Appalachian State at UL Lafayette 8:00PM ESPN2
The Rajin' Cajuns are coming off two straight overtime losses, and already 1-1 in Sunbelt play. Having designs on winning the thing, pretty much have to win here as a 10 point dog. The Appys need no introduction unless you wanted to know anyone's actual name. Meh, they have numbers for that sort of thing.
Friday, Oct. 14, 2016
Duke at (7) Louisville 7:00PM ESPN
Everybody loves Louisville and everybody hates Duke.
Memphis at Tulane 8:00PM ESPNU
I have another new name for Tulane to try out; "The Green Wave...of Terror" Nice, right? Not too long ago (like maybe two years ago) this would have been a battle of two of the worst teams you could find. That's no longer the case--and it's not just about expansion.
San Diego State at Fresno State 10:00PM CBSSN Mississippi State at BYU 10:15PM ESPN
This sounds horrible, but it's on and late and should be good for some lols.
Saturday, Oct. 15, 2016
Illinois at Rutgers Noon ESPNews
Iowa at Purdue Noon ESPN2
Kansas State at (19) Oklahoma Noon ESPN
Lafayette at Army Noon CBSSN
Minnesota at Maryland Noon ESPNU NC State at (3) Clemson Noon ABC
If you've ever wondered how a team looks against a natty contender the week after winning in a hurricane, congratulations!
Vanderbilt at Georgia Noon SECN (20) West Virginia at Texas Tech Noon FS1
Well, there should be offense here!
Georgia Southern at Georgia Tech 12:30PM RSN
RunGSU's dream matchup Thunderdome with a team they probably suspect is disrespecting them by playing THEIR offense with the word "Georgia" like a total ripoff!
Pittsburgh at Virginia 12:30PM ACCN
Eastern Michigan at Ohio 2:00PM ESPN3
Kent State at Miami, OH 2:30PM ESPN3 WKU at Middle Tennessee 2:30PM ESPN3
This is a pivotal game in Conference-USA land. These two teams currently account for all of Vanderbilt's wins!
(1) Alabama at (9) Tennessee 3:30PM CBS
Looks like this game could decide the SEC East due to the cancellation. Basically UT's last real game while Bama's heading into the thick of things. And. here. we.
Ball State at Buffalo 3:30PM ESPN3
Bowling Green at Toledo 3:30PM ASN
Central Michigan at NIU 3:30PM ESPN3 Georgia State at Troy 3:30PM ESPN3
The Sunbelt's two pleasant surprises. ThrowGSU needs to be a little Tackle-that-Ironhead-GuyGSU to pull this one out.
Kansas at (11) Baylor 3:30PM FS1
Louisiana Tech at UMass 3:30PM ASN/NESN
(10) Nebraska at Indiana 3:30PM ABC/ESPN2 (RM) New Mexico at Air Force (at Dallas, TX) 3:30PM ESPNews
I don't know WTF is up with this game, but it looks like a "Red River Rivalry" sequel-thing takijng place at the Cotton Bowl and there's still the state fair going on. New Mexico is the MWC team, not Sunbelt. That's New Mexico State.
North Carolina at (16) Miami, FL 3:30PM ABC/ESPN2 (RM)
Turning into a free-for-all in the ACC's non-Clemson/Louisville/FSU division. Pivotal game, since someone's narrative involves "bouncing off a loss".
Northwestern at Michigan State 3:30PM BTN USC at Arizona 3:30PM FOX
It's weird but the PAC seems like all the teams are reasonably capable of matching up against each other. What's the word I'm looking for?
Wake Forest at (14) Florida State 3:30PM ESPN
(24) Western Michigan at Akron 3:30PM CBSSN
(17) Virginia Tech at Syracuse 3:45PM ESPNU
Missouri at (18) Florida 4:00PM SECN
(21) Utah at Oregon State 4:00PM Pac-12N
New Mexico State at Idaho 5:00PM ESPN3
FIU at Charlotte 6:00PM CUSA.TV
Florida Atlantic at Marshall 7:00PM ASN/MASN
Iowa State at Texas 7:00PM LHN/Cyclones.tv (12) Ole Miss at (22) Arkansas 7:00PM ESPN
Two teams with completely different shameful interpretations of the word "Exposed".
South Alabama at Arkansas State 7:00PM ESPN3
Texas State at ULM 7:00PM ESPN3
Tulsa at (13) Houston 7:00PM ESPN2
UConn at USF 7:00PM CBSSN UTSA at Rice 7:00PM beIN Sports
By my reckoning, this is Texas' 11th biggest intrastate rivalry game. Can you guess the other ten?
Southern Miss at LSU 7:30PM SECN
For a while there, this was looking like a sort of showdown. Still could be, but now it will be funnier.
Stanford at Notre Dame 7:30PM NBC
Temple at UCF 7:30PM ESPNU Arizona State at Colorado 8:00PM Pac-12N
See? Another PAC matchup of nearly-ranked teams.
(2) Ohio State at (8) Wisconsin 8:00PM ABC
I don't know anything about these teams but this is obviously a big game. Perhaps some of our non-Michigan Big Ten fans can fill in the blanks.
Colorado State at (15) Boise State 10:15PM ESPN2
Nevada at San Jose State 10:30PM CBSSN UCLA at Washington State 10:30PM ESPN
And yet another pretty interesting PAC matchup. The poor guys have like no patsies at all...except Oregon I guess.
OSU-Wisconsin is great because it should hopefully answer some questions about the top of the conference. If either one scores a lot it means different things re: OSU/Mich.
Fournette is still out this weekend. He might as well just start preparing for the draft and the NFL. I mean, what's the point of playing the rest of the season now? He needs to get healthy obviously
I'm wondering if they should just push back the sec title game a week or if that's possible. Have the Florida Lsu game the week after Florida plays FSU. It would be the same day as the other conference title games. Either school is not budging on adjusting their schedule to make this game happen so just make it happen after their last game of the season and move the title game back.
It would be a win win for the conference because not only would the game happen and be fair to everyone they could be the only title game playing the next weekend and have all the coverage and tv ratings.
I'm wondering if they should just push back the sec title game a week or if that's possible. Have the Florida Lsu game the week after Florida plays FSU. It would be the same day as the other conference title games. Either school is not budging on adjusting their schedule to make this game happen so just make it happen after their last game of the season and move the title game back.
It would be a win win for the conference because not only would the game happen and be fair to everyone they could be the only title game playing the next weekend and have all the coverage and tv ratings.
That Works for me. I don't know if it would create an issue with final exams. But my understanding is the SEC doesn't even pretend to care about such things.