College Football
On Jan. 1, 1920 Harvard beat Oregon 7-6 in this annual game in Pasadena; you may be shocked to learn Harvard has not been back since
Rose Bowl
Idiomatically, you do this "at straws" in making a feeble argument
Grasping
It's known as Earth's twin but it has surface temperatures over 800 degrees Fahrenheit
Venus
The future's not so dark; no need to rhymingly be all doom & this
Gloom
"What doesn't kill you makes you" this, sang Kelly Clarkson; it also "makes a fighter"
Stronger
The sooner, the better! Baker Mayfield & Kyler Murray won back-to-back Heismans QBing for this school
Oklahoma
This pencil product can also be used as an industrial lubricant
Graphite
There are about 6 trillion miles in one of these units of space distance
Lightyear
If you're angry you're "hot under" this clothing item
the collar
"Don't you come around my way, you can't hang around my block", she warned on "Bodak Yellow"
Cardi B
Currently a chief part of the NFL, he threw for 5,052 yards & 41 TDs in his last year at Texas Tech in 2016
Mahomes
It can mean to wrestle, or to cope with a difficult problem
Grapple
With perihelion on July 28, it will be seen again from Earth in 2061, when all of you are looking back on your youthful hopes
Halley's Comet
You can leave in a cab or in an Uber but please, not in this bad mood, also a verb meaning to blow
Huff
"Saturday Night's Alright For Fighting" is one of many, many hits by this still flamboyant classic rocker
Elton John
By the end of the 2020-21 season, this head coach had won 6 national championships with the University of Alabama
Nick Saban
The Vietnam Veterans Memorial wall is sculpted from this durable rock
Granite
A cluster of young stars, this group of astronomical siblings includes Electra, Maia & Alcyone
The Seven Sisters
Take one "K" out of a word meaning to sneak & you get this, to be silently bitter
Sulk
Rachel Platten's "Fight Song" appeared on the 2014 "How the 'A' Stole Christmas" episode of this show & then became a Top 10 hit
Pretty Little Liars
It's a real cat fight at the Bayou Classic, with the Jaguars of Southern Univ. facing the Tigers of this state univ. of Louisiana
Grambling State University
A top music industry award gets its name from this old-time record player with a big horn
Gramophone
The Herschel, an infrared telescope then the largest sent into space, was launched in 2009 by this Paris-HQed NASA counterpart
The European Space Agency
You seem this, from the Latin for "to put in motion" & used to describe patients in a disturbed state
agitated
"Who the baddest? It don't matter 'cause we at your throat", this 3-letter guy raps on "Enemy", his collaboration with Imagine Dragons
JID