CHANNEL 6 CIRCULAR: WHERE TO FIND US IN WEEK 3

Welcome to the Channel 6 Circular, our in-season replacement for TRL. For the 2026 college football season, this Friday newsletter will catch you up on whatever we've been writing this week, as well as let you know where else you can find us writing/chirping this week. You can find last week's circular here.

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A couple reminders:

• Gift subscriptions are now available!
• If the spirit moves you, readers now have the ability to tip us outside your monthly subscription fee by clicking the "Tips" link at the top of the site (it's in the front page menu if you're on mobile). We implemented this feature in response to folks asking how they can pay us for stories they've forwarded to non-subscribers; there's still not a Pay What You Like option that we've found that will meet our business needs, so this is the best solution we could come up with for now.
• We recently revived our Instagram account, where we're currently amusing ourselves making Zodiac starter packs for various teams. Today: The Florida Gators have always been Libras, don't you think?

REPORT TO THE STAKEHOLDERS

It's another three-thing week for our wealthy and attractive paying subscribers, including the Top Whatever – our ranking of however many teams we feel deserve to be ranked this week (right now that's only 18):

THE 2026 TOP WHATEVER: WEEK TWO

Sometimes a rabid three-star transfer cornerback from Rutgers is all anyone needs to save the world.

Channel 6Spencer Hall

And the latest installment our experimental foray into gambling content, in which we are picking games based entirely on the star charts of the stadiums they're being played in. (We're 10-4 at this through two weeks??)

MYS. TERY’S STAR LOCKS: WEEK 3

Cosmic college football picks divined from the ultimate authority

Channel 6Jamie Howard

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Here's where else you can find us this week:

• Saturday night's Fullcast After Dark (on Patreon for $4/month)
• Wednesday's episode of the Shutdown Fullcast (free as always)
• Longtime readers will note that it SHOULD be Hate Week around here, but the Tennessee-Florida series is no more. Holly ventured over to Phantom Island to mull over its demise with Ryan "Jigsaw" Nanni.

Those of you on our free email list are about to see a paywall jump; the back half of this newsletter contains the invitation link and details for our weekly stakeholders-only Saturday morning pregame chat, where we'll be joined this week by Terps luminary Domonique Foxworth. (You didn't think we'd let September go by without celebrating September Maryland, did you??)

If you'd like to join a paid tier of Ch6 membership (again, that’s two things a week for either $10 a month or $100 for a year), you can join us for these live hangouts all season long, as well as gain access to everything we put out on Channel 6 platforms PLUS the entire back catalog.

And if this is where we leave you for the week, thanks for reading. Please enjoy this nice picture of a bird we found.