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Other games, week of 9/6-9/7

MtnBuff

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College football is back and with the second week we have a few (very few) worthwhile games to watch and a bunch that schools should be embarrassed to count on their season records. We complain about the NFL charging full price for pre-season games that don't count, how about some of these schools charging full price for a glorified scrimmage that they will count?


This weekend shows my age, I look at the schedule and the old song from the Surfaris starts running through my head. (Warning: Don’t click the link if you don’t want an earbug.)



You would think they all learned to schedule from Tom Osborne.


We do get a couple of matchups of top 25 teams. (6) LSU who many are waiting to see collapse visit (9) Texas who many also consider overrated. Who will be the first to start their fall out of the top 10. How many games can Orgeron lose this year before his seat becomes very hot? Meanwhile is Texas back or is this another false alarm on a program that notoriously underachieves.

(1) Clemson who plays a relatively weak ACC schedule gets an early season test hosting (12) Texas A&M. aTm fans provide the financial support at a level to match the NC winners and are getting itchy to get one of their own. Jimbo is in the second year of a 10 year, $75 million contract so he has no worries but Aggies fans want results.

Most of the rest of the top 25 are busy competing for who can find the weakest opponent. (2) Alabama plays a New Mexico State team that only lost 58-7 last week to Washington State, (3) Georgia plays mighty Murray State who is 1-0 after winning their game last week against the Pikeville Bears (Who?) Starting to see a trend. Oklahoma won’t be one upped, the play South Dakota who lost last week to Montana.

No Thursday night games on the schedule and Friday gives us four games worthy only of viewing by the homebound or those with no life. You allbuffers who qualify can report for us.

The PAC 12 does get under way with Cal visiting (14) Washington and (23) Stanford going to USC who will be playing without their starting QB.

In local action CSU gets their best chance for an early season win against Western Illinois and Wyoming tries to build off their upset of Missouri going to Texas State. AFA has the week off preparing for the Buffs.

Along the Wipeout theme UNC who lost to one of the worst teams in FCS last week now gets one of the best going to Pullman to play (23) Washington State who won last week by 51. Hope they are getting paid well. Will they have anyone left when they finally start playing Big Sky opponents?

I jumped the gun last week on the small schools listing this weeks games a week early. Should be a great year with CSU Pueblo trying to get back into contention for the national playoffs and title, Mesa wanting to return to being a dominant program, and Mines and it's explosive offense trying to keep the moment going.



 
This is a really good Week 2.

Not only do we have the normal slate of strong non-conference games, but so many of the conferences are playing conference games in September now that we get a bunch of other P5 matchups that we didn't used to see before October. That makes it so much better. Especially since early in the season when a matchup like Rutgers at Iowa is between undefeated teams and we don't really know for sure how good anyone is. That's the type of game that probably wouldn't be on the radar by mid October but draws an FS1 national broadcast in Week 2 because of the uncertainty being so high.
 
BerkeleyBuff said:
Cincinatti at Ohio State and Army at Michigan are both games where the underdog has juuuust enough to make it interesting if everything falls right.
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Cincy-Bucks could, but Army looked AWFUL last week. Michigan won't have an issue with them.
 
ahoelsken said:
Cincy-Bucks could, but Army looked AWFUL last week. Michigan won't have an issue with them.
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Agree Cincy has the much better chance, and I'm giving Army the benefit of the doubt, allowing that perhaps last week was first-week mistakes so many teams have trouble with. They were solid last year. But also I just perennially doubt Michigan is going to be as good as all the media wants them to be.
 
Boy my mind is so focused on Nebraska this week that I forgot there were actually other games. I'll throw some games that I think is worthy or interesting:

Marshall @ Boise State
Ohio @ Pitt (I think Ohio beat Pitt before)
Army @ Michigan
Sycrause @ Maryland
Kennesaw State @ Kent State (FCS upset alert)
WVU @ Mizzou
Texas A&M @ Clemson
Southern Illinois @ UMass (FCS upset alert)
San Diego State @ UCLA (not recommended watching)
South Dakota @ Oklahoma (just for grins)
UCF @ FAU (UCF vs Lame Kitten)
Furman @ Georgia State (FCS upset alert)
Wyoming @ Texas State
North Texas @ SMU
BYU @ Tenneessee (loser is going to be bitter)
Coastal Carolina @ Kansas (CCU has a shot at winning this one)
LSU @ Texas
Arkansas @ Ole Miss
Miami FL @ North Carolina
Cal @ Washington
Stanford @ USC
Minnesota @ Frenso State
Oregon State @ Hawaii (not counting out the Beavers in this one)
 
Buffnik said:
This is a really good Week 2.

Not only do we have the normal slate of strong non-conference games, but so many of the conferences are playing conference games in September now that we get a bunch of other P5 matchups that we didn't used to see before October. That makes it so much better. Especially since early in the season when a matchup like Rutgers at Iowa is between undefeated teams and we don't really know for sure how good anyone is. That's the type of game that probably wouldn't be on the radar by mid October but draws an FS1 national broadcast in Week 2 because of the uncertainty being so high.
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I wouldn't call the non-conference games strong. We have a huge number of schools who are playing teams in body bag games, schools that have little to no hope of being competitive.

The limited number of early conference games are almost the saving grace for the weekend.

If schools were playing non-conference games against schools on a similar level (like CU-Neb) it would be a much more interesting weekend.

The idea that we are looking at Army and Cincinnati to try to find fun games to pay attention to says a lot.

Fortunately next week the slate gets much better with multiple OOC games between teams from P5 conferences along with some top G5 teams playing P5 teams that have a real chance to pick up wins that will bring attention to their programs.
 
MtnBuff said:
I wouldn't call the non-conference games strong. We have a huge number of schools who are playing teams in body bag games, schools that have little to no hope of being competitive.

The limited number of early conference games are almost the saving grace for the weekend.

If schools were playing non-conference games against schools on a similar level (like CU-Neb) it would be a much more interesting weekend.

The idea that we are looking at Army and Cincinnati to try to find fun games to pay attention to says a lot.

Fortunately next week the slate gets much better with multiple OOC games between teams from P5 conferences along with some top G5 teams playing P5 teams that have a real chance to pick up wins that will bring attention to their programs.
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Next week's slate isn't spectacular either-Iowa/Iowa State (who went to triple OT to beat mighty Northern Iowa) does nothing for me. Clemson-Syracuse is it.
 
Jalapeno said:
Boy my mind is so focused on Nebraska this week that I forgot there were actually other games. I'll throw some games that I think is worthy or interesting:

Marshall @ Boise State
Ohio @ Pitt (I think Ohio beat Pitt before)
Army @ Michigan
Sycrause @ Maryland
Kennesaw State @ Kent State (FCS upset alert)
WVU @ Mizzou
Texas A&M @ Clemson
Southern Illinois @ UMass (FCS upset alert)
San Diego State @ UCLA (not recommended watching)
South Dakota @ Oklahoma (just for grins)
UCF @ FAU (UCF vs Lame Kitten)
Furman @ Georgia State (FCS upset alert)
Wyoming @ Texas State
North Texas @ SMU
BYU @ Tenneessee (loser is going to be bitter)
Coastal Carolina @ Kansas (CCU has a shot at winning this one)
LSU @ Texas
Arkansas @ Ole Miss
Miami FL @ North Carolina
Cal @ Washington
Stanford @ USC
Minnesota @ Frenso State
Oregon State @ Hawaii (not counting out the Beavers in this one)
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man I thought I loved football.. you actually want to watch some of those games?
 
ahoelsken said:
Next week's slate isn't spectacular either-Iowa/Iowa State (who went to triple OT to beat mighty Northern Iowa) does nothing for me. Clemson-Syracuse is it.
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Not a lot of great games but at least a lot of legitimate games, we see a lot less of the FCS vs. P5 games.

Stanford - UCF should be interesting, games like NC State - UWV and ASU - Michigan State are at least legit games. Another one that could be interesting is USC visiting BYU.

This week we are going to see a lot of games with 30 point or more margins of victory.
 
Jalapeno said:
Boy my mind is so focused on Nebraska this week that I forgot there were actually other games. I'll throw some games that I think is worthy or interesting:

Marshall @ Boise State
Ohio @ Pitt (I think Ohio beat Pitt before)
Army @ Michigan
Sycrause @ Maryland
Kennesaw State @ Kent State (FCS upset alert)
WVU @ Mizzou
Texas A&M @ Clemson
Southern Illinois @ UMass (FCS upset alert)
San Diego State @ UCLA (not recommended watching)
South Dakota @ Oklahoma (just for grins)
UCF @ FAU (UCF vs Lame Kitten)
Furman @ Georgia State (FCS upset alert)
Wyoming @ Texas State
North Texas @ SMU
BYU @ Tenneessee (loser is going to be bitter)
Coastal Carolina @ Kansas (CCU has a shot at winning this one)
LSU @ Texas
Arkansas @ Ole Miss
Miami FL @ North Carolina
Cal @ Washington
Stanford @ USC
Minnesota @ Frenso State
Oregon State @ Hawaii (not counting out the Beavers in this one)
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Forgot about Marshall-Boise. Might bet that one now. Thanks @Jalapeno!
 
White_Rabbit said:
man I thought I loved football.. you actually want to watch some of those games?
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Don't have the time to watch them all and besides a CU game, I pretty much watch at least one more football game. The days of watching four or five games on Saturdays was something I could achieve when I was a teenager.
 
ahoelsken said:
I did it last Saturday with ease-that's on top of our game Friday night. Boom!
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These days a lot of my college football viewing is via DVR or replays. Every other weekend I am gone for my daughters races.

One thing the PAC12 network does well is their editing of games down to 60 minutes by cutting the time between plays. Much better than ESPN cutting games to 90 minutes by chopping out big parts of the game.
 
MtnBuff said:
These days a lot of my college football viewing is via DVR or replays. Every other weekend I am gone for my daughters races.

One thing the PAC12 network does well is their editing of games down to 60 minutes by cutting the time between plays. Much better than ESPN cutting games to 90 minutes by chopping out big parts of the game.
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I like that and the MW & ACC chops their condensed games down to about 30 minutes each. I posted the condensed Colgate-AFA game in the Air Force thread if you want to check that out.

That's why watching just one or two games a week is sufficient for me those days.
 
Mtn, you are a great amateur sports journalist and don't ever stop doing these posts. I went nuts last week watching the WYO/Missouri game. While the show stopper tomorrow is obviously Buffs/Corn, the Stanford/USC game might be interesting too. Some day I'm going to go to a Colo Mines game in Golden. Oh, and let's hope that the Buffs have someone covering up TE Jack Kroll tomorrow.....
 
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