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Crimstonettes in the stands celebrating a University of Alabama victory. (Ben Flanagan/al.com)
Hotness, whatever that may be in the lexicon of looks, is in the eye of the beholder. But thanks to Tinder - the dating app that asks users to "swipe right" if they like a particular person's photo - we can now get an idea of what colleges are home to the most attractive students.
Tinder ranks hotness by swipes: Left on a photo of a potential match means you're not interested; right means you are. Tinder said the campus with the most swiped right females is Florida State University, followed by University of Miami, University of Mississippi, University of Colorado Boulder and the University of Alabama. Auburn University came in at number 21 on the list for women.
Among men, the top place for right swipes were Georgetown University, Brigham Young University, University of Notre Dame, Texas Christian University and the Air Force Academy. Neither Alabama nor Auburn made the list for men.
In fact, the only school in the country that landed in the top 10 for both good looking men and women was Ole Miss. (they don't call it Hotty Toddy for nothing, after all.)
And, since we're only weeks away from football season, let's break it down this way: when it comes to women, the Big 12, the ACC and the SEC had most schools in the hotness top 25. Among men, it was ACC and Ivy League.
Welcome to Thursday's Wake Up Call. Let's get going:
Trump swears off Oreos
That's it. No more Oreos for Donald Trump.
That's according to the Republican presidential candidate who said he will stop eating the chocolate and cream cookies because their maker, Mondelez International, closed a plant in Chicago and moved it to Mexico.
The company is spending $130 million to build four new production lines at a Mexican plant. Those lines will replace nine older production lines at a Chicago facility. Oreos will continue to be made in some U.S. plants, including in New Jersey, Oregon and Virginia.
That's not enough for Trump, however.
"I'm never eating Oreos again," he said.
Sharpton show cut to one day a week
Al Sharpton's "PoliticsNation" will change from weekdays to Sunday and cut its production schedule from five days a week to one, MSNBC announced.
The show's last weekday airing will be Sept. 4. It will begin airing Sundays on Oct. 4 at 8 a.m.
The one-hour Politics Nation began airing on MSNBC in August 2011.
3 zip codes with no Ashley Madison accounts
There are only three zip codes - that's right, three - in the U.S. that don't have any users of the infidelity website Ashley Madison.
So where are those places? Nikolai, Alaska (population 90); Perryville, Alaska (population 113); and Polvadera, New Mexico (population 414).
Most of the people in the towns said they had not heard of Ashley Madison and the few that did said it was because they saw in the news where as many as 37 million user profiles were leaked online.
And lastly...
Yesterday was one of those terrible days when the news can be so horrifying that you just want to think about something happy. So let's think about this: M&Ms just announced they will roll out pumpkin spice latte candies for the fall.
The candies will be available exclusively at Target stores next week.
Until tomorrow.