Carla and Crappy Show: The Junior Varsity Edition

It’s Week Nine of the college football season, and one of our favorite weeks of the year for Carla and Crappy -- the week we get to preview Penn State-Ohio State. But wait -- no Carla, right? No worries -- this week’s guest host is more than qualified to sit in as the designated Penn State fan. Kelly Krieg is not only the biggest Penn State fan we know, but she is the reason that Crappy has seen two white-outs in the past few years.

After an accounting of the best things we saw last weekend, Kelly and Crappy turn their attention to the Nittany Lions, their game against Illinois, the future of James Franklin in Happy Valley … and the dumb that is the new college football overtime rules.

After AJ emphatically tells us to not watch this weekend’s Big B1G games and this week’s Big Red Report, Kelly and Crappy go through … wait for it … a slate of Big Ten games. And this is also when Crappy decides to totally blow off W.C. Fields’ warnings about working with children or animals -- because this week, we have both. Charlie makes one of his fairly routine appearances, and Kelly’s dogs Tasha and Phee jump in on the action; we also get bonus picks from Aidan Krieg, Kelly’s younger son and fan of the show, and the first-every video appearance from Ellie Fox, mostly because Carla couldn’t let this week go by without a brief appearance on her show. The games:

No. 6 Michigan at No. 8 Michigan State (BIG NUDE, aka Noon Saturday, Fox) On paper, the schools up north are remarkably similar. But in Spartyland, Mel Tucker is years ahead of schedule, while in Ann Arbor, Jimmy Harbaugh is struggling to win rivalry games. The pressure is all on Jimmy, and since he returned to Michigan, that’s not a good thing for the Wolverines.

No. 9 Iowa at Wisconsin (Noon Saturday, ESPN) A chilly day in Madison. Two teams populated by hulking farm boys playing solid team defense. An AJ Fun Index of 36.5. We pick the game differently, but we agree that AJ might be right about this one -- because it’s going to be brutal.

No. 20 Penn State at No. 5 Ohio State (7:30 p.m. Saturday, ABC) We’re picking with our hearts as we do on this show, in spite of not knowing if Sean Clifford will be able to walk on Saturday, much less play as well as he needs to to keep up with an Ohio State offense that’s averaging 50 points a game. Is Crappy outnumbered? If you count Ellie, the answer is yes.

We wrap up the show with a little hockey talk (Kelly’s dark secret is that she’s a bigger hockey fan than she is a football fan) and then start to get ready for the show’s annual Biggest Show of the Year. Massive thanks to Kelly for her help this week -- she was as good as Crappy thought she would be. And to the #CnCShow’s Junior Varsity: Aidan, Ellie, Charlie, Tasha and Phee, we hope to see you guys back on the show soon. Hey, AJ -- think we could get George or Reba lined up for guest picks?

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