Week 5 Football: What to watch

Welcome to another week of football! If you didn’t know, a week of football is infinitely better than a week without football, so please enjoy. You’ll kick yourself later for not doing so.

Only one Thursday night college game this week, and before you dismiss is because it has Navy, just know that Navy has implemented more passing schemes into their triple option attack this year. They’re a decently fun team to watch (when they’re not shit-kicking one of your teams, but I digress). There’s also a Thursday night NFL game, if you’re into that kind of thing.

Friday has four games including the Duke @ VT ACC match-up. This should be a good test. How good is Duke? How much fight does VT really have left under Fuente? In the late game, two of the most overrated teams in the country (Arizona State, California) square off.

The early slate of Saturday games is horrendous, so go do something else and save your energy for later. You need to put out some Weed & Feed on your lawn anyways, so go do that. Don’t let those weeds take over this winter, man. Choke those suckers out!

The mid-day slate of games on Saturday? Oh, man. That’s gold, buddy! Send the wife and kids out and clear your calendar - there’s good football to watch! Involving ACC teams, I’m particularly interested in the UVa @ Notre Dame and Wake @ BC games. In non-ACC games, the USC @ Washington and Iowa State @ Baylor games should be fun.

Your entire focus in the primetime slot should be on our Wolfpack in Tallahassee, but maybe also keep an eye on those two 7:00pm games if you have a spare TV set up. And if you’re looking for some super fun football to feed your insomniac lifestyle, Hawaii @ Nevada should feature little defense and a boatload of scoring. The over/under on that game is 64.5 and that’s about as easy money as you’re ever going to find.

FOOTBALL! GO!

SP+ Ratings and Sagarin Ratings listed ahead of each team’s name.

Thursday

47/70 Navy @ 17/49 Memphis - 8:00pm - ESPN

[NFL] Eagles @ Packers - 8:20pm - FOX/NFLN

Friday

60/51 Duke @ 53/69 Virginia Tech - 7:00pm - ESPN

11/10 Penn State @ 34/22 Maryland - 8:00pm - FS1

107/132 San Jose State @ 49/58 Air Force - 8:00pm - CBSSN

39/34 Arizona State @ 44/45 California - 10:30pm - ESPN

Saturday

33/46 Texas Tech @ 6/4 Oklahoma - 12:00pm - FOX

FCS/188 Holy Cross @ 75/38 Syracuse - 12:00pm - ACCN

FCS/151 Delaware @ 62/36 Pittsburgh - 12:30pm - ACCNX

3/3 Clemson @ 65/47 North Carolina - 3:30pm - ABC

54/67 Ole Miss @ 1/1 Alabama - 3:30pm - CBS

37/37 Virginia @ 12/11 Notre Dame - 3:30pm - NBC

31/28 USC @ 9/14 Washington - 3:30pm - FOX

32/60 Indiana @ 20/19 Michigan State - 3:30pm - BTN

95/83 Georgia Tech @ 46/75 Temple - 3:30pm - CBSSN

40/33 Wake Forest @ 73/81 Boston College - 3:30pm - ACCN

21/26 Iowa State @ 25/41 Baylor - 3:30pm - ESPN

91/109 Coastal Carolina @ 42/48 Appalachian State - 3:30pm - ESPN+

59/54 Cincinnati @ 61/74 Marshall - 5:00pm - Facebook

111/134 East Carolina @ 116/140 Old Dominion - 6:00pm - ESPN+

79/95 Arkansas State @ 66/85 Troy - 6:00pm - ESPN+

14/20 Mississippi State @ 10/8 Auburn - 7:00pm - ESPN

27/24 Kansas State @ 24/16 Oklahoma State - 7:00pm - ESPN+

48/62 NC State @ 57/44 Florida State - 7:30pm - ACCN

2/2 Ohio State @ 35/42 Nebraska - 7:30pm - ABC

52/43 Kentucky @ 45/35 South Carolina - 7:30pm - SECN

23/32 Washington State @ 22/27 Utah - 10:00pm - FS1

89/92 Hawaii @ 103/106 Nevada - 10:30pm - ESPN2