Here we go: it’s time for Week 2. Let’s hope we can avoid Fight Night on the Smurf Turf and Heisman Winners with Separated Shoulders.

I will not be on the couch this weekend, as I will be traveling to Columbus for SC/Ohio State. However, I know that many of you will be enjoying cold beverages and HDTV so without any further delay here we go.

Thursday, September 10th

ESPN brings us the regular Thursday night team for College Football now that Chris Fowler has been released from his tennis duties on ESPN2. If Georgia Tech doesn’t roll the ACC is done and no one will care about any games they play until the Orange Bowl and maybe not even then.

Clemson @ Georgia Tech (ESPN, 7:30pm) – Chris Fowler, Jesse Palmer, Craig James, Erin Andrews

Friday, September 11th

For those of you like me, with small children and a job, Friday nights look a lot different than they used to. No more chasing tail. You are tired and want something interesting on TV, so ESPN gives you an interesting intersectional battle.

Colorado @ Toledo (ESPN, 9pm) – Ron Franklin, Ed Cunningham

Colorado travels to Michigan south (Sorry, Toledo should be in Michigan not Ohio) and if they look as bad as they did against CSU Dan Hawkins will be calling Chris Peterson and asking for a job back in Boise.

Saturday, September 12th

In the Noon Eastern window I do not see a game worth watching really. It’s a shame that ESPN has Fresno State at Wisconsin when the Badgers are down and they have CMU at Sparty the week after CMU looked horrendous at Arizona. I think the best game to watch will be to see how Greg Paulus and the Orange do on the road as they travel to Happy Valley to get beaten by Penn State (If you get the Big Ten Network).

Fresno State @ Wisconsin (ESPN, Noon) – Dave Pasch, Bob Griese, Chris Spielman
Central Michigan @ Michigan State (ESPN2, Noon) – Pam Ward, Ray Bentley
North Carolina @ Connecticut (ESPNU, Noon) -Clay Matvick, David Diaz-Infante
Iowa @ Iowa State (FSN, Noon) – Joel Meyers, Dave Lapham, Jim Knox
Duke @ Army (CBS College Sports, Noon) – Dave Ryan, Jason Sehorn
Eastern Michigan @ Northwestern (BTN, Noon) – Matt Rosen, Mark Campbell, Rebecca Haarlow
Syracuse @ Penn State (BTN, Noon) – Craig Coshun, Glen Mason, Kenny Jackson
Western Michigan @ Indiana (BTN, Noon) – Matt Devlin, Anthony Herron, Larra Overton
Troy @ Florida (SEC Network, Noon) – Dave Neal, Andre Ware, Cara Capuano
Stanford @ Wake Forest (Raycom, Noon) – Steve Martin, Rick Walker, Mike Hogewood
Pittsburgh @ Buffalo (ESPN Plus, Noon) – Jim Barbar, Doug Chapman
Arkansas State @ Nebraska (FSN PPV, 2pm) – Ron Thulin, Kelly Stouffer, Kent Pavelka

Starting at 3:30pm Eastern we get Notre Dame @ Michigan on ABC and then 30 minutes later we get UCLA @ Tennessee on ESPN. Those are the best 2 games before the night window. TCU should roll Virginia and get Al Groh fired by Halloween and we will see if Oklahoma State has a let down with Houston’s passing offense coming to Stillwater to challenge the Cowboys.

Notre Dame @ Michigan (ABC, 3:30pm) – Sean McDonough, Matt Millen, Holly Rowe
Brigham Young @ Tulane (ESPN2, 3:30pm) – Terry Gannon, David Norrie
Houston @ Oklahoma State (FSN, 3:30pm) – Bill Land, Gary Reasons, Emily Jones
Texas @ Wyoming (VS, 3:30pm) – Joe Beninati, Glenn Parker, Lindy Thackson
Texas Christian @ Virginia (ESPNU, 3:30pm) – Todd Harris, Charles Arbuckle
Louisiana Tech @ Navy (CBS College Sports, 3:30pm) – Pete Medhurst, Randy Cross
Howard @ Rutgers (Big East Network, 3:30pm) – Mike Gleason, John Congemi, Quint Kessenich
Idaho @ Washington (FSN Northwest, 3:30pm) – Tom Glasgow, Mack Strong, Jen Mueller
UCLA @ Tennessee (ESPN, 4pm) – Brad Nessler, Todd Blackledge, Erin Andrews
Eastern Washington @ California (CSN California, 5:30pm) – Jim Kozimor, Mike Pawlaski, Christine Nubla

The 7pm Eastern starts also suck this week as ESPN brings you the SEC on ESPN2, with Georgia looking to bounce back in Conference hosting South Carolina. So if you like the SEC you can watch that for an hour and then change the channel over to ESPN—where the SC/Ohio State game is this week due to ABC’s contract with NASCAR and the Saturday night race (that is to avoid NFL Week 1). I am sure that the Ole Brent and Homer Herbstreit will be great this week and I will miss hearing about how great the Horseshoe is and how great the Buckeyes are and how fast Terrell Pryor is and how scared SC looks in front of 100,000 hostile fans.

South Carolina @ Georgia (ESPN2, 7pm) – Mike Patrick, Craig James, Heather Cox
Vanderbilt @ Louisiana State (ESPNU, 7pm) – Eric Collins, Brock Huard
Air Force @ Minnesota (BTN, 7pm) – Wayne Larrivee, Chris Martin, Charissa Thompson
Illinois State @ Illinois (BTN, 7pm) – Ari Wolfe, Tony McGee, Sarah Spain
Mississippi State @ Auburn (FS Regional, 7pm) – Bob Rathbun, Dave Archer, Jenn Hildreth
Memphis @ Middle Tennessee (CSS, 7pm) – Chuck Oliver, Matt Stewart, Allison Williams
Bowling Green @ Missouri (FSN PPV, 7pm) – Dan McLaughlin, Corby Jones, Todd Donoho
Idaho State @ Oklahoma (FSN PPV, 7pm) – Bill Jones, Dean Blevins, Elissa Campbell
Florida International @ 4 Alabama (CTSN PPV, 7pm) – Chris Stewart, Tyler Watts, Barry Krauss
Kansas @ Texas-El Paso (CBS College Sports, 7:30pm) – Tom Hart, Aaron Taylor
Southeast Missouri State @ Cincinnati (FS Ohio, 7:30pm) – Michael Reghi, Jim Kelly, Jr.
Western Illinois @ Northern Illinois (CSN Chicago, 7:30pm) – Dave Kaplan, Bob Chmiel, Jim Blaney
South Florida @ Western Kentucky (ESPN Plus, 7:30pm) – Dave Weekley, John Gregory
USC @ Ohio State (ESPN, 8pm) – ESPN: Brent Musburger, Kirk Herbstreit, Lisa Salters (Also airing in ESPN 3D: Mark Jones, Bob Davie, Ed Cunningham)
Tulsa @ New Mexico (MTN, 8pm) – James Bates, Todd Christensen, Keenan McCardell

In the game window that only matters if you leave West of the Rockies, we can see if Oregon can play a game without a fight and bury Purdue and sweep the home and home with the Boilermakers. If you get ESPNU check the Utes and see if they can take SJSU by the same 56-3 score that SC did.

Miami-OH @ Boise State (KTVB, 10pm) – Mark Johnson, Tom Scott, David Augusto
Purdue @ Oregon (FSN, 10:15pm) – Barry Tompkins, Petros Papadakis, Michael Eaves
Utah @ San Jose State (ESPNU, 10:30pm) – Carter Blackburn, JC Pearson
Oregon State @ Nevada-Las Vegas (CBS College Sports, 11pm) – Jason Knapp, Akbar Gbaja-Biamila