As usual, all times Eastern and all predictions wrong.

Noon:

• Washington @ Iowa (FOX): Okay, we’re going to try to do a proper post this week. Starting with this doesn’t exactly fill me with excitement. UDub did beat Better Iowa (read: Michigan) last week, but with this game in Iowa I’m less sure about it. I’ll still take the Huskies though.
• South Carolina @ Alabama (ABC): Bama’s loss to Vandy was shocking, which is sort of an understatement. Vandy hadn’t won that game in my entire life, and I’m getting old! At any rate, in the Saban years this game would not even remotely well for South Carolina, and suffice it to say I’m going to guess that’ll be the case here.
• Clemson @ Wake Forest (ESPN): Clemson has seemed more-or-less fine-to-good since week one, and Wake is… kind of bad!
• Missouri @ Massachusetts (ESPN2): This is a bizarre road game, to say the least, but Mizzou will presumably get back on track.
• Georgia Tech @ North Carolina (The CW): It is kind of funny we play both Carolina and Duke in consecutive weeks. At any rate, this is kind of… a big deal for us? We definitely saw some positive signs in the Duke game, and if there’s a team we should really be able to get the rushing attack going again against it’s the UNC defense. Naturally, as a Georgia Tech fan I want to see us put 100 up on that Geoff Collins defense.
• Wisconsin @ Rutgers (BTN): Rutgers, I guess? It feels weird to favor them in a Big Ten game, but here we are.
• Toledo @ Buffalo (ESPNU): Toledo should roll.
• Alabama-Birmingham @ Army (CBSS): Army will be 6-0 after this.
• Ball State @ Kent State (ESPN+)

3:30:

• Pennsylvania State @ Southern California (CBS): It feels like USC should turn a corner any week now, but Penn State and company probably are not the optimal team to do that against.
• Purdue @ Illinois (FS1): Illinois rolls.
• Texas vs. Oklahoma (“Red River Shootout” @ Dallas, TX; ABC): It’s Red River time, y’all. This game is more or less impossible to predict. I mean, I may be cursing myself by calling this out instead of just saying that Texas should roll here, but this is one of the few rivalries were you really can throw out the records. (And it’s not like either of these teams is really ever terrible.) So who will I predict here? Texas, obviously. Who do I actually think will win? Who knows!
• Stanford @ Notre Dame (NBC): Stanford is turbo-bad.
• California @ Pittsburgh (ESPN): Like almost everyone else outside of south Florida, I was bummed that Cal couldn’t see it out last weekend after an actually awesome gameday atmosphere in Berkeley. Suffice it to say there’s a lot Cal fans in my life and I have never heard that many of them actually talking about Cal football this week, and that was despite the fact they lost! Either way, they’ll have Pitt’s… offense? to worry about this week. I still kind of like Cal here.
• Cincinnati @ Central Florida (ESPN2): Neither of the teams really has the juice, but UCF is just a little better.
• San Jose State @ Colorado State (truTV): Despite everything, I still like Colorado State is turbo-bad.
• Louisville @ Virginia (ACCN): Did you know Virginia is 4-1? Because I didn’t! The Cardinals have suffered two straight losses that definitely took their pre-season hopes down a few notches. I think UVA will be a decent get-right game for them.
• San Diego State @ Wyoming (CBSS): Wyoming won their first game of the season last week by beating a bad Air Force team. SDSU has underachieved a bit, but they’ll probably be fine here.
• Akron @ Western Michigan (ESPN+)
• Old Dominion @ Georgia State (ESPN+)
• Northern Illinois @ Bowling Green (ESPN+)
• Memphis vs. South Florida (@Orlando, FL; ESPN+)

4:00:

• Ohio @ Central Michigan (ESPNU): Call it a hunch, but I like CMU here.
• Arizona @ Brigham Young (FOX): Don’t look, but BYU is 5-0 and has their ranking up in the mid-teens. Arizona’s having a decent year, but there’s not a lot to suggest they’re going to be able to prevail in Provo.

4:15: Mississippi State @ Georgia (SEC): If you’re looking for two consecutive weeks of crazy SEC upsets… well, this probably isn’t the place to look.

5:00: Southern Mississippi @ Louisiana-Monroe (ESPN+)

7:00:

• Washington State @ Fresno State (FS1): It’s a bit of a bummer that Wazzu took the loss to Boise, but Ashton Jeanty might just be that good. That said, the Cougs should be able to handle a somewhat mediocre (by their own standards!) Fresno team.
• Florida @ Tennessee (ESPN): Look, Florida shouldn’t win this game, but Arkansas definitely put a blueprint out there for teams to be able to handle Tennessee’s offense with their freshman QB.
• North Texas @ Florida Atlantic (ESPN2): UNT has been feasting on terrible AAC teams all season, and I don’t see any reason for that to stop here.
• Air Force @ New Mexico (truTV): I can’t say I’d recommend watching this one. New Mexico at least (technically) has a FBS win, so I’ll take them.
• Arkansas State @ Texas State (ESPN+)
• Texas-San Antonio @ Rice (ESPN+)

7:30:

• Mississippi @ Louisiana State (“Magnolia Bowl”; ABC): I think LSU’s defense is just too suspect to keep up with the Rebels.
• Ohio State @ Oregon (NBC): The proverbial Game of the Century of the Week, this game will have it all. Oregon’s offense, after taking the first two weeks off, is alive and well with three consecutive multi-score victories. Ohio State has been so good this season that I’ve really had no reason to watch them to this point. So far the only team that has multiple scores on them is Marshall, and the Herd were still on the wrong side of a 49-14 blowout. Suffice it to say, that’ll probably change this week, but it’s still hard to see the Buckeyes losing this one.
• Oregon State @ Nevada (CBSS): The Beavers will be fine in Reno.
• Appalachian State @ Louisiana (ESPN+)

7:45: Vanderbilt @ Kentucky (SEC): Okay, so which Vandy is real: the one that couldn’t get it done against Georgia State or the one that contained, and beat, Alabama? Their QB said it best: “this means nothing if we don’t beat Kentucky”. The Wildcats so far have a pretty mixed resume themselves (though it doesn’t have any loss to Sun Belt teams), but they certainly would be, and are, favored against the Dores.

8:00:

• Iowa State @ West Virginia (FOX): The “get Matt Campbell hired somewhere else, finally” season figures to continue for the Cyclones.
• Marshall @ Georgia Southern (ESPNU): This game is basically a coin flip, but it might be a very fun coin flip. I’d keep an eye on it. I like the Herd here.
• Syracuse @ North Carolina State (ACCN): Syracuse isn’t very good, but they still have one of the two or three best quarterbacks in the ACC in Kyle McCord. They should be fine in Raleigh.

9:00: Minnesota @ California-Los Angeles (BTN): Minnesota isn’t great or anything, but UCLA is kind of straight up bad this year.

10:15: Kansas State @ Colorado (ESPN): Okay Buffs, you’ve thrown off the Haters. But K-State may be the ultimate Haters team, as they’re a very physical, scrappy bunch that will have no issues hitting Shaddeur Sanders over and over again. I’ll predict the Buffs to lose, yet again, but I feel pretty good about this week. If the Buffs win this one, I’m going to need to re-evaluate some things.

11:00: Boise State @ Hawaii (CBSS): Speaking of Ashton Jeanty, the only question in this game is when in the first half he’ll reach 100 yards rushing. My bet? Probably around 10 minutes into the first quarter.