College Football - Week 12 (Nov. 16)

[Andy]

Top 25 games

(1) Oregon at Wisconsin (7:30 pm, NBC)

(2) Ohio State at Northwestern - at Wrigley Field (12 pm, BTN)

(3) Texas at Arkansas (12 pm, ABC)

(4) Penn State at Purdue (3:30 pm, CBS)

Kansas at (6) BYU (10:15 pm, ESPN)

(7) Tennessee at (12) Georgia (7:30 pm, ABC)

Virginia at (8) Notre Dame (3:30 pm, NBC)

Mercer at (10) Alabama (2 pm, ESPN+)

(13) Boise State at San Jose State (7 pm, CBSSN)

Boston College at (14) SMU (3:30 pm, ESPN)

New Mexico State at (15) Texas A&M (7:45 pm, SEC Network)

Arizona State at (16) Kansas State (7 pm, ESPN)

Utah at (17) Colorado (12 pm, FOX)

(18) Washington State at New Mexico (9:30 pm, FS1)

(19) Louisville at Stanford (3:30 pm, ACC Network)

(20) Clemson at Pittsburgh (12 pm, ESPN)

(23) Missouri at (21) South Carolina (4:15 pm, SEC Network)

(22) LSU at Florida (3:30 pm, ABC)

(25) Tulane at Navy (12 pm, ESPN2)

 

Other nationally available games
Tuesday

Western Michigan at Bowling Green (7 pm, ESPN2) 

Central Michigan at Toledo (7 pm, ESPNU)

Ball State at Buffalo (7 pm, CBSSN) 

 

Wednesday

Eastern Michigan at Ohio (7 pm, ESPN2)

Kent State at Miami (OH) (7 pm, ESPNU)

Akron at Northern Illinois (7 pm, CBSSN) 

Thursday

East Carolina at Tulsa (7:30 pm, ESPN)

Friday

North Texas at UTSA (8 pm, ESPN2)

Wyoming at Colorado State (8 pm, CBSSN)

UCLA at Washington (9 pm, FOX)

Houston at Arizona (10:15 pm, FS1)

Saturday TV

Louisiana Tech at Western Kentucky (12 pm, CBSSN)

UL Monroe at Auburn (12:45 pm, SEC Network)

Michigan State at Illinois (2:30 pm, FS1)

Syracuse at California (3 pm, CW)

Oregon State at Air Force (3:30 pm, CBSSN)

Nebraska at USC (4 pm, FOX)

Baylor at West Virginia (4 pm, ESPN2)

James Madison at Old Dominion (4 pm, ESPNU)

Rutgers at Maryland (6 pm, FS1)

Cincinnati at Iowa State (8 pm, FOX)

UAB at Memphis (8 pm, ESPN2)

Wake Forest at North Carolina (8 pm, ACC Network)

San Diego State at UNLV (10:30 pm, CBSSN)

 

Saturday Streaming (all ESPN+)

Liberty at UMass (12 pm)

Coastal Carolina at Marshall (1 pm)

Murray State at Kentucky (1:30 pm)

Florida Atlantic at Temple (2 pm)

FIU at Jacksonville State (2 pm)

Sam Houston at Kennesaw State (3 pm)

South Florida at Charlotte (3:30 pm)

Troy at Georgia Southern (4 pm)

Arkansas State at Georgia State (5 pm)

South Alabama at UL Lafayette (7 pm)

Southern Miss at Texas State (7 pm)

Edited November 13, 2024 by Andy

[Andy]

I am perplexed at what the committee did with the rankings this week.

There's no reason at all to have Miami ahead of the 3 SEC teams behind them other than 1 loss vs 2. They don't have better wins than any of those 3 or a better loss. Frankly I was surprised Notre Dame stayed ahead of them as I expected at least 2 to remain ahead.

Then, Georgia is rated behind both Bama and Ole Miss despite playing a more difficult schedule than either. OK fine, they lost head to head so that's fair. But then later in the same ranking, South Carolina is directly ahead of LSU even though they lost a head to head game.

This will all work itself out, which is why weekly rankings are stupid, but I'm just confused.

[Tim]

I, for one, am rooting hard for both Georgia and Alabama to miss the inaugural 12 team playoff field. 

[mul21]

The Lines on the Georgia Tennessee and Clemson Pitt games are pretty wild at -10 in each game.  I guess Georgia will be mad is the working theory there?

[Transmogrified Tiger]

It won't happen but this is a big week for the dream of 7 SEC teams with 2 losses.  Need Georgia and Mizzou to win, then it's just about avoiding bad upsets and having aTm beat Texas.

[Derwood]

Purdue is exceptionally bad at football

[Rex Buckingham]

2 hours ago, Derwood said:

Purdue is exceptionally bad at football

Some kind of monkey paw thing going on between their football and basketball teams

[Andy]

The SEC is determined to somehow produce eight 10-2 teams

[Andy]

Also ND had the coolest fake punt ever called back by some arcane formation rule and I'm still mad about it

 

 

[CubColtPacer]

I've never seen a 9-0 team only be a 2.5 point favorite at home to a 3-6 team in their own conference.  But BYU was last night, and they got beat outright.  That finishes any chance of the BIg XII getting 2 bids.

So it's down to the SEC, Big 10, and Notre Dame basically for those at large bids.  It still comes down to what the committee is going to do with all these 2 loss SEC teams.

An interesting wrinkle is that whichever 2 loss team makes the SEC championship game, it's going to be a risk/reward situation.  It's probably safer to not make it to make the playoff because a loss could knock that team out, but the team could also win a bye with a win.

[Andy]

1 hour ago, CubColtPacer said:

An interesting wrinkle is that whichever 2 loss team makes the SEC championship game, it's going to be a risk/reward situation.  It's probably safer to not make it to make the playoff because a loss could knock that team out, but the team could also win a bye with a win.

It looks like it'll be the Texas vs A&M winner against Alabama, from what I was seeing last night Bama would win the "conference opponent SOS" tiebreaker in the current logjam. I suspect Bama is probably safe if they were to lose an SEC CG (Texas would be too), but it depends on who else is in the pool. The committee chairman said teams won't be "unduly" hit for losing a title game, though that could mean almost anything.

Edited November 17, 2024 by Andy

[Derwood]

Indiana's 100th ranked SOS is bound to hurt them (unless they can pull out a win vs OSU)

[I owned a Suzuki]

20 hours ago, Derwood said:

Indiana's 100th ranked SOS is bound to hurt them (unless they can pull out a win vs OSU)

I am very Pro B1G....but if Indiana gets smoked by OSU, I would not put them in the play off

[Ding Dong Johnson]

Indiana will beat Ohio State because nothing ever makes sense.