College Football - Week of Nov. 28th

[Andy]

Top 25 games

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Florida State at (1) Florida (3:30 pm, CBS)

(2) Alabama at Auburn (2:30 pm Friday, CBS)

(3) Texas at Texas A&M (8 pm Thursday, ESPN)

New Mexico at (4) TCU (1 pm, The Mountain)

Illinois at (5) Cincinnati (12 pm Friday, ABC)

Nevada at (6) Boise State (10:15 pm Friday, ESPN2)

Georgia at (7) Georgia Tech (8 pm, ABC - Regional)

(9) Pittsburgh at West Virginia (7 pm Friday, ESPN2)

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

(14) Virginia Tech at Virginia (3:30 pm, ESPN)

Arkansas at (15) LSU (7 pm, ESPN)

(17) Miami at South Florida (3:30 pm, ABC - Regional)

(18) Clemson at South Carolina (12 pm, ESPN)

(21) Utah at (19) BYU (5 pm, CBS College)

UCLA at (20) USC (10:15 pm, FSN/CSN)

Rice at (23) Houston (12 pm, CSN South)

(24) North Carolina at NC State (12 pm, ESPN2)

(25) Ole Miss at Mississippi State (12 pm, SEC Network)

 

Games of interest

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Ball State at Western Michigan (7 pm Tuesday, ESPN2)

Rutgers at Louisville (11 am Friday, ESPN2)

Northern Illinois at Central Michigan (2 pm Friday, ESPN 360)

Wake Forest at Duke (12 pm, Raycom Sports)

Kansas vs Missouri – in Kansas City (3:30 pm, ABC – Regional)

Middle Tennessee at UL Monroe (4 pm, CSN South)

Texas Tech vs Baylor – in Arlington, TX (6 pm, FSN/CSN)

Tennessee at Kentucky (7 pm, ESPNU)

Notre Dame at Stanford (8 pm, ABC - Regional)

 

Other nationally available games

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Temple at Ohio (11 am Friday, ESPNU)

Memphis at Tulsa (3:30 pm Friday, CBS College)

Nebraska at Colorado (3:30 pm Friday, ABC)

Syracuse at UConn (12 pm, ESPN 360)

Southern Miss at East Carolina (1:30 pm, CBS College)

Boston College at Maryland (3:30 pm, ESPNU)

Arizona at Arizona State (3:30 pm, ABC – Regional)

Utah State at Idaho (5 pm, ESPN 360)

New Mexico State at San Jose State (8 pm, ESPN 360)

Navy at Hawaii (10:30 pm, ESPNU)

 

I-AA playoff games of interest

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Holy Cross at Villanova (12 pm)

Eastern Illinois at Southern Illinois (2 pm)

 

Nationally available games outside I-A

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Tuskegee at Alabama State (4 pm Thursday, ESPNU)

South Carolina State at Appalachian State - I-AA playoffs (12 pm, ESPNU)

Grambling vs Southern – in New Orleans (2 pm, NBC)

Edited November 25, 2009 by Andy

[Andy]

I will fill in the FCS playoff info when it becomes available.

[Butterscup1679666578]

kill Kansas, finish the year with 8 wins, and definitely keep kansas out of a bowl game.

[TruffleShuffle]

fwiw, here's the college football news bowl projections:

 

New Mexico Bowl

Projection: UCLA vs. Fresno State

 

St. Petersburg Bowl

Projection: South Florida vs. UCF (terrible)

 

R&L Carriers New Orleans Bowl

Projection: Marshall vs. Troy (nobody cares)

 

MAACO Las Vegas Bowl

Projection: BYU vs. Stanford (good game)

 

San Diego County Credit Union Poinsettia Bowl

Projection: Utah vs. Arizona (not a bad game)

 

Sheraton Hawaii Bowl

Projection: Southern Miss vs. Nevada

 

Emerald Bowl

Projection: Florida State vs. California

 

Meineke Car Care Bowl

Projection: Miami vs. West Virginia

 

Little Caesars Pizza Bowl

Projection: Notre Dame vs. Central Michigan (lol)

 

Gaylord Hotels Music City Bowl

Projection: Boston College vs. Tennessee

 

Independence Bowl

Projection: Iowa State vs. Arkansas (mismatch)

 

Champs Sports Bowl

Projection: North Carolina vs. Northwestern

 

EagleBank Bowl

Projection: Northern Illinois* vs. East Carolina (zzzzz)

 

Pacific Life Holiday Bowl

Projection: Nebraska vs. USC

 

Roady's Humanitarian Bowl

Projection: Wyoming vs. Idaho (awful)

 

Texas Bowl

Projection: Oklahoma vs. Navy (oh no)

 

Bell Helicopters Armed Forces Bowl

Projection: Air Force vs. SMU

 

Brut Sun Bowl

Projection: Oregon State vs. Missouri

 

Insight Bowl

Projection: Minnesota vs. Texas A&M

 

Chick-fil-A Bowl

Projection: Clemson vs. Georgia

 

Outback Bowl

Projection: Wisconsin vs. Kentucky (pretty bad outback bowl)

 

Capital One Bowl

Projection: Penn State vs. Ole Miss

 

Konica Minolta Gator Bowl

Projection: Virginia Tech vs. Cincinnati

 

AutoZone Liberty Bowl

Projection: Houston vs. South Carolina

 

International Bowl

Projection: Connecticut vs. Ohio

 

AT&T Cotton Bowl

Projection: Oklahoma State vs. LSU

 

Papajohns.com Bowl

Projection: Rutgers vs. Auburn (haha)

 

Valero Alamo Bowl

Projection: Michigan State vs. Texas Tech

 

GMAC Bowl

Projection: Middle Tennessee vs. Temple (good luck selling tickets to this one)

 

Rose Bowl presented by Citi

Projection: Ohio State vs. Oregon

 

Allstate Sugar Bowl

Projection: Alabama vs. Pitt

 

Tostitos Fiesta Bowl

Projection: Boise State vs. Iowa

 

FedEx Orange Bowl

Projection: Georgia Tech vs. TCU (fun game)

 

Citi BCS National Championship

Projection: Florida vs. Texas

[hawkeyecub]

Go Oklahoma. Wouldn't be against West Virginia, Nevada and Illinois winning either.

[Keener98]

Go Oklahoma. Wouldn't be against West Virginia, Nevada and Illinois winning either.

 

Illinois isn't winning. I wish, but its not happening.

[TruffleShuffle]

Go Oklahoma. Wouldn't be against West Virginia, Nevada and Illinois winning either.

 

i really don't think oklahoma st matters. they have 2 losses in a mediocre conference and don't even sell out their own 60,000 seat stadium. iowa and penn st are clearly better options.

[Andy]

Go Oklahoma. Wouldn't be against West Virginia, Nevada and Illinois winning either.

 

i really don't think oklahoma st matters. they have 2 losses in a mediocre conference and don't even sell out their own 60,000 seat stadium. iowa and penn st are clearly better options.

Deserving or not, I think Penn State gets selected over Iowa for an at-large bid.

[bukie]

I imagine when Illinois scheduled this game, they anticipated a warmup for a bowl game. Just not Cincy's warmup.

[Andy]

I really hope ND would turn down a freaking Pizza Bowl invite. The only exception would be if we hired a coach quickly and he wanted to coach the bowl game - then maybe I could see it to help get the players acclimated.

[Butterscup1679666578]

notre dame isnt going to turn down a bowl game

[Andy]

notre dame isnt going to turn down a bowl game

They probably won't, but they should.

[Jon]

notre dame isnt going to turn down a bowl game

They probably won't, but they should.

Forfeit 3 weeks of valuable practice time just to "save face"?

[Transmogrified Tiger]

notre dame isnt going to turn down a bowl game

They probably won't, but they should.

 

No, they really shouldn't. You don't get offered a month of practice to help develop players and just say "no thanks".

[TruffleShuffle]

notre dame isnt going to turn down a bowl game

They probably won't, but they should.

 

No, they really shouldn't. You don't get offered a month of practice to help develop players and just say "no thanks".

 

not to mention the money that the school gets from the bowl game can go to other athletic programs, and you'd be turning down a bowl in the midwest that your fans could very easily go to. plus they'd be filling up a stadium in a region where the economy is in the toilet. but by all means, turn it down because it's "below notre dame football" to play in that bowl.

[Transmogrified Tiger]

As for Mizzou, getting to 8 wins(which was pretty much the goal heading into the season) and ending kU's season would be great. Oklahoma State winning to give Mizzou an outside shot at the Alamo Bowl wouldn't be terrible either.

[hawkeyecub]

Go Oklahoma. Wouldn't be against West Virginia, Nevada and Illinois winning either.

 

i really don't think oklahoma st matters. they have 2 losses in a mediocre conference and don't even sell out their own 60,000 seat stadium. iowa and penn st are clearly better options.

 

I agree for the most part but the only thing that concerns me is if the Fiesta Bowl wants to keep their Big 12 tie. It's three 10-2 teams that will be ranked between 9-13 in the BCS. If they want to keep the Big 12 happy for whatever reason...

 

The good news is that they can probably get Okie State with their second pick. If they want Iowa or PSU, they'll have to take them with their first pick or else the Orange will snatch them up.

[SouthSideRyan]

notre dame isnt going to turn down a bowl game

They probably won't, but they should.

 

No, they really shouldn't. You don't get offered a month of practice to help develop players and just say "no thanks".

 

not to mention the money that the school gets from the bowl game can go to other athletic programs, and you'd be turning down a bowl in the midwest that your fans could very easily go to. plus they'd be filling up a stadium in a region where the economy is in the toilet. but by all means, turn it down because it's "below notre dame football" to play in that bowl.

 

Plus giving the departing seniors to go out with a win (in front of mostly their own fans)

 

I didn't agree with it when they turned down a bowl in Holtz's last year, and I don't agree with it now.

[Tracer Bullet]

Go Oklahoma. Wouldn't be against West Virginia, Nevada and Illinois winning either.

 

i really don't think oklahoma st matters. they have 2 losses in a mediocre conference and don't even sell out their own 60,000 seat stadium. iowa and penn st are clearly better options.

Deserving or not, I think Penn State gets selected over Iowa for an at-large bid.

 

on what basis? Iowa is ahead of them in the BCS standings (and isn't likely to be jumped since they're both done), won the H2H matchup, has more quality wins (both AZ and Wisconsin are better than any non-Iowa, non-OSU team PSU played, which is to say, Iowa has at least 3 quality wins to PSU's 0), and has fans that travel in droves (as does PSU, but this is a neutral factor, at best, for PSU).

 

So again, on what possible basis?

[hawkeyecub]

Go Oklahoma. Wouldn't be against West Virginia, Nevada and Illinois winning either.

 

i really don't think oklahoma st matters. they have 2 losses in a mediocre conference and don't even sell out their own 60,000 seat stadium. iowa and penn st are clearly better options.

Deserving or not, I think Penn State gets selected over Iowa for an at-large bid.

 

on what basis? Iowa is ahead of them in the BCS standings (and isn't likely to be jumped since they're both done), won the H2H matchup, has more quality wins (both AZ and Wisconsin are better than any non-Iowa, non-OSU team PSU played, which is to say, Iowa has at least 3 quality wins to PSU's 0), and has fans that travel in droves (as does PSU, but this is a neutral factor, at best, for PSU).

 

So again, on what possible basis?

 

He said "deserving or not".

 

Head to head, quality wins, etc. is pretty irrelevant in this discussion. Good news is that PSU won't travel more than Iowa. However there's the perception that PSU would deliver higher tv ratings than Iowa. You can debate how true that is or even how important that is, but it's not outlandish.

[Andy]

Go Oklahoma. Wouldn't be against West Virginia, Nevada and Illinois winning either.

 

i really don't think oklahoma st matters. they have 2 losses in a mediocre conference and don't even sell out their own 60,000 seat stadium. iowa and penn st are clearly better options.

Deserving or not, I think Penn State gets selected over Iowa for an at-large bid.

 

on what basis? Iowa is ahead of them in the BCS standings (and isn't likely to be jumped since they're both done), won the H2H matchup, has more quality wins (both AZ and Wisconsin are better than any non-Iowa, non-OSU team PSU played, which is to say, Iowa has at least 3 quality wins to PSU's 0), and has fans that travel in droves (as does PSU, but this is a neutral factor, at best, for PSU).

 

So again, on what possible basis?

I wasn't aware Iowa had a well-traveling fan base. In that case I withdraw the comment.

 

And I don't care THAT much about declining a bowl bid, so I won't argue the point. I would just hate to see the national response after Central Michigan cleaned our clocks in the bowl game (and with LeFevour, they probably would).

[cubsfan]

notre dame isnt going to turn down a bowl game

They probably won't, but they should.

 

No, they really shouldn't. You don't get offered a month of practice to help develop players and just say "no thanks".

not to mention the money that the school gets from the bowl game can go to other athletic programs, and you'd be turning down a bowl in the midwest that your fans could very easily go to. plus they'd be filling up a stadium in a region where the economy is in the toilet. but by all means, turn it down because it's "below notre dame football" to play in that bowl.

 

Notre Dame would probably lose money accepting a bid to that game.

[Butterscup1679666578]

As for Mizzou, getting to 8 wins(which was pretty much the goal heading into the season) and ending kU's season would be great. Oklahoma State winning to give Mizzou an outside shot at the Alamo Bowl wouldn't be terrible either.

 

Alamo would be great, but part of me really really wants an opportunity to go up against USC in the Sun Bowl. Probably because I'm a masochist.

 

I'm not really picky, but I definitely don't want the Insight Bowl since it's the only one not on real TV.

[Guest]

fwiw, here's the college football news bowl projections:

 

New Mexico Bowl

Projection: UCLA vs. Fresno State

 

I'd love that. Right now, UCLA is on the outside looking in with the Pac-10 bowl tie-ins but they are bowl-eligible.

[snoodmonger]

kill Kansas, finish the year with 8 wins, and definitely keep kansas out of a bowl game.

 

 

ugh. what a [expletive] disaster of a year. If we win, we still dont deserve a bowl.