Welcome to week 3. So far we know nothing as far as I am concerned, as I have not seen anyone look great yet (with the exception of the Mormons)–so I am looking forward to being on my couch this weekend and not hearing 100,000 Buckeye fans yelling at me.

Thursday, September 17th

Here we go with another Thursday night in the ACC. Apparently, the truck doesn’t have to go north of Atlanta; in fact, it heads south to an hour north of Miami. (Why the Canes left the Orange Bowl is still stunning to me since at least they had a home field advantage there.) So we should see another good game—let’s just hope if Tech gets up by 24 they don’t spit the bit and almost lose the game.

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

Friday, September 18th

Now we get an interesting Friday night game. I just hope that it’s over before 1:30am Eastern as we got to Ohio and saw the entire fourth quarter of Toledo/Colorado last week just because it was on. Now Boise State gets to go to Fresneck and play the Bulldogs. The crowd should be into it for a quarter because unless the Broncos lay down, I see the Bulldogs not playing as well as they did against a bad Wisconsin team.

Boise State @ Fresno State (ESPN, 9pm) – Joe Tessitore, Rod Gilmore

Saturday, September 19th

Ahh, a Saturday morning with Gameday (or a 3 year old soccer game during Gameday if you are me). Now, the folks of Gameday will be in Austin for the Texas Tech/Texas game which should not be as exciting as last year’s game in Lubbock when the Crabtree and Harrell escaped with a win over Texas. In the Noon Eastern block I will be focused on the Golden Bears’ trip to Minneapolis to TCF Bank Stadium to make sure Cal doesn’t spit the bit (also to check out the Stadium for SC’s trip next year).
Everything else during the early window looks like a bunch of blowouts unless Ohio State doesn’t enjoy having to go to Cleveland to play Toledo.

California @ Minnesota (ESPN, Noon)- Dave Pasch, Bob Griese, Chris Spielman
East Carolina @ North Carolina (ESPN2, Noon)- Pam Ward, Ray Bentley
Duke @ Kansas (Versus, Noon)- Ron Thulin, Kelly Stouffer, Lewis Johnson
Louisville @ Kentucky (ESPNU, Noon)- Clay Matvick, David Diaz-Infante
Ball State @ Army (CBS College Sports, Noon)- Dave Ryan, Jason Sehorn
Eastern Michigan @ Michigan (BTN, Noon)- Wayne Larrivee, Chris Martin, Charissa Thompson
Temple @ Penn State (BTN, Noon)- Ari Wolfe, Anthony Herron, Kenny Jackson
Northern Illinois @ Purdue (BTN, Noon)- Craig Coshun, Rod Woodson, Larra Overton
Wofford @ Wisconsin (BTN, Noon)- Matt Devlin, Glen Mason, Jay Wilson
North Texas @ Alabama (SEC Network/FS Detroit/CSN Bay Area/CSN Wash/MSG, Noon)- Dave Neal, Andre Ware, Cara Capuano
Boston College @ Clemson (Raycom, Noon)- Steve Martin, Rick Walker, Mike Hogewood
Ohio State v. Toledo (ESPN Plus, Noon)- Michael Reghi, Doug Chapman
Furman @ Missouri (FSN PPV, 2pm)- Dan McLaughlin, Howard Balzer, Todd Donoho

Moving into the 3:30pm eastern window we get the return of SEC football on CBS. CBS opens its schedule with Verne calling the Florida 42-point win over Tennessee (Danielson will have his Tebow kneepads on so be prepared). In the ABC regional telecasts there are 3 interesting games. Nebraska travels to Virginia Tech where the Hokies need to roll the Huskers in order to show that they are not a complete mess and to prove the Big 12 North is a complete joke. Arizona travels to Iowa and we can see if the Pac-10 middle can beat the middle of the Big-11. Finally, SC travels to Seattle to play the Sark/Holt led Huskies and let’s hope that there’s no letdown (2007 at Washington (20+pt favorites and a 3pt win, 21 pt favorites and a 7pt loss 2008 at Oregon St) after the big non-conference road win. We also get the NotreDame Broadcasting Company showing Charlie Tuna’s return to South Bend after choking away the Michigan game. If the Irish lose this one, it’s over for Weis.

Tennessee @ Florida (CBS, 3:30pm)- Verne Lundquist, Gary Danielson, Tracy Wolfson
Michigan State @ Notre Dame (NBC, 3:30pm)- Tom Hammond, Pat Haden, Alex Flanagan
Nebraska @ Virginia Tech (ABC, 3:30pm)- Sean McDonough, Matt Millen, Holly Rowe
Arizona @ Iowa (ABC, 3:30pm)- Mike Patrick, Craig James, Heather Cox
USC @ Washington (ABC, 3:30pm)- Terry Gannon, David Norrie, Quint Kessenich
Utah @ Oregon (ESPN, 3:30pm)- Ron Franklin, Ed Cunningham
Tulsa @ Oklahoma (FSN, 3:30pm)- Joel Meyers, Dave Lapham, Jim Knox
Indiana @ Akron (ESPNU, 3:30pm)- Todd Harris, Charles Arbuckle
Virginia @ Southern Mississippi (CBS College Sports, 3:30pm)- Jason Knapp, Akbar Gbaja-Biamila
Wyoming @ Colorado (FCS Central, 3:30pm)- Drew Goodman, Yogi Roth
Alabama-Birmingham @ Troy (ISP Sports/CSS/FCS Atl, 3:30pm)- Sam Smith, Roger Schultz
Florida International @ Rutgers (Big East Network/SNY, 5pm)- Bob Picozzi, John Gregory

Starting at 6:45pm Eastern we get into the third window of games and on FSN the Big East’s best team Cincinnati travels to Corvallis to take on the Beavers who need this win for payback after last year’s failure in Cincinnati. Now, if you are a DirecTV viewer you will not see this game (unless I missed the news that Versus and DTV kissed and made up) but Florida St. is traveling to Provo to take on BYU. This is a big game for Bobby Bowden because a second loss would end their season as a team worth paying attention too and also would make the BYU BcS movement gain a ton of momentum. Then at 8pm Eastern we might get a good first half in Austin but I doubt that Taylor Potts will be able to take down the Longhorns (although being a vocal Longhorn hater, I would like to see it happen.)

Cincinnati @ Oregon State (FSN, 6:45pm)- Rich Burk, Steve Preece
Florida State @ Brigham Young (Versus, 7pm)- Joe Beninati, Glenn Parker, Lindy Thackson
Louisiana-Lafayette @ Louisiana State (ESPNU, 7pm)- Eric Collins, Brock Huard
Mississippi State @ Vanderbilt (FSN Regional, 7pm)- Bob Rathbun, Dave Archer, Jenn Hildreth
Northwestern @ Syracuse (Time Warner-NY, 7pm)- TBD
Air Force @ New Mexico (CBS College Sports, 7:30pm)- Tom Hart, Aaron Taylor
Southeast Louisiana @ Mississippi (CSS/CST/CSN NWest/CSN Philly, 7:30pm)- Doug Bell, JC Pearson
Buffalo @ Central Florida (Bright House, 7:30pm)- Drew Fellios, Mark Royals, Dave Baumann
Georgia @ Arkansas (ESPN, 7:45pm)- Brad Nessler, Todd Blackledge, Erin Andrews
West Virginia @ Auburn (ESPN2, 7:45pm)- Mark Jones, Bob Davie
Texas Tech @ Texas (ABC, 8pm)- Brent Musburger, Kirk Herbstreit, Lisa Salters
Texas-El Paso @ New Mexico State (Aggie Vision, 8pm)- Glen Cerny, Danny Knee

Finally, in the goodnight window in the East/Central, those of you out West need to hope UCLA beats a bad K-State team that lost to Louisiana-Lafayette or all of their good work in Knoxville ends up in the garbage can.

Louisiana-Monroe @ Arizona State (FS Arizona/FCS Pacific, 10pm)- Tom Leander, Juan Roque, Jody Jackson
Kansas State @ UCLA (FSN, 10:15pm)- Barry Tompkins, Petros Papadakis, Michael Eaves
Hawaii @ Nevada-Las Vegas (MTN/CBS College Sports, 11pm)- James Bates, Todd Christensen, Toby Christensen