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For those of us on the West Coast we will not get Ohio State/Michigan and instead we'll get Cal/Stanford. That will probably piss off quite a few people but I'm one happy mother fucker as Keith Jackson is calling The Big Game. Actually blame ABC for showing a golf tournament (in November!?) during the usual regional slot.

 

Network/Basic Cable TV Schedule

 

TUESDAY

Bowling Green at Miami of Ohio, 7:00/4:00 PM, ESPN2

 

WEDNESDAY

Northern Illinois at Toledo, 7:30/4:30 PM, ESPN2

 

SATURDAY

#6 Virginia Tech at Virginia, Noon/9:00 AM, ESPN

#21 Minnesota at Iowa, Noon/9:00 AM, ESPN2

#25 Oklahoma at #19 Texas Tech, Noon/9:00 AM, FSN

#7 Ohio State at #15 Michigan, 1:00 PM/10:00 AM, ABC*

 

Syracuse at #9 Notre Dame, 2:30 PM/11:30 AM, NBC

Washington State at Washington, 3:15/12:15 PM, FSN

#8 Alabama at #13 Auburn, 3:30/12:30 PM, CBS

#4 Penn State at Michigan State, 4:00/1:00 PM, ESPN

 

Oregon State at #10 Oregon, 6:45/3:45 PM, FSN

California at Stanford, 7:00/4:00 PM, ABC*

Georgia Tech at #3 Miami, 7:45/4:45 PM, ESPN

#5 LSU at Mississippi, 7:45/4:45 PM, ESPN2

 

#17 Fresno State at #1 USC, 10:15/7:15 PM, FSN

 

Other Cable/PPV Schedule

 

TUESDAY

Ohio at Akron, 7:30/4:30 PM, ESPNU

 

SATURDAY

#24 Boston College at Maryland, Noon/9:00 AM, JP*

Northwestern at Illinois, Noon/9:00 AM, GamePlan

Arkansas State at Army, Noon/9:00 AM, GamePlan

Kentucky at #16 Georgia, 12:30 PM/9:30 AM, JP*

Vanderbilt at Tennessee, 12:30 PM/9:30 AM, JP*

Purude at Indiana, 1:00 PM/10:00 AM, GamePlan

Utah at BYU, 3:00 PM/Noon, GamePlan

New Mexico State at San Jose State, 6:00/3:00 PM, GamePlan

Clemson at #23 South Carolina, 7:00/4:00 PM, GamePlan

Wyoming at San Diego State, 8:00/5:00 PM, GamePlan

Memphis at Southern Miss, 8:30/5:30 PM, CSTV

 

All Other Division I-A Games

 

Cincinnati at South Florida

Central Michigan at Ball State

Middle Tennessee State at N.C. State

Duke at North Carolina

Eastern Michigan at Buffalo

Temple at Navy

Mississippi State at Arkansas

Oklahoma State at Baylor

Tulsa at Tulane

Missouri at Kansas State

Air Force at New Mexico

Central Florida at Rice

Idaho at Boise State

Nevada at Utah State

Colorado State at UNLV

East Carolina at Marshall

SMU at Houston

UAB at UTEP

Louisiana-Monroe at North Texas

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Best week of the year.

 

Ohio St.-Michigan imo is the best rivalry. Good thing both teams are playing well. It's likely going to be for a trip to the Citrus Bowl. Though Ohio St. could sneak into a BCS bowl.

 

Bill Snyder is set to retire at Kansas State.

 

espn.com

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I'm putting together a breakfast tailgate to get started at around 8:30 am for UVA/VT. This is the first noon home game in about two years, so we're doing it big. I'm happy that I'll get to catch the end of Michigan/Ohio State and most of the Iron Bowl afterwards.

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The room, it's spin...

 

Okay, I kid.

 

But really, I'm torn as to whether I'll miss Snyder. I mean, he certainly took a nothing program and built it up bigtime, but he was also a "never got the job done" coach, and with a good successor, he could become the second coming of John Cooper

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What would you think about Venables Slayer? I mean he has ties to KSU and he coached their. And he usually fields a good linebacking and d-line corp at OU with great speed. I mean he is the D-coordinator but the secondary(the part that sucks) isn't his job.

So what would you think about him showing up?

 

Of course lately coaches have been doing the exact opposite of what they're heralded for. I mean Stoops and Carrol are defensive guys and they field monster offenses while Mangino is an offense guy and they field a good defense. Get ready for the days of the KSU 50 point wins Slayer!

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Looking up his name, I see he's been at OU since 1998, so he's essentially been a main factor in their return to power (along with Stoops). I could get behind hiring him.

 

Hell, I'll be happy so long as they don't do something stupid like Nebraska did with Beau Bridges.

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I'd heard that the reason for pre-empting the OSU-Michigan game on the West Coast is because there's supposedly an FCC regulation restricting how many hours of Sat morning kids TV you can preempt

 

Who comes up with this shit?

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I'm gonna have to go around with my dad, who is a huge Ohio State fan and find somewhere to watch this game. If I can't, it would be the first time I've ever missed this game.

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Want a piece of us, Kentucky? WHUT. Yo, that win over Vanderbilt scares me. If we can't beat Kentucky, we're seriously lost. Please let the Norm Chow rumors be true.

 

In the Cock 'n Tiger game, it's a tough one. Last time Clemson went to Columbia it was a 63-17 romp that had the better-off half the state gloating. Last year kinda doesn't count to people 'round here. We avoid talking about it. I'm excited to see Tommy Bowden face off against Spurrier to see if Bowden's got the chops to be in the elite coaches category some day. I'd love to see him win, but I'm torn on if they can.

 

But since you gotta take a side in this if you're born in South Carolina, fuck Carolina. Go Clemson. I've always at least respected Clemson. But fuck a barrel o'Carolina, especially now that Fucker McFuckstick is coaching there. I pledge all my fan efforts to Clemson until the end of the game, at which point I'll go on to simply hating Carolina and having Clemson as my 6th favorite.

 

Ohio State beats Michigan, and I think Virginia can beat VT. Alabama beats Auburn and goes to a BCS bowl.

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PSU's in the BCS if they win the Land Grant Bowl. I would be surprised if Michigan St. doesn't give them a game at home, but I think PSU pulls it out.

 

OSU beats Michigan easily IMO and Auburn takes down Alabama in the two big games of the weekend.

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Either Michigan State will give PSU a game or PSU will end up winning by 4 touchdowns. I'm going to say that PSU jumps out to an early lead and MSU packs it in. I really don't get CFN's reasoning about an upset, considering Michigan State has been completely dead the past few weeks, getting killed by Minnesota and losing to a bad Purdue team, along with PSU coming off the bye week.

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I really don't get CFN's reasoning about an upset, considering Michigan State has been completely dead the past few weeks, getting killed by Minnesota and losing to a bad Purdue team, along with PSU coming off the bye week.

They've been calling Michigan State's upset since the middle of October. Guess they feel committed to it. I can see them playing the best they've played in weeks since this is a high-ranked opponent and for a bowl bid, but they're still going down pretty hard.

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Either Michigan State will give PSU a game or PSU will end up winning by 4 touchdowns. I'm going to say that PSU jumps out to an early lead and MSU packs it in. I really don't get CFN's reasoning about an upset, considering Michigan State has been completely dead the past few weeks, getting killed by Minnesota and losing to a bad Purdue team, along with PSU coming off the bye week.

 

They like to stay with trends, and the trend is that the home team kills the away team in the series the past few years. Penn State obviously has a lot to play for, but this should be a desparate Michigan State team that needs to win to go to a bowl.

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But, its Michigan State..... they have such an inferiority complex about Michigan that it wouldn't suprise me if they said bowl be damned and just got throttled like 78-3....or they could pull an MSU and win like 45-44 on some wacky play. If the team that should have beat Michigan and beat a really good Notre Dame team shows up, they should have a good chance of pulling the upset. They just havent been the same team since they fucked up the OSU game.....by the way Ohio State is going down in the big house 20-9

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The rumor now going around is that the Fiesta Bowl is in love with a possible Notre Dame-Alabama matchup if Bama can win on Saturday. That would be quite a good matchup if the Fiesta Bowl can't get Penn State to play Notre Dame instead...

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That was the best sideline interview of the year, no doubt.

Probably one of the best ever.

 

Although, thanks to Jim Rome, I can't think about that bit without also thinking about the Howard Dean yell speech

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Yesssssssss. I want that or Miami/Alabama. How many times have Notre Dame and Alabama played each other?

 

I believe they met twice in the mid-70s when they played each other in the Sugar Bowl and Orange Bowl, and played a home-and-home series in the late-70s and the 80s. I know for a fact that Notre Dame and Auburn have never played each other.

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It's the Sooners and Red Raiders today.

 

Apparently everyone in Lubbock is going on about how OU is going to crush Tech and all the people in Norman are strutting around saying "we got this one in the bag."

 

I really don't see where the confidence is coming from. I think Tech wins comfortably.

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It's the Sooners and Red Raiders today.

 

Apparently everyone in Lubbock is going on about how OU is going to crush Tech and all the people in Norman are strutting around saying "we got this one in the bag."

 

I really don't see where the confidence is coming from. I think Tech wins comfortably.

 

Because Tech is vastly overrated. Come on Dama, they lost to a bad Oklahoma State team and now they're going to beat OU?

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