never seen anything like it, and it's going to be interesting. And it just adds another layer of work for us college football handicappers to try to keep up with these travel issues. Because some of these games are going to be played tomorrow, I'm sure. And some of the traveling teams are going to be quite tired. They're not going to be on the regular schedule. In other cases, I think some of these games are going to be moved to Sunday. So it's just going to be interesting to watch it all work itself out and to see what happens. And who knows? It just, again, there's plenty to keep up on a Friday night when you're a college football handicapper in Saturday morning. And now we have something else to keep up with. I just made a note that Purdue is traveling now by bus to Iowa City. So those types of things aren't the notes you typically make.