A Saturday for football and more

There’s loads of college football to be viewed this first Saturday of October. But if don’t get exactly jazzed this time of year when toe meets leather, there’s a variety of other local options to keep you occupied and entertained this fall weekend day.

To help celebrate National Fire Safety month, a Precinct 3 Cobb county police officer will be visiting in Vinings Saturday from 1-3 p.m. Cowlicks is offering all servicemen and women 50 percent off yogurt and float purchases throughout the month of October.

The police officer will be onsite Saturday to promote emergency service education to children through the distribution of police memorabilia and tours of a police car.

Got game? Tennis, that is!

Whatever your level, come out for the fourth annual Serve It UP! Tennis Tournament on Saturday. The tournament benefits the W.E.B. Du Bois Society - an organization that works to inspire African-American students to step up their academic game.

Among the local celebrities expected to participate include Good Day Atlanta’s Karen Graham, 11Alive News sports reporter Sam Crenshaw, 11Alive News anchor Karyn Greer, OT magazine publisher and NFL pro bowler, Ryan McNeil, and Tennis Channel commentator and tennis champion, Katrina Adams.

The tournament is at the Midtown Athletic Club located at 135 North Interstate Parkway and is set for 4-8 p.m. See here for more information.

And of course, there will be a smooth rocking party Saturday night as the popular cover band Yacht Rock Schooner sails in to help Vinings Jubilee celebrate its 25^th anniversary.

Yacht Rock Schooner will musically christen the new Tower Stage with their mixture of Kenny Loggins, the Gibb brothers and Michael McDonald, with just a hint of Christopher Cross thrown in. The celebration takes place from 6 p.m. to 10:30 p.m. and the concert is free.

But if it’s football that you want, then it’s football you shall receive with a full slate of televised games all Saturday long. The following pigskin TV listings are courtesy of the Atlanta Journal-Constitution:

Noon CBS Air Force at Navy

Noon ESPN Texas A&M vs. Arkansas

Noon ESPN2 Northwestern at Illinois

Noon FSSO Mississippi State at Georgia

Noon SPSO Texas Tech at Kansas

Noon WPCH Kentucky at LSU

12:30 p.m. CSS Buffalo at Tennessee

12:30 p.m. WUPA Wake Forest at Boston College

2:30 p.m. Versus Nevada at Boise State

3:30 p.m. ABC Georgia Tech at N.C. State

3:30 p.m. CBS Auburn at South Carolina

3:30 p.m. ESPN Michigan State at Ohio State

3:30 p.m. FSSO Towson at Maryland

3:30 p.m. SPSO Arizona at USC

4 p.m. CSS Arkansas State at Western Kentucky

6 p.m. ESPN2 Clemson at Virginia Tech

7 p.m. FSSO Washington at Utah

7 p.m. FX Texas at Iowa State

7 p.m. SPSO UAB at Troy

7:30 p.m. CSS Rice at Southern Mississippi

8 p.m. ABC Nebraska at Wisconsin

8 p.m. CBS Alabama at Florida

8 p.m. ESPN Notre Dame at Purdue

9:15 p.m. ESPN2 Mississippi at Fresno State

10:30 p.m. FSSO UCLA at Stanford

The AJC also breaks down Saturday afternoon’s Georgia Tech-N.C. State game, including a video preview here of the game set to be played in Raleigh’s Carter-Finley Stadium.

Meanwhile in Athens, Georgia's 2-2, as is Mississippi State. One of them will with a losing record. Who's it going to be? Here's what some analysts are saying.

• AP's Charles Odum, via Sunherald.com, writes, "One year ago, Mississippi State's win over Georgia was a turning point in each team's season. The Southeastern Conference's two teams with Bulldogs nicknames face a similar crossroads game on Saturday."
• Radi Nabulsi of ESPN.com's Bulldog Nation, quotes coach Mark Richt saying, "They're all benchmark games."
• The Atlanta Journal-Consitution's Bill King reports that, due to some unclaimed student tickets, there was a last-minute sale to the general public earlier Friday.
• pick Georgia in a clean sweep.
• T. Kyle King of SB Nation's DawgSports writes "Georgia coaches and players know this game is critical to the preservation of every hope they have, from contending for the Eastern Division championship to earning a respectable bowl bid to ."
• The Red&Black offers key matchups in the contest.