Andy

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

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

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.

Carolina has won 2 games in a row for the first time in nearly 2 years

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)

I root for a team owned by David Tepper and by God I'm not going to let them out of this discussion

I guess that's technically what happened. In practice he just reversed his original opt out decision and kept the contract he was already on.

A couple times a decade there are 14 Saturdays from Labor Day weekend to Thanksgiving weekend, ergo the 2 bye weeks.

Thom Brennaman is calling the Syracuse/BC game this weekend, and BC's starting quarterback is named Castellanos. Do with that information what you will

As I have in the past, I will update these with the CFP committee rankings as soon as I can once they are revealed Tuesday and each Tuesday going forward. Top 25 games Maryland at (1) Oregon (7 pm, BTN) Purdue at (2) Ohio State (12 pm, FOX) (3) Georgia at (16) Ole Miss (3:30 pm, ABC) (4) Miami at Georgia Tech (12 pm, ESPN) Florida at (5) Texas (12 pm, ABC) Washington at (6) Penn State (8 pm, Peacock) Mississippi State at (7) Tennessee (7 pm, ESPN) Michigan at (8) Indiana (3:30 pm, CBS) (9) BYU at Utah (10:15 pm, ESPN) Florida State at (10) Notre Dame (7:30 pm, NBC) (11) Alabama at (15) LSU (7:30 pm, ABC) Nevada at (12) Boise State (8 pm, FOX) (17) Iowa State at Kansas - in Kansas City (3:30 pm, FS1) Virginia at (18) Pittsburgh (8 pm, ACC Network) (20) Colorado at Texas Tech (4 pm, FOX) Utah State at (21) Washington State (10:30 pm, CW) (23) Clemson at Virginia Tech (3:30 pm, ESPN) Oklahoma at (24) Missouri (7:45 pm, SEC Network) (25) Army at North Texas (3:30 pm, ESPN2) Other nationally available games Tuesday Bowling Green at Central Michigan (7:30 pm, ESPN2) Miami (OH) at Ball State (8 pm, ESPN) Wednesday Northern Illinois at Western Michigan (7 pm, ESPN2) Ohio at Kent State (7 pm, ESPNU) Thursday Appalachian State at Coastal Carolina (8 pm, ESPN) Florida Atlantic at East Carolina (8 pm, ESPN2) Friday California at Wake Forest (8 pm, ACC Network) Iowa at UCLA (9 pm, FOX) Rice at Memphis (9 pm, ESPN2) New Mexico at San Diego State (10:30 pm, FS1) Saturday TV Minnesota at Rutgers (12 pm, NBC) Syracuse at Boston College (12 pm, CW) Navy at South Florida (12 pm, ESPN2) West Virginia at Cincinnati (12 pm, FS1) Texas State at UL Monroe (12 pm, ESPNU) Liberty at Middle Tennessee (1 pm, CBSSN) San Jose State at Oregon State (3:30 pm, CW) Duke at NC State (3:30 pm, ACC Network) Temple at Tulane (4 pm, ESPNU) South Carolina at Vanderbilt (4:15 pm, SEC Network) Jacksonville State at Louisiana Tech (4:30 pm, CBSSN) UCF at Arizona State (7 pm, ESPN2) Oklahoma State at TCU (7 pm, FS1) UNLV at Hawaii (9 pm, CBSSN) Fresno State at Air Force (9:45 pm, FS1) Saturday Streaming (all ESPN+) UConn at UAB (2:30 pm) Marshall at Southern Miss (3 pm) Georgia State at James Madison (3:30 pm) Kennesaw State at UTEP (4 pm) Arkansas State at UL Lafayette (5 pm) Western Kentucky at New Mexico State (6 pm)

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)

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.

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

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.

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

A "dungeon of darkness," even

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)

Texas A&M is going to the SEC title game unless something goes seriously haywire in November. I guess it really is very difficult to win in College Station. (Also, thank God they didn't discover Marcel Reed sooner. Weigman is good but that extra dimension is scary.)

Notre Dame was so good at the "pick up the ball when Navy drops it for no reason" defense that it makes me wonder why everyone else Navy played didn't try it

FOX used to have all their biggest games in prime time and ABC mopped the floor with them no matter what the game was. People are just conditioned to watch the ABC game at night. That's what led to the noon move to begin with, and it's been very smart for FOX.

It's been at noon as often as it's been at night in recent years, and it was only ever at night before because ESPN had a piece of the B1G TV deal. Now they don't, so the game's always going to be at noon if FOX can get it. You may not like it, but FOX does great ratings at noon and they basically own the B1G now, so here we are.

FOX puts the best game available to them at noon every week (they have to now that the B1G has signed deals and locked in timeslots with CBS and NBC as well), and this game was available to them. I know PSU fans especially hate crap like this because every big home game has to be a white-out, but this is what happens when you sell your soul to a conference and its TV overlords. If schools don't like it, don't cash the checks.

There is room between 'politicking for my conference' and 'literally every at-large bid to the playoff should be a team from my conference.'

As it stands, yes. There was some talk this offseason about a 14 team monstrosity that would've had at least 11 auto bids (3 each for the big two, 2 each for the middle two, and a G5) and guaranteed the big two the byes, as if they wouldn't get the byes anyway, but it didn't get anywhere. We're likely headed to something dumb like that, though.