Until Saturday Newsletter 🏈 | This is The Athletic’s college football newsletter. Sign up here to receive Until Saturday directly in your inbox.Hello. Happy Friday. No “Odyssey” spoilers. Do not tell USC how the Trojan War went for the Trojans. Let’s get to it.Gross: Big political donation, conveniently timedDoes it feel like this college football offseason’s news cycle has bounced between Texas Tech, Playoff expansion, Lane Kiffin and the usual thrum of NCAA business, with no topic ever really going away?The discourse dial spins back to Texas Tech, with what should be by far the biggest scandal of the entire Brendan Sorsby story, but surely won’t be:“One day before the office of Texas attorney general Ken Paxton released a letter threatening legal action against the Big 12 conference if it moved to sanction Texas Tech over Sorsby’s eligibility saga, Texas Tech board of regents chair and billionaire booster Cody Campbell donated $274,300 in support of Paxton’s U.S. Senate campaign.”When I said in Tuesday’s newsletter that college football is a metaphor for how the rest of the world works, I didn’t expect to get an even starker example days later. However, this newsletter’s position on Campbell has never felt more vindicated.A month ago, Paxton issuing threats in support of Campbell’s team was weird. In coldly political terms: Paxton’s in a tight Senate race, so wouldn’t he rather seek the support of the sure majority of Texans who opposed Sorsby’s eligibility?Well, do we now see a potential inspiration for Paxton taking that risk? Gosh, I feel like we might.“Campbell made prior donations to Paxton’s Senate campaign dating back to 2025 and to Paxton in his capacity as attorney general,” notes our story on news first reported by the Texas Tribune. “The June 10 donation to Paxton’s Senate campaign represents Campbell’s largest one-time amount given toward a state-level politician dating back to 2016.”Anyway, Tech might not have any healthy veteran quarterbacks for Week 1, while Paxton’s real estate portfolio has expanded despite both his Senate campaign and his divorce. The game is the game.And because metaphors never stop arriving, Tech renamed its stadium after an AI data-center company today.Quick Snaps⏰ One of ESPN’s most prominent NFL Draft analysts is recovering from a horrific injury. At the same time, he’s being investigated for years of allegedly exploiting both charity donors and fantasy football players, often intertwined. So much going on here.