Andy

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.

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).

Rub it in

Top 25 games (20) Illinois at (1) Oregon (3:30 pm, CBS) (3) Penn State at Wisconsin (7:30 pm, NBC) Nebraska at (4) Ohio State (12 pm, FOX) (5) Texas at (25) Vanderbilt (4:15 pm, SEC Network) Florida State at (6) Miami (7 pm, ESPN) (8) LSU at (14) Texas A&M (7:30 pm, ABC) (11) BYU at UCF (3:30 pm, ESPN) (12) Notre Dame vs (24) Navy - in East Rutherford, NJ (12 pm, ABC) Washington at (13) Indiana (12 pm, BTN) (21) Missouri at (15) Alabama (3:30 pm, ABC) Kansas at (16) Kansas State (8 pm, ESPN2) (17) Boise State at UNLV (10:30 pm Friday, CBSSN) Oklahoma at (18) Ole Miss (12 pm, ESPN) Syracuse at (19) Pittsburgh (7:30 pm Thursday, ESPN) (22) SMU at Duke (8 pm, ACC Network) Other nationally available games Tuesday Sam Houston at FIU (7:30 pm, ESPNU) UTEP at Louisiana Tech (8 pm, CBSSN) Wednesday Liberty at Kennesaw State (7 pm, CBSSN) Middle Tennessee at Jacksonville State (7:30 pm, ESPN2) Thursday Georgia Southern at Old Dominion (7 pm, ESPN2) Friday Louisville at Boston College (7:30 pm, ESPN2) Rutgers at USC (11 pm, FOX) Saturday TV North Carolina at Virginia (12 pm, CW) Tulane at North Texas (12 pm, ESPN2) Charlotte at Memphis (12 pm, ESPNU) Georgia Tech at Virginia Tech (12 pm, ACC Network) Buffalo at Ohio (12 pm, CBSSN) Arkansas at Mississippi State (12:45 pm, SEC Network) Texas Tech at TCU (3:30 pm, FOX) Maryland at Minnesota (3:30 pm, FS1) Northwestern at Iowa (3:30 pm, BTN) Wake Forest at Stanford (3:30 pm, ACC Network) Rice at UConn (3:30 pm, CBSSN) Oregon State at California (4 pm, ESPN2) West Virginia at Arizona (7 pm, FS1) Utah State at Wyoming (7 pm, CBSSN) Michigan State at Michigan (7:30 pm, BTN) Auburn at Kentucky (7:45 pm, SEC Network) San Jose State at Fresno State (8 pm, TruTV) Cincinnati at Colorado (10:15 pm, ESPN) Washington State at San Diego State (10:30 pm, CBSSN) Saturday Streaming (all ESPN+) Georgia State at Appalachian State (1 pm) Central Michigan at Miami (OH) (2 pm) Temple at East Carolina (2 pm) Bowling Green at Toledo (3:30 pm) Eastern Michigan at Akron (3:30 pm) Kent State at Western Michigan (3:30 pm) Northern Illinois at Ball State (3:30 pm) Oklahoma State at Baylor (3:30 pm) Southern Miss at James Madison (3:30 pm) UTSA at Tulsa (3:30 pm) Wagner at UMass (3:30 pm) UL Monroe at South Alabama (5 pm) Troy at Arkansas State (7 pm) Utah at Houston (7 pm)

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.

"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.

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.

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.

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)