The Back Porch Podcast
Saturday Sessions
Unhurried sports talk about the games, coaches, rivalries and people shaping Saturdays across the South.
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Come on in.The porch is always open.
Around here, Saturday starts with the game and carries well past the final whistle. Pull up a chair for all things college football, recruiting, rivalries and the people who make Saturdays in the South feel like home.Come for the sports. Stay for the conversation.
The matchup is on.
The fire is lit.
Somebody saved you a seat.
The best sports stories rarely end at the stadium gate. They follow us to a tailgate table, down a two-lane road, into a favorite bar and back to the porch where everybody gets a turn to tell it.
Back Porch Sports covers Southern sports the way fans actually live them: with heart, humor, strong opinions and a genuine interest in the life gathered around the game.
The Conference We Call Home
Nobody does sports like the South.
From the first snap to the final buzzer to the last out, we cover football, basketball and baseball the way the South lives them: with history, heat and plenty to talk about.
Alabama
Arkansas
Auburn
Florida
Georgia
Kentucky
LSU
Mississippi State
Missouri
Oklahoma
Ole Miss
South Carolina
Tennessee
Texas
Texas A&M
VanderbiltFresh From The Field
Top Stories
The latest news, practice notes and recruiting conversations shaping the sporting South right now.
Basketballby Tyler Raley
Auburn cruises to exhibition win in Greece
Footballby Jay Douglas
Kodi Burns sees potential in Auburn's revamped receiver room
FootballPby Ryan Bartow
What’s Auburn getting in QB Sam Sollie?
Footballby Jay Douglas
VIDEO: Auburn football preseason camp Day 4
FootballPby Tyler Raley
Day 4 practice notes from preseason camp
Friday Night To Sunday Porch
The game sets the schedule.
Across the South, the weekend moves with the game. We follow the build-up, kickoff and everything worth talking about after the stadium lights go dark.
Friday Night
The matchup takes over town.
Lights come on, old friends get in and every conversation eventually finds its way to tomorrow's game.
Saturday Morning
Kickoff begins in the parking lot.
Coffee, cast iron, a folding table and the first serious argument about how the game is going to go.
After The Whistle
The game gets replayed out loud.
The score settles. Every call gets relitigated. Somebody puts another record on and pulls up one more chair.
Sunday Night
Sunday nights on the porch.
One last replay, new rankings and the first good argument about who comes next.
Field Notes / Saturday Morning
The first debate starts long beforethe opening whistle.
Tailgate Of The Week
The parking spot is claimed. The football is in the air. Somebody has already predicted the final score with total confidence.
This is where a football Saturday really begins, surrounded by the people who know every rivalry, every superstition and every version of the story.
Read the full story“The score tells you what happened. The people tell you why it mattered.”
Back Porch Sports
Stories From The Whole Saturday
More than a score. A way of life.
We follow the day from the first pregame prediction to the last argument about the fourth quarter.
01Game Day
Tailgate of the Week
The predictions, rituals and familiar faces that turn a parking spot into game-day headquarters.
02Road Games
Main Street After The Win
After the crowd thins, the windows still glow and every table has its own version of the fourth quarter.
03The Sporting Life
The Porch After Sundown
A football in the air, a little bourbon in the glass and the stories that keep a game-day gathering going.
The Sporting South
The game is only the beginning.
Tailgates, road trips, food, bourbon, outdoors, music and community. The culture gathered around the game is where Back Porch Sports lives.
Across The Sporting South
Explore what moves us.
The games bring us together. The places, traditions and people around them give us something worth talking about.
Sports
From Friday nights to championships, we cover the games and the people behind them.
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Southern Living
Food, homes, traditions and the everyday moments that make the South special.
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Outdoors
Hunting, fishing and adventures that connect us to the land and each other.
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Food & Drink
The best bites, cold drinks and Southern recipes worth sharing.
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Music & Culture
The songs, stories and creators that define our sound and our soul.
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There's always room for one more.
Pull up a chair for a weekly note with sharp sports stories, honest conversation, field guides and the good things worth talking about before Saturday gets here.
