College Football - Week 4 (Sept. 26)

[Andy]

Top 25 games

(1) Texas at (14) Tennessee (12 pm, ABC)

Oklahoma at (2) Georgia (3:30 pm, ESPN)

(3) Notre Dame at Purdue (2 pm, Peacock)

(4) Ole Miss at (21) Florida (3:30 pm, ABC) 

Northwestern at (5) Indiana (8 pm Friday, FOX)

Central Michigan at (6) Miami (6:30 pm, CW)

Illinois at (7) Ohio State (12 pm, FOX)

South Carolina at (8) Alabama (7 pm, ESPN) 

(23) Texas A&M at (10) LSU (7:30 pm, ABC)

Sam Houston at (11) Texas Tech (12 pm, TNT) 

(20) Oregon at (12) USC (7:30 pm, NBC)

Wisconsin at (13) Penn State (5 pm, Peacock)

(15) Utah at Iowa State (3:30 pm, FOX) 

Wake Forest at (16) Louisville (12 pm, ESPN) 

(17) Iowa at (18) Michigan (3:30 pm, CBS)

(19) Missouri at (24) Mississippi State (7:45 pm, SEC Network) 

Missouri State at (22) SMU (9 pm, ACC Network)

(25) Houston at Georgia Southern (4 pm, ESPNU)

 

Other nationally available games

Thursday

Liberty at Coastal Carolina (7:30 pm, ESPN)

 

Friday

Army at Temple (4 pm, ESPN)

Navy at UAB (7 pm, ESPN)

Howard at Rutgers (7 pm, BTN)

Clemson at California (10:30 pm, ESPN)

 

Saturday TV

Colorado at Baylor (12 pm, ESPN2) 

Virginia Tech at Boston College (12 pm, ACC Network)

Colorado State at UTSA (12 pm, ESPNU)

San Diego State at Toledo (12 pm, CBSSN)

South Alabama at Kentucky (12:45 pm, SEC Network)

UCLA at Maryland (1:30 pm, BTN)

Hawaii at Wyoming (3 pm, CW)

Central Arkansas at Florida State (3 pm, ACC Network)

Boise State at Western Michigan (3:30 pm, ESPN2) 

TCU at UCF (3:30 pm, FS1)

New Mexico at New Mexico State (3:30 pm, CBSSN)

Vanderbilt at Auburn (4:15 pm, SEC Network)

Nebraska at Michigan State (5 pm, BTN)

Incarnate Word at Texas State (6 pm, USA)

Delaware at Virginia (6 pm, ACC Network) 

Kansas State at Cincinnati (7 pm, ESPN2)

Oklahoma State at West Virginia (7 pm, FS1)

Arizona at Washington State (7:30 pm, CBS)

Appalachian State at NC State (7:30 pm, ESPNU)

Troy at Utah State (7:30 pm, CBSSN)

Rice at Fresno State (10 pm, CW)

Georgia Tech at Stanford (10:30 pm, ESPN)

Air Force at Nevada (10:30 pm, FS1)

Minnesota at Washington (11 pm, FOX)

 

Saturday Streaming (all ESPN+)

Bucknell at Pittsburgh (12 pm)

UNLV at Akron (12 pm)

Ball State at Kent State (12 pm)

Lindenwood at Eastern Michigan (1 pm)

Northern Illinois at Georgia State (2 pm)

William & Mary at Duke (3:30 pm)

Robert Morris at Buffalo (3:30 pm)

Stonehill at Ohio (3:30 pm)

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

Gardner-Webb at Marshall (3:30 pm)

NC Central at East Carolina (4 pm)

South Florida at Bowling Green (5 pm)

Long Island at FIU (6 pm)

James Madison at Old Dominion (6 pm)

UL Lafayette at Charlotte (6:30 pm)

Middle Tennessee at Jacksonville State (7 pm)

Kennesaw State at Arkansas State (7 pm)

Mercyhurst at Western Kentucky (7 pm)

Southern Miss at Tulane (7 pm)

Houston Christian at North Texas (7:30 pm)

Tulsa at Arkansas (8 pm)

Florida Atlantic at UL Monroe (8 pm)

UMass at Sacramento State (9 pm)

[UMFan83]

I hate how boring college football is these days until the night games unless you get lucky and Big Noon grabs a marquee game.  When it's Illinois/Ohio State, there's really not a ton of interesting games for me.  Texas/Tennessee is somewhat interesting but outside of that, meh.

[gflore34]

Ohio State' defense is miles away from championship quality.  Illini with a banged up OL, have moved the ball with relative ease and if they weren't tripping over their own dicks they'd have more points.

[Derwood]

Can we stop giving third-rate streaming platforms like Peacock games? 3 minutes into this PSU Wisconsin game, there has been constant audio and video issues. 

[Andy]

I caught the end of that Texas/Tennessee game and boy was that a friggin' mess. I don't think there was an actual play for a full 5 minutes because of flags, and then when there was, the Vols' freshman QB mismanaged the situation and had to chuck a doomed Hail Mary to the end zone because he was out of time to try a quick out that might have set up a tying field goal.

[Andy]

2 hours ago, UMFan83 said:

I hate how boring college football is these days until the night games unless you get lucky and Big Noon grabs a marquee game.  When it's Illinois/Ohio State, there's really not a ton of interesting games for me.  Texas/Tennessee is somewhat interesting but outside of that, meh.

Overexpansion of the conferences creating a lot of stupid matchups none of us actually want to watch (Clemson @ Cal Friday night anyone?), a general lack of desire to play good OOC games and a lack of stakes for many of the ones people do deign to play has really watered down September IMO.

Edited September 26 by Andy

[Derwood]

lol, Michigan

And lol, Wisconsin

[gflore34]

17 minutes ago, Derwood said:

lol, Michigan

And lol, Wisconsin

Michigan - karma' a bitch.  I believe they've the defense to keep OSU within range unfortunately, they don't have the offense to take advantage of a pedestrian OSU defense.  Too bad the Illini couldn't trade for their defense.

Edited September 27 by gflore34

[Derwood]

Lol PSU, apparently

[Derwood]

thoroughly unimpressed with Matt Campbell in this game. Complete collapse in 4th quarter and an awful looking 2 minute drill

[Soul]

1 hour ago, Derwood said:

Lol PSU, apparently

[Soul]

Badgers really had no business winning that game, but the defense held up which gave them a chance. It’s probably a one-off though.

[UMFan83]

Since people flagged me down for comment after the WMU game, I'll preemptively say that I choose not to comment on any Michigan related events from today.  Thank you for respecting my wishes.

[SouthSideRyan]

15 hours ago, Andy said:

Overexpansion of the conferences creating a lot of stupid matchups none of us actually want to watch (Clemson @ Cal Friday night anyone?), a general lack of desire to play good OOC games and a lack of stakes for many of the ones people do deign to play has really watered down September IMO.

It’s not like anyone would want to see Clemson/Maryland or Cal/Oregon either.

As was already mentioned upthread, people who weren’t fans (and some who are) weren’t getting hot and heavy over Illinois-OSU who have been playing forever and even have a trophy. And Illinois is kinda an ok team

Edited September 27 by SouthSideRyan

[SouthSideRyan]

11 hours ago, UMFan83 said:

Since people flagged me down for comment after the WMU game, I'll preemptively say that I choose not to comment on any Michigan related events from today.  Thank you for respecting my wishes.

ADMIT IT

[Andy]

17 hours ago, Derwood said:

thoroughly unimpressed with Matt Campbell in this game. Complete collapse in 4th quarter and an awful looking 2 minute drill

Campbell did a terrific job turning Iowa State from a straight up basement program into a pretty good one, but it's probably easier to go from basement to pretty good than it is to go from very good to elite.

We'll see how he does when he's getting Penn State level players there instead of essentially importing Iowa State's roster, though.

I don't know if Wisconsin is good but they just got a good win and drew a winning hand in the conference schedule (Southern Cal looks fraudtastic yet again, has to come to Madison, and might be the best team left on their schedule) . They could have a good year. 

[Derwood]

Campbell turtled up and played “not to lose” in the 4th. Hate that philosophy