Saturday, September 22
12:00 PM - #2 Georgia at Missouri. Missouri was supposed to have some kind of Heisman candidate QB, and that's apparently enough to scrape by Purdue by 3. Georgia lurking ahead does not look good for them.
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12:00 PM - #8 Notre Dame at Wake Forest. Notre Dame gets stuck in a time loop as, after playing an undermanned team that wears black and gold, they find themselves playing essentially the exact same team.
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12:00 PM - Nebraska at #19 Michigan. The Scott Frost era is off to an uninspiring start, while the Harbaugh era might be starting to wind down to an uninspiring end. No matter who wins here, somebody is going to be having buyers remorse.
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Also in this time slot: #23 Boston College at Purdue, apparently beating UMass and Wake is enough to get you in the top 25 these days. Minnesota at Maryland, I guess. Pittsburgh at North Carolina, for an ACC point. Louisville at Virginia, two teams your team might play this season.
3:30 PM - #22 Texas A&M at #1 Alabama. The Texas A&M Jimbos get to be the next team to experience being 20+ point underdogs to the Crimson Tahd. Unfortunately, the worst effects of playing Alabama these days don't seem to be the final score, it's what comes in the weeks afterwards. Here's a hint, A&M fans, try holding up "WE DON'T WANT BAMA" signs, maybe it'll work the opposite way.
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3:30 PM - #3 Clemson at Georgia Tech. Waking up in an unfamiliar stadium without its starting quarterback, Clemson football quickly realizes that something is wrong. Immobilized and with strange devices attached to its knees, a jumbotron screen flickers to life to deliver a sinister proposition.
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3:30 PM - Northern Illinois at Florida State. If you can lose to Syracuse and almost lose to Samford, you can lose to Northern Illinois. The Seminoles are on a quest to erase Virginia Tech's signature win, and everything else for that matter.
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Also in this time slot: Kansas State at #12 West Virginia, the race against Mississippi State. Kansas at Baylor, because Kansas scored 55 points and we don't understand it. Arizona at Oregon State, because we're not sure where either of these teams fit at the bottom of the FBS. South Carolina at Vanderbilt, because, well, nevermind.
4:30 PM - #17 TCU at Texas. TCU looked pretty impressive in a loss against Ohio State. If it can prevent giving up several defensive scores to Texas, the horns could be in for another long year of not being the best team in the state.
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7:00 PM #14 Mississippi State at Kentucky. Kentucky just beat Florida for the first time in 31 years, and that means it can potentially do any impossible thing. Not that beating Mississippi State in football is, in any way, impossible.
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7:00 PM - Texas Tech at #15 Oklahoma State. Legend has it that once a team scores a touchdown in this game, within 7 plays they will give up a touchdown.
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Also in this time slot: Army at #5 Oklahoma, because Oklahoma gets Penn State next week, and this is a recipe for disaster one way or another. Florida at Tennessee, because there technically has to be a winner in this game and one of them will think they earned it. Arkansas at #9 Auburn because Auburn will manage to win this game still somehow scoring only 25 points. #24 Michigan State at Indiana, the outcome of which will apparently depend on the time-and-distance proximity of rain.
8:00 PM - #7 Stanford at #20 Oregon. Stanford is in the business of being boring, and this season it seems to have expanded into making other teams boring, too. Mario Cristobal is a recent Alabama line coach, so he's probably familiar with the kind of game that is about to be played.
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8:30 PM - #18 Wisconsin at Iowa. Well, if BYU can come in and push you around, I got some bad news for you. Kirk Ferentz is BYU's final form.
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10:30 PM - Arizona State at #10 Washington. Something's going on at Arizona State, and people are having a hard time explaining it. Should the Sun Devils manage to win this one, I don't imagine that will change.
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