Thursday, October 19th Louisiana at Arkansas State 6:30pm ESPNU (25)Memphis at Houston 7:00pm ESPN Saturday, October 21st Maryland at (5)Wisconsin 11:00am FOX (10)Oklahoma State at Texas 11:00am ABC Louisville at Florida State 11:00am ESPN Iowa State at Texas Tech 11:00am FS1 Tennessee at (1)Alabama 2:30pm CBS Syracuse at (8)Miami 2:30pm ESPN North Carolina at (14)Virginia Tech 2:30pm ESPN2 Indiana at (18)Michigan State 2:30pm ABC (20)UCF at Navy 2:30pm CBSSN Arizona State at Utah 2:30pm FS1 (9)Oklahoma at Kansas State 3:00pm FOX (16)South Florida at Tulane 6:00pm ESPN2 (24)LSU at Ole Miss 6:15pm ESPN (19)Michigan at (2)Penn State 6:30pm ABC (11)USC at (13)Notre Dame 6:30pm NBC (21)Auburn at Arkansas 6:30pm SECN Kansas at (4)TCU 7:00pm FOX (23)West Virginia at Baylor 7:00pm FS2 Colorado at (15)Washington State 9:45pm ESPN
Michigan and Penn State should be a whole lot of fun, and in particular, I'm interested to see what Barkley and McSorley can do against Michigan's defense. UCF and Navy is also a really good G5 game. As a conference, the AAC will undoubtedly be rooting for UCF just for the sake of keeping as many league teams at the top of the race for the NY6 bid. It's just a shame, for our sake as fans, that we won't get a UCF/USF game this season.
Because it's Army and they're "just" going to be playing in the Armed Forces Bowl against a mediocre team and because he's a coach who runs the option with his teams, he's probably not going to be tied to the best open jobs, but Jeff Monken's name will get mentioned with some fairly high profile openings this offseason, I would think. What he's done at Army is pretty impressive.
Oklahoma doing their best to make this a completely lost season. They're trailing K-State at the half, and two losses would put them definitively outside of the playoff. For that matter, barring losses by TCU and Oklahoma State (and they'll get a shot at OSU at the end of the season), it could put them outside of the NY6 picture.
What a difference a year makes for Notre Dame. They're 5-1 with their only setback a one-point loss to Georgia, and they're currently running USC off the field. USC, once again, has failed to live up to preseason expectations, but they're talented enough that you don't really ever expect them to get run like this.
This is pretty random, but when I saw that the TCU/Kansas game was using a running clock just to help get the game over with, I looked up Kansas' results on the season. When they hired David Beaty, it seemed like a bit of a strange choice, but I figured they couldn't get any worse than when Charlie Weis was the head coach, but hoo boy, things are real bad. As I type, they've been outscored by Iowa State and TCU 88-0 in the last two weeks. They're 0-6 against FBS competition, with the closest defeat being a 42-30 result against Ohio. The second-closest is an 18-point defeat at the hands of Central Michigan. I get that they're a basketball school and always will be, but man, it almost seems impossible to be that bad as a program in a P5 conference.
Sam Darnold = overrated along with the rest of this QB class. Rosen is a primadonna that his teammates hate even if he is talented. Watson is a better prospect than either of those guys.
Happens every year. Fans declare the next QB class the next great thing. New season happens, more film, more breakdown and suddenly that great class isn't so great. Sam Darnold Josh Allen Josh Rosen Baker Mayfield Mason Rudolph Luke Falk Lamar Jackson Who's the "can't miss we gotta tank for this guy" again?
AP Top 25 1. Alabama(61) 2. Penn State 3. Georgia 4. TCU 5. Wisconsin 6. Ohio State 7. Clemson 8. Miami 9. Notre Dame 10. Oklahoma 11. Oklahoma State 12. Washington 13. Virginia Tech 14. NC State 15. Washington State 16. Michigan State 17. South Florida 18. Central Florida 19. Auburn 20. Stanford 21. USC 22. West Virginia 23. LSU 24. Memphis 25. Iowa State
#EyesUpKeepClimbing Not ranked to start the season....predicted to finish 5th in the Big12.......sitting pretty @ #4....
I was on the "Suck for Goff" train, but Watson has been surprisingly good. If we did suck for Goff, then we wouldn't have blown our cap and draft picks on Osweiler so who knows where we'd be by now.
