Oh it’s Sleepwalk time! – Week 13 College Football TV Schedule

Yeah it’s time for the annual SEC Sleepwalk Saturday.  I am not a fan, gonna be honest.  I still believe that these kinds of games should be played before November hits.  Many don’t agree with me and I don’t give a shit.  Do you honestly think Western Carolina is going to beat Alabama this weekend?  And no, I don’t mean beat the spread.  And I will include this addendum here since I have had someone say “Well it’s not just the SEC that does it.”  And they are correct.  However, the SEC does it more on this one weekend and they do it better than any other conference.  It’s like the SEC is a Bob Ross painting compared to the other Power Five conferences which are a grade 8 art project.

Saying all this, it isn’t quite as bad as recent years.  Still not the greatest schedule but there are some good games in here mixed in with the crap.  Let’s go!

Thursday

		US	Canada
NC State at Georgia Tech	8:00 PM

It starts with this.  Technically it’s football.

Friday

		US	Canada
Colorado State at Wyoming	9:30 PM

Ho boy this doesn’t get a whole lot better.  Tough when there’s only one game each night.

Saturday Early​

		US	Canada
#10 Minnesota at Northwestern	Noon
Illinois at #17 Iowa	Noon
UCF at Tulane	Noon
Western Carolina at #5 Alabama	Noon
#21 Oklahoma State at West Virginia	Noon
Harvard at Yale	Noon
#8 Penn State at #2 Ohio State	Noon
Michigan State at Rutgers	Noon
Liberty at Virginia	Noon
Samford at #15 Auburn	Noon

A lot of games here.  Like a ton for any timeslot ever.  Are there any important games?  Other than a potential Game of the Year candidate in PSU-tOSU?  Meh.  I would love to say most of my time will be spent on that one game but I know myself.  I will be using my remote control like I need a serious thumb workout.  Also, you will notice Harvard and Yale are on ESPNU here.  They did this last year during SEC Sleepwalk Saturday which tells you that in the end, it’s still not the greatest schedule.  And Western Carolina appears on ESPN.  And Rutgers is on FS1.  I could go on and on but I won’t bore you.

Saturday Afternoon​

		US	Canada
Boston College at #16 Notre Dame	2:30 PM
UCLA at #23 USC	3:30 PM
Nebraska at Maryland	3:30 PM
Texas A&M at #4 Georgia	3:30 PM
#25 SMU at Navy	3:30 PM
#13 Michigan at Indiana	3:30 PM
Pittsburgh at Virginia Tech	3:30 PM
Texas at #14 Baylor	3:30 PM
Mercer at North Carolina	3:30 PM
North Texas at Rice	3:30 PM
UT-Martin at Kentucky	3:30 PM
East Tennessee State at Vanderbilt	3:30 PM
Syracuse at Louisville	4:00 PM
#18 Memphis at USF	4:00 PM
Purdue at #12 Wisconsin	4:00 PM
California at Stanford	4:00 PM

Sweet Jesus that’s a ton of games.  There have never been sixteen games in a timeslot (available to Canadians) ever.  There is no one game that highlights this timeslot but TAMU-UGA should be fun (and I hope it is for Brad Nessler’s sake), Baylor has to avoid another trip up as they host the Longhorns and Michigan and Wisconsin need to look seriously impressive to move back up the chain into the Top 10.  I also see a potential upset alert with Vandy hosting ETSU of the SoCon.  I know the AD said that Derek Mason will be back next season but if the Dores lose this one, I find it hard to believe that will be the case.

Saturday Primetime

		US	Canada
Miami vs. FIU (in Marlins Park)	7:00 PM
Arkansas at #1 LSU	7:00 PM
Temple at #19 Cincinnati	7:00 PM
Kansas State at Texas Tech	7:00 PM
#6 Oregon at Arizona State	7:30 PM
Duke at Wake Forest	7:30 PM
Houston at Tulsa	7:30 PM
Tennessee at Missouri	7:30 PM
Abilene Christian at Mississippi State	7:30 PM
TCU at #9 Oklahoma	8:00 PM

Ho boy.  This kind of drops off a cliff and I don’t mean just in sheer quantity.  I mean Oregon-ASU is the ABC Primetime game.  I guess that is what happens when FOX gets the big game of the week.  Anyway, TCU-OU could be interesting if the Horned Frogs don’t let the Sooners get too far ahead too early.  Miami-FIU will make for an interesting visual, harkening back to the times of the Miami Beach Bowl (and the Memphis-BYU brawl).  I wonder if LSU can put a 70-burger on the hapless Hogs.  Also, it will be interesting now that Cincinnati is not in the catbird seat for the Group of Five spot in the New Year’s Six thanks to their performance on the field The Committee putting them one spot below Memphis.  Will they take that anger out on Temple or will their chances end for a Cotton Bowl bid?

Saturday Late Night

		US	Canada
Oregon State at Washington State	9:00 PM
Washington at Colorado	10:00 PM
#7 Utah at Arizona	10:00 PM
#20 Boise State at Utah State	10:30 PM
Nevada at Fresno State	10:30 PM

Five game in the late night timeslot?  Well if you were looking for quantity this is the week you were wanting.  Oregon State could give Wazzu all sorts of problems in the cold of Pullman.  Boise State-Utah State is pretty much for the Mountain West Mountain title.  Welp, looks like I am definitely staying up late since I can’t see all of these games being blowouts that are basically over by 1 in the morning (although yes, 1 in the morning is still late but I digress).

Games to set your eyeballs on

Penn State at Ohio State (Noon, FOX) – This is far and away the Game of the Week and could be the Game of the Year.  I guess I am starting to get used to big games being on in the Noon timeslot since that wasn’t a thing before FOX entered the college football game at a national level.  It’s also smart by FOX to say that Noon will be their big game most of the time (Big Noon Saturday, right?) considering the afternoon slot is usually CBS’s and the primetime slot is usually ABC’s.  Anyway, if tOSU wins, they clinch their spot in Indianapolis.  If the Nittany Lions pull off the upset (and it would be an upset if they won), they are in the driver’s seat for the Big Ten East crown.  Also, a loss by either team probably ends their College Football Playoff hopes (unless there’s a bit of chaos).

Texas A&M at Georgia (3:30, CBS) – Yeah so there is a bit of a fall from the Game of the Week but this is still a great get for CBS considering the quality of the SEC games this week.  This has to be considered a speed bump game for UGA.  They have already clinched the SEC East but at #4 they still have a very legitimate shot at the College Football Playoff.  A TAMU win, however, puts the CFP in chaos and that is kind of what I am hoping for.  At least for some it would be good since many think the Dawgs’ loss to South Carolina should mean they don’t get in which isn’t a terrible argument.  But in the end, if they win the SEC, they go to the CFP no matter what.  That’s really the only important game for Georgia (as long as they can win this one and beat Georgia Tech next week).

Michigan at Indiana (3:30, TSN3) – Hey the Hoosiers as one of the games of the week!  I don’t know if that says more about Indiana doing well this season or about the quality of games here on SEC Shitgame Saturday.  At least we finally get a huge step up from TSN this week with 8 games on the various channels.  I am surprised it took this long to get to this point (the penultimate week) but I am glad it is here.  Anyway, the Wolverines being at #13 means they have a really good shot at the New Year’s Six so a win here is imperative.  The Hoosiers could play spoiler and maybe, just maybe, rocket up the rankings if they can pull off the upset.

Texas at Baylor (3:30, FloSports) – It seriously falls off a cliff after the first three games.  I picked this one because Baylor is still in the race, not just for the Big XII Championship, but for the New Year’s Six.  Texas could screw this all up and, inadvertently, screw up Oklahoma’s CFP chances with a win here since the more Baylor loses, the worse Oklahoma’s comeback win over the Bears looks.

Temple at Cincinnati (7:00, specialty pack) – Because of TSN having more games this week it means the specialty pack will, consequently, have less games.  But since the week is thin on big games, this slots in as the fifth best game of the week and the only one on this list on the specialty pack.  The American is still the pre-eminent Group of Five conference so the winner will, in all likelihood, go to the Cotton Bowl.  So even though Cincinnati is now one spot below Memphis in the CFP Rankings, it really doesn’t matter as long as they stay above Boise State and end up winning the AAC Championship.  If that happens, they are in no questions asked.  An Owls win means that a) Memphis is probably the AAC’s last hope for the Cotton Bowl and b) the AAC East is still not clinched.

Honourable mention: Boise State at Utah State (10:30, CBS Sports Network); Oregon at Arizona State (7:30, ABC); SMU at Navy (3:30, CBS Sports Network)

Some gambling fun and games

You should go back and look at my picks from last week.  Man was I on.  Called two upsets and if Auburn had been able to come all the way back it would have been three.  Otherwise?  Perfection.  Oh yeah.  I think I need to start learning more about gambling because I clearly have too much debt and need to add more just based on my one day’s worth of picks.  Anyway, here are this week’s picks:

Boise State over Utah State

Texas over Baylor (big upset!)

Oregon over Arizona State

Georgia over Texas A&M

Michigan over Indiana

Ohio State over Penn State

Cincinnati over Temple

Navy over SMU (mild upset)

Wake Forest over Duke

Notre Dame over Boston College

Miami over FIU

The Thursday Night Football affair will be Indianapolis against Houston.  Huge AFC South matchup.  Considering the Thursday night college football schedule of one game, I see myself watching quite a bit of this game.

I have to figure out how to use the PVR functionality with my Android box since there are some things I am missing since moving to IPTV.  I don’t have to use it for Saturdays anymore which is great since, for the most part, I never miss a full timeslot.  I’m sure I will figure it out.  Anyway, NFL sked tomorrow.  Enjoy the games everyone!

SUPER MEGA HYPER OMNI POST! V2.0

Hey remember this post last year?  It was insanely long.  This one will probably be longer.  Crazy right?  And I don’t care.  So crack open a cold one (unless it’s before like 11:00 in the morning) and sit back and I will tell you a tale of what was, what is, and what might be.

Let’s start with the recap portion of the show since it was, I guess, an alright week in college football.  Not a lot of super crazy stuff but there’s always something.  Oh there’s always something.

• Ohio State survived at Maryland.  They really shouldn’t have.  Tyrell Pigrome had a receiver open on the two-point conversion in overtime and threw it wide.  Tough day for the Terps who did everything they could to beat the Buckeyes and still couldn’t.  Also, Urban Cam was getting out of hand.  Watching Meyer clutch his head in agony all the time was not fun.  I guess he has a cyst on the brain or something like that.  It’s causing him some pain.  A game like that will not help that much.  Anyway, this means The Game is HUGE (Michigan survived against Indiana) so College Gameday should be starting in about two hours.
• Clemson beat Duke easily.  Notre Dame beat Syracuse even easier in what was supposed to be the game of the week.  Both teams are one rivalry game against a team not doing that well from probably going to the College Football Playoff.  Clemson has the ACC title game against Pitt but I digress.
• The Citadel (THE CITADEL!) was tied at 10 with Bama at the half.  So of course Twitter exploded.  The Citadel Twitter account went nuts.  It was fun times.  We knew it would all end.  I am sure some people had a pool to see who would have the closest time in the third quarter when, definitively, this game would be over.  It wasn’t UMBC over Virginia in the NCAA Basketball Tournament but it was fun for a bit.
• In the biggest off the field news, Les Miles has been hired to be the next head coach at Kansas.  Yes, that Kansas.  You know what this means?  Memorial Stadium in Lawrence will have to install natural grass and soon since I am sure eating artificial turf is not good for your insides and definitely not for your colon.
• Washington State put up 55 points in the first half against Arizona.  Yes it’s just Arizona but still.  Wazzu means business.  Who knows how high they will go in the CFP Rankings if they beat Washington on Black Friday.
• The big upset of the day once tOSU handled their business (kind of) was Oklahoma State beating West Virginia with a late touchdown.  The Mountaineers were a dark horse for the College Football Playoff if there was some chaos above them.  That dream is gone although they can still get to the Big XII Championship with a win over Oklahoma on Black Friday.
• Speaking of Oklahoma, Kyler Murray would be almost a shoo-in in any year’s Heisman race.  He will have a tough time beating Tua Tagovailoa barring a disaster against Auburn.  But the Oklahoma defense is, well, not that good.  Giving up 40 points to Kansas before Les Miles starts to coach there?  Not a good sign.
• UCF had no problem with Cincinnati and is set for the showdown with USF to stay undefeated.  A loss either there or in the AAC Championship would have a ripple effect that isn’t quite known right now as there are a few Mountain West contenders lurking.
• Texas beat Iowa State and it was viewed by probably about 5,000 people, all in Texas.
• Florida State came back to beat Boston College and how have a shot to go to a bowl game.  It’s their rivalry game against Florida coming up and they have dominated it recently.
• Utah State also played a game in relative obscurity.  They beat Colorado State on AT&T Sportsnet out west (in the U.S.) in a game that ended on a Hail Mary that wasn’t.  CSU looked like it had scored the upset but the receiver stepped out of bounds on their own meaning they could not be the first one to touch the ball when they came back in bounds.  They did so it negated a crazy finish.

Now let’s move on to how the conference championships are shaping up as we are down to the final regular season week (kind of).

It’s the first Sun Belt Championship game and we still don’t know what’s going on.  In the East, Appalachian State hosts Troy.  Winner goes to the conference championship and hosts it.  In the West, Louisiana controls its own destiny.  Beat ULM in Monroe this Saturday and they win the division.  Lose and Arkansas State can clinch with a victory in San Marcos over Texas State.  If both Louisiana and Arkansas State lose then the last team standing will be ULM.  And you will see none of this because it’s all on ESPN3.

How about dem UAB Blazers?  Second season back and they are undefeated in conference play.  They have already won the West Division.  Now the East…that’s a different story:

• If FIU beats Marshall, it’s in.
• If FIU loses to Marshall, and Middle Tennessee loses to UAB, FIU is also in.
• If FIU loses, and Middle wins, Middle goes.

Marshall, despite the fact it could be tied with FIU and MTSU, cannot win the division title.

The MAC title tilt is halfway set.  Northern Illinois has already clinched the MAC West.  The MAC East comes down to Black Friday.  If Buffalo beats Bowling Green, they will go to Detroit to face the Huskies.  If they lose and Ohio beats Akron, the Bobcats win the division.  If both teams loses, it’s Buffalo’s division.

This is easy.  Fresno State is already in.  The winner of Boise State-Utah State will join them.  The only question will be where it is.  Right now, I would bet on it being in either Boise or Logan, Utah.

OK say UCF is already in.  Duh.  The West is also easy.  The Memphis-Houston winner will go to Orlando to play the Knights.  Tulane and SMU cannot win the division since they can’t win any of the tiebreaking procedures.

It’s Clemson vs. Pitt.  I’ve said this before, either Pitt keeps this close or they lose by like 40.

If Oklahoma wins they go to JerryWorld.  That’s the easy part.  The rest…not so much:

• If Oklahoma loses to West Virginia and Texas beats Kansas, then it’s Texas vs. West Virginia.
• Texas is automatically in to face Oklahoma if they beat Kansas and Oklahoma wins.
• The Mountaineers are in with a win over Oklahoma obviously.  But if they lose they can still get in with a Texas loss AND an Iowa State loss to Kansas State (for some reason).

Utah is in for the game which starts at 5 local time.  Poor Pac-12.  Why they would agree to a championship game on Friday night is beyond me.  Anyway, the Pac-12 North comes down to the Apple Cup.  Winner proceeds.

Northwestern was one of the first teams to clinch their division this year.  This feels wrong but I am fine with it.  The winner of The Game will face them in Indy.

Georgia and Alabama.  Ho hum.  Hopefully it’s a really good game though.  Not just for me and all the other college football fans.  But for poor Brad Nessler as well.

So there you go.  Later on in the week (probably tomorrow) I will do the normal massive American Thanksgiving weekend post and discuss all this and much more and which games are important and which games, quite frankly, aren’t.

Alright, on to my bowl projections as of this today:

Cotton Bowl	CFP Poll #2 vs. CFP Poll #3	Clemson vs. Notre Dame
Orange Bowl	CFP Poll #1 vs. CFP Poll #4	Alabama vs. Ohio State

No changes here.  Nothing happened to this over the past weekend.  A lot COULD happen this coming weekend but that’s a different story.

Has anything changed in the New Year’s Six?

Sugar Bowl	SEC #1 vs. Big XII #1	Georgia vs. Texas
Rose Bowl	Big Ten #1 vs. Pac-12 #1	Michigan vs. Utah
Fiesta Bowl	CFP At-Large vs. CFP At-Large	Oklahoma vs. Washington State
Peach Bowl	CFP At-Large vs. CFP At-Large	UCF vs. West Virginia

All the same teams.  Nothing changed.  Kind of boring.  But as I said above, a lot could happen this coming week to change all this.  I kind of hope something changes otherwise it would be almost a full month of relatively pedestrian college football (as compared to most other months of college football).

And of course now the rest of the bowl projections which is always a shitshow, nowadays more than ever.

Citrus Bowl	SEC vs. Big Ten/ACC	Florida vs. Northwestern
Outback Bowl	SEC vs. Big Ten	Kentucky vs. Michigan State
Gator Bowl	SEC vs. Big Ten	LSU vs. Wisconsin
Holiday Bowl	Big Ten vs. Pac-12	Penn State vs. Stanford
Liberty Bowl	Big XII vs. SEC	Virginia Tech* vs. Missouri
Redbox Bowl	Big Ten vs. Pac-12	Iowa vs. Oregon
Military Bowl	ACC vs. American	Virginia vs. Temple
Sun Bowl	Pac-12 vs. ACC	Arizona vs. Georgia Tech
Arizona Bowl	MWC vs. Sun Belt	Fresno State vs. Arkansas State
Belk Bowl	SEC vs. ACC	South Carolina vs. NC State
Alamo Bowl	Pac-12 vs. Big XII	Washington vs. Iowa State
Camping World Bowl	Big XII vs. ACC	Baylor vs. Pittsburgh
Music City Bowl	SEC vs. ACC	Mississippi State vs. Boston College
Texas Bowl	SEC vs. Big XII	Texas A&M vs. Oklahoma State
Pinstripe Bowl	Big Ten vs. ACC	Purdue vs. Syracuse
Independence Bowl	SEC/C-USA vs. ACC/C-USA	Auburn vs. Duke
Cheez-It Bowl	Pac-12/MWC vs. Big XII/MWC	California vs. Nevada
Quick Lane Bowl	Big Ten/MAC vs. ACC/MAC	Buffalo vs. Miami
First Responders Bowl	Big Ten vs. C-USA	Florida State* vs. UAB
Hawaii Bowl	MWC vs. C-USA	Hawaii vs. Marshall
Dollar General Bowl	MAC vs. Sun Belt	Northern Illinois vs. Troy
Armed Forces Bowl	Big XII vs. American	Army* vs. Houston
Birmingham Bowl	SEC/ACC vs. American/ACC	Tennessee vs. Memphis
Idaho Potato Bowl	MWC vs. MAC	Utah State vs. Toledo
Bahamas Bowl	American vs. C-USA	Cincinnati vs. Middle Tennessee
Gasparilla Bowl	American/ACC vs. C-USA/ACC	USF vs. FIU
Frisco Bowl	American/C-USA vs. MAC/C-USA	SMU vs. Eastern Michigan
Boca Raton Bowl	MAC vs. C-USA	Ohio vs. Southern Miss
New Orleans Bowl	C-USA vs. Sun Belt	Louisiana Tech vs. Appalachian State
Camellia Bowl	MAC vs. Sun Belt	Miami-OH vs. ULM
Las Vegas Bowl	Pac-12 vs. MWC	Arizona State vs. Boise State
Cure Bowl	American/Liberty vs. Sun Belt/Liberty	Liberty vs. Georgia Southern
New Mexico Bowl	MWC vs. C-USA	San Diego State vs. North Texas

A few notes for your perusal:

• No 5-7 teams.  Actually five teams would be left out at 6-6.  BYU, Wyoming, Western Michigan, Florida Atlantic and Louisiana would all be bowl-eligible but left out of the fun.  Can’t see that going over too well with Cougar fans.
• I have tried to stick to the tie-ins but I know that sometimes those get thrown out the window.  So why have them?  I have gone over this a few times so won’t re-hash it here.
• Hawaii, after their victory this past weekend over UNLV, becomes bowl-eligible and is the first team to lock in a bowl spot.  They automatically go to the Hawaii Bowl if they are bowl-eligible (which they are) unless they are the Mountain West champion (which they won’t be).
• I don’t quite know how the Liberty situation works.  They would be bowl-eligible and they have a tie-in (kind of) with the Cure Bowl.  The thing is I do remember something said at the start of the season that stated that Liberty would only get a bowl bid if there were no other teams available.  There are (the five mentioned above) so I don’t know if they would take priority over Liberty.  If that is the case, expect the Cure Bowl to select either Florida Atlantic or BYU to fill that spot.

Other than those few items, not much to talk about specifically about the bowl projections.  It honestly felt like a bit of a week off.  That could change very quickly come tonight.  Northern Illinois-Western Michigan is on the specialty pack tomorrow night at 7:00 (Ball State-Miami-OH also on but it’s ESPN+).  Then Wednesday, brace yourselves…there is no football.  I know, I know.  Calm down.  We will need the breather thanks to the FOOTBALLGASM of American Thanksgiving!  My hope is that I can post the schedule by tomorrow evening to fully prepare you for the few days to come.

A few other odds and ends from both the pros and college level:

• Did you see the Harvard player flip the bird to the Yale defender just before he crossed the goal line for a touchdown?  It negated the touchdown.  Hilarious!  That’s some good Ivy League football right there.
• The Nathan Peterman Experience has come to an end as the Bills released one of the worst quarterbacks in modern NFL history.  Thank god.
• How about that game last night?  Holy shit!  The Rams and Chiefs both went off.  And still, there was some sweet defensive plays.  It was honestly one of the best regular season games ever.  It had a bit of everything!  So we all know that one of these teams won’t make it to the Super Bowl because, well, they just won’t.  There will be an upset of sorts and we will get the fucking Patriots or the Bears or some shit like that.  Ugh.
• I tried watching some of the CFL Division Finals but for the most part, they weren’t very good.  The Western Final wasn’t bad actually but the Eastern Final was atrocious.  Game was over about halfway through the second quarter.  Totally non-competitive.  I look forward, though, to balanced divisions in 2020, which I believe is the year the Atlantic Schooners begin play.
• Both USports semi-finals were jokes.  Western pulled away from Saskatchewan in the third and never looked back.  Laval absolutely destroyed St. FX.  To be honest, not good for the entire association as a whole.  The Vanier Cup better be good for USports’ sake.

Ok I have hit the end.  Such a long post.  But a good one (in my honest opinion).  College football schedule coming up sometime in the next two days and in the usual American Thanksgiving format.  Have a good week everyone!

It just means more….cupcake games! – Week 12 College Football TV Schedule

Yep it’s “that” week of the college football season. SEC Sleepwalk Saturday.  I hate this.  I am of the opinion that these types of games should be restricted to September and October. And what I mean by this is the FBS vs. FCS games. Don’t get me wrong, I know upsets can happen but other than bad SEC teams being beaten, this never happens with the better SEC teams.  It would be pretty crazy to see The Citadel beat Bama this weekend.  I mean we all know it’s not going to happen but I can dream.  And I get the argument that most teams play cupcake games during the season but college football is entertainment.  So it should be entertaining.  Watching these kinds of games late in the season when College Football Playoff rankings and division titles and things of that nature are in play doesn’t feel as entertaining as it should be.  (Full disclosure: I know this happens with a few other Power Five teams as well but the SEC has made an artform of it).

Now let’s go to the schedule.  You will see what I mean.  It’s pretty bad.  I mean it’s still college football.  But a lesser version of a normal college football week.

Thursday

		US	Canada
Toledo at Kent State	6:00 PM
Tulane at Houston	8:00 PM
Florida Atlantic at North Texas	9:30 PM

It starts with this.  Now this could be considered interesting because Tulane and Houston are tied at the top of the AAC West.  SMU is the other team tied with them and Memphis is just a game behind all three.  So maybe instead of looking at what games are good from a College Football Playoff or New Year’s Six perspective, I should be looking at divisional matchups that could end up being huge when it comes to conference championship week.  I mean I am becoming less and less a fan of divisions but they are still important at this point.

Friday

		US	Canada
#25 Boise State at New Mexico	9:00 PM
Memphis at SMU	9:00 PM

Hey there’s SMU and Memphis who I mentioned above.  So this is also an important game.  Boise will most likely mop the floor with New Mexico so you can probably focus on the game on the specialty pack.

Saturday Early

		US	Canada
#10 Ohio State at Maryland	Noon
Michigan State at Nebraska	Noon
Arkansas at #21 Mississippi State	Noon
Colgate at Army	Noon
#14 Penn State at Rutgers	Noon
#22 Northwestern at Minnesota	Noon
Harvard at Yale	Noon
Idaho at #13 Florida	Noon
Middle Tennessee at #17 Kentucky	Noon
The Citadel at #1 Alabama	Noon
Pittsburgh at Wake Forest	Noon
NC State at Louisville	12:30 PM

A lot of games here.  Like a ton for any timeslot ever.  Are there any important games?  I hate to say it but Pitt-Wake might be super important since a Pitt loss keeps Virginia alive in the ACC Coastal race.  Most everything else is meh.  I will watch it and hopefully get a couple fantastic finishes in there.  Also, TSN2 has a quadrupleheader today so that’s a good thing!  Also, you will notice Harvard and Yale are on ESPN2 here.  Yes, that’s not a misprint.  That is how bad this schedule is that they can just put this game on one of their major networks.

Saturday Afternoon

		US	Canada
#12 Syracuse vs. #3 Notre Dame (in The Bronx)	2:30 PM
#9 West Virginia at Oklahoma State	3:30 PM
Missouri at Tennessee	3:30 PM
USC at UCLA	3:30 PM
Miami at Virginia Tech	3:30 PM
Tulsa at Navy	3:30 PM
Wisconsin at Purdue	3:30 PM
Iowa at Illinois	3:30 PM
#20 Boston College at Florida State	3:30 PM
Texas Tech at Kansas State	3:30 PM
Virginia at Georgia Tech	3:30 PM
UMass at #5 Georgia	4:00 PM
Liberty at Auburn	4:00 PM

OK I guess the positive side of looking at this is the sheer number of games you can watch. That’s a plus no?  The easy game of the week is at Yankee Stadium but WVU-OKSt could be quite the PEW! PEW! game.  I sincerely hope Mizzou-UT is a good game or else Brad Nessler might just commit seppuku in the booth.

Saturday Primetime

		US	Canada
Duke at #2 Clemson	7:00 PM
UConn at East Carolina	7:00 PM
UAB at Texas A&M	7:00 PM
Kansas at #6 Oklahoma	7:30 PM
UTEP at Western Kentucky	7:30 PM
Ole Miss at Vanderbilt	7:30 PM
Chattanooga at South Carolina	7:30 PM
Rice at #7 LSU	7:30 PM
#24 Cincinnati at #11 UCF	8:00 PM

Ho boy.  Well at least the American conference gets the ABC primetime slot for once.  That’s a nice twist.  I mean it helps that almost nothing else is good that ABC/ESPN could contractually get (I say contractually because of the Notre Dame/NBC pairing above).  Duke-Clemson could be interesting.  But the sheer fact that CBS Sports Network, which normally has decent games, has UConn-ECU in their primetime slot.  Good lord.  Oh and look who gets primetime again.  Welcome back Kansas.  It would be fun if they upset the Sooners now that David Beaty is fired and just coaching out the string.

Saturday Late Night

		US	Canada
New Mexico State at BYU	10:15 PM
Arizona at #8 Washington State	10:30 PM
San Diego State at Fresno State	10:30 PM

Another reminder how mediocre this week is: New Mexico State is on ESPN2.  And it’s not Week Zero.  Arizona could give Wazzu fits but it is in Pullman where it should be about 20 below zero so the Cougs should win.  SDSU-FSU might be one of the better games all day.  Looks like I have to stay up and watch all these and not nod off on the couch or slump in my office chair because I can’t keep my eyes from fighting gravity and fatigue.

Games to set your eyeballs on

Syracuse vs. Notre Dame (in the Bronx) (2:30, NBC) – I don’t even remember the last time Syracuse was in the game of the week.  I mean never on my blog but even before that.  I guess you have to go back to the days of Dick McPherson and the Orangemen of the late-80s.  The Cuse could put themselves firmly in a New Year’s Six bowl spot with a win here where as the Golden Domers have their final test here (since USC shouldn’t be that tough an out). Win this one and Brian Kelly has his team in the College Football Playoff, almost guaranteed.

Cincinnati at UCF (8:00, ABC) – So the American conference finally gets the ABC primetime slot all to themselves.  Not sharing it with another Power Five team: all to themselves.  And it’s a good game.  But the fact this is the second-best game of the week shows how lowly rated this week would be versus all of the other weeks in the schedule (except Week Zero of course).  Saying all that, a Cincinnati win puts the entire Group of Five into a spot of chaos.  Then there will not be a single undefeated G-5 team.  Also, UCF would most likely fall below Utah State and possibly Boise State and Cincinnati in the CFP rankings.  Utah State in the Fiesta Bowl?  I kind of wish this happens since it would be the most un-P5 team ever to play in a New Year’s Six/BCS bowl.

Iowa State at Texas (8:00, Longhorn Network) – Jesus Christ.  The fucking Longhorn Network?  Hell, most Americans don’t get that.  The Longhorn Network, if you hadn’t heard of it before, is a steroid-riddled version of those Big XII school “networks” that air one game a year, usually against an FCS opponent or a poverty version of the SEC/Big Ten/Pac-12/soon-to-be-ACC Network that centres around everything University of Texas at Austin.  The Longhorns, like every other Big XII school, gets one game to air on their own network.  Usually it’s a game that wouldn’t make a better channel anyway.  LHN is allowed to take more games but they count towards the Big XII’s ESPN commitment.  So chances are this is a way to try to bump the amount of people who don’t have the Longhorn Network but would want it because “Hey this is a pretty good game, let’s see what the rest of the network is like.”  It’s too bad for all of us since this could be a huge game and technically it might end up being a Big XII elimination game.

Duke at Clemson (7:00, TSN2) – Still nothing on the specialty pack.  Nice.  Duke gets no respect from The Committee.  It’s kind of like that with the ACC as a whole but I find it with a team like Duke a lot more.  Perception means a lot.  It’s why Washington State may have hit their ceiling unless teams above them lose.  This could be a close game.  Could be.  It is David Cutcliffe after all and he seems to be a coaching genius.  A Duke win eliminates the ACC from the College Football Playoff I think.  A Clemson win probably assures that they will be there with South Carolina and probably Pitt on the horizon left.

West Virginia at Oklahoma State (3:30, ABC) – It seriously falls off a cliff after the first four games.  I picked this one because a) the Mountaineers are in the thick of the Big XII Championship race and b) there should be a lot of points scored.  Other than that it’s not a whole lot different than probably the next best ten games.

Honourable mention: Arizona at Washington State (10:30, TSN2); Ohio State at Maryland (Noon, ABC); Utah at Colorado (1:30, Pac-12 Network)

Some gambling fun and games

Go back and take a look at my picks last week. LOOK AT THEM! Man I was good. Except for Iowa and USC.  Oh and USF.  OK maybe I was just OK last week.  Mediocre even.  I could never advertise my picks on one of those old late-night shows they used to do.  Remember those?  God they were sleazy.  Anyway, here are this week’s picks:

UCF over Cincinnati

Notre Dame over Syracuse

Oklahoma State over West Virginia (UPSET!)

Texas over Iowa State

Ohio State over Maryland

Clemson over Duke

Washington State over Arizona

Utah over Colorado

Fresno State over San Diego State

Texas A&M over UAB (although I think it will be closer than many people want to believe)

North Texas over Florida Atlantic

The guides are mostly up.  The FSN-ACC games aren’t showing up yet but considering what has happened all season, I am sure they will.  I am sure the weekend will have a couple of upsets and some craziness.  It’s college football.  And I do love watching it.  And I will watch it this weekend.  But I am not going to say it’s a great week on paper because it’s not.

UPDATE: The FSN regional games are appearing on the guide.

The Thursday Night Football affair will be Green Bay against Seattle.  OK not too bad.  Not great but I remember the days of old (like two years ago) when most of the games were garbage.  And in other NFL news, they have moved the Monday Night Football game from Mexico City back to Los Angeles due to the bad field conditions at Estadio Azteca.  I do find it a bit interesting they are moving it because of that.  I mean, yes, the field conditions are bad.  But they still play games in Oakland and Washington and their fields are terrible too.  The Oakland problem is being rectified by leaving the area entirely but the Washington situation perplexes me.  Anyway, bad news for people who were traveling to Mexico for this game and good news for Los Angeles residents who now have an extra game to go to.  It’s a 5:20 start locally though so I can see the stands being relatively empty through the first quarter.

I may have to actually use the PVR this weekend.  Crazy I know.  At least I am not using it to the extent I used to use it.  That got insane.  Plus I started to hate watching games well into Sunday.  Not saying football weekends are super productive for me but sometimes I have to make the call and say I love college football…but there is a limit.  Anyway, enjoy the games everyone!

Get ready for a lot of this – Week 8 College Football TV Schedule

Nick Bosa has decided to actually leave Ohio State, get healthy, and concentrate on the NFL Combine and the draft coming up.  People are surprised by this.  I am not.  Why the hell would he stay when he’s already been hurt this year and might miss most of the regular season anyway?  He’s gone until at least mid-November with an abdominal injury?  Think he’d risk millions of dollars and a chance at a pro career over college games?  Even if Ohio State is in the national championship conversation (which they are right now)?  Not a chance.  I wouldn’t if I was in his shoes.

And we are going to see more of this I am sure.  For the most part, it will be players that have been either injured in the past or currently injured and are predicted to be first round picks saying “You know, I could keep playing and possibly get an even worse injury that ruins any chance I have of playing pro” and say fuck it, I’m done here.  You can talk about the issues with their education and all that but that is a different conversation for a different time for many student-athletes (especially football and basketball) that have a serious chance to go pro.  I don’t want to make it about the money…but it’s mostly about the money.

Anywho, let’s get to the sked shall we?

Thursday

		US	Canada
Georgia State at Arkansas State	7:30 PM
Stanford at Arizona State	9:00 PM

Two games.  A Sun Belt game and a Pac-12 game.  Most people are probably going to watch the Thursday Night Football matchup or whichever LCS is on tonight.  Too bad since a month ago, Stanford-ASU would have a been a huge matchup between ranked teams.

Friday

		US	Canada
Yale at Penn	7:00 PM
Colorado State at Boise State	9:00 PM
Air Force at UNLV	10:00 PM

Is it an appetizer to the Saturday main course?  It always is.  But this is a little thin.  Feels like getting a quarter of a potato skin and one chicken wing.  At one point CSU-BSU was going to be big.  That point came just around kickoff of Colorado State’s Week Zero loss to Hawaii.

Saturday Early

		US	Canada
#9 Oklahoma at TCU	Noon
#6 Michigan at #24 Michigan State	Noon
Miami-OH at Army	Noon
Northwestern at Rutgers	Noon
Auburn at Ole Miss	Noon
Maryland at #19 Iowa	Noon
#20 Cincinnati at Temple	Noon
Tulsa at Arkansas	Noon
North Carolina at Syracuse	12:30 PM
Virginia at Duke	12:30 PM

Quite a good start to the day with Michigan-MSU which some would say is the main game of the week.  Watch out for OU-TCU and Cincy-Temple as you could see a couple of upsets there.  Also, if you enjoy punishing yourself, you could watch Rutgers play.

As of right now, UVA-Duke is not showing up on the specialty pack.  I assume that will change.

Saturday Afternoon

		US	Canada
#18 Penn State at Indiana	3:30 PM
#1 Alabama at Tennessee	3:30 PM
Colorado at #15 Washington	3:30 PM
Houston at Navy	3:30 PM
Minnesota at Nebraska	3:30 PM
#16 NC State at #3 Clemson	3:30 PM
Wake Forest at Florida State	3:30 PM
SMU at Tulane	3:30 PM
Memphis at Missouri	4:00 PM

Some great games here.  OK more like one great game and a bunch of good ones.  NC State-Clemson is a battle of undefeateds which you rarely see past the month of September.  The Wolfpack could put a huge wrench in the current College Football Playoff landscape.  Oh and Alabama will probably mop the floor with Tennessee.  Can Brad Nessler not get two good games in a row?

Saturday Primetime

		US	Canada
UConn at #21 USF	7:00 PM
#10 UCF at East Carolina	7:00 PM
#22 Mississippi State at #5 LSU	7:00 PM
#2 Ohio State at Purdue	7:30 PM
#12 Oregon at #25 Washington State	7:30 PM
North Texas at UAB	7:30 PM
Vanderbilt at #14 Kentucky	7:30 PM
Fresno State at New Mexico	7:30 PM

Again, the specialty pack showing four games in this timeslot.  Twelve for Saturday, fifteen for the week.  That’s a loaded schedule.  Wazzu has a chance to end their biggest day ever (which starts with College Gameday for the first time in Pullman) with a win over Oregon and giving the Pac-12’s CFP chances another crushing blow.  It’s weird to not see a game in this timeslot past 7:30 but that’s the case.  Also don’t sleep on MSU-LSU as we get to see if the Tigers have a letdown week or if Da Coach O can celebrate again with his team and possibly get into the Top 4.

Saturday Late Night

		US	Canada
San Jose State at San Diego State	10:30 PM
Arizona at UCLA	10:30 PM

Well………it’s college football……technically.

Games to set your eyeballs on

NC State at Clemson (3:30, specialty pack) – How this game didn’t get put on ABC is beyond me.  If it was up to me I would have put it on ABC in primetime but I know it has to do with the number of appearances on each network at which time and all that jazz.  Also, it shows that NC State does not have the cache that some other ACC schools have.  This could be HUGE if the Wolfpack pull off the upset.  They almost did a few years ago and they weren’t nearly as good as they are this year.

Mississippi State at LSU (7:00, specialty pack) – Another headscratcher to some but not to me.  CBS LOVES Alabama.  They try to get them to the maximum five appearances whenever they can.  I feel bad since CBS has dropped off a bit of a cliff when it comes to airing quality SEC games.  At least last week they got it right.  The Ed Orgeron roller coaster continues here as a loss puts him on a massive hot seat because some college football fans and alumni (and media people) can be generally awful.  A win, though, makes their game against Bama must see.  The Bulldogs are odd since they have impressed at times and at other times looked awful.  For the most part it’s been pretty good in Joe Moorhead’s first season but I (along with many others) expected more from this squad.

Michigan at Michigan State (Noon, FOX) – Big brother vs. Little brother, version I don’t know many.  The Wolverines look like a seriously good team now that Shea Patterson has figured things out in Ann Arbor.  But we know what kind of headaches Sparty has given Big Blue for the last, oh, two decades.  Another game that will shape the College Football Playoff and especially the Big Ten East.

Oregon at Washington State (7:30, FOX) – Could Mike Leach’s Washington State Cougars be the Pac-12’s last hope at the College Football Playoff?  Pull off the minor upset here and that would seem to be the case which is honestly wild.  More Mike Leach is almost always good since he is good for a sound bite or twenty.  And Wazzu has been fun to watch for the past half-dozen years…kind of like they are the newer version of the Oregon Ducks who used to super exciting to watch under Mike Bellotti and then Chip Kelly.  I’m sure GUS JOHNSON will come close to having a stroke with all the offense in this one.

Colorado at Washington (3:30, FOX) – It kind of drops off a cliff after those top four games.  This is not nearly as important as it was, say, this past Saturday morning when this could have been a preview of the Pac-12 Championship.  It still could be but if it is, the Pac-12 has no hope for the CFP.  I guess it’s good to see how far the Buffaloes have come that they are back as a contender after only one not-so-good season.  Before Mike MacIntyre took over, the Buffs were a wreck for a long time.

Honourable mention: Maryland at Iowa (Noon, TSN4); Penn State at Indiana (3:30, ABC); Cincinnati at Temple (Noon, specialty pack)

Some gambling fun and games

I have no shame in saying I was wrong in some of my picks last week since last week was so wild and wacky.  I am assuming this one won’t be as crazy but I never assume anymore with college football.

LSU over Mississippi State

Clemson over NC State

Temple over Cincinnati (upset)

Oregon over Washington State

Washington over Colorado

Michigan State over Michigan (another upset)

Penn State over Indiana

Iowa over Maryland

San Diego State over San Jose State

UAB over North Texas

Oklahoma over TCU

Specialty packs, as far as I can tell, are locked and loaded and ready to go.  Good on the telcos for doing their job and getting this set up properly.

Tonight we also have some Thursday Night Football as per usual.  It’s the Broncos and Cardinals.  Watch it be an awesome game since on paper it doesn’t look like much.  Although I guess we get to hear Joe and Troy gush over Josh Rosen to the point you think it gets just a tad creepy.

So we shall see how my viewing goes this weekend.  As long as I get to the second halves of games then I am honestly perfectly fine.  I know I can’t watch all the college football I want so I take what I can get when things get busy.  And it’s the fall so everyone wants to do stuff.  Sometimes it’s annoying but it is what it is.  Anyway, enjoy the games everyone!

BAH GAWD! THE RED RIVER SHOOTOUT LOOKS IMPORTANT AGAIN! – Week 6 College Football TV Schedule

Jim Ross will be at the State Fair of Texas this Saturday.  For sure.  Oklahoma faces Texas in the Red River Shootout (I know it’s officially called the Red River Rivalry but I don’t care).  Cotton Bowl.  College Gameday is there.  Hell, FOX is there with a pre-game show featuring good ol’ JR himself.  And both teams are ranked.  Texas might even be back.  And we all know the Red River Shootout is a complete toss up which every so often has a result that makes sense.  Usually it’s lunacy at its finest and I love it.

Let’s get right to the schedule shall we?  I mean I know you love my witty banter in my intros and the way I am such a wordsmith with my blog posts but at some point I know all of you say “For god’s sake Bossman, shut your fucking trap and give us the schedule!”  So here we go then.

Thursday

		US	Canada
Georgia State at Troy	7:30 PM
Tulsa at Houston	8:00 PM

Nothing to see here really.  Watch both games be really close.

Friday

		US	Canada
Dartmouth at Yale	6:00 PM
Georgia Tech at Louisville	7:00 PM
Middle Tennessee at Marshall	7:30 PM
Utah State at BYU	9:00 PM

Four games on a Friday night which is a nice touch.  Nothing that special but USU-BYU could end up being bonkers as it goes past midnight.

UPDATE:  These games will be on the specialty pack despite not showing up on guides yet.

Saturday Early

		US	Canada
Maryland at #15 Michigan	Noon
#7 Oklahoma vs. #19 Texas (in Dallas)	Noon
#1 Alabama at Arkansas	Noon
Buffalo at Central Michigan	Noon
Illinois at Rutgers	Noon
Kansas at #9 West Virginia	Noon
Tulane at Cincinnati	Noon
Missouri at South Carolina	Noon
Syracuse at Pittsburgh	12:30 PM
Boston College at #23 NC State	12:30 PM

FOX Tripleheader.  FOX TRIPLEHEADER!!!!  As I had to break to an American reader visiting the Great White North (which isn’t so white right now), we do not get FS1.  We do get FOX though which starts with a bang this week.  FOX is quickly becoming one of my favourite places to watch college football, despite the fact people love to shit all over FOX.  But they have GUS JOHNSON!, former American Eagle model Joel Klatt, rising star Joe Davis.  Hell, even Brady Quinn is nice to listen to as a colour commentator.  Nothing is as big as the Red River Shootout early on but there are some intriguing ones out there including BC-NCST and UMD-Michigan.

Saturday Afternoon

		US	Canada
Florida State at #17 Miami	3:30 PM
#5 LSU at #22 Florida	3:30 PM
#4 Clemson at Wake Forest	3:30 PM
Navy at Air Force	3:30 PM
Iowa at Minnesota	3:30 PM
Iowa State at #25 Oklahoma State	3:30 PM
San Diego State at Boise State	3:30 PM
Indiana at #3 Ohio State	4:00 PM
ULM at Ole Miss	4:00 PM

Pretty good afternoon schedule here.  LSU-Florida is the huge game in this timeslot.  Another test for the Tigers and if they pass it they have to be considered contenders and Ed Orgeron might get a lifetime contract.  One of the Battles of Florida happens here as well.  Could we get Wide Right IV?  TSN2 has the ESPN games all day today which is good planning on TSN’s part.  No moving around to different games on different ESPN stations which I have always found dumb.

Saturday Primetime

		US	Canada
#13 Kentucky at Texas A&M	7:00 PM
UConn at Memphis	7:00 PM
SMU at #12 UCF	7:00 PM
#10 Washington at UCLA	7:30 PM
North Texas at UTEP	7:30 PM
Nebraska at #16 Wisconsin	7:30 PM
#8 Auburn at Mississippi State	7:30 PM
Vanderbilt at #2 Georgia	7:30 PM
#6 Notre Dame at #24 Virginia Tech	8:00 PM

For once, FOX’s primetime game starts before the big one on ABC between the Irish and Hokies.  This is rare and FOX has to hope that UCLA can somehow keep it close with Washington since, on paper, this looks like a potential blowout.  I kind of wish all the ABC primetime windows started at 7:30, not just the Big Ten games.  Not that it really matters but it’s tough sometimes watching most of a big game on ABC (which I might end up focusing on) and then turn to the late night games to realize that some of them are already at halftime.

Saturday Late Night

		US	Canada
Utah at #14 Stanford	10:45 PM
Colorado State at San Jose State	10:30 PM
Fresno State at Nevada	10:30 PM

Not the greatest late night spread but Pac-12 After Dark should bring it yet again.  I’ve gone over the issues the Pac-12 has with the late night window but they are kind of stuck until they expand and perhaps get the Texahoma 4 (Texas, Texas Tech, Oklahoma, Oklahoma State).  This way they could potentially be the only conference getting games in all four windows which would be a MASSIVE selling point to the networks.  It will also help the much-maligned Pac-12 Network which is still struggling even after being on the air for years.  CSU-SJSU might be the worst game you see this week in this neck of the woods unless you get beIN Sports and want to subject yourself to the awfulness that is UTEP Miners football.

Games to set your eyeballs on

Oklahoma vs. Texas (in Dallas) (Noon, FOX) – First time in quite a while that the Red River SHOOTOUT will be the biggest game of the week.  It almost feels kind of sad when an historic rivalry is relegated to one of the lesser channels because one or both teams aren’t really that great.  Not so here.  Texas, if they win, can finally say they are back.  If the Sooners win, they really have a relatively easy ride until their trip to West Virginia on Black Friday.  Huge stakes.

LSU at Florida (3:30, CBS) – Can LSU finally shut the naysayers up with a win?  Probably not.  But a win here would help.  Florida also kind of needs a win to prove that finally getting into the Top 25 isn’t a fluke.  And more than the teams themselves, the two coaches need a win here.  Mullen and Orgeron would create a lot of goodwill with their respective fanbases by being victorious this Saturday.

Notre Dame at Virginia Tech (8:00, ABC) – Perhaps Notre Dame’s last huge test of the regular season.  The rest of their schedule is filled with easier foes or underperforming teams.  Yes we all know the Hokies lost to Old Dominion (OLD………………….DOMINION).  But they are past that or seemed to be in their win over Duke last weekend.  This will truly show everyone if the upset loss was a hiccup or a sign that maybe VaTech isn’t a true contender for the ACC crown.

Kentucky at Texas A&M (7:00, TSN2) – Who would have thought Kentucky would be in one of the top 5 games of the week?  Everyone put their hands down you dirty liars.  The Aggies came within a fumble (and the worst rule in college football) of having a chance to beat Clemson.  They have a chance to almost end the Wildcats early Cinderella run.  Win this and Kentucky could be 8-0 when they host Georgia in one of the games of the year.  Yes, year.

Boston College at NC State (12:30, specialty pack) – I don’t think a game from FOX Sports Network has ever been in my game of the week section.  I am surprised this isn’t the ACC Network game or on one of the ESPNs.  Almost seems like it was missed.  Anyway, the winner here has probably the last chance to catch Clemson in the ACC Atlantic.

Honourable mention: Clemson at Wake Forest (3:30, TSN2); Florida State at Miami (3:30, ABC); Auburn at Mississippi State (7:30, specialty pack)

Some gambling fun and games

My picks were pretty good again last weekend.  Only two wrong but one affected a big part of my preseason predictions.  Anyway, more picks for you gambling heathens out there.

Oklahoma over Texas

LSU over Ole Miss

Texas A&M over Kentucky (I guess this would be considered an upset then?)

Mississippi State over Auburn (TWO SEC upsets in the same week!)

Virginia Tech over Notre Dame (I’m on a roll with these upset picks)

NC State over Boston College

Clemson over Wake Forest

Miami over Florida State

Stanford over Utah

UCF over SMU

Boise State over San Diego State

I can’t see the schedules up anywhere past tonight.  I get sick of this roller coaster sometimes.  Some weeks it’s smooth.  Some weeks it’s rough.  Some weeks you go through a tunnel not knowing what’s out the other side.  Some weeks you puke and it hits the person behind you.  I will keep you all updated on when the guides are updated.

UPDATE #2: Well, the specialty pack schedules are finally up.  It’s about time.

Hey, hey some Thursday Night Football again.  We’ve had some pretty good games so far.  Last week’s game was great to watch.  Having FOX take over the games may have actually helped TNF to have better quality games.  There is some luck there as well mind you.  Just because two good teams face each other doesn’t mean we will have a good game.  Tonight we do not have two good teams facing each other.  We have one good team (New England) facing one not-so-good team (Indianapolis).  We shall see how this plays out.  Either it will be exciting or essentially over by the 10 minute mark of the third quarter.

I will be live-tweeting most of Saturday (@LikeABauce1978).  I know you don’t care.  I enjoy it though (as long as I can stay away from Shit Twitter which sucks the life out of you with ridiculous arguments).  Should be another fun day of college football.  Enjoy the games everyone!