Quick Hits

• The Brewers are going to the World Series. Milwaukee knocked off the Dodgers to win the National League pennant — its first trip to the Fall Classic since 1982. On the other side of the bracket, ESPN's odds now favor the Guardians to face them.
• College football had its wildest week in decades. Five of the top seven teams in the country lost Saturday — the most in a single week since the AP poll era began in 1936, per CBS. BYU's milestone win over Notre Dame could vault the Cougars to No. 1, though the Big 12 admitted officials wrongly ended that game with :01 still on the clock.
• The WNBA Finals are underway. The Golden State Valkyries shot just 32.1% from the field and still edged the Atlanta Dream 68-64 in Game 1, thanks to 26 points from Gabby Williams.
• A loaded NFL Sunday is ahead: Cowboys at Packers on Sunday Night Football — a rematch of last season's Week 4 meeting, which ended in the highest-scoring tie in Super Bowl-era history — plus a divisional Texans-Jaguars clash in London.
• Ohio State quarterback Julian Sayin will miss "several weeks" after getting hurt in a win over Indiana, handing the offense to freshman Luke Fahey.

Minnesota Teams

A quiet Sunday for the local clubs, with one exception: the Wild are one of only two NHL teams in action today, taking on the Columbus Blue Jackets (the Hurricanes-Flames game is the other). Early-season games like this are quietly valuable — a chance to bank points while most of the league rests. No Vikings, Twins, Timberwolves, Lynx, or Gophers headlines in today's national roundup, though the NBA season is right around the corner and rosters are being finalized league-wide this week.

NFL

It's Week 6, and the headliner is Cowboys at Packers on Sunday Night Football at Lambeau Field. The hook: when these teams met in Week 4 last season, they played to the highest-scoring tie of the Super Bowl era — a rarity, since NFL games can end deadlocked if neither team wins in overtime. CBS's preview expects another high-flying shootout between quarterbacks Dak Prescott and Jordan Love.

Across the pond, the Jaguars — who've been camped out in the UK — face the Texans at Wembley Stadium in a key AFC South (their division) matchup, with wide receiver Marvin Harrison Jr. set to make his Houston debut. There's also Panthers-Eagles on the slate, and SportsLine's experts are backing the Giants, Chiefs, and Packers on Sunday.

One housekeeping note: Raiders star pass rusher Maxx Crosby was fined nearly $24,000 by the league, topping the list of Week 5 disciplinary penalties.

NBA

The season hasn't started yet, but rosters are due — and the Knicks, the defending champions per CBS, gave their final roster spot to James Wiseman, a former No. 2 overall draft pick, cutting veteran Bruce Brown in the process. In league news, the NBA has instructed its sportsbook partners to stop offering bets considered ripe for manipulation — most notably "under" parlays (bundled bets that a single player will fall short of his stats), per a report. And if you like early prognosticating: CBS's win-total predictions call the Lakers undervalued and forecast a long year for the Warriors.

In the WNBA Finals, the Valkyries took Game 1 over Atlanta, 68-64 — an ugly shooting night (32.1%) salvaged by Gabby Williams, who scored 26 and iced it with clutch late free throws. The Dream's story remains the draw, though: ESPN notes Angel Reese could become the first star of her generation to win a WNBA title, and 17-year veteran DeWanna Bonner — who joined Atlanta just two months ago — has become one of the biggest reasons they're here.

MLB

The headline of the weekend: Milwaukee is going to its first World Series since 1982 — "44 years of heartbreak, 44 years of believing," as ESPN put it — after dethroning the Dodgers in the NL Championship Series. ESPN's story from the celebration credits the team's captain with setting the tone all season. On the American League side, the Guardians are now the betting favorites to advance and meet the Brewers.

NHL

Still early in the season. Saturday brought a monster 14-game slate, but Sunday thins out to just two contests: Blue Jackets-Wild and Hurricanes-Flames. No scores from Saturday's games appear in today's roundup.

College Sports

The big picture: five of the top seven teams lost this week, per CBS — the most top-seven upsets in one week since 1936 — which has bowl projections being redrawn from scratch.

• BYU beat Notre Dame in a milestone win and CBS projects the Cougars could jump to No. 1 in the new AP poll. But it's not clean: the Big 12 acknowledged officials erred by ending the game while :01 remained on the clock, ruling Notre Dame should have been allowed one more play.
• Ohio State won but lost its quarterback: Sayin is out several weeks, and freshman Luke Fahey will try to keep the Buckeyes' Big Ten title hopes — and receiver Jeremiah Smith's Heisman Trophy campaign — afloat, per CBS.
• Texas, the former No. 1, is in what CBS calls a "freefall," with calls for coach Steve Sarkisian to overhaul the offense, surrender playcalling duties, and evaluate whether Arch Manning is really the right quarterback.
• Off the field, Nick Saban came out against expanding the College Football Playoff to 24 teams, saying money is "the bottom line" driving the change.

Other Sports

• UFC is in Edmonton tonight, headlined by a welterweight bout between Joaquin Buckley and Mike Malott, streaming live on Paramount+.
• Boxing has a two-title-fight weekend: Daniel Dubois vs. Fabio Wardley 2 in England, plus Sebastian Fundora's return in the U.S.
• In soccer, it's bounce-back watch in Italy's Serie A: Inter, AS Roma, Como, and Napoli all lost their midweek Champions League matches, and CBS looks at whether any of them can recover in league play this weekend.