What you watching this weekend? [week 6]

[VFL-82-JP]

There are only three Top 25 match-ups this week, but still several interesting games to catch.

Thursday:

• 8:00 - Texas at Iowa State (ESPN) - Tom Herman's first Longhorn win vs a Power 5 team? Maybe?

Friday:

• 7:00 - #14 Miami visits Duke (ESPN) - Duke is unranked, but 4-0. Maybe Cut can carve Richt right up
• 9:30 - #5 USC goes to #16 Wash. State (ESPN) - goodbye to the Top 25 for the Cougars, probably...Upset?

Saturday:

• 12:00 - #21 Florida hosts Vandy (ESPN) - would love to see the 'Dores upset the Gators...serves us
• 12:00 - North Carolina visits Ga Tech (ESPN-2) - both unranked, but still an interesting game to me
• 12:00 - #10 Wisconsin vs Northwestern (B10-N) - upset alert, maybe...nah, prolly not
• 3:30 - Volunteers host #7 UGa (CBS) - fingers crossed our lads come to play, pull off the upset
• 6:00 - #24 Mississippi State visits #13 Auburn (ESPN) - semi-important SEC-West match
• 7:30 - A&M hosts USCe (SEC-N) - only interesting because East vs West
• 8:00 - #2 Clemson visits #12 Virginia Tech (ABC) - best non-SEC game of the weekend, right here
• 9:00 - #1 Bama hosts a much-depleted Ole Miss (ESPN) - prolly not the key match that ESPN anticipated

Don't know if you noticed, but there's not a single Power 5 cross-conference game all weekend. We are deep into conference schedules, and the few out-of-conference games at this point are against cupcakes (like #17 Louisville vs Murray State, or #25 LSU hosting Troy).

Interestingly, almost half of the Big 12 has this weekend off, including #3 Oklahoma, #9 TCU, and #23 West Virginia. Add #8 Michigan and #20 Utah to the "idle" list, and a fifth of the Top 25 are taking a break this week.

What are you watching? See any good matches I missed?



[all times are Eastern]

 

[MyBloodRunnethOrange]

Working as always on Saturday. As usual I'll be recording several games to watch when I get home, so I'll have to stay off VN to avoid spoilers. Obviously I'm recording our game, but I'll also be listening to Kesling on my computer at work, so I'll know the outcome before I actually watch the game. Outside of that I'm going with Auburn/MSU and Alabama/Ole Miss. I'm gonna try to not know anything about those before I watch. Easier said than done.

 

[MyBloodRunnethOrange]

I'm also recording a couple of the Friday games. Duke/Miami and USC/Wash State. I took off tonight to watch my daughter in her play and I'm planning to watch some of the Texas game when I get home.