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I fully expect the SEC and Big Ten to get 4 teams each at this point, but I’d love to be wrong. Also, some bowl announcements are starting to come up, so the page will be updated as pairings are announced.
Get the latest here.
I fully expect the SEC and Big Ten to get 4 teams each at this point, but I’d love to be wrong. Also, some bowl announcements are starting to come up, so the page will be updated as pairings are announced.
As usual, all times Eastern and all predictions wrong.
Noon:
1:00: Tennessee-Martin @ New Hampshire (NCAA Division I First Round; ESPN+)
1:30: Eastern Michigan @ Western Michigan (ESPN+)
2:00:
3:00:
3:30:
4:00:
6:00:
6:30: Wyoming @ Washington State (The CW): I have no idea what happened to Wazzu last week against the Beavers, but I’m hoping for a better outcome for them here.
7:00:
7:30:
8:00:
10:15:
10:30: Air Force @ San Diego State (FS1): Don’t look, but Air Force has won three straight (including shutting out Pac-12 Champions Oregon State 28-0). With as impotent as the Aztecs are on offense, that trend figures to continue.
11:00: New Mexico @ Hawaii (Team1Sports): I don’t normally comment on these streaming-only games, but this is it. After this there is, effectively, no more regular season college football. It’s been a weird autumn for me and I’ve missed a lot of live action, and so I plan on seeing this one through to the end.
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Thanks to some upsets last weekend, I only needed two 5-7 teams this time (as opposed to four last time). With 77 teams having already clinched eligibility, that means I don’t need a lot of upsets to get there. Let’s take a quick look at every game involving a 5-6 team heading into this weekend:
By my count, that’s 5 very plausible upsets. So we could possibly have too many bowl eligible teams. It’s happened before, and a new bowl game was invented on the spot to accommodate them, so it figures that it will happen again.
We’ll know how everything falls after this weekend, which makes the predictions next week one of the most important I do.
As usual, all times Eastern and all predictions wrong.
Tuesday
7:00:
Thursday
2:00: Tuskegee @ Alabama State (ESPNU)
7:30: Memphis @ Tulane (ESPN): What may well be the defacto AAC title game promises to have stakes. This is a game Memphis team for sure, but Tulane has looked every bit the part of a G5 spoiler for the playoff. I like the Green Wave here.
Friday
Noon:
3:30:
4:00: Stanford @ San Jose State (“Bill Walsh Legacy Game”; CBS): I like San Jose to win this one, straight up. It boggles the mind that the Cardinal would ever head down 101 to SJSU, but between them being very, very mediocre to bad and coming off a dispiriting loss to Cal, I don’t like their chances here.
7:30:
8:00: Utah @ Central Florida (FOX): Neither of these teams are especially good. Hopefully this is still within reach for either team after the 7:30 games wrap up. If I had to pick someone here, I’d probably go with UCF, since they can actually play offense.
As usual, all times Eastern and all predictions wrong.
Noon:
12:45: Massachusetts @ Georgia (SEC): Presumably UGA won’t get caught looking ahead to next week here.
1:00:
1:30: Charleston Southern @ Florida State (ACCNX)
2:00:
2:30:
3:00:
3:30:
4:00:
4:15: Missouri @ Mississippi State (SEC): Mizzou. Next!
5:00: Troy @ Louisiana (ESPN+)
7:00:
7:30:
7:45: Vanderbilt @ Louisiana State (SEC): Vandy winning this one might be even funnier than when they beat Bama. Not saying it’ll happen, but…
8:00:
10:15: Southern California @ California-Los Angeles (NBC): Neither of the teams is good, but the colors will be pretty and USC will win easily.
10:30: