College Football - Week 10 (Nov. 2)

[Andy]

Top 25 games

(1) Oregon at Michigan (3:30 pm, CBS)

Florida vs (2) Georgia - in Jacksonville (3:30 pm, ABC)

(4) Ohio State at (3) Penn State (12 pm, FOX)

Duke at (5) Miami (12 pm, ABC) 

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

(10) Texas A&M at South Carolina (7:30 pm, ABC)

Louisville at (11) Clemson (7:30 pm, ESPN) 

Texas Tech at (11) Iowa State (3:30 pm, ESPN)

(13) Indiana at Michigan State (3:30 pm, Peacock)

San Diego State at (15) Boise State (8 pm Friday, FS1)

(17) Kansas State at Houston (3:30 pm, FOX)

(18) Pittsburgh at (20) SMU (8 pm, ACC Network)

(19) Ole Miss at Arkansas (12 pm, ESPN)

Air Force at (21) Army (12 pm, CBS)

Minnesota at (24) Illinois (12 pm, FS1)

 

Other nationally available games
Tuesday

New Mexico State at FIU (7 pm, CBSSN)

UL Lafayette at Texas State (7:30 pm, ESPN2)

Louisiana Tech at Sam Houston (8 pm, ESPNU)

 

Wednesday

Jacksonville State at Liberty (7 pm, CBSSN)

Kennesaw State at Western Kentucky (7:30 pm, ESPN2)

Thursday

Tulane at Charlotte (7:30 pm, ESPN)

Friday

Georgia State at UConn (7 pm, CBSSN)

South Florida at Florida Atlantic (7:30 pm, ESPN2)

Saturday TV

Memphis at UTSA (12 pm, ESPN2)

Northwestern at Purdue (12 pm, BTN)

Virginia Tech at Syracuse (12 pm, CW) 

Toledo at Eastern Michigan (12 pm, ESPNU)

Stanford at NC State (12 pm, ACC Network)  

Buffalo at Akron (12 pm, CBSSN)

Vanderbilt at Auburn (12:45 pm, SEC Network)

Arizona at UCF (3:30 pm, FS1)

UCLA at Nebraska (3:30 pm, BTN)

North Carolina at Florida State (3:30 pm, ACC Network)  

Middle Tennessee at UTEP (3:30 pm, CBSSN)

Navy at Rice (4 pm, ESPN2)

Wyoming at New Mexico (4 pm, TruTV)

UMass at Mississippi State (4:15 pm, SEC Network)

Arizona State at Oklahoma State (7 pm, FS1)

Wisconsin at Iowa (7:30 pm, NBC)  

USC at Washington (7:30 pm, BTN)

Georgia Southern at South Alabama (7:30 pm, ESPNU)

TCU at Baylor (8 pm, ESPN2)

Colorado State at Nevada (8 pm, CBSSN)

Saturday Streaming (all ESPN+)

Maine at Oklahoma (2:30 pm)

Tulsa at UAB (2:30 pm)

UL Monroe at Marshall (3:30 pm)

Old Dominion at Appalachian State (3:30 pm)

Coastal Carolina at Troy (4 pm)

Edited October 29, 2024 by Andy

[Derwood]

Outside of their 56-0 drubbing of Kent St, Penn State's point differential has been +4 in the first half and +73 in the second half. Really can't afford to get down early to Ohio State

[raw]

Not in this position often, but these polls piss me off. The voting is clearly influenced by helmet scouting and not what's happening on the field. Ohio St struggled with a Nebraska team IU beat by 50. I know that's not the end-all, be-all and IU may never get to prove they are better than the teams ahead of them, but they have a better resume than at least 3-4 teams ahead of them.

[gflore34]

58 minutes ago, TomtheBombadil said:

Kurtis Rourke at Indiana seems like a QB prospect

Think they could give Oregon a game?  I don't know, I have hard time seeing Indiana being able to handle Oregon' speed.

[Old Style]

Hope A&M doesn’t lay an egg after a huge win this past week. 

[Andy]

32 minutes ago, Old Style said:

Hope A&M doesn’t lay an egg after a huge win this past week. 

I saw that a lot of metrics have that game as basically a coin flip. Classic trap game.

[raw]

1 hour ago, gflore34 said:

Think they could give Oregon a game?  I don't know, I have hard time seeing Indiana being able to handle Oregon' speed.

Rourke is one of those guys that looks like a middle of Day 3 pick (5th or 6th round) and is an NFL backup for 10 years. Very smart, experienced QB who makes the right reads/throws.

As for Oregon, yeah that's one of those bad matchups for this team. IU does have decent team speed. But Oregon is a track team. 

[Old Style]

24 minutes ago, Andy said:

I saw that a lot of metrics have that game as basically a coin flip. Classic trap game.

100%

[CubColtPacer]

On 10/27/2024 at 10:27 PM, raw said:

Not in this position often, but these polls piss me off. The voting is clearly influenced by helmet scouting and not what's happening on the field. Ohio St struggled with a Nebraska team IU beat by 50. I know that's not the end-all, be-all and IU may never get to prove they are better than the teams ahead of them, but they have a better resume than at least 3-4 teams ahead of them.

The rankings are really, really close though when you look at the raw point totals.  It wouldn't take much for them to jump those 4 spots. 

I looked at the old BCS computers.  One of them has a site that averages out basically every college football computer ranking known to man (some I'm sure that are more geared towards resume, and some that are geared towards who is projected to be the best going forward).  Here's the top 10 of that composite ranking

1.  Oregon, 2.  Ohio State, 3. Penn State, 4. Miami, 5. Texas, 6. Georgia, 7.  Notre Dame, 8. Alabama.  9.  Indiana, 10. BYU

[Sosa21MVP]

On 10/27/2024 at 10:27 PM, raw said:

Not in this position often, but these polls piss me off. The voting is clearly influenced by helmet scouting and not what's happening on the field. Ohio St struggled with a Nebraska team IU beat by 50. I know that's not the end-all, be-all and IU may never get to prove they are better than the teams ahead of them, but they have a better resume than at least 3-4 teams ahead of them.

Well, right now we are on a pace to be in the college football playoff so it is quite possible we get the chance to see how we matchup with some of the teams in front of us.

This entire season feels like a fever dream. I've been at the FIU, UCLA, Maryland, Nebraska and Washington games, and I'll be at the Michigan game in two weeks. 

[soccer10k]

Indiana, Oregon and Penn State are all undefeated. They also don’t play each other. It won’t happen but it’s possible that an undefeated team might not even play for its conference championship.

Great sport we have here.

[Andy]

2 hours ago, soccer10k said:

Indiana, Oregon and Penn State are all undefeated. They also don’t play each other. It won’t happen but it’s possible that an undefeated team might not even play for its conference championship.

Great sport we have here.

The same thing is happening in the ACC. Clemson, Miami, Pitt and SMU are all unbeaten in conference games. Miami plays none of the other 3. SMU and Clemson only play Pitt.

[Outshined_One]

On 10/28/2024 at 9:27 AM, raw said:

Rourke is one of those guys that looks like a middle of Day 3 pick (5th or 6th round) and is an NFL backup for 10 years. Very smart, experienced QB who makes the right reads/throws.

This reads like a scouting report for 90% of the Big Ten QBs who've come out over the last 20 years.

[Derwood]

Jeanty up to 1500 yards and 20 TD in just 8 games for BSU

[CubinNY]

OSU is going to take down PSU it looks like. 

[CubinNY]

Also, who thinks Ryan Day uses Just For Men?

[Andy]

34 minutes ago, CubinNY said:

OSU is going to take down PSU it looks like. 

PSU's best win just lost to Minnesota at home, in a related story

[CubinNY]

Oregon is bludgeoning Michigan. They look unbeatable right now. 

[Derwood]

I was out of the house all day and just (at 6:30) sat down to watch it off the DVR. I pulled it up on YouTube TV and instead of starting at the beginning, YTTV decided to jump to the post-game interviews, so guess that saved me 3 hours

[Rex Buckingham]

3 hours ago, Andy said:

PSU's best win just lost to Minnesota at home, in a related story

Illinois badly needs their bye week. Their secondary is struggling hard thanks to some injuries (and not being very good to begin with). 

[Irrelevant Dude]

52 minutes ago, Rex Buckingham said:

Illinois badly needs their bye week.

The already had a bye week 3 weeks ago.  They have another one now?

[CubColtPacer]

There's going to be 5 undefeated teams left at the end of the night.

Going back to the preseason poll, 42 teams received votes.  3 of the 5 undefeated teams did not receive any votes in that poll (the other 2 were #3 and #19).  That's pretty crazy.

[Old Style]

Welp, I wish I could say I didn’t see this A&M turd coming but here we are. Crashing back down to reality after 1 week. 

[Andy]

If BYU wins the Big 12 it'll be a one bid league. It might be anyway.

Louisville pantsing Clemson was interesting.

SMU seems like the clear class of the ACC, and that conference might also get one bid.

Edited November 3, 2024 by Andy

[Andy]

Also, IU is probably gonna be the most popular November undefeated team in recent history over the next 2 weeks (unless they lose next week that is)