CHANNEL 6 CIRCULAR: WHERE TO FIND US IN WEEK 9

Stakeholders: Scroll down for login details to WEBINAR!, our Saturday pregame live chat show

CHANNEL 6 CIRCULAR: WHERE TO FIND US IN WEEK 9

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 what we've been writing this week, as well as let you know about any other places you can find our enormous heads and voices on the internet. You can peruse last week's circular here.

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REPORT TO THE STAKEHOLDERS


✨✨✨ If you're currently paying us $10/month or $100/year for full access to Channel 6, scroll past the bird to find login details for WEBINAR!, our Saturday pregame live chat show.✨✨✨

Good afternoon! Here's everything we wrote this week:

THE 2026 TOP WHATEVER: WEEK EIGHT
The hardworking corn syrup manufactures of middle America don’t turn what used to be hog fodder into a moderately addictive B-Tier Halloween candy just so you can trash it for three microns of internet clout.

THING ONE. Programs confidently ranked in the latest edition of our proprietary college football poll include UCF, Utah, A Creeping Sense Of Dread, Cincinnati, and Werewolves. Normal college football season continues to unfold exactly as we drew it up.

MYS. TERY'S STAR LOCKS: WEEK 9
A body count is what makes a slasher a spectacle, and the stars have Libra victims stacked five deep in the cellar.

THING TWO. "Chanting the same name three times in a mirror is a children’s game – until it summons someone. The Twin Fishes are asking to dim the lights. The orbs of fate float evenly across your floorboards." Yes, this is an excerpt from our Auburn-Ole Miss start chart preview; why do you ask?

THING THREE is WEBINAR!, our Saturday morning pregame live chat, and can be found after the paywall jump below. Stakeholders, keep scrolling down past this next section to get your login details. ⬇️ ⬇️ ⬇️

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Here's everywhere else we popped up this week:

🚨 On Saturday's Fullcast After Dark: Which host or producer said "I know somebody who's been on Cops, but not Jeopardy"? The answer could be anyone, yes. (Free to listen live; replays on Patreon for $4/month)

🎯 A wild Jon Bois appeared on Wednesday's episode of the Shutdown Fullcast, where we discussed sports pundits as potential political assassination targets and then quickly moved on to much more important matters; namely, why it's better to be a werewolf than a vampire. (All episodes free to listen, as always)

📻 Spencer joined our former colleague and forever pal Stephen Hartzell on Thursday's Blitz Kickoff to break down the looming Cocktail Party (that segment starts just before the 49-minute mark):

🔮 p/s Did you know we're on Instagram? This week we've determined conclusively that Iowa is a Scorpio.


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 Thing 3 of Week 8: WEBINAR, our weekly stakeholders-only Saturday morning pregame chat show. Spencer, Holly, Nata, and Brandi will be joined this week by College Football Happy Hour's Jess Smetana and Lucy Rodehn.

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. As is customary, we would like you to have this picture of a bird for a parting gift:

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