For everyone involved, from the coaches to players to support staff to especially Auburn fans, the bye week could not have come at a better time. This season has gone far from what was expected, with the Tigers sitting 2-4, losers of three straight and a whole month of no games in Jordan-Hare Stadium.

Yes, times are tough on the Plains right now on the field, but recruiting is still kicking some butt with two-plus months until signing day. If Hugh Freeze and his staff can hold onto this class, it will be a major haul and a sign of better things to come for the Tigers.

So, what are you, our beloved readers of AuburnSports.com, doing this bye week? Will you utilize it to get some chores done? Maybe take the kids apple-picking if that is something you can do where you live? Or, will you be glued to more college football, knowing that great feeling that you don't have to stress over whether Auburn wins or loses? No matter what you end up doing, enjoy the bye week. Let's get into some ramblings.

- Diego Pavia is a pure winner. There aren't many quarterbacks that would stare at No. 1 Alabama in the face and do what he did to them. There's just something special about him. Does he have another year of eligibility left?

- I had the honor of attending a Maker's Mark-sponsored event a couple of weeks ago where 12 of us got to make our own blend of the bourbon brand. It also gave me a great idea: a remake of 12 Angry Men, but the 12 men are arguing all night about which blend should be the final one. It's a million-dollar idea!

- There's a cultural problem surrounding the Georgia football program, and Kirby Smart needs to fix it. The latest arrest is awful on so many levels.

- Who all is going to Lexington for the Kentucky game? I will be going to Keeneland on Friday afternoon, so if you are there as well, give me a holler. There are not many things better than Keeneland on a crisp October day.

- I started calling myself "the 2023-24 Auburn basketball team" because, much like them, I was one-and-done in the latest match play tournament. My opponent shot the round of his life, so I started calling him John Poulakidas.

- Not to go all Peter Griffin on you, but you know what grinds my gears? Places that try to look extra classy by spelling the building centre. Why?

- Georgia has a new press box this season, following a growing trend of press boxes with windows that don't open. Why are colleges doing this? It doesn't help a journalist do their job, as you can't hear the game's atmosphere. That's part of witnessing a game in person. I can watch the game from home more easily than UGA's press box.

- Trivia question: three college football teams play their home games in a stadium where the opening ceremonies for the Olympics were held. Can you name them? The answer is at the bottom.

- My grandfather (mother's dad) was huge on beating what was the supposed ETA in his mind on trips back and forth from Florida and Kentucky. If he were alive today, the invention of the GPS app that regularly gives you a determined ETA would drive the man completely insane. It's probably a good thing he died when he did.

- Speaking of the day he died, I was playing in a 13-year-old All-Star game that day and was unaware that he had passed. After the game (we lost), a woman approached me and tried to console me over what I thought was us losing the game. My response? "Oh well. We will get them tomorrow." I still think about this interaction 30 years later.

- Would it be strange if I went to the water park in LaGrange by myself? Would that be frowned upon?

- I had a new form of pasta this past week that I had never heard of called strozzapreti. It was delicious.

- Unpopular opinion: I'm sick of seeing Stephen Nedoroscik, the pommel horse guy from this year's Olympics, everywhere.

- TikTok of the Week: I have no idea what movie this is, but this scene is hands down the worst sports scene ever filmed outside of every scene in Rudy.

- Sitting at a bar on Friday in Duluth, Ga., I overheard some guys discussing being in town for EggFest. Curious, I googled EggFest, and I kid you not; it is a one-day festival for fans of Big Green Eggs. I try not to judge, but this is ludicrous, and the people who attend need to find lives.

- Lastly, here is the answer to the trivia question above: USC (Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum), Georgia State (Centennial Olympic Stadium/Turner Field/Center Parc Stadium) and Utah (Rice-Eccles Stadium). If you got that right, I reward you with a metaphorical cookie. Don't ruin your dinner with it.