Welcome to Championship weekend: the made up weekend to expand college football’s shadow into December and to line the pockets of a few conferences that have title games. But even though these conference title games are a huge money grab, at least we get one last weekend of games that will decide who goes to what glorified scrimmage in a warm weather city (aka a bowl game).

Thursday, December 3^rd

America, welcome to Oregon and all the Civil War has to offer. This might be the best rivalry game on the west coast. Mike Riley has brought Oregon State to the brink of their first Rose Bowl berth in 45 years and Oregon looks to get back for the first time since the 1994 season. Oregon is a huge favorite as they are at home and dominated in this game last year in Corvallis, but the Beavs have Jaquizz Rodgers back and hopefully the game will be very entertaining.

• Arkansas State @ Western Kentucky (Sun Belt TV, 7pm) – Todd Kalas, Derek Rackley (Will Air on CSS, CST)
• Oregon State @ Oregon (ESPN, 9pm) – Chris Fowler, Craig James, Jesse Palmer, Erin Andrews

Friday, December 4^th

The MAC has brought the ESPN family of networks many entertaining games through the years and the Chippewas’ battle with the Bobcats could be another one. CMU has Dan LeFevour who has been the best player in the conference for the last two years and hopes to knock out Frank Solich and Ohio.

MAC Championship: Central Michigan v. Ohio (ESPN2, 8pm) – Joe Tessitore, Rod Gilmore

Saturday, December 5^th

At noon Eastern on Saturday the ESPN/ABC networks will all have a game and two of them are meaningful. The alleged best game will be the defacto Big East title game between Cincinnati and Pitt, and if Matt Millen drives you to turn the volume off you can head to ESPN2 and hear Ron Franklin and wish Ed Cunningham would stop talking as Houston and ECU battle for the Conference USA title.

• Cincinnati @ Pittsburgh (ABC, Noon)- Sean McDonough, Matt Millen, Holly Rowe
• West Virginia @ Rutgers (ESPN, Noon)- Dave Pasch, Bob Griese, Chris Spielman
• Conference USA Championship: Houston @ East Carolina (ESPN2, Noon)- Ron Franklin, Ed Cunningham
• Fresno State @ Illinois (BTN, 12:30pm)- Wayne Larrivee, Chris Martin, Charissa Thompson
• San Jose State @ Louisiana Tech (ESPN Plus, 2pm)- Trey Bender, Jay Taylor (Will Air on CST, MASN)

The only people watching USC/Arizona will be fans of the two schools as the rest of America’s college football watchers will be listening to Verne and Gary with their Tebow kneepads on promote the Gators to the point of making the rest of America vomit. However, the winner of the SEC title will play in the Rose Bowl on January 7th against Texas or TCU.

• New Mexico State @ Boise State (KTVB, 3pm) – Mark Johnson, Tom Scott, Justin Corr
• Arizona @ USC (ABC, 3:30pm) – Mike Patrick, Craig James, Heather Cox
• SEC Championship: Florida v. Alabama (CBS, 4pm) – Verne Lundquist, Gary Danielson, Tracy Wolfson
• California @ Washington (CSN California+/FSN Washington, 6:30pm) – Barry Tompkins, Mike Pawlaski/Tom Glasgow, Mack Strong, Jason Stiles, Jen Mueller

In the primetime window we will see if Nebraska can pull the upset and keep Texas out of the national title game and a meaningless ACC title game will be played in Tampa that again no one outside of Atlanta or Clemson will watch because they both lost to middling SEC teams last weekend. For the insomniacs, Wisconsin will travel to Hawaii and play into the wee hours of Sunday AM.

• Florida Atlantic @ Florida International (Sun Belt TV, 7pm) – Todd Kalas, Derek Rackley (Will Air on CST)
• Big XII Championship: Nebraska v. Texas (ABC, 8pm) – Brent Musburger, Kirk Herbstreit, Lisa Salters
• ACC Championship: Georgia Tech v. Clemson (ESPN, 8pm) – Brad Nessler, Todd Blackledge, Erin Andrews
• South Florida @ Connecticut (ESPN2, 8pm) – Mark Jones, Bob Davie
• Wisconsin @ Hawaii (ESPN2, 11:30pm) – Terry Gannon, David Norrie

Have a great weekend; enjoy the games and thanks to Awful Announcing for the week’s TV Schedule.

Ah, Week 12—or as it used to be called (before the BcS), Rivalry Weekend. This used to be the best weekend of the year but with the bastardization of rivalry weekend for TV and the 12-game schedule all we have is Harvard-Yale, Stanford-Cal and Ohio State-Michigan to pull us through a potential horrible weekend. (I have said this I think six times and only one or two weekends have been truly horrible.)

Thursday, November 19^th

Well this game should be a blowout but they never seem to go that way on Thursday nights. I wonder if this season ESPN has gone to getting Erin Andrews corner suites so that no one has access to her room?

Colorado @ Oklahoma State (ESPN, 7:30pm) – Chris Fowler, Craig James, Jesse Palmer, Erin Andrews

Friday, November 20^th

Whee, another Boise State weeknight game. Lucky for them Utah State is awful or I might be worried for the Broncos on the road.

• Akron @ Bowling Green (ESPNU, 5:30pm) – Kevin Negandhi, Jon Berger
• Boise State @ Utah State (ESPN2, 9:30pm) – Joe Tessitore, Rod Gilmore

Saturday, November 21^st

This is a horrible set of games but ABC is force-feeding us the Ohio State-Michigan rivalry—which Michigan has won only once since Senator Sweatervest has arrived from Youngstown (so apparently he is the anti-John Cooper). Also on Versus (if you get the channel) you can watch Harvard-Yale, which is the Future Millionaires of America rivalry. So many games … none of which are really worth blocking out four hours for.

• Ohio State @ Michigan (ABC, Noon) – Sean McDonough, Matt Millen, Holly Rowe
• Harvard @ Yale (Versus, Noon) – [I have no idea who the announcers are.]
• Minnesota @ Iowa (ESPN, Noon) – Dave Pasch, Bob Griese, Chris Spielman
• North Carolina @ Boston College (ESPN2, Noon) – Pam Ward, Ray Bentley
• Duke @ Miami (ESPNU, Noon) – Clay Matvick, David Diaz-Infante
• Mississippi State @ Arkansas (SEC Network, Noon) – Dave Neal, Andre Ware, Cara Capuano (Will Air on MSG2, CSN California)
• Chattanooga @ Alabama (SEC Network, Noon) – Doug Bell, Chris Doering
• Louisville @ South Florida (Big East Network, Noon) – Mike Gleason, John Congemi, Quint Kessenich (Will Air on Altitude, CST, MASN, SNY)
• Maryland @ Florida State (Raycom, Noon) – Tim Brant, Rick Walker, Mike Hogewood
• Oklahoma @ Texas Tech (FSN, 12:30pm) – Joel Meyers, Gary Reasons, Jim Knox
• Memphis @ Houston (CSS, 1pm) – Matt Stewart, Chuck Oliver, Allison Williams
• Florida International @ Florida (SUN PPV, 1pm) – Larry Vettel, Nat Moore, Steve Babik
• Texas Christian @ Wyoming (MTN, 2pm) – Dan Gutowsky, Blaine Fowler, Natalie Vickers
• Tulane @ Central Florida (Bright House, 2pm) – Drew Fellios, Mark Royals, Dave Baumann

In the midday window I would recommend you watch the NotreDame Broadcasting Company try and save Charlie Weis. The SEC game of the week on CBS is not worth watching so at 4 Eastern you can checkout ASU at UCLA from the Rose Bowl just for the views from the blimp.

• Connecticut @ Notre Dame (NBC, 2:30pm) – Tom Hammond, Pat Haden, Alex Flanagan
• Louisiana State @ Mississippi (CBS, 3:30pm) – Verne Lundquist, Gary Danielson, Tracy Wolfson
• Penn State @ Michigan State (ABC/ESPN, 3:30pm) – Mike Patrick, Craig James, Heather Cox
• Virginia @ Clemson (ABC/ESPN, 3:30pm) – Bob Wischusen, Brian Griese
• North Carolina State @ Virginia Tech (ESPNU, 3:30pm) – Todd Harris, Charles Arbuckle
• Air Force @ Brigham Young (CBS College Sports, 3:30pm) – Tom Hart, Aaron Taylor
• Purdue @ Indiana (BTN, 3:30pm) – Craig Coshun, Anthony Herron, Mark Campbell
• Wisconsin @ Northwestern (BTN, 3:30pm) – Wayne Larrivee, Chris Martin, Charissa Thompson
• Alabama-Birmingham @ East Carolina (ISP Sports, 3:30pm) – Patrick Kinas, Billy Weaver, Brian Meador (Will Air on MASN)
• Arizona State @ UCLA (FSN, 4pm) – Barry Tompkins, Petros Papadakis, Michael Eaves
• San Diego State @ Utah (Versus, 4pm) – Tim Neverett, Glenn Parker, Lindsay Soto
• Florida Atlantic @ Troy (Sun Belt TV, 4pm) – Todd Kalas, Derek Rackley (Will Air on CSS, CST)
• Arkansas State @ Middle Tennessee (Blue Raiders TV, 4pm) – Chip Walters, Kelly Holcomb

In the evening window (again, if you get Versus) you can watch the battle for the Ax in the Big Game as Cal comes to the Farm to take on Stanford. Then in part of the country (not the part I live in) you can also checkout Oregon’s return trip to Tucson to take on the Wildcats. The last time Oregon came to Tucson they were #2 in the country and Dennis Dixon was a Heisman favorite and he destroyed his knee and Oregon lost their last 3 games.

• Colorado State @ New Mexico (MTN, 6pm) – James Bates, Todd Christensen, Keenan McCardell
• Vanderbilt @ Tennessee (ESPNU, 7pm) – Eric Collins, Brock Huard
• California @ Stanford (Versus, 7:30pm) – Ron Thulin, Kelly Stouffer, Lewis Johnson
• Tulsa @ Southern Mississippi (CBS College Sports, 7:30pm) – Dave Ryan, Akbar Gbaja-Biamila
• Kansas State @ Nebraska (ESPN, 7:45pm) – Brad Nessler, Todd Blackledge, Erin Andrews
• Kentucky @ Georgia (ESPN2, 7:45pm) – Mark Jones, Bob Davie
• Kansas @ Texas (ABC, 8pm) – Ron Franklin, Ed Cunningham
• Oregon @ Arizona (ABC, 8pm) – Brent Musburger, Kirk Herbstreit, Lisa Salters
• Hawaii @ San Jose State (Time Warner-Oceanic, 8pm) – Bill Leahey, Russell Yamaoha
• Nevada @ New Mexico State (ESPNU, 10:30pm) – Terry Gannon, David Norrie

Have a great weekend; enjoy the games and thanks to Awful Announcing for the week’s TV Schedule.

Welcome to Week 11. We have very few games that mean anything (again) and I missed all of the Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday action so here is how you should spend your Saturday watching college football.

Friday, November 13^th

Tonight is Friday the 13^th and will it be bad luck for Cincinnati as West Virginia comes up the road to the Queen City to take on the Bearcats. This could be the best game of the weekend if WVU plays well or we could get a Cincinnati blowout and people will get to hear more about Cincinnati and Brian Kelly leaving to coach at Notre Dame.

• West Virginia @ Cincinnati (ESPN2, 8pm) – Joe Tessitore, Rod Gilmore, Quint Kessenich
• Temple @ Akron (ESPNU, 8:30pm) – Justin Kutcher, Tom Luginbill

Saturday, November 14^th

There are 17 games starting at Noon Eastern this Saturday and I will not watch any of them. They all suck.

• Tennessee @ Mississippi (CBS, Noon) – Craig Bolerjack, Steve Buerelein
• Michigan State @ Purdue (ESPN, Noon) – Dave Pasch, Bob Griese, Chris Spielman
• Georgia Tech @ Duke (ESPN2, Noon) – Pam Ward, Ray Bentley
• Florida State @ Wake Forest (ESPNU, Noon) – Clay Matvick, David Diaz-Infante
• Northwestern @ Illinois (ESPN Classic, Noon) – Mike Morgan, Jon Berger
• Texas @ Baylor (FSN, Noon) – Bill Land, Dave Lapham, Emily Jones
• Houston @ Central Florida (CBS College Sports, Noon) – Matt McConnell, Akbar Gbaja-Biamila
• Indiana @ Penn State (BTN, Noon) – Craig Coshun, Glen Mason, Anthony Herron
• Michigan @ Wisconsin (BTN, Noon) – Wayne Larrivee, Chris Martin, Charissa Thompson
• South Dakota State @ Minnesota (BTN, Noon) – Matt Rosen, Ron Johnson
• Kentucky @ Vanderbilt (SEC Network, Noon) – Dave Neal, Andre Ware, Cara Capuano (Will Air on CSN California, MSG+2)
• Louisville @ Syracuse (Big East Network, Noon) – Mike Gleason, John Congemi, Quint Kessenich (Will Air on Atlitude, CST, MASN, SNY)
• Clemson @ North Carolina State (Raycom, Noon) – Tim Brant, Rick Walker, Mike Hogewood
• Missouri @ Kansas State (Versus, 12:30pm) – Ron Thulin, Kelly Stouffer, Lindsay Soto
• Alabama-Birmingham @ Memphis (CSS, 1pm) – Matt Stewart, Chuck Oliver, Allison Williams
• Virginia Tech @ Maryland (ESPN360, 1pm) – Dave Weekley, Danny Kanell
• Brigham Young @ New Mexico (MTN, 2pm) – Ari Wolfe, Blaine Fowler, Keenan McCardell

Now, at 3:30 Eastern we have a few interesting games that will glue me to my couch. Florida travels to South Carolina to possibly end the Ole Ball Coach’s run with the Gamecocks. If Coach Spurrier can pull the upset, he will end the Gators run and save America from Urban Meyer and Tim Tebow. Over on ABC (part of the country) you can watch Iowa fall apart and give the Rose Bowl berth from the Big 11 to the Buckeyes. Also at 3:30pm, on FSN, Stanford comes to LA to try to continue their run through alleged heavyweights of the Pac-10 and give Pete Carroll his first loss in November.

• Texas-El Paso @ Southern Methodist (Time Warner-MetroSports, 3pm) – CJ Martin, Bruce Wiseman
• Florida @ South Carolina (CBS, 3:30pm) – Verne Lundquist, Gary Danielson, Tracy Wolfson
• Iowa @ Ohio State (ABC/ESPN, 3:30pm) – Sean McDonough, Matt Millen, Holly Rowe
• Nebraska @ Kansas (ABC, 3:30pm) – Ron Franklin, Ed Cunningham
• Miami @ North Carolina (ABC/ESPN, 3:30pm) – Bob Wischusen, Brian Griese
• Stanford @ USC (FSN, 3:30pm) – Barry Tompkins, Petros Papadakis, Michael Eaves
• Idaho @ Boise State (ESPNU, 3:30pm) – Todd Harris, Charles Arbuckle
• Delaware @ Navy (CBS College Sports, 3:30pm) – Tom McCarthy, Randy Cross
• Washington @ Oregon State (FSN Northwest, 3:30pm) – Tom Glasgow, Steve Preece, Rashad Floyd, Angie Mentink
• Boston College @ Virginia (ESPN360, 3:30pm) – Ryan Rose, John Gregory
• Fresno State @ Nevada (BSN, 4pm) – Ralph Wood, Randy Rosenbloom, Guy Haberman
• Louisiana-Lafayette @ Middle Tennessee (Sun Belt TV, 4:15pm) – Todd Kalas, Derek Rackley (Will Air on CSS, CST)
• UCLA @ Washington State (FCS Pacific, 5pm) – Steve Physioc, Yogi Roth, Samantha Steele
• Nevada-Las Vegas @ Air Force (MTN, 6pm) – James Bates, Todd Christensen, Natalie Vickers

In prime-time we have one game that means something and another that I will watch hoping to see the end of the Tuna. Utah comes to Fort Worth to take on the 9-0 Horned Frogs and end their Cinderella hopes. Can the Runnin’ Utes pull the upset, or will the TCU defense keep dominating opponents and roll towards a BCS bid? Also, on ABC we can all hope that Pittsburgh kills the Fighting Irish and we can watch the camera shots of Chuck Weis rubbing his gut as he contemplates running back to Bellichick.

• Alabama @ Mississippi State (ESPN, 7pm) – Brad Nessler, Todd Blackledge, Erin Andrews
• Auburn @ Georgia (ESPN2, 7pm) – Mark Jones, Bob Davie
• Texas A&M @ Oklahoma (FSN, 7pm) – Joel Meyers, Gary Reasons, Jim Knox
• Louisiana Tech @ Louisiana State (ESPNU, 7pm) – Eric Collins, Brock Huard
• Arizona @ California (Versus, 7pm) – Ted Robinson, Glenn Parker, Lewis Johnson
• Utah @ Texas Christian (CBS College Sports, 7:30pm) – Tom Hart, Aaron Taylor
• Troy @ Arkansas (SEC Network, 7:30pm) – Doug Bell, Chris Doering (Will Air on CSS, CST)
• Notre Dame @ Pittsburgh (ABC, 8pm) – Brent Musburger, Kirk Herbstreit, Lisa Salters
• Texas Tech @ Oklahoma State (ABC, 8pm) – Mike Patrick, Craig James, Heather Cox

Late night on ESPN brings us Oregon’s bounce back game from the meltdown at Stanford. Hey—it’s more football on the WWL if you have nothing else to do.

• Wyoming @ San Diego State (MTN, 10pm) – Bill Doleman, Robert Griffith, Molly Sullivan
• New Mexico State @ Hawaii (Time Warner-Oceanic, 10pm) – Bill Leahey, Russell Yamoaha
• Arizona State @ Oregon (ESPN, 10:15pm) – Terry Gannon, David Norrie

Sunday, November 15^th

Pats/Colts or Pirates/Hurricane? Yep—I’ll probably put up with Al Michaels too.

East Carolina @ Tulsa (ESPN, 8:15pm) – Dave Lamont, JC Pearson

Have a great weekend, enjoy the games and thanks to Awful Announcing for the week’s TV Schedule.

We are coming down the home stretch, America. Five weeks left in the season and we still have seven undefeated teams. We also will have a new Pac-10 champ for the first time since 2002 thanks to the USC defense deciding that umbrella coverage and no pressure would be the best way to stop Oregon. Oh well. Now it is time to move into November and hope that Iowa loses soon.

Thursday, November 5^th

America get ready we could be getting a World Series game 7 against ESPN overloading their networks with college football on Thursday night. (Or the Yankees could win tonight and then the only sport worth watching would be College Football because no one needs to watch the NBA or NHL in November.) Now we get the Virginia Tech revenge game against East Carolina on Thursday night and Lou Holtz calling Skip’s biggest game at home. Again, mute the game and hope Virginia Tech blows them out.

• Virginia Tech @ East Carolina (ESPN, 7:30pm) – Rece Davis, Mark May, Lou Holtz, Todd Harris
• Eastern Michigan @ Northern Illinois (ESPNU, 7:30pm) - Charlie Neal, Jay Walker

Friday, November 6^th

Please, please, please, Louisiana Tech: Pull the upset so that everyone stops talking about Boise State. Thank you, that is all.

Boise State @ Louisiana Tech (ESPN2, 8pm) – Dave Lamont, Rod Gilmore

Saturday, November 7^th

Another Saturday and another Iowa game at Noon on ESPN; how does the Big Eleven Network never get the important conference games? FSN will give America Texas’ return game with Central Florida and if they don’t blow them out by 40 they will fall out of the Top 2.

• Northwestern @ Iowa (ESPN, Noon) - Dave Pasch, Bob Griese, Chris Spielman
• Central Florida @ Texas (FSN, Noon) - Bill Land, Gary Reasons, Emily Jones
• Syracuse @ Pittsburgh (ESPNU, Noon) - Clay Matvick, David Diaz-Infante
• Wisconsin @ Indiana (BTN, Noon) - Craig Coshun, Glen Mason, Mike Hall
• Illinois @ Minnesota (BTN, Noon) - Matt Rosen, Ron Johnson, Ron Johnson
• Western Michigan @ Michigan State (BTN, Noon) - Ari Wolfe, Rod Woodson, Kenny Jackson
• Purdue @ Michigan (BTN, Noon) - Wayne Larrivee, Chris Martin, Charissa Thompson
• South Carolina @ Arkansas (SEC Network, Noon) - Dave Neal, Andre Ware, Cara Capuano (Will Air on MSG, FS Detroit, CSN California)
• Louisville @ West Virginia (Big East Network, Noon) - Mike Gleason, John Congemi, Quint Kessenich (Altitude, CST, MASN, SNY)
• Virginia @ Miami (Raycom, Noon) - Steve Martin, Rick Walker, Mike Hogewood
• Kansas @ Kansas State (Versus, 12:30pm) - Ron Thulin, Kelly Stouffer, Lewis Johnson
• Tennessee Tech @ Georgia (CSS PPV, 1pm) -Matt Stewart, Buck Belue, Sandra Golden
• Eastern Kentucky @ Kentucky (Big Blue PPV, 1pm) - Rob Bromley, Tim Couch, Dick Gabriel
• Maryland @ North Carolina State (ESPN360, 1pm) - Ryan Rose, Danny Kanell
• Texas A&M @ Colorado (FCS Central, 1:30pm) -Dan McLaughlin, Yogi Roth, Samantha Steele
• Furman @ Auburn (CSS PPV, 1:30pm) - Andy Burcham, Cole Cubelic, Melissa Lee
• Brigham Young @ Wyoming (MTN, 2pm) - James Bates, Todd Christensen, Andrea Lloyd

In the afternoon window it begins with Navy’s return trip to South Bend were they look to extend their winning streak to two. Then at 3:30pm Eastern Verne and Gary travel to Tuscaloosa for the biggest game of the season in the SEC West as LSU comes to town looking to ruin America’s dream game between Florida and Alabama on December 5^th. I think only Alabama can beat Florida, so I may have to root for Alabama this weekend (even though I hate Nick Saban and Les Miles). ABC’s regional coverage is still ruining my weekends as I never seem to get the good mirror game and Big 12 games are terrible this year. (Oh, and why was the USC/Oregon game not on ESPN2 last week here in Texas??? I was promised HD coverage on ESPN2 all day and yet the game was blacked out, WTF? I am glad that it was in standard def on a random ESPN alternate channel because I was not upset when I turned it off when Oregon scored for the 8^th time).

• Navy @ Notre Dame (NBC, 2:30pm) - Tom Hammond, Pat Haden, Alex Flanagan
• Rice @ Southern Methodist (Mustang Sports, 3:30pm) - Brad Sham, Allen Stone
• Louisiana State @ Alabama (CBS, 3:30pm) - Verne Lundquist, Gary Danielson, Tracy Wolfson
• Ohio State @ Penn State (ABC/ESPN2, 3:30pm) -Sean McDonough, Matt Millen, Holly Rowe
• Oklahoma State @ Iowa State (ABC, 3:30pm) -Bob Wischusen, Brian Griese
• Wake Forest @ Georgia Tech (ABC/ESPN2, 3:30pm) - Pam Ward, Ray Bentley
• Oregon @ Stanford (FSN, 3:30pm) - Barry Tompkins, Petros Papadakis, Rebecca Haarlow
• Duke @ North Carolina (ESPNU, 3:30pm) - Todd Harris, Charles Arbuckle
• Army @ Air Force (CBS College Sports, 3:30pm) -Dave Ryan, Jason Sehorn
• Washington State @ Arizona (FCS Pacific, 3:30pm) - Dave Sitton, John Fina, Glenn Howell
• Washington @ UCLA (FS Regional, 3:30pm) - Bill MacDonald, James Washington, Brooke Olzendam, Courtney Jones (Will Air on FSN Northwest; Prime Ticket, FCS Pacific)
• Louisiana-Lafayette @ Arkansas State (Sun Belt TV, 3:30pm) - Todd Kalas, Derek Rackley (Will Air on CSS, CST)
• Texas-El Paso @ Tulane (ISP Sports, 3:30pm) -Sam Smith, Roger Schultz (Will Air on FCS Atlantic)
• Texas Christian @ San Diego State (Versus, 4pm) - Tim Neverett, Glenn Parker, Lindsay Soto
• New Mexico @ Utah (MTN, 4pm) - Dan Gutowsky, Blaine Fowler, Sammy Linebaugh

The best game in the evening window is Oregon State at Cal. The ABC regional 8pm Eastern nightmare is just a mess. 20% of the country gets SC @ ASU, Big 12 country gets OU @ Nebraska and the Northeast gets their first look at Cincinnati as they host UCONN. You might care that Cincinnati could go undefeated but they should roll over UCONN without much effort. FSU @ Clemson is no longer the Bowden Bowl but now it could just be another loss for Bobby as C.J. Spiller should go nuts running the ball with the announcement of Mickie Andrews’s retirement. I will watch all of this but having a Pac-10 game getting the National spotlight on FSN is a big deal; of course Mike Pawlawski as the color man in the booth could be interesting as he was the last good Cal QB.

• Oregon State @ California (FSN, 7pm) - Steve Physioc, Mike Pawlawski, Drea Avent
• Memphis @ Tennessee (ESPNU, 7pm) - Eric Collins, Brock Huard
• Vanderbilt @ Florida (ESPN2, 7:15pm) - Mark Jones, Bob Davie
• Houston @ Tulsa (CBS College Sports, 7:30pm) -Tom Hart, Aaron Taylor
• Northern Arizona @ Mississippi (SEC Network, 7:30pm) - Bob Rathun, Dave Archer, Jenn Hildreth (Will Air on CSS, CST, Comcast Network)
• Florida State @ Clemson (ESPN, 7:45pm) - Brad Nessler, Todd Blackledge, Erin Andrews
• USC @ Arizona State (ABC, 8pm) - Mike Patrick, Craig James, Heather Cox
• Connecticut @ Cincinnati (ABC, 8pm) - Brent Musburger, Kirk Herbstreit, Lisa Salters
• Oklahoma @ Nebraska (ABC, 8pm) - Ron Franklin, Ed Cunningham
• Colorado State @ Nevada-Las Vegas (MTN, 8pm) - Bill Doleman, Robert Griffith, Molly Sullivan
• Utah State @ Hawaii (Oceanic PPV, 10pm) - Jim Leahey, Russell Yamaoha
• Fresno State @ Idaho (ESPNU, 10:30pm) - Charlie Neal, JC Pearson

Sunday, November 8^th

I probably would watch the Cowboy and Eagles instead of this. I know that people in Reno and NoCal might watch but even that is sketchy at best.

Nevada @ San Jose State (ESPN, 8pm) - Terry Gannon, David Norrie

Have a great weekend, enjoy the games and thanks to Awful Announcing for the week’s TV Schedule.

Well we come to Halloween and we might know less about college football than we knew two months ago. I am stunned that the SEC has teams #1 & #2 and they both looked awful this past Saturday. Of course, USC played no defense for the 5^th consecutive quarter and they need to be up for a 60-minute battle at Autzen with the loud crowd on Halloween night. Texas plays the last game they will not be at least a double-digit favorite in when they travel to Stillwater to play the Dez Bryant-less Oklahoma State Cowboys. I hope that we get to November with more chaos and more questions as clarity in college football is not nearly as much fun.

Tuesday, October 27^th

Hey look—ESPN gives you a Tuesday night game because there is no baseball and I really hope that Lou Holtz’s microphone breaks or he loses his voice and cannot speak because he is terrible. So, don’t watch unless you are betting on the game.

East Carolina @ Memphis (ESPN2, 8pm) – Rece Davis, Mark May, Lou Holtz, Rob Stone

Thursday, October 29^th

Game 2 of the World Series goes against another ACC Thursday night. I swear that Chris Fowler must be sick of watching bad ACC teams play entertaining games. A trip to Blacksburg is apparently something that college football fans should do, but at this point they’ve choked away their season and are now just an afterthought since starting the season in the Top 10.

North Carolina @ Virginia Tech (ESPN, 7:30pm) – Chris Fowler, Craig James, Jesse Palmer, Erin Andrews

Friday, October 30^th

Off night for the World Series brings us Friday night in the Big East as West Virginia (who needs to win out to fight for the Big East title) travels to Tampa to bury South Florida (who seems to think the season ends after Week 6).

West Virginia @ South Florida (ESPN2, 8pm) – Joe Tessitore, Rod Gilmore

Saturday, October 31^st

Ok, so I am stunned by the Gameday decision to go to Eugene for SC/Oregon. I had them back with Texas and in Stillwater since they seem to think America would rather watch Texas than USC (80% of America got the Texas game last week). However, they decided that a trip to Autzen would be more fun and they can talk about the turnaround at Oregon, LeGarrette Blount, and then Matt Barkley and what happened to the SC defense. They also left Kirk and Brent to call the SC game so then they can have Kirk with Chris on the set after the game on SportsCenter as well.

The Indiana-Iowa game gives ESPN the opportunity to prop up Iowa and show how great they might be, or they can show them choke it away when a bad Indiana team visits Kinnick Stadium. That is the only game worth watching at Noon.

• Indiana @ Iowa (ESPN, Noon) – Mark Jones, Bob Davie
• Purdue @ Wisconsin (ESPN2, Noon) – Pam Ward, Ray Bentley
• Cincinnati @ Syracuse (ESPNU, Noon) – Clay Matvick, David Diaz-Infante
• New Mexico State @ Ohio State (BTN, Noon) – Matt Rosen, Anthony Herron
• Mississippi @ Auburn (SEC Network, Noon) – Dave Neal, Andre Ware, Cara Capuano (Will Air on MSG, FS Detroit; CSN California, Washington+)
• Rutgers @ Connecticut (Big East Network, Noon) – Mike Gleason, John Congemi, Quint Kessenich (Will Air on Altitude, CST, MASN, SNY)
• North Carolina State @ Florida State (Raycom, Noon) – Steve Martin, Rick Walker, Mike Hogewood
• Akron @ Northern Illinois (ESPN Plus, Noon) – Michael Reghi, Doug Chapman
• Nebraska @ Baylor (Versus, 12:30pm) – Ron Thulin, Kelly Stouffer, Lewis Johnson
• Southern Mississippi @ Houston (CSS, 1pm) – Matt Stewart, Chuck Oliver, Allison Williams
• Missouri @ Colorado (FSN, 1:30pm) – Bill Land, Gary Reasons, Emily Jones
• Coastal Carolina @ Clemson (ESPN360, 1:30pm) – Ryan Rose, Jeremy Bloom

At 3:30 Eastern the slate of games also is terrible and the ABC regional games are all not worth watching so you should find CBS and hear Verne and Gary slurp Tebow for 4 hours because they should bury this very average Georgia team at the World’s Largest Outdoor Cocktail Party.

• San Jose State @ Boise State (KTVB, 3pm) – Mark Johnson, Tom Scott, David Augusto
• Florida v. Georgia (CBS, 3:30pm) – Verne Lundquist, Gary Danielson, Tracy Wolfson
• Michigan @ Illinois (ABC/ESPN2, 3:30pm) – Mike Patrick, Craig James
• Kansas @ Texas Tech (ABC, 3:30pm) – Ron Franklin, Ed Cunningham
• Miami @ Wake Forest (ABC/ESPN2, 3:30pm) – Bob Wischusen, Brian Griese
• California @ Arizona State (ABC, 3:30pm) – Terry Gannon, David Norrie
• Central Michigan @ Boston College (ESPNU, 3:30pm) – Todd Harris, Charles Arbuckle
• Temple @ Navy (CBS College Sports, 3:30pm) – Dave Ryan, Randy Cross
• Duke @ Virginia (ESPN360, 3:30pm) – Frank Giardina, Danny Kanell
• Arkansas State @ Louisville (WHAS, 4pm) – Drew Deener, Doug James (Will Air on SNY)
• Nevada-Las Vegas @ Texas Christian (Versus, 4pm) – Tim Neverett, Glenn Parker, Lindsay Soto
• Air Force @ Colorado State (MTN, 4pm) – James Bates, Todd Christensen, Roger Bailey
• Hawaii @ Nevada (Time Warner-Oceanic, 4pm) – Jim Leahey, Russell Yamaoha
• Western Kentucky @ North Texas (Sun Belt TV, 4pm) – Todd Kalas, Derek Rackley (Will Air on CSS, CST)
• Penn State @ Northwestern (ESPN, 4:30pm) – Carter Blackburn, Chris Spielman
• Louisiana Tech @ Idaho (ESPN Plus, 5pm) – Trey Bender, Jay Taylor (Will Air on Altitude2, MASN)

ABC saves the day on Saturday night. Amazingly enough, they have decided to give America both the SC/Oregon and Texas/Oklahoma St. You will get one on your ABC affiliate and the other on ESPN2 (Not ESPN because they just signed a 15-year deal with the SEC so on the 4-letter you get South Carolina at Tennessee). No other games matter this week as Alabama is off awaiting LSU.

• Kansas State @ Oklahoma (FSN, 7pm) – Joel Meyers, Dave Lapham, Jim Knox
• Eastern Michigan @ Arkansas (ESPNU, 7pm) – Eric Collins, Brock Huard
• Mississippi State @ Kentucky (SEC Network, 7pm) – Bob Rathbun, Dave Archer, Jenn Hildreth (Will Air on FS South, SUN)
• Washington State v. Notre Dame (NBC, 7:30pm) – Tom Hammond, Pat Haden, Alex Flanagan
• New Mexico @ San Diego State (CBS College Sports, 7:30pm) – Tom Hart, Aaron Taylor
• Georgia Tech @ Vanderbilt (SEC Network, 7:30pm) – Doug Bell, Chris Doering (Will Air on CSS, CST, Comcast Network)
• South Carolina @ Tennessee (ESPN, 7:45pm) – Brad Nessler, Todd Blackledge, Erin Andrews
• USC @ Oregon (ABC/ESPN2, 8pm) – Brent Musburger, Kirk Herbstreit, Lisa Salters
• Texas @ Oklahoma State (ABC/ESPN2, 8pm) – Sean McDonough, Matt Millen, Holly Rowe
• Michigan State @ Minnesota (BTN, 8pm) – Wayne Larrivee, Chris Martin, Rebecca Haarlow
• Wyoming @ Utah (MTN, 8pm) – Ari Wolfe, Blaine Fowler, Sammy Linebaugh
• Tulane @ Louisiana State (Tiger Vision PPV, 8pm) – Doug Greengard, Rene Nadeau, Kevin Guidry

Sunday, November 1^st

Watch Game 4 of the World Series.

• Marshall @ Central Florida (ESPN, 8:15pm) – Dave Lamont, JC Pearson

Have a great weekend, enjoy the games, and thanks to Awful Announcing for the week’s TV Schedule.

Here we go, kids: the BCS Standings are out and as per usual they make no sense. However, the answer this time is that the computers don’t take into account half the season and the formulas are designed for a full 12-game schedule. Therefore, America doesn’t need to get bent out of shape about ratings that are not real and don’t mean anything until December 6, 2009.

Now, as a fervent BcS hater, I cannot decide what I want more: Four or more one-loss major conference teams and Boise St or TCU undefeated; or one undefeated team from the BcS conferences and TCU or Boise or both undefeated and them getting left out. Again, I cannot decide which would be better as a BcS hater which would be more fun, but then I remember that they will find a nice way to spin this and America will buy it and move on.

I am back to the point where I want either a full-scale playoff or back to the good old days where it is a beauty contest on January 1^st and that is the end of it.

Now onto Week 8, where we get counter programming from the WWL and we can see if Tulsa can bounce back from their failed upset of Boise State last Wednesday.

Wednesday, October 21^st

• Tulsa @ Texas-El Paso (ESPN, 8pm) – Dave Neal, Andre Ware

Thursday, October 22^nd

Ahh, the Thursday night game from the ACC. This one will be in Chapel Hill for a game that does not matter at all to anyone outside of Chapel Hill and Tallahassee. Thus, I will watch game 5 of the Yankees/Angels because as much as I love college football I hate the ACC (except Georgia Tech’s offense).

• Florida State @ North Carolina (ESPN, 7:30pm) – Chris Fowler, Craig James, Jesse Palmer, Erin Andrews

Friday, October 23^rd

Friday Night with Rutgers, Part Two. This game will be awful, but if you have never seen Michie Stadium at West Point watch for five minutes with the sound off and then change the channel.

• Rutgers @ Army (ESPN2, 8pm) – Joe Tessitore, Rod Gilmore

Saturday, October 24^th

Gameday is in Provo. Again, everyone take a deep breath as the battle between TCU and BYU is the best game of the week. Fowler, Herbie, Corso, and Desmond will focus on this Mountain West battle and how important it is for TCU as they need to stay undefeated to have a shot at the BcS. They might also cover how BYU has a huge advantage by having married guys who go on missions and are now in their middle 20’s instead of gawky teenagers figuring out college. Also, Herbie will get to fly from Provo, Utah to Columbia, Missouri to call another Texas game as they are ABC’s #1 team (since CBS gets all the SEC teams first).

There are no games worth watching at Noon Eastern. I repeat none, follow them on your phone/computer via your favorite scoreboard site and get ready for the 3:30pm Eastern games.

• Minnesota @ Ohio State (ESPN, Noon) – Dave Pasch, Bob Griese, Chris Spielman
• Illinois @ Purdue (ESPN2, Noon) – Pam Ward, Ray Bentley
• Connecticut @ West Virginia (ESPNU, Noon) – Clay Matvick, David Diaz-Infante
• Indiana @ Northwestern (BTN, Noon) – Ari Wolfe, Mark Campbell, Mike Hall
• Alabama-Birmingham @ Marshall (CSS, Noon) – Tom Hart, Chuck Oliver, Allison Williams
• Arkansas @ Mississippi (SEC Network, Noon) – Dave Neal, Andre Ware, Cara Capuano (Will Air on MSG, FS Detroit+, CSN California, Comcast Network)
• South Florida @ Pittsburgh (Big East Network, Noon) – Mike Gleason, John Congemi, Quint Kessenich (Will Air on Altitude, CST, MASN, SNY)
• Georgia Tech @ Virginia (Raycom, Noon) – Steve Martin, Rick Walker, Mike Hogewood
• Central Michigan @ Bowling Green (ESPN Plus, Noon) – Michael Reghi, Doug Chapman
• Iowa State @ Nebraska (FSN, 12:30pm) – Joel Meyers, Dave Lapham, Jim Knox
• Oklahoma State @ Baylor (Versus, 12:30pm) – Ron Thulin, Kelly Stouffer, Lewis Johnson
• Colorado @ Kansas State (FCS Central, 12:30pm) – Dan McLaughlin, Yogi Roth, Samantha Steele
• Louisiana Tech @ Utah State (ESPN Plus, 3pm) – Trey Bender, Jay Taylor

The 3:30pm Eastern window brings you an interesting game on every major network so hopefully you have picture-in-picture or with the amount of commercials you can easily flip from one to the other and not miss very much. CBS brings us Verne and Gary in Alabama for Tennessee’s visit. This game used to be played every year on the 3^rd Saturday in October; now it is the 4^th Saturday and no seems to mind because the SEC has more money than everyone thanks to CBS and ESPN. On the NotreDame Broadcasting Company you can see if ND will bounce back against another rival Charlie Tuna has never beaten: Boston College. Finally, in the ABC regionalization package every area gets an interesting game. Penn State travels to Ann Arbor to see if they can stay in the Big 11 race. Oklahoma travels to Kansas without Sam Bradford to face the Jayhawks who laid the biggest egg last weekend losing to a terrible Colorado team. Oregon heads to Washington for a battle of schools that do not like each other at all and Oregon needs to make sure not be looking ahead to SC’s visit on Halloween. Finally, in the ACC, Miami hosts Clemson and we will see if Miami can enjoy prosperity and stop C.J. Spiller.

• Tennessee @ Alabama (CBS, 3:30pm) – Verne Lundquist, Gary Danielson, Tracy Wolfson
• Boston College @ Notre Dame (NBC, 3:30pm) – Tom Hammond, Pat Haden, Alex Flanagan
• Penn State @ Michigan (ABC/ESPN, 3:30pm) – Sean McDonough, Matt Millen, Holly Rowe
• Oklahoma @ Kansas (ABC, 3:30pm) – Ron Franklin, Ed Cunningham
• Oregon @ Washington (ABC, 3:30pm) – Terry Gannon, David Norrie
• Clemson @ Miami (ABC/ESPN, 3:30pm) – Bob Wischusen, Brian Griese
• Louisville @ Cincinnati (ESPNU, 3:30pm) – Todd Harris, Charles Arbuckle
• Wake Forest @ Navy (CBS College Sports, 3:30pm) – Craig Bolerjack, Randy Cross
• Western Kentucky @ Middle Tennessee (Sun Belt TV, 3:30pm) – Todd Kalas, Derek Rackley (Will Air on CSS, CST)
• Akron @ Syracuse (Time Warner-NY, 3:30pm) – Mark Lawson, Dale Drypolcher, Chris Watson
• North Texas @ Troy (ISP Sports, 3:30pm) – Sam Smith, Roger Schultz (Will Air on FCS Central)
• Air Force @ Utah (Versus, 4pm) – Ted Robinson, Anthony Herron, Lindsay Soto
• San Diego State @ Colorado State (MTN, 4pm) – James Bates, Todd Christensen, Roger Bailey
• Idaho @ Nevada (Go Vandals Network, 4pm) – Bob Akamian, Mike Lamb

In the evening window, there are a ton of games worth watching. Starting at 7pm, you can start with Iowa at Michigan State on the Big 11 network to see if Iowa can get a lead this week. Then at 7:30 flip over to Florida at Mississippi State to see how they decide to bury Dan Mullen as Urban loves to do to those who leave. Also, at 7:30pm on Versus (sorry DirecTV subscribers) the Gameday crew (minus Corso and Hebrie) will get to stand on the sidelines and see the Mountain West’s best teams. Then at 8pm Eastern ABC will give you Texas again for the majority of the country and USC will get a chance to avenge last year’s loss to Oregon State. If you are watching the USC game you might need to try and sync your DVR with the radio broadcast because Mike Patrick is awful.

• UCLA @ Arizona (FS Regional, 7pm) – Steve Physioc, James Washington (Will Air on FS Arizona, Prime Ticket; FSN Northwest; FCS Pacific)
• Vanderbilt @ South Carolina (ESPNU, 7pm) – Eric Collins, Brock Huard
• Iowa @ Michigan State (BTN, 7pm) – Wayne Larrivee, Chris Martin, Lisa Byington
• Louisiana-Monroe @ Kentucky (SEC Network, 7pm) – Bob Rathbun, Dave Archer, Jenn Hildreth (Will Air on FS Florida, Southwest, Wisconsin; FSN Rocky Mountain; SUN)
• Tulane @ Southern Mississippi (CSS, 7pm) – Matt Stewart, Derrick Lewis, Sandra Golden (Will Air on CST)
• Florida @ Mississippi State (ESPN, 7:30pm) – Brad Nessler, Todd Blackledge, Erin Andrews
• Auburn @ Louisiana State (ESPN2, 7:30pm) – Mark Jones, Bob Davie
• Texas Christian @ Brigham Young (Versus, 7:30pm) – Joe Beninati, Glenn Parker, Tim Neverett
• Southern Methodist @ Houston (CBS College Sports, 7:30pm) – Dave Ryan, Akbar Gbaja-Biamila
• Oregon State @ USC (ABC, 8pm) – Mike Patrick, Craig James, Heather Cox
• Texas @ Missouri (ABC, 8pm) – Brent Musburger, Kirk Herbstreit, Lisa Salters
• Nevada-Las Vegas @ New Mexico (MTN, 8pm) – Dan Gutowsky, Robert Griffith, Toby Christensen

Late night brings you a Pac-10 battle between ASU and Stanford that no one will watch because the game that would be more interesting for the country would be Boise State at Hawaii—but that isn’t available on TV outside the islands.

• Arizona State @ Stanford (FSN, 10:15pm) – Barry Tompkins, Petros Papadakis, Michael Eaves
• Fresno State @ New Mexico State (ESPNU, 10:30pm) – Carter Blackburn, JC Pearson
• Boise State @ Hawaii (KTVB/Oceanic, 11pm) – Mark Johnson, Tom Scott, David Augusto/Jim Leahey, Russell Yamaoha

Week 7 got off to a boring start last night as Louisiana-Monroe beat Arkansas State 16-10 in the rain. I know that ESPN is giving us games on Tuesday and Wednesday night to counter-program the baseball playoffs since they got pushed out by TBS. However, there is no baseball tonight (or last night) as baseball is apparently willing to give up its playoff momentum just so they can stick to their TV schedules.

Wednesday night we get an interesting WAC/C-USA match-up in Tulsa. However, you will need the mute button as May/Holtz will be over the top and “Dr. Lou” will turn this into a Notre Dame suckfest if the game gets out of control for the Broncos.

Wednesday, October 14^th

Boise State @ Tulsa (ESPN, 8pm) - Rece Davis, Mark May, Lou Holtz, Todd Harris

Thursday night brings CFB vs. NLCS, and I think that this game could bring ESPN a solid rating as we can see if Cincinnati really is the dominant team in the Big East. We will also see if South Florida is really ready for primetime. Weather might be a factor as there is a chance for thunderstorms Thursday night and the weather is very warm for mid-October in Tampa.

Thursday, October 15^th

Cincinnati @ South Florida (ESPN, 7:30pm) - Chris Fowler, Craig James, Jesse Palmer, Erin Andrews

Friday, October 16^th

If you don’t want to watch the Yankees you can turn to ESPN for some more Big East football. I will swing by and check it out because I wonder if Pitt has anything, and I wonder if Rutgers will be an interesting opponent for South Florida if they pull the upset Thursday night.

Pittsburgh @ Rutgers (ESPN, 8pm) - Joe Tessitore, Rod Gilmore

Saturday, October 17^th

Gameday is coming to the State Fair of Texas and ABC is moving the primetime game to Noon Eastern as Brent and Kirk will be boring the sh*t out of America. I’m sorry, but they’re just not a good broadcast team. And since they’re calling the national championship game this year, I just want America to be ready for this. I had not watched a game they broadcasted really this year and I was forced to this past weekend as the people I was with cared more about the Big 11 game than Florida/LSU and Brent has lost it and Kirk doesn’t ever give any analysis at all when doing games. He does so much better on Gameday than he does in the booth.

In addition to watching OU/Texas at noon, you should also flip by ESPN to see if Iowa can hold onto its position as the leader in the Big 11 race.

• Oklahoma v. Texas (ABC, Noon) - Brent Musburger, Kirk Herbstreit, Lisa Salters
• Iowa @ Wisconsin (ESPN, Noon) - Dave Pasch, Bob Griese, Chris Spielman
• Northwestern @ Michigan State (ESPN2, Noon) – Pam Ward, Ray Bentley
• Ohio State @ Purdue (BTN, Noon) - Wayne Larrivee, Chris Martin, Rebecca Haarlow
• Delaware State @ Michigan (BTN, Noon) - Matt Devlin, Mark Campbell, Brent Stover
• Georgia @ Vanderbilt (SEC Network, Noon) - Dave Neal, Andre Ware, Cara Capuano (Will Air on MSG, CSN Bay Area, Washingon, Comcast Network; FS Detroit)
• Louisville @ Connecticut (Big East Network, Noon) - Mike Gleason, John Congemi, Quint Kessenich (Will Air on Altitude, CST, MASN, SNY)
• Wake Forest @ Clemson (Raycom, Noon) - Steve Martin, Rick Walker, Mike Hogewood
• Mississippi State @ Middle Tennessee (ESPNU, 12:30pm) - Clay Matvick, David Diaz-Infante
• Wyoming @ Air Force (MTN, 2pm) - Dan Gutowsky, Jay Leeuwunberg, Roger Bailey

In the 3–3:30pm Eastern window you will get 0 good games from ABC (of the 4 regional games) and so you should have picture-in-picture for CBS as the Razorbacks come to the Swamp to take on the Gators and the NotreDame Broadcasting Company will bring you the Irish and the 4 inch rough (err) grass hosting the USC Trojans. America and the Sports Media want the Irish to win because they love talking about Charlie Weis and the Heisman candidacy of Jimmy Clausen, so they will talk about the Irish all week while Vegas keeps moving the line north of SC -10.

• Nevada @ Utah State (KAME, 3pm) - TBD (Will Air on CSN California)
• Arkansas @ Florida (CBS, 3:30pm) - Verne Lundquist, Gary Danielson, Tracy Wolfson
• USC @ Notre Dame (NBC, 3:30pm) - Tom Hammond, Pat Haden, Alex Flanagan
• Minnesota @ Penn State (ABC/ESPN, 3:30pm) – Sean McDonough, Matt Millen, Holly Rowe
• Texas Tech @ Nebraska (ABC/ESPN, 3:30pm) – Mike Patrick, Craig James, Heather Cox
• North Carolina State @ Boston College (ABC, 3:30pm) - Bob Wischusen, Brian Griese
• California @ UCLA (ABC, 3:30pm) - Terry Gannon, David Norrie
• Houston @ Tulane (CBS College Sports, 3:30pm) - Dave Ryan, Akbar Gbaja-Biamila
• Marshall @ West Virginia (Big East Network, 3:30pm) - John Sanders, Danny Kanell
• Rice @ East Carolina (MASN, 3:30pm) - Patrick Kinas, Billy Weaver, Brian Meador
• Akron @ Buffalo (FS Ohio/Time Warner-Buffalo, 3:30pm) - Michael Reghi, Hanford Dixon/Howard Simon, Ruben Brown
• Central Michigan @ Western Michigan (FS Detroit+, 3:30pm) - Jeff Phelps, Rob Otto
• Colorado State @ Texas Christian (Versus, 4pm) – Joe Beninati, Glenn Parker, Tim Neverett
• Virginia @ Maryland (ESPNU, 4pm) - Todd Harris, JC Pearson
• Hawaii @ Idaho (ESPN Plus, 5pm) - TBD (Will Air on Altitude2, CST)

In the 7–8pm Eastern window there is nothing to watch until 8pm when South Carolina travels to Alabama. More SEC on TV, but it’s a battle of ranked teams and since the media has moved Alabama to #2 they need to keep winning to make the Florida-Bama SEC title game rematch be the game of the century part 47.

• Virginia Tech @ Georgia Tech (ESPN2, 6pm) – Mark Jones, Bob Davie
• Brigham Young @ San Diego State (MTN, 6pm) – Ari Wolfe, Blaine Fowler, Jenny Cavnar
• Kansas @ Colorado (FSN, 7pm) - Bill Land, Dave Lapham, Emily Jones
• Illinois @ Indiana (BTN, 7pm) - Craig Coshun, Anthony Herron, Mike Hall
• Alabama-Birmingham @ Mississippi (SEC Network, 7pm) - Bob Rathbun, Dave Archer, Jenn Hildreth (Will Air on FS Florida, South)
• Texas A&M @ Kansas State (FCS Central, 7pm) – Dan McLaughlin, Yogi Roth, Samantha Steele
• Stanford @ Arizona (Versus, 7:30pm) - Ron Thulin, Kelly Stouffer, Lewis Johnson
• Kentucky @ Auburn (ESPNU, 7:30pm) - Eric Collins, Brock Huard
• Miami @ Central Florida (CBS College Sports, 8pm) - Tom Hart, Aaron Taylor
• South Carolina @ Alabama (ESPN, 8pm) - Brad Nessler, Todd Blackledge, Erin Andrews
• Florida Atlantic @ North Texas (Sun Belt TV, 8pm) - Todd Kalas, Derek Rackley (Will Air on CST)

In the late night window we get a couple of interesting games. Missouri choked against Nebraska and now needs the win to stay in the Big 12 North race and OSU needs to prove they are still a contender in the Big 12 south with Texas coming to Stillwater in 2 weeks. Also late night on FSN, we get to see if Washington can win a game outside of Seattle as they travel to Tempe.

• Missouri @ Oklahoma State (ESPN2, 9:15pm) – Ron Franklin, Ed Cunningham
• Utah @ Nevada-Las Vegas (MTN, 10pm) - Bill Doleman, Robert Griffith, Toby Christensen
• Washington @ Arizona State (FSN, 10:15pm) – Barry Tompkins, Petros Papadakis, Michael Eaves

Week 6 arrives, and so does fall—with its gray skies, yellow leaves, and boring Big 11 games dominating early TV coverage. Week 6 is no exception, as the best game of the year (so far) does not start until 8pm eastern and the rest of the schedule is pretty terrible. So, if you have to trade in some honey-do’s this is your weekend to get them done early on and then be ready for the Battle in Baton Rouge (my name—not sure if ESPN will have a name for it since they don’t have the incentive of broadcasting it).

Thursday, October 8^th

^{A game between ranked teams on Thursday night? ESPN must be wielding its power to compete against the baseball playoffs it lost the rights to. This game will give us the Big 12 North favorite and could make Blaine Gabbert a Heisman candidate if he can lead Mizzou to the win over the Huskers who have found defense under Bo Pelini.}

Nebraska @ Missouri (ESPN, 9pm) – Chris Fowler, Craig James, Jesse Palmer, Erin Andrews

Friday, October 9^th

^{I will not watch another game in Nevada, this one should be awful:}

Louisiana Tech @ Nevada (ESPN, 9pm) - Joe Tessitore, Rod Gilmore

Saturday, October 10^th

^{Gameday will finally be at a game that is not being broadcast on the ESPN family of networks. Fowler and the gang will be in Baton Rouge to preview the game of the year and talk about Tim Tebow and concussions for two hours. They also might cover the game in Oxford, but other than that they really do not have a lot to talk about as UF/LSU is the only meaningful game of the day.}

^{In the Noon Eastern window the choices are pathetic. I would only watch Auburn at Arkansas from the 11 games that start at Noon or 12:30pm. Just a terrible batch of games. We’ll probably get a crazy upset here just to keep things interesting, but get some brownie points and just pass on these.}

• Auburn @ Arkansas (ESPN, Noon) – Dave Pasch, Bob Griese, Chris Spielman
• Purdue @ Minnesota (ESPN2, Noon) – Pam Ward, Ray Bentley
• Vanderbilt @ Army (CBS College Sports, Noon) – Dave Ryan, Jason Sehorn, Devin Adams
• Eastern Illinois @ Penn State (ESPN Classic, Noon) – Dave Lamont, JC Pearson
• Michigan State @ Illinois (BTN, Noon) – Wayne Larrivee, Chris Martin, Brent Stover
• Miami-OH @ Northwestern (BTN, Noon) – Ari Wolfe, Glen Mason, Anthony Herron
• Georgia @ Tennessee (SEC Network, Noon) – Dave Neal, Andre Ware, Cara Capuano (Will Air on MSG, CSN California, Comcast Network)
• West Virginia @ Syracuse (Big East Network, Noon) – Mike Gleason, John Congemi (Will Air on Altitude, CST, MASN, SNY)
• Boston College @ Virginia Tech (Raycom, Noon) – Tim Brant, Rick Walker, Mike Hogewood
• Eastern Michigan @ Central Michigan (ESPN Plus, Noon) – Michael Reghi, Doug Chapman
• Oklahoma State @ Texas A&M (FSN, Noon) – Joel Meyers, Dave Lapham, Jim Knox
• Houston @ Mississippi State (ESPNU, 12:30pm) – Eric Collins, Brock Huard
• Kentucky @ South Carolina (SEC Network, 12:30pm) – Bob Rathbun, David Archer, Jenn Hildreth (Will Air on FS South; PrimeTicket; SUN)
• Iowa State @ Kansas (Versus, 12:30pm) – Ron Thulin, Kelly Stouffer, Lewis Johnson
• New Mexico @ Wyoming (MTN, 2pm) – Dan Gutowsky, Jay Leeewunberg, Andrea Lloyd

In the 3:30pm Eastern window we get a CBS national game and two of the ABC regional games that are worth your time. First, Alabama travels to Ole Miss and we will see if Ole Miss is good at all—because if they get rolled at home then they were a complete pretender and Alabama will then only have LSU in their way in the SEC West. Interesting that Wisconsin and Iowa are the last two undefeated teams in the Big 11. Wisconsin rolls into the Horseshoe to take on the Buckeyes who are hoping to continue their romp through the Big 11. Also, on ABC for a fifth of the country will be Oregon leaving Eugene to travel to the Rose Bowl to take on UCLA. Oregon always has trouble away from Autzen and especially against the Bruins so this one might be worth keeping your eye on.

• Alabama @ Mississippi (CBS, 3:30pm) – Craig Bolerjack, Steve Beurelein
• Wisconsin @ Ohio State (ABC/ESPN, 3:30pm) – Sean McDonough, Matt Millen, Holly Rowe
• Connecticut @ Pittsburgh (ABC/ESPN, 3:30pm) – Mike Patrick, Craig James, Heather Cox
• Oregon @ UCLA (ABC, 3:30pm) – Terry Gannon, David Norrie
• Baylor @ Oklahoma (ABC, 3:30pm) – Ron Franklin, Ed Cunningham
• Navy @ Rice (CBS College Sports, 3:30pm) – Jason Knapp, Akbar Gbaja-Biamila
• Marshall @ Tulane (CSS, 3:30pm) – Bob Neal, Chuck Oliver, Allison Williams (Will Air on CST)
• Bowling Green @ Kent State (FS Ohio, 3:30pm) – Jeff Phelps, Rob Otto
• Gardner-Webb @ Buffalo (Time Warner-NY, 3:30pm) – Howard Simon, Ruben Brown
• Georgia Southern @ North Carolina (ESPN360, 3:30pm) – Ryan Rose, Danny Kannell
• Indiana @ Virginia (ESPN360, 3:30pm) – Frank Giardina, Sonny Randle
• Duke @ North Carolina State (ESPNU, 4pm) – Carter Blackburn, Charles Arbuckle

In the pre-8pm Eastern games you can check on Stanford taking their undefeated conference record to Corvallis or watch Texas finish the Dan Hawkins era at Colorado.

• Utah @ Colorado State (MTN, 6pm) – James Bates, Todd Christensen, Roger Bailey
• Maryland @ Wake Forest (ESPN360, 6:30pm) – Jeff Dantzler, Jim Donnan
• Stanford @ Oregon State (FSN, 7pm) – Barry Tompkins, Petros Papadakis, Michael Eaves
• North Texas @ Louisiana-Lafayette (Sun Belt TV, 7pm) – Todd Kalas, Derek Rackley
• Southern Mississippi @ Louisville (ESPNU, 7pm) – Clay Matvick, David Diaz-Infante
• Kansas State @ Texas Tech (FS Regional, 7pm) – Bill Land, Gary Reasons, Emily Jones
• Florida A&M @ Miami (ESPN360, 7pm) – Jim Barbar, Je’Rod Cherry
• Colorado @ Texas (ESPN, 7:15pm) – Brad Nessler, Todd Blackledge, Erin Andrews
• Texas Christian @ Air Force (CBS College Sports, 7:30pm) – Tom Hart, Aaron Taylor

We finally make it through the entire Saturday and we will get the Tim Tebow suckfest (even though Gary Danielson thinks today [Wednesday] that Tebow will not play). I think he plays and Verne will go on and on about how great he is. Florida is favored by 8 at LSU at night and that just means that Vegas knows everyone is betting the crap out of Florida and that LSU is not that good and they should have lost their last two. If you need something else between commercials you can check out Michigan at Iowa were Iowa better not let down as they did against Arkansas State.

• Florida @ Louisiana State (CBS, 8pm) – Verne Lundquist, Gary Danielson, Tracy Wolfson
• Michigan @ Iowa (ABC, 8pm) – Brent Musburger, Kirk Herbstreit, Lisa Salters
• Georgia Tech @ Florida State (ESPN2, 8pm) – Mark Jones, Bob Davie
• East Carolina @ Southern Methodist (ISP Sports, 8pm) – CJ Martin, Bruce Wiseman, Dave Michaels (Will Air on MASN)
• Texas-El Paso @ Memphis (ISP Sports, 8pm) – Sam Smith, Roger Schultz (Will Air on FCS Atlantic)
• Utah State @ New Mexico State (Aggie Vision, 8pm) – Glen Cerny, Danny Knee (Will Air on Altitude2)
• Idaho @ San Jose State (Go Vandals, 8pm) – Bob Akamian, Mike Lamb
• Arizona @ Washington (FSN Regional, 10pm) – Tom Glasgow, Mack Strong, Jen Mueller (Will Air on FSN Northwest; FS Arizona)
• Brigham Young @ Nevada-Las Vegas (MTN, 10pm) – Tim Neverett, Blaine Fowler, Molly Sullivan
• Fresno State @ Hawaii (BSN/Time Warner-Oceanic, 11pm) – Ralph Wood, Randy Rosenbloom/Jim Leahey, Russell Yamahoa

Now onto Week 5; let us all hope that everyone has at least one loss by Thanksgiving.

Wednesday, September 30^th

ESPN brings us Wednesday night football this week (a week earlier than normal, they usually wait until the baseball playoffs since TBS forced them out of the broadcast contract). Now, this Hawaii/La Tech game will allow Lou Holtz to annoy America for 3 hours and for those hoping to see Boise St lose, you can see if Hawaii has anything at all.

Hawaii @ Louisiana Tech (ESPN2, 8pm) – Rece Davis, Mark May, Lou Holtz, Rob Stone

Thursday, October 1^st

Two games on Thursday, but only one most of America can see, as ESPN rolls the Thursday night party into Morgantown, WV. This game should be terrible because Colorado is terrible. By the way, what is with Erin Andrews? The glasses were apparently a one-time test during the Saturday game in Week 3—or maybe they’re for day games only. (I have no idea why I am fascinated by this, because Wendi Nix looked better in glasses than EA.)

• Colorado @ West Virginia (ESPN, 7:30pm) – Chris Fowler, Craig James, Jesse Palmer, Erin Andrews
• Southern Mississippi @ Alabama-Birmingham (CBS College Sports, 8pm) – Dave Ryan, Akbar Gbaja-Biamila

Friday, October 2^nd

If you haven’t gotten enough you can watch Pitt and Louisville be terrible on ESPN2. I will not watch this, and you should not either. BYU gets relegated to the Mountain West Channel that I have neither seen nor care to.

• Pittsburgh @ Louisville (ESPN2, 8pm) – Joe Tessitore, Rod Gilmore
• Utah State @ 21 Brigham Young (MTN, 9pm) – Bill Doleman, Blaine Fowler, Toby Christensen

Saturday, October 3^rd

Gameday is in Boston for BC/FSU: ESPN will do a huge feature on BC Linebacker Mark Herzlick and his battle with cancer. This is also like a home game for ESPN and with no huge games this weekend I can see the Finance department driving this decision.

Anyway, there are three interesting games in the early window on Saturday, as the Big 11 takes over the airwaves. First, ESPN gives you another chance to check out TCF Bank stadium as Wisconsin sees if they can win on the road in conference this year. On the Deuce, let’s see if Iowa lets down when Arkansas State comes to Kinnick Stadium; big letdown spot for the Hawkeyes. Finally, Michigan leaves Ann Arbor to go to East Lansing and play the disappointing Spartans who usually play well in this rivalry game, but the noon start might hurt the home-field advantage.

• Wisconsin @ Minnesota (ESPN, Noon) – Dave Pasch, Bob Griese, Chris Spielman
• Arkansas State @ 17 Iowa (ESPN2, Noon) – Pam Ward, Ray Bentley
• Clemson @ Maryland (ESPNU, Noon) – Clay Matvick, David Diaz-Infante
• East Carolina @ Marshall (CBS College Sports, Noon) – Tom Hart, Aaron Taylor
• Michigan @ Michigan State (BTN, Noon) – Wayne Larrivee, Chris Martin, Charissa Thompson
• Northwestern @ Purdue (BTN, Noon) – Ari Wolfe, Anthony Herron, Tony McGee
• Alabama @ Kentucky (SEC Network, Noon) – Dave Neal, Andre Ware, Cara Capuano (Will Air on FS Detroit; CSN Bay Area, Washington; Comcast Network; MSG)
• South Florida @ Syracuse (Big East Network, Noon) – Mike Gleason, John Congemi, Quint Kessenich (Will Air on CST, MASN)
• Virginia @ North Carolina (Raycom, Noon) – Steve Martin, Rick Walker, Mike Hogewood
• Toledo @ Ball State (ESPN Plus, Noon) – Michael Reghi, Doug Chapman
• Virginia Tech @ Duke (ESPN360, Noon) – Dave Weekley, Danny Kanell
• Cincinnati @ Miami-OH (ESPN360, 1pm) – Jim Barbar, Bob Chmiel

In the 3:30 Eastern window, there are three games worth watching (if you have GamePlan you can see all of them). ABC Regional coverage divides the country with the game from Boston that no one should watch, along with Penn State at Illinois another game you should avoid after I overloaded you on Big 11 games early on. So, I would suggest Washington and ND on the Notredame Broadcasting Company or UCLA at Stanford on ABC if you want to scout future USC opponents. Also at 3:30pm eastern the SEC game of the week on CBS is LSU @ Georgia. LSU is the newly anointed #4 team and will they blow a Top 5 match-up next week in Baton Rouge with Florida.

• Kansas State v. Iowa State (FCS Central, 3pm) – Dan McLaughlin, Yogi Roth, Samantha Steele
• Louisiana State @ Georgia (CBS, 3:30pm) – Verne Lundquist, Gary Danielson, Tracy Wolfson
• Washington @ Notre Dame (NBC, 3:30pm) – Tom Hammond, Pat Haden, Alex Flanagan
• Penn State @ Illinois (ABC/ESPN2, 3:30pm) – Mike Patrick, Craig James, Heather Cox
• Florida State @ Boston College (ABC/ESPN2, 3:30pm) – Sean McDonough, Matt Millen, Holly Rowe
• UCLA @ Stanford (ABC, 3:30pm) – Dave Lamont, David Norrie
• New Mexico @ Texas Tech (FSN, 3:30pm) – Bill Land, Gary Reasons, Emily Jones
• North Carolina State @ Wake Forest (ESPNU, 3:30pm) – Todd Harris, Charles Arbuckle
• Air Force @ Navy (CBS College Sports, 3:30pm) – Craig Bolerjack, Randy Cross
• Florida International @ Louisiana-Monroe (Sun Belt TV, 3:30pm) – Todd Kalas, Derek Rackley (Will Air on CSS, CST)
• Western Michigan @ Northern Illinois (CSN Chicago, 3:30pm) – Dave Kaplan, Bob Chmiel, Jim Blaney
• Memphis @ Central Florida (Bright House, 3:30pm) – Drew Fellios, Mark Royals, Dave Baumann
• Central Michigan @ Buffalo (Time Warner-NY, 3:30pm) – Howard Simon, Brian Koziol
• Ohio @ Bowling Green (BCSN, 4pm) – Greg Franke, Tom Cole

This weekend we do not get a late game on FSN so we have three windows of action. In the evening window, there are again 3 games that I would recommend. First, on ESPN2 at 7pm Eastern, Texas A&M and Arkansas from Jerry World in Arlington, Texas. This is the 2nd college game Jerry Jones has bought to bring to his stadium and this one involves his beloved Razorbacks who will see if they can stop the Aggie offense that has been scoring at will against three cupcakes in College Station.

At 8pm ABC screws the country again by regionalizing the OU/Miami game and SC at Cal. Find a place showing both or if you have GamePlan enjoy flipping back and forth. ESPN has an SEC night game; let’s see if Lane Kiffin can win a conference game and prove that Auburn hasn’t really played anyone yet.

• Oregon State @ Arizona State (Versus, 7pm) – Ron Thulin, Kelly Stouffer, Lewis Johnson
• Mississippi @ Vanderbilt (ESPNU, 7pm) – Eric Collins, Brock Huard
• South Carolina State @ South Carolina (ESPN Classic, 7pm) – Bob Wischusen, Brian Griese
• Ohio State @ Indiana (BTN, 7pm) – Craig Coshun, Glen Mason, Rebecca Haarlow
• Texas A&M v. Arkansas (ESPN2, 7:30pm) – Mark Jones, Bob Davie
• Tulsa @ Rice (CBS College Sports, 7:30pm) – Jason Knapp, Akbar Gbaja-Biamila
• Georgia Tech @ Mississippi State (SEC Network, 7:30pm) – Doug Bell, Chris Doering (Will Air on CSS, CST)

Auburn @ Tennessee (ESPN, 7:45pm) – Brad Nessler, Todd Blackledge, Erin Andrews

• USC @ California (ABC, 8pm) – Ron Franklin, Ed Cunningham
• Oklahoma @ Miami (ABC, 8pm) – Brent Musburger, Kirk Herbstreit, Lisa Salters
• Southern Methodist @ Texas Christian (MTN, 8pm) – James Bates, Todd Christensen, Cash Sirois
• UC-Davis @ Boise State (KTVB/CSN California, 8pm) – Mark Johnson, Tom Scott, David Augusto
• Washington State @ Oregon (OSN/CSN Northwest, 9:15pm) – Joe Giansante, Anthony Newman
• Colorado State @ Idaho (ESPNU, 10:30pm) – Carter Blackburn, Jon Berger

As always, thanks to Awful Announcing for this weekend’s schedule.

Thursday, September 24th

Thursday night brings us ESPN going back to the SEC for a showdown between #4 Ole Miss and The Ole Ball Coach’s Gamecocks. Can the South Carolina defense do enough to slow down Jevan Snead and will Erin Andrews continue to wear her glasses on the sideline to try and change her image?

Mississippi @ South Carolina (ESPN, 7:30pm) – Chris Fowler, Craig James, Jesse Palmer, Erin Andrews

Friday, September 25th

America will get its second look (first really) look at Missouri and their new QB Blaine Gabbert. Can Mizzou stop the Wolfpack Pistol? Will traveling to Reno (Biggest Little City in the World) be a huge mistake for the Tigers (who look to be a sleeper candidate in the Big 12 North)?

Missouri @ Nevada (ESPN, 9pm) – Joe Tessitore, Rod Gilmore

Saturday, September 26th

Gameday travels to State College, PA (I guess because they are hoping Miami beats Va Tech and they get to go to Miami for OU at Miami next week? Or have they just decided that they need Herbstreit on site for the post game stuff because Howard and Corso are really losing it?) I can’t wait for SC to get ripped for turnovers (which they should more than anything else).

In the Noon Eastern window the best game is on ESPNU as South Florida travels to Florida St. FSU needs to continue their momentum from the win in Provo and SFU hopes a win will make Florida a four-big-schools football state. Also, TCU at Clemson is an interesting match-up but it’s only available on ESPN360.com.

Michigan State @ Wisconsin (ESPN, Noon)- Dave Pasch, Bob Griese, Chris Spielman
Indiana @ Michigan (ESPN2, Noon)- Pam Ward, Ray Bentley
South Florida @ Florida State (ESPNU, Noon)- Clay Matvick, David Diaz-Infante
Southern Mississippi @ Kansas (FSN, Noon)- Joel Meyers, Dave Lapham, Jim Knox
Minnesota @ Northwestern (BTN, Noon)- Wayne Larrivee, Chris Martin, Charissa Thompson
Louisiana State @ Mississippi State (SEC Network, Noon)- Dave Neal, Andre Ware, Cara Capuano (Will Air on MSG; FS Detroit; CSN California; Comcast Network)
North Carolina @ Georgia Tech (Raycom, Noon)- Steve Martin, Rick Walker, Mike Hogewood
Fresno State @ Cincinnati (Big East Network, Noon)- Mike Gleason, John Congemi, Quint Kessenich (Will Air on Altitude, CST, MSG)
Buffalo @ Temple (ESPN Plus, Noon)- Michael Reghi, Doug Chapman
Marshall @ Memphis (CSS, 1pm)- Richard Cross, Brian Jordan, Melissa Lee
Texas Christian @ Clemson (ESPN360, 1pm)- Dave Weekley, Danny Kanell
San Diego State @ Air Force (MTN, 2pm)- Ari Wolfe, Blaine Fowler, Andrea Lloyd
Wake Forest @ Boston College (ESPN360, 2pm)- Ryan Rose, Jeff Genyk

In the 3:30pm Eastern window we get beaten over the head with ABC Regional College Football. We also get Verne and Gary and the SEC game of the week from CBS. I hope that Cal/Oregon is a good game and that Arkansas plays well at Alabama; however I have higher hopes for the former rather than the later. Also, Miami is now the media’s favorite team and I think they are going to lose in Blacksburg and ruin ESPN’s dream for the OU/Miami Gameday and 8pm kick next weekend.

Arkansas @ Alabama (CBS, 3:30pm)- Verne Lundquist, Gary Danielson, Tracy Wolfson
Illinois @ Ohio State (ABC/ESPN, 3:30pm)- Ron Franklin, Ed Cunningham
Miami @ Virginia Tech (ABC/ESPN, 3:30pm)- Sean McDonough, Matt Millen, Holly Rowe
California @ Oregon (ABC/ESPN, 3:30pm)- Terry Gannon, David Norrie
Texas-El Paso @ Texas (FSN, 3:30pm)- Bill Land, Gary Reasons, Emily Jones
Pittsburgh @ North Carolina State (ESPNU, 3:30pm)- Todd Harris, Charles Arbuckle
Western Kentucky @ Navy (CBS College Sports, 3:30pm)- Craig Bolerjack, Randy Cross
Central Florida @ East Carolina (ISP Sports, 3:30pm)- Patrick Kinas, Billy Weaver, Brian Meador
Rutgers @ Maryland (ESPN360, 3:30pm)- Jim Barbar, Jeremy Bloom
Troy @ Arkansas State (Sun Belt, 4:30pm)- Todd Kalas, Derek Rackley (Will Air on CSS, CST)

In the early evening window, we get some interesting match-ups. I will be interested in seeing Florida on the road at Kentucky as well as the Brent and Kirk game in Happy Valley (which should be a Penn State blowout). All over the dial you can find a game—the problem is that I don’t care about Notre Dame at Purdue on ESPN (I might flip by that game to see Erin Andrews and to see if the glasses are a Saturday only thing if we don’t see them Thursday @ South Carolina) and having DirecTV means I cannot see Arizona at Oregon St.

Florida @ Kentucky (ESPN2, 6pm)- Mark Jones, Bob Davie
Colorado State @ Brigham Young (MTN, 6pm)- James Bates, Todd Christensen, Sammy Linebaugh
Arizona State @ Georgia (ESPNU, 7pm)- Eric Collins, Brock Huard
Ball State @ Auburn (FSN Regional, 7pm)- Bob Rathbun, Dave Archer, Jenn Hildreth (Will Air on FS Midwest, South, Southwest; SUN)
Maine @ Syracuse (Time Warner-NY, 7pm)- Mark Lawson, Dan Liedka, Chris Watson
Louisiana-Lafayette @ Nebraska (FSN PPV, 7pm)- Brent Stover, Matt Davison, Kent Pavelka
Ohio @ Tennessee (Vol PPV, 7pm)- Randy Smith, Pat Ryan, Mike Stowell
Arizona @ Oregon State (Versus, 7:30pm)- Ron Thulin, Kelly Stouffer, Lewis Johnson
Louisville @ Utah (CBS College Sports, 7:30pm)- Tom Hart, Akbar Gbaja-Biamila
Iowa @ Penn State (ABC, 8pm)- Brent Musburger, Kirk Herbstreit, Lisa Salters
Notre Dame @ Purdue (ESPN, 8pm)- Brad Nessler, Todd Blackledge, Erin Andrews
Vanderbilt @ Rice (CSS, 8pm)- Matt Stewart, Chuck Oliver, Sandra Golden

Finally we get into late night college football if you live east of the Rockies. The best game is Texas Tech traveling almost the entire length of Texas to play Houston in a game that will go past 1am Eastern. Also, USC tries to hang a half a hundred on an opponent again at home as WSU comes to down as a 44 ½ pt underdog.

Washington @ Stanford (FCS Central, 9pm)- Sean Farnham, Yogi Roth, Samantha Steele
Texas Tech @ Houston (ESPN2, 9:15pm)- Mike Patrick, Craig James, Heather Cox
New Mexico State @ New Mexico (MTN, 10pm)- Dan Gutowsky, Robert Griffith
Washington State @ USC (FSN, 10:15pm)- Barry Tompkins, Petros Papadakis, Michael Eaves

Enjoy the games everyone, I hope another Top 10 team goes down and we get more chaos. As always thanks to Awful Announcing for the weekly TV schedule.