Posting early because we have
Football, football, all week long.
This week's college schedule begins on Tuesday just down the road from the country music capital of Nashville and ends on Saturday day in the warm breezes of Hawaii with stops everywhere in between.
They say that charity begins at home. Mario Cristobal took that to heart when he gave away a game that was won to Georgia Tech in front of a home crowd in Miami.
Not to be outdone in the generosity department, our local CSU Shams gave up 37 unanswered points to a Utah State team that was missing multiple key players after leading 17-0 on the way to a 44-24 defeat. I would call it a devastating defeat but in the long, putrid history of the CSU football program this one barely registers among the embarrassing losses. Fortunately for them most of their fans stop paying attention after they lose to CU.
Tuesday starts us off with three games involving schools that many fans don’t even know have teams. The only one that means anything is Liberty (5-0) at Jacksonville State (5-1) with the winner getting to sit on top of the CUSA standings.
Wednesday night is worse with two meaningless games including UTEP (1-5) at Florida International (3-3) and Sam Houston State (0-5) at New Mexico State (3-3) with all four teams worse than their records if that is possible.
Thursday we finally get what should be a decent game. West Virginia (4-1) at Houston (2-3) is expected to be close despite the differences in records. WVU has struggled some on offense.
Friday night we have the Buffs but we also get Tulane (4-1) at Memphis (4-1.) Both teams have easily beaten everybody on their schedules except one quality P5 opponent, and those games were competitive.
Saturday might be a good day to sleep in a little as the early games don’t offer much reason for anticipation.
Syracuse (4-2) has lost two in a row and likely can’t hang with (4) Florida State.
Since losing Coach Mel (She consented without saying it on the phone) Tucker Michigan State (2-3) has taken a nosedive. Rutgers (4-2) has had an easy schedule so far, this one shouldn’t be much of a challenge either.
Indiana (2-3) hasn’t beaten a P5 team this year and won’t this week either as (2) Michigan uses them as a punching bag.
When people hear Purdue (2-4) do they think Boilermakers or processed chicken. The second may be more apt this weekend as (3) Ohio State comes in to chop them up and fry them on the scoreboard.
Not to be outdone in the easy conference foes department (1) Georgia is at Vanderbilt (2-5).
Midday the PAC12 has the biggest game of the week. (8) Oregon is at (7) Washington with each looking to move up into playoff position.
(16) Utah who suffered their first loss of the season last week host Cal (3-3) who has been surprisingly competitive this year in an important game for each.
If you like blowouts this week what is probably the nation's worst D1? Team UMass is at (6) Penn State. I was tempted to make a reference to Pedo States past activities but UMass has already taken more than enough abuse.
In the same time slot (23) Kansas, yes that Kansas, is 5-1 and can become bowl eligible by beating Oklahoma State (3-2.) What kind of world do we live in when Kansas has already won 5 games and Nebraska hasn’t been to a bowl in over 5 years and aren’t likely to go this year either?
The schedule continues to get stronger as the day goes on.
Early evening games include a couple of redemption games.
(25) Miami is at (12) North Carolina after blowing a sure win last week. Coach Cristobal is pretty safe there but if they lose on another coaching blunder the cockroaches won’t be the only ones scurrying for cover in Miami.
Auburn (3-2) has had a week to prepare after giving Georgia all they wanted. They would love to knock (22) LSU out of the rankings at Baton Rouge.
National attention will be on (10) USC at (21) Notre Dame. Neither has been impressive lately but they are big name programs.
Another school looking to slip into the rankings North Carolina State (4-2) is at (17) Duke.
The PAC12 has another big game in the evening. (18) UCLA is at (15) Oregon State. The Beavers would love to give the Bruins a nice loss as a parting gift from the conference while gaining bowl eligibility.
The other PAC game of the day has Arizona (3-3) at (19) Washington State.
With the teams we love to hate Nebraska is off preparing for the rest of their season. They likely have to win the next 3 in a row for a bowl since their final 3 opponents are currently a combined 14-3.
Baylor is also off this week which isn’t good. That often means they are off looking for someone to rape or even kill.
Closer to home a huge game in Colorado Springs as Wyoming (5-1) is at Air Force (5-0.)
Expect thousands of fans dressed as empty seats in Fort Collins and CSU (2-3) welcomes in Boise State (3-3.) Can they somehow be worse than what they showed last week?
Northern Colorado (0-5) should be well rested after a week off. Won’t matter as Sacramento State (4-1) comes to Greeley to administer this week's beat down.
Small colleges continue to battle towards the playoffs.
Black Hills State (4-2, 3-1) is at Western Colorado (6-0, 4-0)
South Dakota Mines (3-3, 2-2) is at Colorado Mines (6-0, 4-0) Shouldn’t this game have some kind of mining pick trophy attached to it?
CSU Pueblo (3-3, 2-2) is at New Mexico Highlands (2-4, 1-3)
After losing 52-0 at home to Colorado Mines last week Mesa (2-4, 1-3) gets a break traveling to Fort Lewis (0-6, 0-4)
Football, football, all week long.
This week's college schedule begins on Tuesday just down the road from the country music capital of Nashville and ends on Saturday day in the warm breezes of Hawaii with stops everywhere in between.
They say that charity begins at home. Mario Cristobal took that to heart when he gave away a game that was won to Georgia Tech in front of a home crowd in Miami.
Not to be outdone in the generosity department, our local CSU Shams gave up 37 unanswered points to a Utah State team that was missing multiple key players after leading 17-0 on the way to a 44-24 defeat. I would call it a devastating defeat but in the long, putrid history of the CSU football program this one barely registers among the embarrassing losses. Fortunately for them most of their fans stop paying attention after they lose to CU.
Tuesday starts us off with three games involving schools that many fans don’t even know have teams. The only one that means anything is Liberty (5-0) at Jacksonville State (5-1) with the winner getting to sit on top of the CUSA standings.
Wednesday night is worse with two meaningless games including UTEP (1-5) at Florida International (3-3) and Sam Houston State (0-5) at New Mexico State (3-3) with all four teams worse than their records if that is possible.
Thursday we finally get what should be a decent game. West Virginia (4-1) at Houston (2-3) is expected to be close despite the differences in records. WVU has struggled some on offense.
Friday night we have the Buffs but we also get Tulane (4-1) at Memphis (4-1.) Both teams have easily beaten everybody on their schedules except one quality P5 opponent, and those games were competitive.
Saturday might be a good day to sleep in a little as the early games don’t offer much reason for anticipation.
Syracuse (4-2) has lost two in a row and likely can’t hang with (4) Florida State.
Since losing Coach Mel (She consented without saying it on the phone) Tucker Michigan State (2-3) has taken a nosedive. Rutgers (4-2) has had an easy schedule so far, this one shouldn’t be much of a challenge either.
Indiana (2-3) hasn’t beaten a P5 team this year and won’t this week either as (2) Michigan uses them as a punching bag.
When people hear Purdue (2-4) do they think Boilermakers or processed chicken. The second may be more apt this weekend as (3) Ohio State comes in to chop them up and fry them on the scoreboard.
Not to be outdone in the easy conference foes department (1) Georgia is at Vanderbilt (2-5).
Midday the PAC12 has the biggest game of the week. (8) Oregon is at (7) Washington with each looking to move up into playoff position.
(16) Utah who suffered their first loss of the season last week host Cal (3-3) who has been surprisingly competitive this year in an important game for each.
If you like blowouts this week what is probably the nation's worst D1? Team UMass is at (6) Penn State. I was tempted to make a reference to Pedo States past activities but UMass has already taken more than enough abuse.
In the same time slot (23) Kansas, yes that Kansas, is 5-1 and can become bowl eligible by beating Oklahoma State (3-2.) What kind of world do we live in when Kansas has already won 5 games and Nebraska hasn’t been to a bowl in over 5 years and aren’t likely to go this year either?
The schedule continues to get stronger as the day goes on.
Early evening games include a couple of redemption games.
(25) Miami is at (12) North Carolina after blowing a sure win last week. Coach Cristobal is pretty safe there but if they lose on another coaching blunder the cockroaches won’t be the only ones scurrying for cover in Miami.
Auburn (3-2) has had a week to prepare after giving Georgia all they wanted. They would love to knock (22) LSU out of the rankings at Baton Rouge.
National attention will be on (10) USC at (21) Notre Dame. Neither has been impressive lately but they are big name programs.
Another school looking to slip into the rankings North Carolina State (4-2) is at (17) Duke.
The PAC12 has another big game in the evening. (18) UCLA is at (15) Oregon State. The Beavers would love to give the Bruins a nice loss as a parting gift from the conference while gaining bowl eligibility.
The other PAC game of the day has Arizona (3-3) at (19) Washington State.
With the teams we love to hate Nebraska is off preparing for the rest of their season. They likely have to win the next 3 in a row for a bowl since their final 3 opponents are currently a combined 14-3.
Baylor is also off this week which isn’t good. That often means they are off looking for someone to rape or even kill.
Closer to home a huge game in Colorado Springs as Wyoming (5-1) is at Air Force (5-0.)
Expect thousands of fans dressed as empty seats in Fort Collins and CSU (2-3) welcomes in Boise State (3-3.) Can they somehow be worse than what they showed last week?
Northern Colorado (0-5) should be well rested after a week off. Won’t matter as Sacramento State (4-1) comes to Greeley to administer this week's beat down.
Small colleges continue to battle towards the playoffs.
Black Hills State (4-2, 3-1) is at Western Colorado (6-0, 4-0)
South Dakota Mines (3-3, 2-2) is at Colorado Mines (6-0, 4-0) Shouldn’t this game have some kind of mining pick trophy attached to it?
CSU Pueblo (3-3, 2-2) is at New Mexico Highlands (2-4, 1-3)
After losing 52-0 at home to Colorado Mines last week Mesa (2-4, 1-3) gets a break traveling to Fort Lewis (0-6, 0-4)
