Steve Greenberg

In this week's "Polling Place," we also asked you to pick a favorite Bears rookie and predict who will win Sunday's Bears at Vikings game.

"It will be great to have him back in our sport,” a former Big Ten rival said.

There’s no great achievement in kicking a sad-sack opponent to the curb, but it was how the Bears won a fourth game in a row — for the first time since 2018 — that counted.

In this week's "Polling Place," we also asked whether Cubs-Brewers has surpassed Cubs-Cardinals on the rivalry-o-meter.

“I think the fans will come around someday," Murphy said before Game 2 of the National League Division Series. "I do."

The Cubs have their hands more than full with an opponent that gets on base, runs like the wind, scores gobs of runs without needing the long ball, plays sparkling defense, seizes on mistakes and, oh, yeah, pitches lights-out.

"His use of the bullpen is giving me ulcers," one respondent commented.

After the Bears' 52-21 loss in Detroit, it's safe to say theirs is a report card no one would want to bring home.

No team bumbles around its division quite like the Bears, who took the old routine to a new level in a pathetic 52-21 loss to the Lions.

Oregon comes in hot to kick off Saturday's action. Other game picks: Wisconsin at Alabama, Georgia at Tennessee, South Florida at Miami, Western Michigan at Illinois, Florida at LSU, Texas A&M at Miami and Minnesota at California.