It’s a Week 9 college football preview episode, but first we have to talk about the big sports news of the day—the Trump Justice Department bringing charges against NBA stars for their involvement in illegal poker games and gambling on sports. All that and our usual assortment of silliness and pitterpatter, and, of course, a visit from Jimmy in Heaven for the Presidential Lock of the Week. Listen, if you must! Has something we said, or failed to say, made you FEEL something? You can tell us all about it by joining the conversation on our Substack or you can send us an email here. Enjoy!
Show Rundown
Open — Abe Live Bets the Games!
4:10 — WGAS NewsBag, Sports Edition: Gambling and Poker, but the Bad Kinds
45:46 — The Best Game in Every Time Slot
1:02:05 — CIB 2025 Football Pick ‘em Contest
1:09:35 — Jimmy Carter’s Presidential Lock of the Week
1:13:31 — Wrap-up!
Relevant Linkage
ESPN: NCAA allows athletes to bet on pro sports starting Nov. 1
ESPN: Sources: SEC suspends referee in wake of Georgia-Auburn game
Alabama Reflector: Former University of Alabama quarterback A.J. McCarron to run for lieutenant governor
The Best Game in Every Time Slot
Bonus Friday Night Game — 8:00
World Series Game 1
Dodgers (-1.5) @ Blue Jays FOX
Blake Snell, starting for the Dodgers, has started three games this postseason, pitched 21 innings, given up six hits and two runs while striking out 28, for a .857 ERA and a .523 WHIP.
Noon
(8) Ole Miss (+5.5) @ (13) Oklahoma (O/U 54.5) ABC
Noon — Second TV DOUBLEBOX
Kansas State (+2.5) @ Kansas (O/U 56.5) TNT
Auburn (+2.5) @ Arkansas (O/U 56.5) SECN 12:45
3:30
(15) Missouri (+2.5) @ (10) Vanderbilt (O/U 51.5) ESPN
3:30 — Second TV DOUBLEBOX
(11) BYU (+2.5) @ Iowa State (O/U 49.5) FOX
(4) Alabama (-12.5) @ South Carolina (O/U 47.5) ABC
7:30
(3) Texas A&M (-2.5) @ (20) LSU (O/U 48.5) ABC
7:00 — Second TV
Nah.
CIB Pick’em Contest
Cousin Steve
Vanderbilt, Michigan State (+14.5), North Texas (-26.5), Vikings, 49ers
Lori
Oklahoma (-4.5), Cincinnati (-4.5), Northwestern, Cal (+4.5), Arkansas (-1.5)
Abe
Ole Miss, Vandy (-2.5), LSU, Bucs (-4.5), Steelers
Bob
Memphis, Ole Miss, BYU, Texas A&M (-2.5), Kansas State
President Jimmy Carter’s Lock of the Week, Live from Plains
October 23, 2025
Hello once again to my dear friends at Cast Iron Balls, and also to Abe, who sure was blowin’ a lot of hot air past his peanut chompers about how poorly my picks were going, considering who’s riding bitch in the rankings, now! Abe, you couldn’t pick your own nose without a four page step-by-step memo, the approval of two supervisors, and a 4:30 pm Friday meeting, you spitefully inessential pencil-pusher!
I saw that President Trump is having the East Wing of the White House demolished to make room for a new ballroom. Did you know that Rosalynn was the first to have an official Office of the First Lady in the White House? They called her an “activist” First Lady, because she had a big staff and came to Cabinet meetings and was always in my ear about policy stuff. I took that sort of criticism harder than she did—as Rosalynn always used to say, “Ignore the haters, Jimmy—they just can’t handle a First Lady who fucks.” Then she’d pop me one on the rear and tell me not to wait up. Lord, how I miss her. I just can’t seem to track her down up here in heaven just yet.
You know, I do not give a single randy billygoat’s hard left nut about the preciousness of the White House building itself, one way or another. It’s just an old building, and the shame isn’t in what it looks like or how ugly the decor, but in who you let inside. And great bleeding Christ, on that front the American people sure have porked that pickle. Maybe someone will come along and put some solar panels on the roof again in a few years, like I did, and some good will come of it. And then you’ll go and elect somebody who thinks solar panels are communist or for cucks or whathaveyou and we can all laugh till our heads come off.
Anywhichway, on to the Lock of the Week. Tennessee is coming off quite the disappointment in Tuscaloosa and has to travel to Lexington to play the Wildcats, who are still coached by the Lesser Stoops, for reasons ungraspable to the rational mind. I think they bounce back strong and win by a couple of touchdowns, at least. Give me the Vols, lay the eight-and-a-half points, and Josh Heupul can have himself a nice little cigarillo or something, since he couldn’t light up last weekend, after getting pantsed by Alabama. I just realized that “pantsed” and “de-pantsed” have the same definition, like flammable and inflammable. Weird, isn’t it?!
As always, enjoy the games with good food and drink, and most importantly, good company. And be kind to one another, for gosh sakes. Almost nothing matters, besides that. May god bless this great nation, and this great podcast. Until next time, this is Jimmy from Plains for Cast Iron Balls.
