College Football - Week of Nov. 21st

[Andy]

Top 25 games

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Florida International at (1) Florida (12:30 pm, ESPN 360)

Chattanooga at (2) Alabama (12 pm, SEC Network - Regional)

Kansas at (3) Texas (8 pm, ABC - Regional)

(4) TCU at Wyoming (2 pm, The Mountain)

(6) Boise State at Utah State (9:30 pm Friday, ESPN2)

(8) LSU at Ole Miss (3:30 pm, CBS)

(10) Ohio State at Michigan (12 pm, ABC)

(11) Oregon at Arizona (8 pm, ABC - Regional)

Colorado at (12) Oklahoma State (7:30 pm Thursday, ESPN)

Minnesota at (13) Iowa (12 pm, ESPN)

(14) Penn State at Michigan State (3:30 pm, ABC - Regional)

NC State at (15) Virginia Tech (3:30 pm, ESPNU)

(16) Wisconsin at Northwestern (3:30 pm, BTN - Regional)

(25) California at (17) Stanford (9:30 pm, Versus)

(19) Oregon State at Washington State (5 pm)

Duke at (20) Miami (12 pm, ESPNU)

San Diego State at (21) Utah (4 pm, Versus)

Air Force at (22) BYU (3:30 pm, CBS College)

Virginia at (23) Clemson (3:30 pm, ABC – Regional)

Memphis at (24) Houston (1 pm, CSN South)

 

Games of interest

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Central Michigan at Ball State (8 pm Wednesday, ESPN2)

Maryland at Florida State (12 pm, Raycom Sports)

Louisville at South Florida (12 pm, ESPN 360)

Mississippi State at Arkansas (12 pm, SEC Network - Regional)

Oklahoma at Texas Tech (12:30 pm, FSN/CSN)

Northern Illinois at Ohio (2 pm)

Iowa State at Missouri (2 pm)

UConn at Notre Dame (2:30 pm, NBC)

Baylor at Texas A&M (3:30 pm)

Purdue at Indiana (3:30 pm, BTN - Regional)

Arizona State at UCLA (4 pm, FSN/CSN)

Louisiana Tech at Fresno State (5 pm)

Vanderbilt at Tennessee (7 pm, ESPNU)

UL Monroe at UL Lafayette (7 pm)

Kentucky at Georgia (7:45 pm, ESPN2)

 

Other nationally available games

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Buffalo at Miami (OH) (6 pm Wednesday, ESPNU)

Akron at Bowling Green (5:30 pm Friday, ESPNU)

North Carolina at Boston College (12 pm, ESPN2)

Rutgers at Syracuse (3:30 pm, ESPN 360)

Florida Atlantic at Troy (4:15 pm, ESPN 360)

Arkansas State at Middle Tennessee (4:30 pm, ESPN 360)

Tulsa at Southern Miss (7:30 pm, CBS College)

Kansas State at Nebraska (7:45 pm, ESPN)

Nevada at New Mexico State (10:30 pm, ESPNU)

 

Non I-A games of interest

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Northern Iowa at Illinois State (1 pm)

Holy Cross at Bucknell (1 pm)

Southern Illinois at Southeast Missouri State (2 pm)

UC Davis at Sacramento State (5 pm, CSN California)

 

(Note: I-AA Playoffs Selection Show will be Sunday, 7 pm on ESPNU)

 

Nationally available games outside I-A

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Tennessee State at Eastern Illinois (6:30 pm Thursday, ESPNU)

Harvard at Yale (12 pm, Versus)

Bethune-Cookman vs Florida A&M – in Orlando (2:30 pm, ESPN Classic)

Edited November 16, 2009 by Andy

[OleMissCub]

Big game between Ole Miss and LSU. Likely playing for "3rd Best in SEC" as far as the bowls are concerned.

[Guest]

UC Davis at Sacramento State (5 pm, CSN California)

 

BEAT SAC STATE.

[Butterscup1679666578]

DONT LOSE TO IOWA STATE PLZ

[ISUCubsFan]

DONT LOSE TO IOWA STATE PLZ

 

Not this.

 

This might be the worst group of games I've seen in a long time. Cal-Stanford is by far the biggest game this week.

[abuck1220]

i think missouri handles isu fairly easily. hope 6-6 is good enough for a bowl.

[ISUCubsFan]

i think missouri handles isu fairly easily. hope 6-6 is good enough for a bowl.

 

Yeah, I'm not very confident either. The line is +13 or something, and ISU hasn't had an impressive offensive performance since Baylor. 6-6 could be good enough for a Big 12 tie in though. There's 11 teams fighting for 8 spots, so they need 3 of the following to happen to be guaranteed a bowl game:

 

Kansas St losing to Nebraska (likely)

Kansas losing out (@Texas, Missouri, about a toss up)

Texas A&M losing out (Baylor, Texas, unlikely)

Baylor losing once (@A&M, Texas Tech, likely)

Oklahoma State getting a BCS bid (win out + get at large, unlikely)

North team beats Texas in the Big 12 CG (unlikely)

 

Even if 3 of those don't happen, they can either be selected over another Big 12 team for a spot, or get an at large which is still a pretty good bet for a BCS team. Beating Missouri would still be a good idea though. Too bad it won't be televised (stupid Big 12).

[CubInOK]

OU goes to Tceh (not a typo) this week. I'll be shocked if the Sooners win.

[dew1679666265]

A win over Vandy clinches bowl eligibility. We need to beat Vandy.

 

As long as Crompton plays similarly to how he has since Georgia, we should win easily. Probably ticketed for the Peach Bowl at this point.

[TruffleShuffle]

Holy Cross at Bucknell (1 pm)

 

going to this one... hoping that a win gets us a home game or at least a winnable matchup in the first round of the playoffs.

[Tracer Bullet]

please beat UCONN so we don't finish the year with 4 straight losses.

[Derwood]

Man the Big Ten sure plays lousy OOC games.

 

in other news, upset alert with Florida and Bama this week, amirite?

[bukie]

Man the Big Ten sure plays lousy OOC games.

 

in other news, upset alert with Florida and Bama this week, amirite?

Can't wait to see Illinois get murdered in a couple weeks, though.

[NewUserName]

Man the Big Ten sure plays lousy OOC games.

 

in other news, upset alert with Florida and Bama this week, amirite?

 

I think every BCS conference except the Pac 10 has room for improvement in OOC games.

[E.J.]

Final game in the 2nd disaster of a season in a row. Michigan could get bowl eligible with a win, but no chance.

[Soul]

Wisconsin at Northwestern BARNBURNER coming down the pipe.

 

Yeah, this season seems to be ending with a whimper.

 

At least there's the SEC conf. championship game to look forward to. Unless Texas decides to screw it up, it's going to be Texas vs. winner of the SEC championship game.

[Derwood]

Wisconsin at Northwestern BARNBURNER coming down the pipe.

 

Yeah, this season seems to be ending with a whimper.

 

At least there's the SEC conf. championship game to look forward to. Unless Texas decides to screw it up, it's going to be Texas vs. winner of the SEC championship game.

 

Wisconsin vs. Northwestern is probably the best Big Ten game this week (the others are OSU/UM, PSU/MSU, IU/Purdue and Iowa/Minn)

[NewUserName]

Final game in the 2nd disaster of a season in a row. Michigan could get bowl eligible with a win, but no chance.

 

I saw that Harbaugh is getting an extension at Stanford. I remember him being eliminated early in the coach search at Michigan. Was that because UM wanted a bigger name or did Harbaugh take himself out early?

[SouthSideRyan]

Man the Big Ten sure plays lousy OOC games.

 

in other news, upset alert with Florida and Bama this week, amirite?

Can't wait to see Illinois get murdered in a couple weeks, though.

 

Illinois is showing why it doesn't pay to schedule tough OOC unless you're a top team. If they went with 4 cupcakes they'd be 6-6 and going to some awful bowl game.

 

Instead they'll probably be 3-9.

[jersey cubs fan]

Big game between Ole Miss and LSU. Likely playing for "3rd Best in SEC" as far as the bowls are concerned.

 

Speaking of big games for Ole Miss:

http://deadspin.com/5405654/michael-hudec-idiot-now-idiot-tomorrow-idiot-forever

[Jon]

Go Penn State and Iowa.

[E.J.]

Final game in the 2nd disaster of a season in a row. Michigan could get bowl eligible with a win, but no chance.

 

I saw that Harbaugh is getting an extension at Stanford. I remember him being eliminated early in the coach search at Michigan. Was that because UM wanted a bigger name or did Harbaugh take himself out early?

 

Harbaugh has burned every bridge possible with Michigan. I don't think he'd ever have a chance to coach at U of M. Rich Rod is still the guy, and I'm still excited for the future. The attrition that Michigan has gone through because of the switch in systems (and Lloyd Carr's lack of recruiting his last few years) is the biggest problem for Michigan right now. They only have 72 players on scholarship when you're allowed to have 85. They're playing 2, sometimes 3, walk-ons on defense. 70% of the team is either fresh/soph. 11 of the starters are either fresh/soph, including a freshman QB. It's young and lacking depth. They'll be fine in a few years.

[Tracer Bullet]

Man the Big Ten sure plays lousy OOC games.

 

in other news, upset alert with Florida and Bama this week, amirite?

 

seriously? I hate to defend the SEC, but at least those 2 teams each had 1 legit OOC opponent. Heck, Bama started the year with Va Tech, a perennial top-25 contender. Florida ends the year with FSU, which isn't a great team, but is at least a real program. Penn State's toughest OOC opponent this year was Temple and I'm guessing when that was scheduled, they expected Temple to be closer to the 130's Saragin rankings that Eastern Illinois and Akron are than the 60 they turned out to be. And that's ignoring the number of mediocre to plain bad teams that are in the Big Ten right now.

 

And the SEC teams know they have to go through the SEC championship, which tubes the title hopes of the loser, in all likelihood. This year with so many teams likely to finish the year unbeaten, don't you think Urban and Saban are both secreting cursing the fact that there is an SEC title game? If you're going to have a 1-2 matchup, wouldn't you rather have it be for the title rather than just the SEC title?

[Tracer Bullet]

Final game in the 2nd disaster of a season in a row. Michigan could get bowl eligible with a win, but no chance.

 

I saw that Harbaugh is getting an extension at Stanford. I remember him being eliminated early in the coach search at Michigan. Was that because UM wanted a bigger name or did Harbaugh take himself out early?

 

Harbaugh has burned every bridge possible with Michigan. I don't think he'd ever have a chance to coach at U of M. Rich Rod is still the guy, and I'm still excited for the future. The attrition that Michigan has gone through because of the switch in systems (and Lloyd Carr's lack of recruiting his last few years) is the biggest problem for Michigan right now. They only have 72 players on scholarship when you're allowed to have 85. They're playing 2, sometimes 3, walk-ons on defense. 70% of the team is either fresh/soph. 11 of the starters are either fresh/soph, including a freshman QB. It's young and lacking depth. They'll be fine in a few years.

 

Scout's recruiting ranking for UM '03-'08: 8, 5, 2, 9, 10, 6. And that's with 20-23 guys each year. Unlike some schools in the South, this rankings aren't based on having 32-33 guys, knowing that 5-7 aren't going to make it. Carr left Dick Rod with some quality players, including the #2 overall QB in the '07 class. The players just didn't fit the spread offense.

[Andy]

A source says Bob Stoops "would be interested in talking to the Irish".