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Hey, there! Welcome back for another week of football! Hopefully your soul wasn’t crushed last weekend. And if it was, hopefully you’ve rebounded quickly and are ready to get hurt again!
Thursday night... meh. Don’t forget to set your fantasy football lineups, and then go about your evening.
Louisville is probably going to get their tails handed to them by Gus Malzahn’s UCF squad on Friday night, but who knows, maybe Scott Satterfield’s group aren’t as bad as they’ve seemed. And Go Fighting Berts!
There are actually a lot of really good games throughout Saturday, so the tailgate should be fantastic.
Nebraska and Oklahoma is a great matchup, had this game been played 20 years ago. Cincy-Indy and VT-WVU are the two games I have circled in that noon slot. Michigan State vs Miami just sounds boring.
Of course in that mid-day slot of games, everyone’s going to want to watch Alabama-Florida. The line has Bama as a 14.5-point favorite, but SP+ projects at 33-26 game. We’ll have to see.
Georgia Tech vs Clemson and FSU vs Wake is also in that 3:30pm slate. FSU-Wake is very intriguing to me. SP+ says it’s going to be a nail-biter, while Sagarin says Wake should crush Florida State. Clemson’s going to kill GT.
Mississippi State plays Memphis, too, if you didn’t get your fill of cowbells and cows*** last week.
In case you’re looking for a second game to track in the evening, look no further than Auburn at Penn State. That one should be an awesome game.
Go UVA!
Later on Saturday night, OK State vs Boise is about as close of a match-up as you can get by both advanced metrics. It’s another one that should be fun. And speaking of fun, we get a bevy of late night games this week, including the San Jose State at Hawaii game that doesn’t technically kickoff until Sunday morning.
FOOTBAW!
Rankings for SP+ Ratings and Sagarin Ratings listed, respectively, ahead of each team’s name.
Thursday
96/111 Ohio @ 62/81 Louisiana - 8:00pm - ESPN
[NFL] Giants @ Football Team - 8:20pm - NFLN
Friday
25/26 UCF @ 58/78 Louisville - 7:30pm - ESPN
26/57 Maryland @ 85/103 Illinois - 9:00pm - FS1
Saturday
31/51 Nebraska @ 3/3 Oklahoma - 12:00pm - FOX
10/14 Cincinnati @ 46/33 Indiana - 12:00pm - ESPN
22/30 Virginia Tech @ 43/32 West Virginia - 12:00pm - FS1
28/56 Coastal Carolina @ 86/79 Buffalo - 12:00pm - ESPN2
33/74 Michigan State @ 21/39 Miami - 12:00pm - ABC
77/69 Western Michigan @ 36/37 Pittsburgh - 12:00pm - ESPN3
FCS/192 Albany @ 89/94 Syracuse - 12:00pm - ACCN
60/58 Boston College @ 114/119 Temple - 12:00pm - ESPNU
49/55 Minnesota @ 67/42 Colorado - 1:00pm - PAC12N
63/49 Nevada @ 52/21 Kansas State - 2:00pm - ESPN+
42/54 Purdue @ 23/34 Notre Dame - 2:30pm - NBC
1/1 Alabama @ 9/10 Florida - 3:30pm - CBS
66/84 Georgia Tech @ 4/4 Clemson - 3:30pm - ABC
40/47 SMU @ 115/104 Louisiana Tech - 3:30pm - CBSSN
64/96 Florida State @ 68/52 Wake Forest - 3:30pm - ESPN
24/27 USC @ 61/75 Washington State - 3:30pm - FOX
50/38 Mississippi State @ 55/59 Memphis - 4:00pm - ESPN2
87/77 Northwestern @ 92/98 Duke - 4:00pm - ACCN
95/107 East Carolina @ 54/61 Marshall - 6:00pm - CBSSN
81/66 South Carolina @ 2/2 Georgia - 7:00pm - ESPN
FCS/219 Florida A&M @ 116/133 South Florida - 7:00pm - ESPN+
FCS/149 Furman @ 47/35 NC State - 7:30pm - ESPN3
11/12 Auburn @ 7/8 Penn State - 7:30pm - ABC
32/40 Virginia @ 12/23 North Carolina - 7:30pm - ACCN
38/29 Oklahoma State @ 39/28 Boise State - 9:00pm - FS1
20/24 Arizona State @ 35/73 BYU - 10:15pm - ESPN
75/67 Fresno State @ 17/19 UCLA - 10:45pm - PAC12N
83/82 San Jose State @ 107/113 Hawaii - 12:30am - FS1