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An extremely light week this week, further depleted of #17 Miami at #11 FSU by hurricane Irma. Be prepared to find creative ways to watch football games, or you may end up just watching two games.
Thursday, September 14
8:00 PM - New Mexico at Boise State. New Mexico has a fun freshman QB who came off the bench in the 4th quarter down 26 and bought UNM to within a batted two-point attempt of tying up the game. This has to be causing heartburn for Boise State, who at one point in the 4th quarter were up 31-10 on Washington State, only to lose the game in overtime. If UNM surges while BSU collapses late in the 4th quarter, we might see an exchange of 40+ points in the closing minutes of this game. Okay probably not, but hey, one can dream.
Friday, September 15
7:00 PM - Illinois at(?) #22 South Florida. Another installment of the Quinton Flowers show, on USF's continuing quest to be the king of G-5 mountain, but this time against unstoppable G-5 slayers out of Illinois, fresh from dispatching two straight from the lower rung of the upper rung of college football. The Illini will surely need this game to have even an outside shot at bowl contention, with previously winnable contests against Purdue and Indiana looking more like losses every week, while USF will need the win to keep themselves in the top 25 and bolster their resume with a P5 team. There's a lot on the line here, with Vegas calling a close game (USF -17), and so now the only question that remains is whether and where the game will be played.
7:00 PM - UMass at Temple, 10:15 PM - Arizona at UTEP. The UMass Minutemen have managed to show up to week 3 already at 0-3, with a loss to Hawaii at home, while UTEP football is so dead, the official ESPN news feed contains little more than a dozen tweets about a recent high school football game, and two tweets listing 5 injured players who will have ended their season in a 2+ touchdown loss to Rice. Temple, as we know, was run on at will, and Arizona just lost to Houston. Folks, it's going to be a real herp derp night of football. 3 and out not featuring a single tackle, take a shot. Somebody scores a touchdown and you can't hear the cheers over the commentary, finish the drink.
Saturday, September 16
12:00 Noon - Air Force at #7 Michigan. Get you some chop blocks, bright and early. Air Force has a secret weapon in this game, which will surely neutralize Michigan's powerful defensive scoring mechanism: it doesn't throw the football much. Michigan treated points against Cincinnati like they were about to have late fees, returning two passes for 14 of them promptly and trying to prevent themselves from being directly responsible for any others. Not counting defensive scores, Michigan is putting up just north of 400 yards and 20 points per game so far, despite the dramatic difference in their two opponents defensive talent. So I'd say if Air Force can get themselves up to the high 20's and manage not to turn the ball over, and Michigan's 400/20 MO holds out, the Falcons might just have a shot in this one.
12:00 Noon - #9 Miami Redhawks at Akron Zips. While this game actually features Oklahoma State and Pittsburgh, I've decided to demote all programs involved in playing games against Pittsburgh to lesser Ohio teams. Such is the terrible curse of James Franklin, which can only be broken by not looking like a mid-major in a game against a highly ranked team. For our game against them in week 4, we will play the part of Toledo. Go Rockets!
12:00 Noon - Louisiana Lafayette at Texas A&M. After losing in the most ridiculous fashion to UCLA in week 1, and surviving a huge letdown game against the recently-troublesome Nicholls State, can Kevin Sumlin get any more fired? The Ragin' Cajuns are here to answer your question with their no defense, all touchdowns approach to football. ULL has scored 93 points and given up 104 through two games, and for what little is left of Sumlin's sake, he'd better make sure one of those trends doesn't continue. The advantage ULL has here is that their football program isn't even capable of generating the level of drama surrounding the aTm head coach, and the Aggies could very well lose sight of the game in it all. The spread is aTm -23 at the moment.
12:30 PM - Baylor at Duke. Don't look now, but Duke is averaging more than 50 points a game, and beat the spread in their last contest by 22. Their defense is one of the better ones fielded for the Blue Devils in quite some time, and Baylor is ha ha ha baaaaaaaaaaaaad. If they can do it all again here, they probably prove that they are firmly among the mediocre teams in the Coastal this year.
3:00 PM - #10 Wisconsin at BYU. Another Wisconsin game you're not going to watch, another 30 points scored, another 2 touchdown victory, and another tromp in the steady march of the B1Ggest team in the B1G back to the top.
3:30 PM - #16 Virginia Tech at East Carolina. VT really should win this one, which is why you need to hang onto your asses. All sorts of ACC stuff could happen here.
3:30 PM - #23 Tennessee at #24 Florida. By far the best game in the 3:30 slot by its own right, this one probably has a little extra significance for GT fans, as it will be the first true test faced by either team after the bizarre opening night thriller. Get ready for an early battle to determine who will take the SEC East lead to Georgia and prove that the dwags are a horrible team that never deserved their ranking or any hype at all, only to lose the division to South Carolina later in the season. In the SEC it just means more, and as a crucial division game, it means yet more, and as a measuring stick for us, it still has more meaning. And you know what "more, more, more" is. It's what your mom said. To me. Last night. Oh yeah.
Also in this time slot: Central Michigan piles another OOC loss on the ACC as they beat Syracuse, while ND runs at will on Boston College behind an NFL left-side-of-the-offensive-line. And uh, don't look now but North Carolina also plays Old Dominion, and they still haven't figured out how the controller works yet. But hey, Minnesota plays MTSU, so maybe we won't be completely alone...?
4:00 PM - Purdue at Missouri. Check out this sweet flea flicker action. Now understand that Mizzou gave up 43 points to an FCS team, then fired their DC this week (who was also the ILB coach) and still hasn't named a replacement. Head man Barry Odom was the DC at Mizzou last time they had a great defense, and may take over the playcalling duties, but it won't fix the awful fundamentals in time, even if it does improve anything at all. Purdue is not close to the level of electric that Brohm captured at WKU before being hired "up" to the Boilermaker's top spot, but they have been very fun to watch through two games this season, and stand a very good chance of making a third appearance on that stage. The line is Mizzou by 7, with the O/U at 73.
4:30 PM - Army at #8 Ohio State. Go on and grab yourself some afternoon chop blocks. Ohio State is in for a letdown game, and Meyer's new offense isn't looking too hot to begin with. The buckeyes are 30 point favorites, but hey, we've already seen way longer odds get beaten this year.
7:00 PM - #12 LSU at Mississippi State. LSU has a suffocating defense that will probably hold the dynamic looking Bulldogs to something like 13 points, but Dan Mullen's squad seems pretty hype about their own defense, too. They haven't proven very adept at recovering 93 yard fumbles, however, which hopefully shouldn't matter this year, because Les Miles is no longer sampling the vegetation on the opposing sideline. Between the CLANGA and Orgeron's accent, though, it won't be any easier to understand what's going on when they do the on-field interviews.
7:30 PM - Georgia State at #5 Penn State. After which, James Franklin will say "It was like beating Georgia State."
7:30 PM(?) - Georgia Tech(?) at(?) UCF(?). Mayyyybe? EDIT: Cancelled. Son of
8:00 PM - #3 Clemson at #14 Louisville. Lamar Jackson 2.0 is here, but so is Clemson Defense 2.0. The ATTACKING national champions are set to put on an instant classic against the ATTACKING Heisman winner, as the ACC showcases all it really has left from last year. Save us, Dabo.
8:30 PM - Texas at #4 USC. Southern Cal is getting 17 points after beating up on Stanford, "proving" that it is a "playoff" "contender". With "Ohio State" "out" of "the picture" for "now", USC probably has the most "favorable" "schedule" "remaining" of the "playoff contenders". All they have to do is avoid losing to Texas, and a bunch of other teams that have no business being on the field with the Trojans. Should be "easy".
10:30 PM - Ole Miss at California. Ole Miss has more or less kept it together, somehow, on the stormy seas of NCAA investigation even after their coach drowned overboard due to the treacherous siren song of hookers from Florida. Aye, matey, many a man has been lost on them jagged rocks, but ahead be Cal, and loomin' just beyond that? The white whale, Nick Saban, who the brave cap'n vowed to harpoon once more, that is before he got to harpoonin' other things, 'course. The rebels just need to keep the sails intact for one more game, then it's the remaining crew of the HMS Land Shark and the beast of Tuscaloosa deep, settling the score one final time. Watching them navigate around the bruins should be a sufficient way to end the night.
Arr.
Thursday, September 14
8:00 PM - New Mexico at Boise State. New Mexico has a fun freshman QB who came off the bench in the 4th quarter down 26 and bought UNM to within a batted two-point attempt of tying up the game. This has to be causing heartburn for Boise State, who at one point in the 4th quarter were up 31-10 on Washington State, only to lose the game in overtime. If UNM surges while BSU collapses late in the 4th quarter, we might see an exchange of 40+ points in the closing minutes of this game. Okay probably not, but hey, one can dream.
Friday, September 15
7:00 PM - Illinois at(?) #22 South Florida. Another installment of the Quinton Flowers show, on USF's continuing quest to be the king of G-5 mountain, but this time against unstoppable G-5 slayers out of Illinois, fresh from dispatching two straight from the lower rung of the upper rung of college football. The Illini will surely need this game to have even an outside shot at bowl contention, with previously winnable contests against Purdue and Indiana looking more like losses every week, while USF will need the win to keep themselves in the top 25 and bolster their resume with a P5 team. There's a lot on the line here, with Vegas calling a close game (USF -17), and so now the only question that remains is whether and where the game will be played.
7:00 PM - UMass at Temple, 10:15 PM - Arizona at UTEP. The UMass Minutemen have managed to show up to week 3 already at 0-3, with a loss to Hawaii at home, while UTEP football is so dead, the official ESPN news feed contains little more than a dozen tweets about a recent high school football game, and two tweets listing 5 injured players who will have ended their season in a 2+ touchdown loss to Rice. Temple, as we know, was run on at will, and Arizona just lost to Houston. Folks, it's going to be a real herp derp night of football. 3 and out not featuring a single tackle, take a shot. Somebody scores a touchdown and you can't hear the cheers over the commentary, finish the drink.
Saturday, September 16
12:00 Noon - Air Force at #7 Michigan. Get you some chop blocks, bright and early. Air Force has a secret weapon in this game, which will surely neutralize Michigan's powerful defensive scoring mechanism: it doesn't throw the football much. Michigan treated points against Cincinnati like they were about to have late fees, returning two passes for 14 of them promptly and trying to prevent themselves from being directly responsible for any others. Not counting defensive scores, Michigan is putting up just north of 400 yards and 20 points per game so far, despite the dramatic difference in their two opponents defensive talent. So I'd say if Air Force can get themselves up to the high 20's and manage not to turn the ball over, and Michigan's 400/20 MO holds out, the Falcons might just have a shot in this one.
12:00 Noon - #9 Miami Redhawks at Akron Zips. While this game actually features Oklahoma State and Pittsburgh, I've decided to demote all programs involved in playing games against Pittsburgh to lesser Ohio teams. Such is the terrible curse of James Franklin, which can only be broken by not looking like a mid-major in a game against a highly ranked team. For our game against them in week 4, we will play the part of Toledo. Go Rockets!
12:00 Noon - Louisiana Lafayette at Texas A&M. After losing in the most ridiculous fashion to UCLA in week 1, and surviving a huge letdown game against the recently-troublesome Nicholls State, can Kevin Sumlin get any more fired? The Ragin' Cajuns are here to answer your question with their no defense, all touchdowns approach to football. ULL has scored 93 points and given up 104 through two games, and for what little is left of Sumlin's sake, he'd better make sure one of those trends doesn't continue. The advantage ULL has here is that their football program isn't even capable of generating the level of drama surrounding the aTm head coach, and the Aggies could very well lose sight of the game in it all. The spread is aTm -23 at the moment.
12:30 PM - Baylor at Duke. Don't look now, but Duke is averaging more than 50 points a game, and beat the spread in their last contest by 22. Their defense is one of the better ones fielded for the Blue Devils in quite some time, and Baylor is ha ha ha baaaaaaaaaaaaad. If they can do it all again here, they probably prove that they are firmly among the mediocre teams in the Coastal this year.
3:00 PM - #10 Wisconsin at BYU. Another Wisconsin game you're not going to watch, another 30 points scored, another 2 touchdown victory, and another tromp in the steady march of the B1Ggest team in the B1G back to the top.
3:30 PM - #16 Virginia Tech at East Carolina. VT really should win this one, which is why you need to hang onto your asses. All sorts of ACC stuff could happen here.
3:30 PM - #23 Tennessee at #24 Florida. By far the best game in the 3:30 slot by its own right, this one probably has a little extra significance for GT fans, as it will be the first true test faced by either team after the bizarre opening night thriller. Get ready for an early battle to determine who will take the SEC East lead to Georgia and prove that the dwags are a horrible team that never deserved their ranking or any hype at all, only to lose the division to South Carolina later in the season. In the SEC it just means more, and as a crucial division game, it means yet more, and as a measuring stick for us, it still has more meaning. And you know what "more, more, more" is. It's what your mom said. To me. Last night. Oh yeah.
Also in this time slot: Central Michigan piles another OOC loss on the ACC as they beat Syracuse, while ND runs at will on Boston College behind an NFL left-side-of-the-offensive-line. And uh, don't look now but North Carolina also plays Old Dominion, and they still haven't figured out how the controller works yet. But hey, Minnesota plays MTSU, so maybe we won't be completely alone...?
4:00 PM - Purdue at Missouri. Check out this sweet flea flicker action. Now understand that Mizzou gave up 43 points to an FCS team, then fired their DC this week (who was also the ILB coach) and still hasn't named a replacement. Head man Barry Odom was the DC at Mizzou last time they had a great defense, and may take over the playcalling duties, but it won't fix the awful fundamentals in time, even if it does improve anything at all. Purdue is not close to the level of electric that Brohm captured at WKU before being hired "up" to the Boilermaker's top spot, but they have been very fun to watch through two games this season, and stand a very good chance of making a third appearance on that stage. The line is Mizzou by 7, with the O/U at 73.
4:30 PM - Army at #8 Ohio State. Go on and grab yourself some afternoon chop blocks. Ohio State is in for a letdown game, and Meyer's new offense isn't looking too hot to begin with. The buckeyes are 30 point favorites, but hey, we've already seen way longer odds get beaten this year.
7:00 PM - #12 LSU at Mississippi State. LSU has a suffocating defense that will probably hold the dynamic looking Bulldogs to something like 13 points, but Dan Mullen's squad seems pretty hype about their own defense, too. They haven't proven very adept at recovering 93 yard fumbles, however, which hopefully shouldn't matter this year, because Les Miles is no longer sampling the vegetation on the opposing sideline. Between the CLANGA and Orgeron's accent, though, it won't be any easier to understand what's going on when they do the on-field interviews.
7:30 PM - Georgia State at #5 Penn State. After which, James Franklin will say "It was like beating Georgia State."
7:30 PM(?) - Georgia Tech(?) at(?) UCF(?). Mayyyybe? EDIT: Cancelled. Son of
8:00 PM - #3 Clemson at #14 Louisville. Lamar Jackson 2.0 is here, but so is Clemson Defense 2.0. The ATTACKING national champions are set to put on an instant classic against the ATTACKING Heisman winner, as the ACC showcases all it really has left from last year. Save us, Dabo.
8:30 PM - Texas at #4 USC. Southern Cal is getting 17 points after beating up on Stanford, "proving" that it is a "playoff" "contender". With "Ohio State" "out" of "the picture" for "now", USC probably has the most "favorable" "schedule" "remaining" of the "playoff contenders". All they have to do is avoid losing to Texas, and a bunch of other teams that have no business being on the field with the Trojans. Should be "easy".
10:30 PM - Ole Miss at California. Ole Miss has more or less kept it together, somehow, on the stormy seas of NCAA investigation even after their coach drowned overboard due to the treacherous siren song of hookers from Florida. Aye, matey, many a man has been lost on them jagged rocks, but ahead be Cal, and loomin' just beyond that? The white whale, Nick Saban, who the brave cap'n vowed to harpoon once more, that is before he got to harpoonin' other things, 'course. The rebels just need to keep the sails intact for one more game, then it's the remaining crew of the HMS Land Shark and the beast of Tuscaloosa deep, settling the score one final time. Watching them navigate around the bruins should be a sufficient way to end the night.
Arr.
