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Week 5 starts fast and ends with a bang, puts nothing in your target window except our game at noon, and then follows up with a can't-miss slate of afternoon and evening games, making this the advanced anti-aircraft missile of college football weeks. What's in the aircraft, you say? My liver.
Thursday, September 29
8:00 PM - Connecticut at Houston. Another American conference Thursday game on a short week for Houston. The last one was a near miss, and UConn is forcing everyone on their schedule to play weird close games no matter who they are, so look for this one to be a sloppy, hard fought, close game, even though these two probably don't belong on the same field this season and the spread is 29. #WhatsWrongWithHouston
8:30 PM - Kansas at Texas Tech. Oh hell. The #3 scoring offense in the land vs fbs, averaging 57 points per game is coming down to the #106 scoring defense. Kansas just surrendered 44 points to Memphis, a game after giving up 37 to Ohio. Right now the spread is only Texas Tech -28, which is the suckerest sucker bet I will have ever taken.
Friday, September 30
9:00 PM - A top 10 Pac 12 battle between McCaffrey U and Washington for what is, in all likelihood, a playoff spot. Why would they play this on a Friday? This is the time slot for games like Toledo at BYU at 10:15 PM which, wait. That's going to be a good one too, what with undefeated Toledo's high powered offense and the average margin in BYU games this season coming in under 3 points. What is going on around here?
Saturday, October 1
12:00 PM - Notre Dame vs Syracuse. Time to find out, using the scientific method, whether Syracuse is as good as Duke and also whether Brian Van Gorder is not as good as Greg hudson and also maybe whether or not Brian Kelly will be the lastest mid-season coaching casualty. And by scientific method I do mean the one where we just slam things into eachother in the hopes that they will break, revealing their inner workings.
12:00 PM - Texas at Oklahoma State. Call this one the 'officially eliminated from Big 12 contention' bowl. It's also possible that we could have one of Gundy or Strong packing their office after this one, so, bonus.
12:00 PM - Miami at Georgia Tech. We ded.
12:30 PM - Virginia at Duke. Wherein the thing that you think is least likely to happen does happen. So UVA wins in a 77-75 6OT shootout.
Also in this time slot - Baylor at Iowa State, Florida at Vanderbilt, Rutgers at Ohio State, Northwestern at Iowa, all of which could be in some varying state of closeness depending upon the time, but none of which will provide anyone with actual joy upon watching.
3:30 PM - Navy at Air Force. Fun fact, Navy wins this 20-11, but air force retains the trophy at the end of the year when they beat Army 13-3 but Army ends up beating Navy 31-24. Need proof? (http://cfbhc.com/wiki/index.php?title=Commander-in-Chief's_Trophy) As an aside, I can reasonably conclude that time travel is invented sometime between September and November of 2019, and that the technology is, surprisingly, a complete waste of time. Wild!
3:30 PM - Tennessee at Georgia. Second half Josh Dobbs from the UF game would be a nightmare for UGA, if he shows up, but on the whole this will be a much closer game than Ole Miss was. Tennessee is not consistent enough on offense to make any real forecasts, although they should be able to get some things done on the defensive line and mess up Eason a bit. Not much is known about whether / how Chubb will return from his ankle injury, but UGA will still have some success moving the ball both on the ground and in the air and will score some points. Unfortunately for you intrepid viewers, luck will be a factor in this game, which means UGA has a very real shot. The line is Tennessee by about 3.5 right now, and I wouldn't touch it either way.
3:30 PM - North Carolina at Florida State. Dalvin Cook reprised his role as the almost-three-hundred yard rusher against USF from last year, and now North Carolina comes to town looking to prove that it's better on both sides of the ball than USF. That's no small task, apparently, because USF looks ridiculously good this year. Weirdly, Vegas is giving FSU twice as many points against UNC as they did against USF. Sad ACC.
3:30 PM - Wake Forest at NC State. Wake Forest is um, undefeated. With a win over a Duke team that just beat Notre Dame. If Wake goes to 5-0, does Dave Clawson get hired immediately by LSU? That sort of seems like something they'd do. It also seems more likely than Wake Forest cracking the top 25.
3:30 PM - Wisconsin at Michigan. The biggest of the tens so far this year, and a real opportunity for Team Chaos. At this point, though, I'm convinced that Wisconsin is the most overrated team in the nation that is not in the SEC, so Michigan is about to go to town. A win here by Michigan would just elevate the already enormous pressure it seems like there will be on Ohio State's current #3 ranking, which is based on just beating a team that Houston also beat. Seriously, one of Clemson or Louisville has got to move up, Michigan or Wisconsin up, Stanford or Washington up, how do you keep Ohio State from flying out of the top 5?
Also in this time slot - Kansas State at West Virginia, Minnesota at Penn State, Illinois at Nebraska, Purdue at Maryland, and ULM at Auburn. I guess also Oregon State at Colorado, who is suddenly good. I guess also technically Texas A&M at South Carolina, for the lulz. The afternoon games time slot has quality AND depth, I tell ya what.
5:00 PM - Oklahoma at TCU. Oklahoma is still a team with a bunch of good players on its annual quest to prove that it was only overrated by about 20 spots in the pre-season. Knocking off a top 25 team on the way to an undefeated-in-conference run would be a great start. Coming off a bye week is also to their advantage, even though this matchup favors them slightly on paper. Well, on my paper, anyway. I don't trust the TCU secondary against Baker Mayfield, and TCU doesn't have the DL that Ohio State does. If TCU manages to win, it'll be in a shootout.
6:00 PM - Utah at California. California wins. This has nothing to do with Utah. Going back to November 7 of last year, California is on an 8 game regular season alternating win/loss streak, the longest such streak in the nation. (I have no idea if that's true, but nobody is going to check.)
6:00 PM - Memphis at Ole Miss. This Memphis team is looking pretty lethal right now, peaking right as they run into an Ole Miss team that everyone expects to beat them but has had some trouble this season. With their second-half meltdown ghost exorcised, will this Ole Miss team play like the playoff also-rans we all secretly know they are, or will they lose two in a row to an always-entertaining Memphis team that through three games looks even better than last year? Seriously, don't miss this one, it's going to be thrilling. The Memphis QB is unbelievably good and their defense is on point.
7:00 PM - South Florida at Cincinnati. Both of these teams are actually really good, despite losses to some powerhouse programs. Vegas hasn't even opened a line on this game yet, probably because it's a very difficult matchup to figure out, and it should be a competitive, interesting game.
7:30 PM - Marshall at Pittsburgh. Marshall gets a second shot at the ACC with a team a little less likely to win the playoff than Louisville. Pittsburgh does not have a Lamar Jackson, nor does it seem to have quite as solid a defense as Petrino's squad, and Marshall is still a good football team. Lest ye scoff, the line is currently Pitt -1. This will be a dogfight.
7:30 PM - Missouri at LSU. Wherein every LSU fan says "why isn't that OUR quarterback?" as the Mizzou QB throws for 891.65 yards. And then LSU loses by 4 points in a game that will be under 38 total.
8:00 PM - Louisville at Clemson. This one is going to be hashed to death in the coming days, and it's by far the game of the week, and probably the most important game of the year so far, with Clemson somehow a slight favorite right now at -2. That doesn't make any sense to me. The Clemson defense is good, but the offense is not really that good, and the Louisville defense is adequate. Clemson isn't going to score 30 points in this game, and Lamar Jackson doesn't seem to respond to attempts at defense, so this sort of seems like a no brainer. My only question is: will they call it Clemsoning? Probably not, unless we get a remix of the FSU game. Well, that preview was a downer. It'll still be fun to watch, either way.
8:30 PM to when you fall asleep - Arizona State at USC, Oregon at Washington State, Arizona at UCLA, all of which should be surprisingly competitive, yet completely unimpactful in terms of national relevance.
Anything I've missed? Hopefully not. I used an expensive advanced homing weapon.
Thursday, September 29
8:00 PM - Connecticut at Houston. Another American conference Thursday game on a short week for Houston. The last one was a near miss, and UConn is forcing everyone on their schedule to play weird close games no matter who they are, so look for this one to be a sloppy, hard fought, close game, even though these two probably don't belong on the same field this season and the spread is 29. #WhatsWrongWithHouston
8:30 PM - Kansas at Texas Tech. Oh hell. The #3 scoring offense in the land vs fbs, averaging 57 points per game is coming down to the #106 scoring defense. Kansas just surrendered 44 points to Memphis, a game after giving up 37 to Ohio. Right now the spread is only Texas Tech -28, which is the suckerest sucker bet I will have ever taken.
Friday, September 30
9:00 PM - A top 10 Pac 12 battle between McCaffrey U and Washington for what is, in all likelihood, a playoff spot. Why would they play this on a Friday? This is the time slot for games like Toledo at BYU at 10:15 PM which, wait. That's going to be a good one too, what with undefeated Toledo's high powered offense and the average margin in BYU games this season coming in under 3 points. What is going on around here?
Saturday, October 1
12:00 PM - Notre Dame vs Syracuse. Time to find out, using the scientific method, whether Syracuse is as good as Duke and also whether Brian Van Gorder is not as good as Greg hudson and also maybe whether or not Brian Kelly will be the lastest mid-season coaching casualty. And by scientific method I do mean the one where we just slam things into eachother in the hopes that they will break, revealing their inner workings.
12:00 PM - Texas at Oklahoma State. Call this one the 'officially eliminated from Big 12 contention' bowl. It's also possible that we could have one of Gundy or Strong packing their office after this one, so, bonus.
12:00 PM - Miami at Georgia Tech. We ded.
12:30 PM - Virginia at Duke. Wherein the thing that you think is least likely to happen does happen. So UVA wins in a 77-75 6OT shootout.
Also in this time slot - Baylor at Iowa State, Florida at Vanderbilt, Rutgers at Ohio State, Northwestern at Iowa, all of which could be in some varying state of closeness depending upon the time, but none of which will provide anyone with actual joy upon watching.
3:30 PM - Navy at Air Force. Fun fact, Navy wins this 20-11, but air force retains the trophy at the end of the year when they beat Army 13-3 but Army ends up beating Navy 31-24. Need proof? (http://cfbhc.com/wiki/index.php?title=Commander-in-Chief's_Trophy) As an aside, I can reasonably conclude that time travel is invented sometime between September and November of 2019, and that the technology is, surprisingly, a complete waste of time. Wild!
3:30 PM - Tennessee at Georgia. Second half Josh Dobbs from the UF game would be a nightmare for UGA, if he shows up, but on the whole this will be a much closer game than Ole Miss was. Tennessee is not consistent enough on offense to make any real forecasts, although they should be able to get some things done on the defensive line and mess up Eason a bit. Not much is known about whether / how Chubb will return from his ankle injury, but UGA will still have some success moving the ball both on the ground and in the air and will score some points. Unfortunately for you intrepid viewers, luck will be a factor in this game, which means UGA has a very real shot. The line is Tennessee by about 3.5 right now, and I wouldn't touch it either way.
3:30 PM - North Carolina at Florida State. Dalvin Cook reprised his role as the almost-three-hundred yard rusher against USF from last year, and now North Carolina comes to town looking to prove that it's better on both sides of the ball than USF. That's no small task, apparently, because USF looks ridiculously good this year. Weirdly, Vegas is giving FSU twice as many points against UNC as they did against USF. Sad ACC.
3:30 PM - Wake Forest at NC State. Wake Forest is um, undefeated. With a win over a Duke team that just beat Notre Dame. If Wake goes to 5-0, does Dave Clawson get hired immediately by LSU? That sort of seems like something they'd do. It also seems more likely than Wake Forest cracking the top 25.
3:30 PM - Wisconsin at Michigan. The biggest of the tens so far this year, and a real opportunity for Team Chaos. At this point, though, I'm convinced that Wisconsin is the most overrated team in the nation that is not in the SEC, so Michigan is about to go to town. A win here by Michigan would just elevate the already enormous pressure it seems like there will be on Ohio State's current #3 ranking, which is based on just beating a team that Houston also beat. Seriously, one of Clemson or Louisville has got to move up, Michigan or Wisconsin up, Stanford or Washington up, how do you keep Ohio State from flying out of the top 5?
Also in this time slot - Kansas State at West Virginia, Minnesota at Penn State, Illinois at Nebraska, Purdue at Maryland, and ULM at Auburn. I guess also Oregon State at Colorado, who is suddenly good. I guess also technically Texas A&M at South Carolina, for the lulz. The afternoon games time slot has quality AND depth, I tell ya what.
5:00 PM - Oklahoma at TCU. Oklahoma is still a team with a bunch of good players on its annual quest to prove that it was only overrated by about 20 spots in the pre-season. Knocking off a top 25 team on the way to an undefeated-in-conference run would be a great start. Coming off a bye week is also to their advantage, even though this matchup favors them slightly on paper. Well, on my paper, anyway. I don't trust the TCU secondary against Baker Mayfield, and TCU doesn't have the DL that Ohio State does. If TCU manages to win, it'll be in a shootout.
6:00 PM - Utah at California. California wins. This has nothing to do with Utah. Going back to November 7 of last year, California is on an 8 game regular season alternating win/loss streak, the longest such streak in the nation. (I have no idea if that's true, but nobody is going to check.)
6:00 PM - Memphis at Ole Miss. This Memphis team is looking pretty lethal right now, peaking right as they run into an Ole Miss team that everyone expects to beat them but has had some trouble this season. With their second-half meltdown ghost exorcised, will this Ole Miss team play like the playoff also-rans we all secretly know they are, or will they lose two in a row to an always-entertaining Memphis team that through three games looks even better than last year? Seriously, don't miss this one, it's going to be thrilling. The Memphis QB is unbelievably good and their defense is on point.
7:00 PM - South Florida at Cincinnati. Both of these teams are actually really good, despite losses to some powerhouse programs. Vegas hasn't even opened a line on this game yet, probably because it's a very difficult matchup to figure out, and it should be a competitive, interesting game.
7:30 PM - Marshall at Pittsburgh. Marshall gets a second shot at the ACC with a team a little less likely to win the playoff than Louisville. Pittsburgh does not have a Lamar Jackson, nor does it seem to have quite as solid a defense as Petrino's squad, and Marshall is still a good football team. Lest ye scoff, the line is currently Pitt -1. This will be a dogfight.
7:30 PM - Missouri at LSU. Wherein every LSU fan says "why isn't that OUR quarterback?" as the Mizzou QB throws for 891.65 yards. And then LSU loses by 4 points in a game that will be under 38 total.
8:00 PM - Louisville at Clemson. This one is going to be hashed to death in the coming days, and it's by far the game of the week, and probably the most important game of the year so far, with Clemson somehow a slight favorite right now at -2. That doesn't make any sense to me. The Clemson defense is good, but the offense is not really that good, and the Louisville defense is adequate. Clemson isn't going to score 30 points in this game, and Lamar Jackson doesn't seem to respond to attempts at defense, so this sort of seems like a no brainer. My only question is: will they call it Clemsoning? Probably not, unless we get a remix of the FSU game. Well, that preview was a downer. It'll still be fun to watch, either way.
8:30 PM to when you fall asleep - Arizona State at USC, Oregon at Washington State, Arizona at UCLA, all of which should be surprisingly competitive, yet completely unimpactful in terms of national relevance.
Anything I've missed? Hopefully not. I used an expensive advanced homing weapon.
