College football’s weekend of memorable moments.

We’ve seen and heard enough about Urban Meyer’s stupid bar behavior and his wife quitting Twitter due to all the mean stuff she was reading. Yes, Meyer’s career and personal life are crumbling.

Then there is Coach Ed Orgeron, two years removed from a national championship, about to be booted from LSU because his current team is 3-3. Possible successors are already being bandied about.

Our own Mack Brown is safe at 3-3, even though his Tar Heels have bumbled big expectations. Thankfully, enough disappointed fans understand that’s how the ball bounces and that Mack saved our program.

The same can’t be said for his third successor at Texas, Steve Sarkisian, whose Longhorns blew an enormous lead to Oklahoma in the Red River Shootout, where the Sooners changed quarterbacks.

That’s significant when you consider that Oklahoma’s Spencer Rattler and Sam Howell were preseason Heisman co-favorites. Howell’s been very good, but his team hasn’t; so much for Sam’s chances.

Just when you think that madness is everywhere in this country from sports to politics comes the video of the Texas A&M family watching their husband, their son and their friend beating Alabama.

Seth Small is a placekicker who has struggled this season, but he could change all that when he lined up a 28-yard field goal with the game tied against the perennial powerhouse, unbeaten Crimson Tide.

Texas A&M’s Seth Small (47) kicks a field goal against Alabama for the win at the end of an NCAA college football game Saturday, Oct. 9, 2021, in College Station, Texas. (AP Photo/Sam Craft)

Instead of having her camera on the field and the kick, enterprising videographer Cam Worthy was focusing on Small’s wife, Rachel, and the rest of the family as Seth got his chance for football immortality. You can read a nervous Rachel’s lips saying, “C’mon, 47 (Small’s number), c’mon babe!” And when the kick went through and the family erupted in euphoria, she buried her head in emotion before jumping onto the field to celebrate with her man and his team.

With perhaps the craziest sports weekend of all time – from the fields to the MLB diamonds to fans, unleashed after COVID going absolutely nuts – comes a documented story of what athletes’ families go through watching their men and women in the heat of battle.

It’s why college and pro sports are still great. And why we need them now, maybe more than ever.

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