Utah grovels to Pat McAfee, WNBAs brunch game is peak stupid & why you should take your dogs on vacation

'Nightcaps' is a daily column that catches you up on the biggest sports, news and culture stories you may have missed while pretending to do work at your desk. It runs Monday-Friday on OutKick.com.

One week until Election Day.

Now, don't you go clicking away on me. You did not accidentally stumble upon a column about politics and who you should vote for and what's at stake, blah blah blah.

No, I'm just here to gripe about something that seems to be a new phenomenon this midterm season: campaign text messages.

Look, I know that if you sign up for a candidate's text messages, you will get inundated with a steady stream of pleads for donations.

But I would never sign up for something like that. So tell me why I get a dozen text messages a day from various state and local politicians — attacking their opponents, begging for my vote, detailing BS stories about how they grew up in a middle-class family where "nothing came easy" and they learned the "real value of a hard day's work."

Delete. Report spam. Every time.

Look, voting is important, and we should all do it. I'm glad to live in a country where we actually get a say in who's making our laws and affecting our quality of life.

But unsolicited campaign text messages should be illegal.

Not to mention they just feel like bad practice. How do you think bombarding me with an endless string of text messages will somehow endear you to me? It actually makes me not want to vote for you.

Is everyone dealing with this right now? Is this a new thing or have I somehow just managed to avoid the onslaught until this campaign season?

November 3 truly can't come soon enough. Next Tuesday, we party.

But until then, let's do some Nightcaps.

Wow oh wow, College GameDay was AWKWARD on Saturday.

It all started with that girl who was chosen for the kicking contest. Now, admittedly, I love the kicking contest. Every Saturday, I yell to my husband, 'It's time for the kick!' and we run into the living room to watch.

This Saturday, I knew it was doomed from the start. As soon as I saw the contestant.

Now, don't get me wrong. I'm all about girl power. I am, after all, a girl. And I have no doubt there are plenty of women who can kick a 33-yarder. Soccer players obviously come to mind.

But the last couple of times they've had women competing, they've been women with the athleticism of a potato.

This isn't an anti-woman thing. Obviously. Plenty of men have missed, too. But if you — either gender — know you have an absolutely 0% chance of nailing this kick, why even put your name in the raffle? Why embarrass yourself like that?

And to make matters worse, she had the gall to tell Pat McAfee he should be giving her $3 million to make the kick — not the $1 million she was already offered.

Girl.

My skin is crawling with awkwardness.

Anyway, we found out yesterday there was a lot more under the surface about GameDays trip to Utah that we didnt see.

Before the show, Utahs official social media account posted a video of students doing impressions of Pat, including one calling him "corny" and another saying his shirtless bit was "creepy." Pat said he had no problem with random students roasting him, but he did have a problem with the university itself amplifying it right before he was about to go on national TV and promote their school.

He said the whole thing made him feel "very, very uncomfortable," especially given the very real safety threats he and other public figures face, and even referenced the Charlie