As usual, all times Eastern and all predictions wrong.

Noon:

• Louisiana State @ Vanderbilt (ABC): The conventional wisdom on this one is that between LSU’s offensive struggles and Vandy actually being kinda good, and at home, the Dores are favored. I see no reason to disagree.
• Washington @ Michigan (FOX): I’m not sure either of these teams are especially good, so I’ll go with “body clocks” and pick Michigan.
• Georgia Tech @ Duke (ESPN): And here we are again. While Wallace Wade Stadium should have some enthusiasm, this isn’t exactly Tiger Stadium at night. While we thankfully solidly beat VPI last week, this team still needs to demonstrate they can be front-runners. Or, if the underdog mentality helps at all, the Blue Devils are technically favored.
• Baylor @ Texas Christian (“The Revivalry”; ESPN2): I don’t know a lot about either of these teams, so I’ll go with TCU.
• Arizona @ Houston (FS1): Zona is so inconsistent, so I’ll take the Cougars.
• Army @ Tulane (ESPNU): I think this could be a fun match up, and while I think Tulane wins on talent Army should be able to hang.
• Connecticut @ Boston College (ACCN): BC, by a lot.
• Central Michigan @ Bowling Green (CBSS): Does Eddie George have it rolling at Bowling Green? Seems that way.
• Eastern Michigan @ Miami (ESPN+)

12:45: Oklahoma @ South Carolina (SECN): Sooner, by a lot.

1:00: West Virginia @ Central Florida (TNT): UCF, by a lot.

2:30: Buffalo @ Massachusetts (ESPN+)

3:00:

• Purdue @ Northwestern (BTN): Well, while this is still a battle of bad Big Ten teams, I think it’s safe to say neither is as bad as expected. I think I slightly like the Boilers here?
• Troy @ Louisiana-Monroe (ESPN+)

3:30:

• Mississippi @ Georgia (ABC): I’m sort of convinced Lane Kiffin is the James Franklin of the SEC. This does mean I’m picking Georgia here. Look, I’m not happy about this either.
• Ohio State @ Wisconsin (CBS): Buckeyes, by a lot.
• Texas A&M @ Arkansas (ESPN): Ol’ Bobby Petrino definitely had some tricks up his sleeve last week, but I don’t think any amount of tricks means they’ll be able to hang with the Aggies.
• Nevada-Las Vegas @ Boise State (FS1): Pay attention, because two of the biggest games of the afternoon are right here. In this one, we’ll find out the Mountain West frontrunner. I like Boise, but not nearly by as much as our friends in the desert.
• Old Dominion @ James Madison (“Royal Rivalry”; ESPNU): This one will determine the favorite in the Sun Belt East, which is actually kind of a big deal. I like JMU here, but this should be a good one either way.
• Southern Methodist @ Clemson (ACCN): I still don’t trust Clemson, but this isn’t last year’s SMU team.
• Wyoming @ Air Force (CBSS): I’ll admit I don’t have much of a read on this one outside of Colorado and Wyoming sharing a border. Let’s go with Air Force?
• Michigan State @ Indiana (Peacock)
• Coastal Carolina @ Appalachian State (ESPN+)
• Akron @ Ball State (ESPN+)
• Northern Illinois @ Ohio (ESPN+)
• Temple @ Charlotte (ESPN+)
• Texas State @ Marshall (ESPN+)
• Texas-San Antonio @ North Texas (ESPN+)

4:00:

• Texas Tech @ Arizona State (FOX): Unfortunately, I don’t see how this is anything other than another Texas Tech romp. Turns out they’re good.
• Memphis @ Alabama-Birmingham (“Battle for the Bones”; ESPN2): Memphis, by a lot. (One of the best rivalry trophies in the sport though!)

4:15: Mississippi State @ Florida (SECN): Napier may be done either way, but I still have a hard time seeing how Florida loses this one. Which, I suppose, is the problem.

6:30:

• Washington State @ Virginia (The CW): I think Wazzu is better than their record would indicate. (Ask the folks in Oxford, MS.) That said, I have to acknowledge that Virginia is better than I thought they’d be and I’m leaving slightly that way.
• Oregon @ Rutgers (BTN): Oregon, by a lot.

7:00:

• Texas @ Kentucky (ESPN): Texas, by a lot.
• Maryland @ California-Los Angeles (FS1): Exhibit A for two teams trending in opposite directions. It’s very much not September in College Park, and the “under new management” Bruins are suddenly competent. So yeah, UCLA all the way here.
• Pennsylvania State @ Iowa (Peacock)
• Hawaii @ Colorado State (Spectrum)

7:30:

• Tennessee @ Alabama (“Third Saturday in October”; ABC): This is very much a “styles make fights” game and I don’t think this is a particularly good match up for the Tide.
• Southern California @ Notre Dame (NBC): This is being billed as a chance for USC to get back in the “nationally relevant” conversation, which is why I like Notre Dame here.
• Florida Atlantic @ South Florida (ESPNU): USF, by a lot.
• Pittsburgh @ Syracuse (ACCN): “We’re not rivals, but we play a lot” sums up the vibes of this one. I think the Orange are slightly better, but the Panthers have themselves a new quarterback. What rules here? I’ll lean slightly Pitt but this should be wide open.

7:45: Missouri @ Auburn (SECN): Mizzou, by a lot.

8:00:

• Utah @ Brigham Young (“Holy War”; FOX): This will be one of the grittiest games of the day. Ultimately I think the Stormin’ Mormons have more grit.
• Cincinnati @ Oklahoma State (ESPN2): Cincy, by a lot.

9:45: Nevada @ New Mexico (FS1): This one should be close, in sense that neither of these teams are particularly good. I slightly lean Lobos here.

10:00: Lafayette @ Oregon State (The CW)

10:30: Florida State @ Stanford (ESPN): I would say “Florida State, by a lot” but… what’s going on in Tallahassee? I don’t think FSU will lose this, not at all, but if they do this is a Penn State level disaster for Mike Norvell and company.

As usual, all times Eastern and all predictions wrong.

Noon:

• Alabama @ Missouri (ABC): Hey y’all, it’s 10:30 local time here and I just watched the most stressful 15 innings of baseball ever that didn’t involve my team. So you know what means: LIGHTNING ROUND! Bama!
• Ohio State @ Illinois (FOX): Buckeyes!!
• Pittsburgh @ Florida State (ESPN): I won’t discount the return of the Pitt superweapon, but: FSU.
• Louisiana @ James Madison (ESPN2): JMU.
• Stanford @ Southern Methodist (The CW): SMU.
• Central Florida @ Cincinnati (FS1): Cincy?
• Houston @ Oklahoma State (TNT): Houston.
• California-Los Angeles @ Michigan State (BTN): Sparty.
• Toledo @ Bowling Green (ESPNU): Toledo.
• Charlotte @ Army (CBSS): Army.
• Miami @ Akron (ESPN+)

12:45: Washington State @ Mississippi (SECN): Miss.

1:00: Northern Illinois @ Eastern Michigan (ESPN+)

2:30: Massachusetts @ Kent State (ESPN+)

3:30:

• Oklahoma vs. Texas (“Red River Shootout” @ Dallas, TX; ABC): Texas? This is truly a random number generator rivalry.
• Indiana @ Oregon (CBS): Ducks.
• Texas Christian @ Kansas State (FOX): TCU?
• Iowa State @ Colorado (ESPN): Clones.
• Wake Forest @ Oregon State (The CW): Wake!
• Northwestern @ Pennsylvania State (FS1): Penn St.
• Nebraska @ Maryland (BTN): Terps?
• Air Force @ Nevada-Las Vegas (CBSS): UNLV?
• Virginia Tech @ Georgia Tech (“Techmo Bowl”; ACCN): Okay so once again let’s talk about expectations. VPI got the fired coach dead cat bounce last week, so this is not a team to take lightly. Brent Key’s record with unranked ACC oppenents is well known. I hope that we can figure this out.
• North Carolina State @ Notre Dame (Peacock)
• Appalachian State  @ Georgia State (ESPN+)
• Old Dominion @ Marshall (ESPN+)
• Ball State @ Western Michigan (ESPN+)

4:00: Navy @ Temple (ESPN2): Navy!

4:15: Arkansas @ Tennessee (SECN): Bawls!

6:00: Alabama-Birmingham @ Florida Atlantic (ESPN+)

7:00:

• Florida @ Texas A&M (ESPN): Aggies!
• Iowa @ Wisconsin (FS1): Hawkeyes?
• San Jose State @ Wyoming (CBSS): Spartans?
• Louisiana-Monroe @ Coastal Carolina (ESPN+)

7:30:

• Georgia @ Auburn (“The Deep South’s Oldest Rivalry”; ABC): Ugh, UGA?
• Kansas @ Texas Tech (FOX): Red Raiders!
• Michigan @ Southern California (NBC): USC?
• Purdue @ Minnesota (BTN): Gophers.
• Rice @ Texas-San Antonio (ESPNU): Rice?
• Clemson @ Boston College (ACCN): Tigers.

7:45: South Carolina @ Louisiana State (SECN): LSU.

8:00:

• Brigham Young @ Arizona (ESPN2): Stormin’ Mormons.
• Troy @ Texas State (ESPN+)

9:45: New Mexico @ Boise State (FS1): Boise?

10:15: Arizona State @ Utah (ESPN): Utah.

10:30: San Diego State @ Nevada (CBSS): Aztecs.

11:59: Utah State @ Hawaii (Spectrum)

As usual, all times Eastern and all predictions wrong.

Noon:

• Kentucky @ Georgia (ABC): Well, the Dogs got got by Bama yet again, but fortunately for them (and, by extension, unfortunately for anyone who isn’t them) Kentucky is pretty greatly diminished and won’t pose much of a challenge for them.
• Air Force @ Navy (CBS): Take the under, and Navy, here.
• Wisconsin @ Michigan (FOX): Speaking of greatly diminished, Wisconsin is just… kind of bad? Michigan still can’t throw the ball, but they’ll probably look pretty good here.
• Clemson @ North Carolina (ESPN): This game was circled on a lot of calendars at the beginning of the year, but… eesh. Carolina is so bad I won’t be surprised if this is a total Clemson rout, even with how bad they’ve been this season. UNC just straight up appears to have no idea what they’re doing.
• Iowa State @ Cincinnati (ESPN2): The Big 12, moreso than any other conference (and certainly any of the other Power Four) seems to just be Parity Central. That makes predicting what will happen in any given week very difficult, but also does make for fairly fun games to watch. Which is to say, don’t be surprised if this is the most watchable game in the early window. I slightly like the Cyclones here, but, well, see above.
• Illinois @ Purdue (BTN): Purdue isn’t as bad as I thought they’d be, but that doesn’t exactly mean they’re good. I still like Illinois here.
• Army @ Alabama-Birmingham (EPSNU): Army, by hopefully a lot.
• Boston College @ Pittsburgh (ACCN): I don’t think either of these teams are good, but Pitt is struggling on offense and has a bit of a quarterback crisis. I like BC here.
• Ohio @ Ball State (CBSS): I, in possibly the only thing I have in common with Timothee Chalemet, stan Ohio quarterback Parker Navarro on this site.
• Kansas State @ Baylor (ESPN+)

1:00:

• Wake Forest @ Virginia Tech (The CW): Wake has some legitimate beef with the refs in last week’s game, that missed a blatant offside on us. I think they’ll be able to recover and take down VPI.
• Texas-San Antonio @ Temple (ESPN+)

2:00:

• Campbell @ North Carolina State (ACCNX)
• Chicago Cubs @ Milwaukee Brewers (National League Division Series; TBS)

2:30: Western Michigan @ Massachusetts (ESPN+)

3:00: Oklahoma State @ Arizona (TNT): Okay, that stuff I wrote about the Big 12 earlier? Yeah, Oklahoma State is the exception to the rule. Zona by a lot.

3:30:

• Vanderbilt @ Alabama (ABC): We all know that Vandy beat Alabama last year, but that was in Nashville. I think Bama is better this year, and I think an easy Bama win is more likely than Vandy doing it again.
• Boise State @ Notre Dame (NBC): There’s been various points in time in the past twenty years where this would’ve been a really fun game. This isn’t one of them.
• Pennsylvania State @ California-Los Angeles (CBS): Luckily for James Franklin and the Nittany Lions, UCLA isn’t even remotely close to being a top 10 team.
• Texas @ Florida (ESPN): Is this going to be it for Billy Napier at Florida? And frankly, who can be good at Florida anymore if he can’t?
• Virginia @ Louisville (ESPN2): This may be the best game of the window, which I don’t think I would’ve ever remotely called at the start of the season. But both teams are reasonably good, but I’m giving L’ville a slight edge here since I think Virginia will have a bit of a letdown after last week’s all-time upset over Florida State.
• Washington @ Maryland (BTN): We all know and love September Maryland, but as usual things get real quickly. I don’t think Washington is very good, and the Terps ought to be able to get to 5-0. If not, watch out.
• Louisiana-Monroe @ Northwestern (BTN): Northwestern is bad, but not this bad.
• Syracuse @ Southern Methodist (ACCN): I don’t believe in Syracuse, Ponies all the way.
• Florida International @ Connecticut (CBSS): FIU, I guess?
• Miami @ Northern Illinois (ESPN+)
• Central Michigan @ Akron (ESPN+)
• James Madison @ Georgia State (ESPN+)
• Oregon State @ Appalachian State (ESPN+)
• Eastern Michigan @ Buffalo (ESPN+)

4:00:

• Michigan State @ Nebraska (FS1): Michigan State’s last game was the “body clock” late night start at USC that they lost, but not by much. Nebraska just couldn’t get it done against Michigan. What does that mean here? I have no clue, so I’ll slightly prefer the Huskers.
• Texas State @ Arkansas State (ESPNU): Arkansas State has yet to defeat a FBS team. I doubt that changes here.
• Kent State @ Oklahoma (SECN): Kent State has yet to defeat a FBS team. I doubt that changes here.
• New York Yankees @ Toronto Blue Jays (American League Division Series; FOX)

6:00: Coastal Carolina @ Old Dominion (ESPN+)

6:30: Los Angeles Dodgers @ Philadelphia Phillies (National League Division Series; TBS)

7:00:

• Texas Tech @ Houston (ESPN): Both of these teams are 4-0, but… I think this is going to be a pretty easy win for the Red Raiders.
• Nevada-Las Vegas @ Wyoming (CBSS): I definitely like UNLV here.
• South Alabama @ Troy (ESPN+)
• Florida Atlantic @ Rice (ESPN+)

7:30:

• Miami @ Florida State (ABC): Well, this is the game of the day, more or less by default. Loss to Virginia aside, FSU has obviously made a lot of strides since last season. Miami hasn’t gotten in a situation so far that Mario Chirstobal could do his thing, and generally speaking, it’s not the big games they’ve had issues anyway. The game being in Tallahassee should help the Noles, but I still like the Canes here in what figures to be a pretty close contest.
• Minnesota @ Ohio State (NBC): This has all the makings of a game that’s something like “20-14 Ohio State at the half” that turns into a final score of 37-14.
• Colorado @ Texas Christian (FOX): Colorado is probably better than we expected after the loss of their two best skill position players, but they’re still a team with some fundamental issues. I like TCU a lot here.
• Kansas @ Central Florida (ESPN2): There’s going to be a lot of points and either team could win this one. Yep, it’s a Big 12 game. I’ll take UCF, sure, why not.

7:45: Mississippi State @ Texas A&M (SECN): Miss State is way better than anyone expected, and they almost got Tennessee last week. But that was in Starkville. I don’t think they’ll enjoy things very much in College Station.

8:00: Tulsa @ Memphis (ESPNU): Memphis might really good. Tulsa is not.

8:30: Detroit Tigers @ Seattle Mariners (American League Division Series; FS1)

10:30:

• Duke @ California (ESPN): ACC After Dark! I still don’t really believe in Duke, and combine that with ~body clocks~ means that I’ve got the Golden Bears all the way.
• Nevada @ Fresno State (CBSS): It would be so cool have a good, late Mountain West game… but it’s not going to happen with this one.

As usual, all times Eastern and all predictions wrong.

Noon:

• Southern California @ Illinois (FOX): Body clocks! USC got a late night west coast game last weekend, so naturally they now have to play at 11am central time (aka 9am pacific time). They also get to be the team that plays a team that just got the brakes beat off them, so they should win, but if they don’t win by, you know, 53, it’s going to look bad.
• Notre Dame @ Arkansas (ABC): Jokes aside about Notre Dame’s 1-2 start, they should get back to .500 here.
• Georgia Tech @ Wake Forest (ESPN): Okay, so there’s a couple of ways to approach the Temple game. Ultimately, we took care of business. There definitely was a bit of concern in that second quarter, where we didn’t seem to keep momentum up after a hot 21-0 start. The offense especially struggled, and nothing seemed to work.
  While this isn’t our first true road game, Wake will be a different environment in that there is likely to not be a lot of energy. Sometimes that can throw teams off. It’ll be up to us. We have a bye week after this and it will make a world of difference to go in taking care of business.
• Louisville @ Pittsburgh (ESPN2): I don’t think there’s much to see here, unless Louisville fails to hold serve.
• Central Florida @ Kansas State (FS1): I hate to say it, but K-State might be… bad. I think we may need to figure out what happens to teams that lose the Ireland game, considering what happened to FSU last year seems to have spread to the Wildcats.
• Cincinnati @ Kansas (TNT): It’s Week 5, which hey, is still the first half of the season. So it’s still reasonable to say “well, both of these teams have losses, but they weren’t bad losses” as a way to indicate that we don’t really know much about the teams themselves. We’ll learn slightly more here. I like KU.
• Rutgers @ Minnesota (BTN): I like I like Rutgers here.
• South Alabama @ North Texas (ESPNU): If UNT is serious about this playoff bid thing, they really need to make a strong statement against a clearly inferior team.
• Bowling Green @ Ohio (CBSS): Parker Navarro should continue to show why he’s the best QB in the MAC.
• Duke @ Syracuse (ACCN): I still don’t believe in Duke, so I like the Orange here.

12:45: Utah State @ Vanderbilt (SECN): Vandy exacted some revenge on Georgia Southern last week, and I gotta say, I don’t anticipate that they’ll have any issues here.

1:00: Eastern Michigan @ Central Michigan (ESPN+)

1:30: Georgia Southern @ James Madison (ESPN+)

3:00: Arkansas State @ Louisiana-Monroe (ESPN+)

3:30:

• Utah @ West Virginia (FOX): Utah definitively got beat by Texas Tech last week, but they’re still going to be better than WVU.
• Ohio State @ Washington (CBS): I expect the Huskies to be feisty here but ultimately the Buckeyes should win comfortably.
• Louisiana State @ Mississippi (“Magnolia Bowl”; ABC): I’m not even going to talk about the dumb storyline involving one of Lane Kiffin’s daughters here, but I do believe the part where he’s going to try to run it up on the Tigers.
• Auburn @ Texas A&M (ESPN): Much like Duke, I don’t really believe in Auburn either. I like the Aggies here.
• Baylor @ Oklahoma State (ESPN2): Well, the Pokes finally fired Mike Gundy. He’d been their coach since 2005, and last Monday was the 18 year anniversary of the “I’m a man! I’m 40!” rant. But, well, you can be all-time school legend, but you can’t lose to Tulsa at home for the first time since my parents were born. Suffice it to say, Baylor by a lot here.
• California-Los Angeles @ Northwestern (BTN): Tune in for the views of the lake, tune away quickly to avoid watching too much of this game. Eugh. Northwestern I guess?
• Rice @ Navy (CBSS): What Rice is doing on offense is cool, but if there’s a team that should know how to stop it, it’s Navy.
• California @ Boston College (ACCN): Okay, so Cal beat Minnesota two weeks ago and then goes to San Diego and loses by 34? You tell me if that makes any sense. Fortunately for them, the body clock aspects of this game should be mitigated by BC being bad, like, “losing to Stanford” levels of bad.
• Indiana @ Iowa (Peacock)
• Lindenwood @ Miami (ESPN+)
• San Diego State @ Northern Illinois (ESPN+)
• Connecticut @ Buffalo (ESPN+)
• Akron @ Toledo (ESPN+)

4:00:

• Hawaii @ Air Force (FS1): This is actually a rivalry game, of sorts, there’s a trophy and everything. Air Force looks likely to keep it.
• Tulane @ Tulsa (ESPNU): Tulane has hit some speedbumps this year, but Tulsa should help them right the ship.
• New Mexico State @ New Mexico (“Rio Grande Rivalry”; MWN)

4:15: Tennessee @ Mississippi State (SEC): Miss State is better than anyone thought… but that probably won’t matter much against the Vols.

6:00:

• Middle Tennessee State @ Kennesaw State (ESPN+)
• Liberty @ Old Dominion (ESPN+)

6:30: Rhode Island @ Western Michigan (ESPN+)

7:00:

• Arizona @ Iowa State (ESPN): Speaking of teams we don’t know a lot about, look at this two. They’re both probably good! But someone has to lose, and I suspect that’ll be Arizona.
• Memphis @ Florida Atlantic (ESPN2): Tigers will be fine here.
• Virginia Tech @ North Carolina State (The CW): Speaking of terrible teams with interim coaches, the Wolfpack should be able to feast here.
• Western Kentucky @ Missouri State (ESPN+)
• Jacksonville State @ Southern Mississippi (ESPN+)

7:30:

• Alabama @ Georgia (ABC): While this doesn’t have the hype of recent editions, this still figures to be a knock-down, drag-out game that I wish somehow both teams could lose. Unfortunately, Georgia probably is just that much better than Bama right now, and so I have will reluctantly pick them the team from Athens. (To be clear, I would also call picking Bama here “unfortunate”.)
• Oregon @ Pennsylvania State (NBC): What if it finally happens? What if James Franklin finally wins the big one? And those questions, folks, are why I have the Ducks all the way here.
• Appalachian State @ Boise State (FS1): App isn’t really particularly good or fun this year, so Boise all the way in what a couple years ago would’ve been an awesome inter-sectional matchup.
• Massachusetts @ Missouri (ESPNU): Mizzou can name their score here while remaining as much of a darkhorse as any SEC team can be.
• Washington State @ Colorado State (CBSS): It’s rough hours at Wazzu right now, but hey at least they kept the Apple Cup a game in the first half. I still like them here.
• San Jose State @ Stanford (“Bill Walsh Legacy Game”; ACCN): Okay, so Stanford is still one of the worst teams in the Power 5, as reflected in the line of this game (with the Cardinal as 2.5 point favorites). I think they’ll be fine here though.

7:45: Kentucky @ South Carolina (SECN): These are two of the worst teams in the SEC, it’d appear, so in a similar vein to other situations above where I have no idea who’s going to win, just that I don’t think either of these teams is good. Not much was expected of Kentucky this season, but the Gamecocks 31-7 faceplant against Vanderbilt raised some eyebrows. Kentucky has been game in all of their games, and so I actually like them slightly here.

8:00: Marshall @ Louisiana (ESPN+)

9:00: Louisiana Tech @ Texas-El Paso (ESPN+)

10:15: Brigham Young @ Colorado (ESPN): And finally, the nightcap… which, um, Colorado is kind of finally the team we sort of expected they’d be under Deion. Their line play is still bad, which is just catnip to the Cougars. (Though do Mormons give their cats catnip? Like, it’s basically a recreational drug for cats… anyway.) They should easily prevail here.

As usual, all times Eastern and all predictions wrong.

Noon:

• Maryland @ Wisconsin (NBC): It isn’t just that the Badgers lost to Alabama last week, it’s more that they  didn’t look like they really belonged on the same field. I like the Terps here.
• Texas Tech @ Utah (FOX): Here’s a potential Big 12 championship game preview for ya. Utah’s running game and defense will be the first tests of college football’s most expensive linemen. Will the experience of the Utes on all sides win out? I like them just a tad, since this is in Salt Lake. But a Texas Tech win will certify them as being the real deal.
• Arkansas @ Memphis (ABC): I don’t think this version of Memphis can get this done here.
• Syracuse @ Clemson (ESPN): Okay, so Clemson has lost two very close games and the sky is falling. I’ll admit, of course, that I was extremely satisfied with how they lost last weekend. It’s also true the Orange have gotten their goat in the past. I think Clemson will figure some things out here, though.
• Southern Methodist @ Texas Christian (ESPN2): It’s the last time, for a while, that the Iron Skillet will be contested. All of those reasons are, well, dumb as heck, so we won’t rehash all that here. For our purposes here, I’ll take TCU, as I just think SMU isn’t that good this year.
• Nevada-Las Vegas @ Miami (ESPNU): It’s gotta be UNLV here, right?
• Bowling Green @ Louisville (ACCN): Cards will be fine.
• North Texas @ Army (CBSS): UNT definitely seems to have the talent and chutzpah to go up to West Point and win, they just need to do it.
• Wofford @ Virginia Tech (ACCNX)
• South Carolina State @ South Florida (ESPN+)

12:45: Alabama-Birmingham @ Tennessee (SEC): Tennessee will bury Dilfer.

1:00: Wagner @ Central Michigan (ESPN+)

3:00: Oregon State @ Oregon (“Civil War”; BTN): It’s fundamentally wrong this game is on BTN. I suspect the Ducks will turn the Beavs into a smoking crater, but this is still a rivalry and I hope the parties involved can figure out how to keep it going.

3:30:

• Purdue @ Notre Dame (NBC): I’m pretty confident Notre Dame will finally win a game.
• Auburn @ Oklahoma (ABC): I like the Sooners here.
• Michigan @ Nebraska (CBS): If Nebraska is finally going to turn a corner, beating a somewhat down Michigan would be a good start. I’m not sure they can.
• North Carolina @ Central Florida (FOX): This game may be worth watching just to see the look in Bill Belichick’s eyes when he realizes he’s down multiple score in a stadium named the “Bounce House”.
• Tulane @ Mississippi (ESPN): I’m not sure this version of the Green Wave will be able to pull this off, but I think they can keep it close.
• James Madison @ Liberty (ESPNU): Liberty is bad now, folks.
• Ball State @ Connecticut (CBSS): UConn, I guess?
• Kent State @ Florida State (ACCN): FSU will name their score here.
• Toledo @ Western Michigan (ESPN+)
• Louisiana @ Eastern Michigan (ESPN+)
• Gardner-Webb @ Ohio (ESPN+)
• Troy @ Buffalo (ESPN+)

4:00: North Carolina State @ Duke (ESPN2): I don’t think Duke is, like, good at all? I’ll take the Pack here.

4:15: Northern Illinois @ Mississippi State (SEC): The Bulldogs need to take care of business here if they’re going to show they’re for real.

4:30: Temple @ Georgia Tech (The CW): Okay, last week was fun. But it’s back to business. And taking care of business. There’s still a lot of the season to go, and being one of the most talked about teams this past week was awesome but you need to slough off things like “going to Charlotte” and “Haynes King for Heisman”.

5:00: Idaho @ San Jose State (MWN)

6:00:

• West Virginia @ Kansas (FS1): LIGHTNING ROUND! ‘Neers!
• Arkansas State @ Kennesaw State (ESPN)
• Delaware @ Florida International (ESPN+)
• Duquense @ Akron (ESPN+)

7:00:

• South Carolina @ Missouri (ESPN): Tigers!
• Boise State @ Air Force (CBSS): Falcons!
• Maine @ Georgia Southern (ESPN+)
• Murray State @ Jacksonville State (ESPN+)
• Nevada @ Western Kentucky (ESPN+)
• Tennessee-Martin @ Missouri State (ESPN+)
• Coastal Carolina @ South Alabama (ESPN+)
• Marshall @ Middle Tennessee State (ESPN+)

7:30:

• Washington @ Washington State (“Apple Cup”; CBS): I don’t think Wazzu stands much of a chance here, but I think they’ll probably put on a better show than their fellow Pac-2 mates.
• Florida @ Miami (ABC): Canes!
• Illinois @ Indiana (NBC): Illini!
• Arizona State @ Baylor (FOX): Bears?
• Brigham Young @ East Carolina (ESPN2): Mormons?
• Georgia State @ Vanderbilt (ESPNU): While losing to Georgia State and then beating Alabama last year was pretty funny, I’d recommend the Dores to win this time.
• Stanford @ Virginia (ACCN): Cavaliers!
• Southern Mississippi @ Louisiana Tech (ESPN+)

7:45: Southeastern Louisiana @ Louisiana State (SEC)

8:00:

• McNeese State @ Utah State (MWN)
• Sam Houston State @ Texas (ESPN+)
• Nicholls State @ Texas State (ESPN+)

9:00: Louisiana-Monroe @ Texas-El Paso (ESPN+)

9:30: Texas-San Antonio @ Colorado State (FS1): Road Runners?

10:15: Wyoming @ Colorado (ESPN): Buffs.

10:30: California @ San Diego State (CBSS): Bears!

11:00: Michigan State @ Southern California (FOX): Trojans

11:59: Fresno State @ Hawaii (Spectrum)