College Football - Week 2 (Sept. 11th)

[Andy]

Top 25 games

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(18) Penn State at (1) Alabama (7 pm, ESPN)

(12) Miami at (2) Ohio State (3:30 pm, ESPN)

Tennessee Tech at (4) TCU (7 pm)

Wyoming at (5) Texas (7 pm, FSN/CSN)

Idaho at (6) Nebraska (12 pm)

(7) Oregon at Tennessee (7 pm, ESPN2)

South Florida at (8) Florida (12 pm, SEC Network)

Iowa State at (9) Iowa (3:30 pm, ABC – Regional)

(17) Florida State at (10) Oklahoma (3:30 pm, ABC - Regional)

San Jose State at (11) Wisconsin (12 pm, ESPN)

James Madison at (13) Virginia Tech (1:30 pm, ESPN3)

(14) Arkansas vs UL Monroe – in Little Rock, AR (7 pm, ESPN3)

(15) Georgia Tech at Kansas (12 pm, FSN/CSN)

Virginia at (16) USC (10:30 pm, FSN/CSN)

(19) LSU at Vanderbilt (7 pm, ESPNU)

UNLV at (20) Utah (4 pm, The Mountain)

(21) Auburn at Mississippi State (7:30 pm Thursday, ESPN)

(22) Georgia at (24) South Carolina (12 pm, ESPN2)

(23) West Virginia at Marshall (7 pm Friday, ESPN)

(25) Stanford at UCLA (10:30 pm, ESPN)

 

Games of interest

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South Dakota at Minnesota (12 pm, BTN - Regional)

Western Illinois at Purdue (12 pm, BTN – Regional)

Illinois State at Northwestern (12 pm, BTN - Regional)

Florida Atlantic vs Michigan State – in Detroit (12 pm, ESPNU)

Duke at Wake Forest (12 pm, ESPN3)

Michigan at Notre Dame (3:30 pm, NBC)

Eastern Kentucky at Louisville (3:30 pm, ESPN3)

Liberty at Ball State (7 pm)

North Dakota at Northern Illinois (7 pm)

Nicholls State at Western Michigan (7 pm)

McNeese State at Missouri (7 pm)

Louisiana Tech at Texas A&M (7 pm)

Buffalo at Baylor (7 pm, FCS Central)

Southern Illinois at Illinois (7:30 pm, BTN)

Western Kentucky at Kentucky (7:30 pm, ESPN3)

Ole Miss at Tulane (9 pm, ESPN Classic)*

 

* will be on ESPN2 following conclusion of Oregon-Tennessee

 

Other nationally available games

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On TV

Central Michigan at Temple (7 pm Thursday, ESPNU)

 

UTEP at Houston (10 pm Friday, ESPN)

 

Hawaii at Army (12 pm, CBS College)

Colorado at California (3:30 pm, FSN/CSN)

Georgia Southern at Navy (3:30 pm, CBS College)

Kent State at Boston College (3:30 pm, ESPNU)

BYU at Air Force (4 pm, Versus)

NC State at Central Florida (7:30 pm, CBS College)

Colorado State at Nevada (10:30 pm, ESPNU)

 

ESPN3 games

Texas Southern at UConn (12 pm)

Indiana State at Cincinnati (12 pm)

New Hampshire at Pittsburgh (1 pm)

Eastern Michigan at Miami (OH) (2 pm)

Arkansas State at UL Lafayette (3:30 pm)

Presbyterian at Clemson (3:30 pm)

Morgan State at Maryland (6 pm)

Rutgers at Florida International (8 pm)

San Diego State at New Mexico State (8 pm)

 

I-AA games of interest

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Holy Cross at UMass (6 pm)

North Dakota State at Northern Iowa (7:30 pm)

Portland State at UC Davis (9 pm)

 

Nationally available games outside I-A

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Arkansas Tech at Delta State (8 pm Thursday, CBS College)

 

Georgetown at Lafayette (6 pm, ESPN3)

Edited September 7, 2010 by Andy

[Flames24Rulz]

Champaign bound this weekend. It's going to be odd rooting against Illinois, but I'm expecting us to give them a game and then some. Sagarin has Illinois ranked 87th and SIU 88th. It's a winnable game (especially with the Illinois defense being banged up) but the lack of depth is probably going to end up costing us at the end.

 

On that same note, I'll never understand it why I-A teams schedule the better I-AA teams in the country.

[jame.gumb]

One Wyoming Player Dead, Three Injured In Crash

 

http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5iGjWbUwK0ucaGjceieqoYlLzwkGwD9I2Q4CG0

[Guest]

QB Brett Hundley committed to UCLA yesterday - probably the only good thing that will happen to UCLA football this month.

[Ding Dong Johnson]

Iowa State sports a 14 quarter streak of no TD's against Iowa going back to 2006. I'd like to see it reach 18.

[Butterscup1679666578]

McNeese State gave up 426 yards passing to Lamar University last week, who was playing their first football game in 21 years.

 

Blaine Gabbert and the backups should have a nice stat-padding day.

[Jon]

QB Brett Hundley committed to UCLA yesterday - probably the only good thing that will happen to UCLA football this month.

Feel free to beat Stanford this Saturday.

[Guest]

Wish I could be there to chant "McNeese is not a State" at them. Wait, I can just do that next week against San Diego State.

 

Looking forward to watching more than a few hours of games this weekend.

[Derwood]

does Boise St have a bye-week already? or did last night's game count as this week?

[Soul]

Champaign bound this weekend. It's going to be odd rooting against Illinois, but I'm expecting us to give them a game and then some. Sagarin has Illinois ranked 87th and SIU 88th. It's a winnable game (especially with the Illinois defense being banged up) but the lack of depth is probably going to end up costing us at the end.

 

On that same note, I'll never understand it why I-A teams schedule the better I-AA teams in the country.

 

They CAN'T lose this weeked to SIU. Not after coming so close against Mizzou, and not to start off the year 0-2 before even starting their conference schedule. They need to figure it out and just get the damn job done.

[SouthSideRyan]

Wish I could be there to chant "McNeese is not a State" at them. Wait, I can just do that next week against San Diego State.

 

Looking forward to watching more than a few hours of games this weekend.

 

That's an awkwardly metered(does that make sense?) chant

[SouthSideRyan]

Oh and Illinois is not going to lose to SIU. They'll probably win by 3 TDs

[Old Style]

Yay! Another Texas A&M game not available for viewing anywhere other than the stadium. I am really beginning to hate our AD.

[SpongeWorthy]

So there's no prime time ABC game this week?

 

Pretty dumb not to put the Miami @ OSU game at 8 EST on ABC, IMO. The Shoe is awesome at night plus there's already a glut of great games at 3:30 EST.

[Guest]

One Wyoming Player Dead, Three Injured In Crash

 

http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5iGjWbUwK0ucaGjceieqoYlLzwkGwD9I2Q4CG0

Geez. I was going to post that I feel sorry for them having to play Texas and Boise in back to back weeks. This is terrible.

[CubColtPacer]

So there's no prime time ABC game this week?

 

Pretty dumb not to put the Miami @ OSU game at 8 EST on ABC, IMO. The Shoe is awesome at night plus there's already a glut of great games at 3:30 EST.

 

ABC has a contract to show the NASCAR race that night which is why there is no prime time game.

[jersey cubs fan]

So there's no prime time ABC game this week?

 

Pretty dumb not to put the Miami @ OSU game at 8 EST on ABC, IMO. The Shoe is awesome at night plus there's already a glut of great games at 3:30 EST.

 

ABC has a contract to show the NASCAR race that night which is why there is no prime time game.

 

Makes it all the more dumb.

[Guest]

So there's no prime time ABC game this week?

 

Pretty dumb not to put the Miami @ OSU game at 8 EST on ABC, IMO. The Shoe is awesome at night plus there's already a glut of great games at 3:30 EST.

 

ABC has a contract to show the NASCAR race that night which is why there is no prime time game.

 

Makes it all the more dumb.

Just one more reason to hate nascar.

[SouthSideRyan]

So there's no prime time ABC game this week?

 

Pretty dumb not to put the Miami @ OSU game at 8 EST on ABC, IMO. The Shoe is awesome at night plus there's already a glut of great games at 3:30 EST.

 

ABC has a contract to show the NASCAR race that night which is why there is no prime time game.

 

Why would you enter into that contract if you're ABC? It's not like it's a surprise that there's college football going on the 2nd weekend in September

[Soul]

I'll bet they'd rather be showing a CFB game that night. NASCAR is a total dog.

[Derwood]

So there's no prime time ABC game this week?

 

Pretty dumb not to put the Miami @ OSU game at 8 EST on ABC, IMO. The Shoe is awesome at night plus there's already a glut of great games at 3:30 EST.

 

ABC has a contract to show the NASCAR race that night which is why there is no prime time game.

 

Makes it all the more dumb.

 

they also have PSU/Bama on ESPN, so why compete against themselves?

[Guest]

they also have PSU/Bama on ESPN, so why compete against themselves?

 

They do that every week.

 

My guess is that, sadly, the ratings for late season NASCAR and early season college football are closer than we'd like.

 

 

Although they're doing it again in mid-October? diaf NASCAR

[Soul]

LOL really?

 

Yeah I'll be tuning on to prime time NASCAR right in the middle of conference top-25 play.

[rawaction]

My nephew is a freshman TE for Southern Illinois. Look forward to seeing him on the sidelines on the Big Ten Network!

 

I'm assuming he won't play, as he didn't get in SIUs 70-7 blowout win last Thursday.

[Tracer Bullet]

So there's no prime time ABC game this week?

 

Pretty dumb not to put the Miami @ OSU game at 8 EST on ABC, IMO. The Shoe is awesome at night plus there's already a glut of great games at 3:30 EST.

 

ABC has a contract to show the NASCAR race that night which is why there is no prime time game.

 

Why would you enter into that contract if you're ABC? It's not like it's a surprise that there's college football going on the 2nd weekend in September

 

Really weird on this particular weekend. Is it just me, or has the 2nd weekend of the season usually been a pretty good week for pre-conference matchups? Seems like if there is a big game out of conference (OSU and its run at USC, Texas, or Miami, etc) it's been this week.