College Football - Week 8 (Oct. 19)

[Andy]

Top 25 games

(5) Georgia at (1) Texas (7:30 pm, ABC)

(2) Oregon at Purdue (8 pm Friday, FOX)

(6) Miami at Louisville (12 pm, ABC)

(7) Alabama at (11) Tennessee (3:30 pm, ABC)

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

UCF at (9) Iowa State (7:30 pm, FS1)

Virginia at (10) Clemson (12 pm, ACC Network)

(12) Notre Dame vs Georgia Tech - at Mercedes-Benz Stadium (3:30 pm, ESPN)

Oklahoma State at (13) BYU (10:15 pm Friday, ESPN)

(14) Texas A&M at Mississippi State (4:15 pm, SEC Network)

Nebraska at (16) Indiana (12 pm, FOX)

(17) Kansas State at West Virginia (7:30 pm, FOX)

Auburn at (19) Missouri (12 pm, ESPN)

(21) SMU at Stanford (8 pm, ACC Network)

(24) Michigan at (22) Illinois (3:30 pm, CBS)

East Carolina at (23) Army (12 pm, ESPN2)

Charlotte at (25) Navy (3:30 pm, CBSSN)

 

Other nationally available games
Tuesday

Troy at South Alabama (7:30 pm, ESPN2)

Kennesaw State at Middle Tennessee (8 pm, CBSSN)

Louisiana Tech at New Mexico State (9 pm, ESPNU)

 

Wednesday

Western Kentucky at Sam Houston (7 pm, ESPN2)

FIU at UTEP (9 pm, CBSSN)

Thursday

Georgia State at Marshall (7 pm, ESPN2)

Boston College at Virginia Tech (7:30 pm, ESPN)

Friday

Florida State at Duke (7 pm, ESPN2)

Fresno State at Nevada (10:30 pm, CBSSN)

Saturday TV

UCLA at Rutgers (12 pm, FS1)

Wisconsin at Northwestern (12 pm, BTN)

UL Lafayette at Coastal Carolina (12 pm, ESPNU)

Wake Forest at UConn (12 pm, CBSSN)

South Carolina at Oklahoma (12:45 pm, SEC Network)

Hawaii at Washington State (3:30 pm, CW)

NC State at California (3:30 pm, ACC Network)

Colorado at Arizona (4 pm, FOX)

Baylor at Texas Tech (4 pm, ESPN2)

USC at Maryland (4 pm, FS1)

New Mexico at Utah State (4 pm, TruTV)

Iowa at Michigan State (7:30 pm, NBC)

North Texas at Memphis (7:30 pm, ESPNU) 

Kentucky at Florida (7:45 pm, SEC Network)

Colorado State at Air Force (8 pm, CBS)

UNLV at Oregon State (10 pm, CW)

TCU at Utah (10:30 pm, ESPN)

Saturday Streaming (all ESPN+)

Arizona State at Cincinnati (12 pm)

Central Michigan at Eastern Michigan (2 pm)

Tulsa at Temple (2 pm)

Florida Atlantic at UTSA (3:30 pm)

Houston at Kansas - in Kansas City, MO (3:30 pm)

Kent State at Bowling Green (3:30 pm)

Ohio at Miami (OH) (3:30 pm)

Rice at Tulane (3:30 pm)

Texas State at Old Dominion (3:30 pm)

Toledo at Northern Illinois (3:30 pm)

UAB at South Florida (3:30 pm)

Western Michigan at Buffalo (3:30 pm)

James Madison at Georgia Southern (4 pm)

Arkansas State at Southern Miss (7 pm)

Ball State at Vanderbilt (7 pm)

[cwood218]

Indiana being #16 and 6-0 is insane. If they somehow beat Nebraska they could be looking at 9-0 going into Michigan, Ohio State and Purdue.

[Derwood]

Penn State only has one top 25 game the rest of the way. May be an easy path to the playoff, but the SoS worries me

[Andy]

CB Ben Morrison out for the season for ND with a hip injury. Likely ends his college career as he's a slam-dunk 1st round pick and one of the best players in the country. That makes something like 5 or 6 starters wiped out by injury before the season is half over.

Edited October 14, 2024 by Andy

[jersey cubs fan]

For some reason that is beyond me people keep locking threads to make it impossible to comment on updates to older stories, but the fallout the Rutgers AD surprise resignation has been kind of interesting. 
 

Sounds like the happily married man was sleeping with the gymnastics coach and ignoring complaints of a toxic culture in the program. And the football staff probably isn’t sad to see him go. 
 

[Andy]

1 hour ago, jersey cubs fan said:

For some reason that is beyond me people keep locking threads to make it impossible to comment on updates to older stories, but the fallout the Rutgers AD surprise resignation has been kind of interesting. 
 

Sounds like the happily married man was sleeping with the gymnastics coach and ignoring complaints of a toxic culture in the program. And the football staff probably isn’t sad to see him go. 
 

I saw that he resigned the day they were mandating he turn over electronics communication related to this investigation, which definitely seems like a thing people do.

[soccer10k]

Can someone who follows college football closer than I do explain how Florida State went from a 13-0 regular season in 2023 to starting 1-6 in 2024. I'm sure they lost plenty of talent to the draft but that happens to all of the big schools each year. Were they just an incredibly top heavy team last year that got a little lucky, went 13-0, lost most of those dudes and didn't have anyone to replace them?

Michigan lost a ton of talent and one of the best coaches in the sport, and they're still 4-2 this year. Washington also lost a ton of talent and their head coach and they're 4-3.

Edited October 19, 2024 by soccer10k

[CubinNY]

13 hours ago, soccer10k said:

Can someone who follows college football closer than I do explain how Florida State went from a 13-0 regular season in 2023 to starting 1-6 in 2024. I'm sure they lost plenty of talent to the draft but that happens to all of the big schools each year. Were they just an incredibly top heavy team last year that got a little lucky, went 13-0, lost most of those dudes and didn't have anyone to replace them?

Michigan lost a ton of talent and one of the best coaches in the sport, and they're still 4-2 this year. Washington also lost a ton of talent and their head coach and they're 4-3.

I’m not certain but I think they didn’t take advantage of college free agency or whatever the horsefeathers they are calling it. 

[Derwood]

Indiana actually destroying people is crazy

[Irrelevant Dude]

1 hour ago, Derwood said:

Indiana actually destroying people is crazy

Nebraska no less.  Is Indiana really that good?

[BigSlick]

Holy horsefeathers Illinois! I don't think the program's looked this good since I was in school and they went to the Rose Bowl with Juice Williams and Rashard Mendenhall. 

 

[CubinNY]

48 minutes ago, BigSlick said:

Holy horsefeathers Illinois! I don't think the program's looked this good since I was in school and they went to the Rose Bowl with Juice Williams and Rashard Mendenhall. 

 

Loved the throwback uniforms. They play some D. 

[Rex Buckingham]

9 minutes ago, CubinNY said:

Loved the throwback uniforms. They play some D. 

They sure didn't last week, but their D is suited for an old-school slobberknocker like Michigan played today

[cwood218]

1 hour ago, Irrelevant Dude said:

Nebraska no less.  Is Indiana really that good?

This type of question is not allowed!!!

I have two more weeks ( Washington & Michigan St.) of living the dream before Michigan and Ohio State.

[Irrelevant Dude]

47 minutes ago, CubinNY said:

Loved the throwback uniforms.

The uniforms were outstanding.  The entire package today (CBS coverage, throwback uniforms, and the victory over Michigan) was a great look for the program.

[Andy]

3 hours ago, Irrelevant Dude said:

Nebraska no less.  Is Indiana really that good?

"I win, Google me" might go down as the greatest called shot by a first year coach ever.

Their schedule is pretty pillow soft but they're also smashing everyone on it. It's awesome.

[Soul]

3 hours ago, Rex Buckingham said:

They sure didn't last week, but their D is suited for an old-school slobberknocker like Michigan played today

My sister the UM grad’s Insta feed is strangely silent today.

[I owned a Suzuki]

5 hours ago, Soul said:

My sister the UM grad’s Insta feed is strangely silent today.

Will Michigan be favored in a game the rest of the season?

[champaignchris]

Illinois plays likely #1 Oregon on the road and then finishes off with 4 decent but not scary teams, where Illinois will be favored in each game. 
 

if they can keep it not-too-embarrassing in Oregon and then take care of business, they’ll be 10-2 against an ok schedule with the only two losses against probable top 5 opponents on the road. 
 

I hate to even say it out loud, but that’s a playoff resume there. 

[Derwood]

SEC chaos is just going to mean more of those schools make the CFP. "Man, we just can't tell who is best in this conference, so we put 9 of them in so they sort it out on the field"

 

[Rex Buckingham]

6 hours ago, Derwood said:

SEC chaos is just going to mean more of those schools make the CFP. "Man, we just can't tell who is best in this conference, so we put 9 of them in so they sort it out on the field"

 

yeah, I figure we will see the P4 champs, Boise as the 5th champ, and then 6 teams from the B1G and SEC, with maybe 1 more from either the ACC or B12

[Andy]

7 hours ago, Derwood said:

SEC chaos is just going to mean more of those schools make the CFP. "Man, we just can't tell who is best in this conference, so we put 9 of them in so they sort it out on the field"

 

Sankey completely seriously said the number of SEC teams he'd be satisfied with in the playoff is 8. The maximum they can have in the current format.

As long as chodes like him and Petitti are running the sport it's going to get worse.

[Derwood]

30 minutes ago, Andy said:

Sankey completely seriously said the number of SEC teams he'd be satisfied with in the playoff is 8. The maximum they can have in the current format.

As long as chodes like him and Petitti are running the sport it's going to get worse.

If they actually did that, you’d be talking about one from the other 3 conferences and the one group of 5. They wouldn’t leave 3 of Oregon, Penn State, Indiana and Ohio State out

[Andy]

1 minute ago, Derwood said:

If they actually did that, you’d be talking about one from the other 3 conferences and the one group of 5. They wouldn’t leave 3 of Oregon, Penn State, Indiana and Ohio State out

I know it's not actually going to happen, but the guy needs to have another answer ready for that question than 'the literal maximum amount of teams it's possible to get.'

The SEC and B1G claim they haven't pushed forward with a further expansion to this playoff that would further benefit themselves because they 'want to see how this selection process plays out,' but unspoken in that is that they're essentially blackmailing the committee to put all the teams from their leagues in that they can or they're just going to expand it to 14+ and stack the field with auto-bids for their teams (and they'll probably do it anyway).

[Derwood]

3 hours ago, Andy said:

I know it's not actually going to happen, but the guy needs to have another answer ready for that question than 'the literal maximum amount of teams it's possible to get.'

The SEC and B1G claim they haven't pushed forward with a further expansion to this playoff that would further benefit themselves because they 'want to see how this selection process plays out,' but unspoken in that is that they're essentially blackmailing the committee to put all the teams from their leagues in that they can or they're just going to expand it to 14+ and stack the field with auto-bids for their teams (and they'll probably do it anyway).

The rules are, what? SEC, B1G, ACC and Big XII champs, one from Group of Five, then the rest at-large? So 5 autos and 7 wildcards?