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After Week One's madness of high stakes ranked-on-ranked action, this is... not that. But it's a full fun couple days of college football with some offbeat rivalry games in an unseasonably cool early fall. Enjoy it!

Friday

James Madison @ Louisville (-15) - 7/6 ESPN 2: Jeff Brohm's teams are usually a lot of fun to watch - JMU probably won't be able to hang, but they're a solid program (and one that I've never met a bad alumni. Good, social folks). Miller Moss should be able to play loose out from under the psychodrama that is Lincoln Riley USC Football.

Northern Illinois @ Maryland (-16) - 7:30/6:30 BTN: We all know what Northern Illinois is capable of after last year. Maryland Football in the Big Ten is a pretty joyless experience, even when Taulia Tagovailoa was slinging it around last year. Freshman QB Malik Washington looked great against FAU.

Saturday

Early

San Jose State @ #7 Texas (-36) - 12/11 ABC: After last weeks defensive heavyweight battle in the Shoe, this is a gentle walk in the park against a lower-level G5 program that lost all of its good players from a good-by-their-standards team last year. Enjoy the demolition.

Iowa @ #16 Iowa State (-3) - 12/11 FOX: El Assico returns! Matt Campbell didn't shit the bed in a major televised rivalry game in Week Zero, but the chance comes to do it again against a powerfully mid Hawkeyes squad.

#11 Illinois (-2.5) @ Duke - 12/11 ESPN: Bert! Manny Diaz! Durham! This is actually a fun, good matchup of coaches Texas fans have plenty of history with (provided Duke playing with their food against Elon was just a vanilla first game and not a sign of deeper badness).

Baylor @ #17 SMU (-4) - 12/11 CW: Will the wheels fully fall of the Aranda train? Is SMU a paper tiger or for real? Could be a fun one at Gerald Ford (not that one) Stadium.

Mid-Afternoon

Kansas @ Mizzou (-6.5) - 3:30 / 2:30 ESPN2: Border War! A pretty intense rivalry between two often overlooked schools. Neither is ranked, but neither is actually bad either, and Liepold and Drinkwitz are quality coaches.

#20 Ole Miss (-9) @ Kentucky (-6.5) - 3:30 / 2:30 ABC: Kentucky annoyingly avoided the upset against Toledo (barely) but now it's definitely time for prime sad Stoops face.

West Virginia (-3) @ Ohio - 4/3 ESPNU: Why on earth is this game happening. Ohio nearly upset Rutgers in Piscataway and now they get another bad P5 school, this time in Athens (the Midwestern one). As you can see by the line, The 'eers on are upset alert.

South Florida @ #13 Florida (-19) - 4/3 SECN: South Florida's upset of Boise State means this game has a little more life than expected. The Gators should roll, but the USF defense can cause those talented but fragile skill players some problems.

Primetime

#15 Michigan @ #18 Oklahoma (-5.5) - 7:30 / 6:30 ABC: A matchup of great programs, beautiful jerseys, and mid-to-decent football teams. Here's hoping the Michigan defense pounds Mateer and Ott to dust behind that suspect OL and terrorizes their JUCO caliber WRs.

#12 Arizona State (-7) @ Mississippi State  - 7:30 / 6:30 ESPN2: Is ASU for real again? Does Miss State have any juice at all this year? Even if it's uncompetitive, watching Sam Leavitt made a bunch of rednecks sad is a joy.

Vanderbilt (-4.5) @ Virginia Tech - 7:30 / 6:30 ACCN: A chance to watch Diego Pavia in a cool venue and another measuring stick for the bottom half of the SEC.

UCLA (-2) @ UNLV - 8 / 7 CBSSN: Dan Mullen's UNLV is 2-0. Nico Iamaleava looked like butt as UCLA got smoked 43-10 by a revitalized Utah. There's a chance for some fun on Saturday in Vegas.

After Dark

Stanford @ BYU (-19) - 10:15/9:15 ESPN: You guys want to see a dead tree?

Edited by texifornia

You ignore the state of Texas at your own peril, sir. 

Texas State at UTSA should be a fun game if you can find it on tv.

Houston at Rice is one of the most celebrated rivalries in all of ... the Med Center area of Houston. ESPN+ will be blowing up for this one with tens of viewers. 

No love for Oklahoma State at Oregon? I know Okie State sucked last year, but maybe this one is okay?

Boston College at Michigan State isn't sexy, but it interests me. I want to know if either one of these teams is capable of giving bigger conference opponents a challenge this season.

I find OU being favored by 5.5 to be fascinating. 

In most seasons, there are usually a couple of weekends in which a number of upsets occur. At least one of those weekends usually also looks sleepy. Maybe we get a little of that this weekend for our entertainment. 

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10 minutes ago, closetojumping said:

You ignore the state of Texas at your own peril, sir. 

Texas State at UTSA should be a fun game if you can find it on tv.

Houston at Rice is one of the most celebrated rivalries in all of ... the Med Center area of Houston. ESPN+ will be blowing up for this one with tens of viewers. 

No love for Oklahoma State at Oregon? I know Okie State sucked last year, but maybe this one is okay?

Boston College at Michigan State isn't sexy, but it interests me. I want to know if either one of these teams is capable of giving bigger conference opponents a challenge this season.

I find OU being favored by 5.5 to be fascinating. 

In most seasons, there are usually a couple of weekends in which a number of upsets occur. At least one of those weekends usually also looks sleepy. Maybe we get a little of that this weekend for our entertainment. 

I'm kind of assuming Oregon blows out Okie Lite by a whole lot but I'd love if that game was competitive. Thoughts @oSuJeff97 or @'stache?

I just missed BC @ MSU, I've got some light family ties to both schools. Hoping Sparty can bring back their Dantonio edge and cause a little chaos this year.

28 minutes ago, texifornia said:

#11 Illinois (-2.5) @ Duke - 12/11 ESPN: Bert! Manny Diaz! Durham! This is actually a fun, good matchup of coaches Texas fans have plenty of history with (provided Duke playing with their food against Elon was just a vanilla first game and not a sign of deeper badness).

This line seems wild to me. Duke was tied 10-10 with Elon at halftime, and they really didn't pull away until the 4th quarter. If Illinois is anywhere near the #11 team in the country, they should cover easily. 

The strange line has already been mentioned but it must be noted that OU's jerseys are ugly as fuck.

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1 hour ago, Burt Macklin said:

This line seems wild to me. Duke was tied 10-10 with Elon at halftime, and they really didn't pull away until the 4th quarter. If Illinois is anywhere near the #11 team in the country, they should cover easily. 

I asked my Duke fan friend - not sure I buy it, but that's where he's coming from:

Duke ended up dominating the second half, stacking up a few late TDs. My take has been we’ve got a top 25 defense and a top 25 QB which is usually enough to be a top 25 team. I feel like Duke just came out flat to a half empty stadium 

1 hour ago, texifornia said:

I'm kind of assuming Oregon blows out Okie Lite by a whole lot but I'd love if that game was competitive. Thoughts @oSuJeff97 or @'stache?

I just missed BC @ MSU, I've got some light family ties to both schools. Hoping Sparty can bring back their Dantonio edge and cause a little chaos this year.

Okst QB is out for 5 weeks with a broken bone in his foot. 

3 hours ago, texifornia said:

Iowa @ #16 Iowa State (-3) - 12/11 FOX: El Assico returns! Matt Campbell didn't shit the bed in a major televised rivalry game in Week Zero, but the chance comes to do it again against a powerfully mid Hawkeyes squad.

Iowa views ISU like we do aggy:

 

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Uh oh (Purdue did blank Ball State last week 31-0, but I need more data points before this isn't a scary game for them)

 

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43 minutes ago, The Dog said:

Iowa views ISU like we do aggy:

Counterpoint: redhead Iowa State coed.gif

3 hours ago, texifornia said:

I'm kind of assuming Oregon blows out Okie Lite by a whole lot but I'd love if that game was competitive. Thoughts @oSuJeff97 or @'stache?

I just missed BC @ MSU, I've got some light family ties to both schools. Hoping Sparty can bring back their Dantonio edge and cause a little chaos this year.

I don’t see any path to it being competitive. Our OL is still as bad as I’ve ever seen carried over from last year. Cannot open holes for the RBs or give the new QB enough time to be consistent. The defense looks better but will be in the field nonstop. It’s going to be ugly af.

16 hours ago, Burt Macklin said:

This line seems wild to me. Duke was tied 10-10 with Elon at halftime, and they really didn't pull away until the 4th quarter. If Illinois is anywhere near the #11 team in the country, they should cover easily. 

I thought about that one. Part of just thinks it's really hard to trust Bielema in consecutive seasons. Then I realize that he'll be up against Manny Diaz and my head just wants to explode. 

13 hours ago, TrashMaster G said:

Counterpoint: redhead Iowa State coed.gif

You can't invoke her and not post the gif.

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2 minutes ago, Park Gothic said:

You can't invoke her and not post the gif.

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I have never figured out how to post gifs from my cell phone.

Thanks for the assist.

Just now, TrashMaster G said:

I have never figured out how to post gifs from my cell phone.

Thanks for the assist.

Teamwork makes the dream work

15 hours ago, texifornia said:

 

 

Don't sleep on the Salukis! That's a dog breed, BTW

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Just now, DFW Horn said:

Don't sleep on the Salukis! That's a dog breed, BTW

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They were one my favorite March Madness teams as a kid because the mascots are so cool looking

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Fehrens can become the conference's all-time winning coach on Saturday. 26 years. One Rose Bowl in his career. Probably should get the Outback Bowl named after him at some point.

Unlike his son, Kirk hasn't had a scoring quota to maintain his job.  Limited success but not longevity.

 

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2 hours ago, Wally Pryor said:

Fehrens can become the conference's all-time winning coach on Saturday.

This is a @SydneyCarton caliber spelling job.

Unrelatedly

 

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36 minutes ago, Beau Vine said:

Why the hell are there no Thursday games this week?

They never schedule games against the NFL opener

6 minutes ago, texifornia said:

They never schedule games against the NFL opener

Yeah, we're stuck with watching the Cowboys getting embarrassed during prime time. Spike to me head 

2 hours ago, cactusflinthead said:

Yeah, we're stuck with watching the Cowboys getting embarrassed during prime time. Spike to me head 

I expect to have a pretty good time tomorrow night watching that one, pretty much enough to be okay with not having CFB. Do Cowboys fans post a game thread? I might have to check that one out. 

6 minutes ago, closetojumping said:

I expect to have a pretty good time tomorrow night watching that one, pretty much enough to be okay with not having CFB. Do Cowboys fans post a game thread? I might have to check that one out. 

You've going to have to put up with a lot of Drew. Would not recommend 

9 minutes ago, closetojumping said:

I expect to have a pretty good time tomorrow night watching that one, pretty much enough to be okay with not having CFB. Do Cowboys fans post a game thread? I might have to check that one out. 

Need a week 1 NFL thread for the non-cowboy fans so we don’t have to read Drew or look at Vic’s dumb memes from Facebook 

3 minutes ago, cactusflinthead said:

You've going to have to put up with a lot of Drew. Would not recommend 

 

Just now, Js1 said:

Need a week 1 NFL thread for the non-cowboy fans so we don’t have to read Drew or look at Vic’s dumb memes from Facebook 

Who is this Drew character? 

I like the non-Cowboy fan NFL thread idea. 

4 minutes ago, closetojumping said:

Who is this Drew

After some consideration the best description I can muster up is a Yorkie. Insistent.yappy, but mostly harmless. He annoyed the hell out of Rex which made for some fine entertainment though.

2 hours ago, cactusflinthead said:

Yeah, we're stuck with watching the Cowboys getting embarrassed during prime time. Spike to me head 

Fuck that.  I'm either gonna PPV some D2 football or find a local high school game. 

Some line movement - just looking at ESPN:

Illinois over a FG now -3.5 @Duke

SMU under a FG -2.5 against Baylor

OU down to -4.5 against MICH

Oregon now up to over 4 TDs -28.5 against Okie Lite. That one opened at -23.5. I mean... Jesus Christ, pokes. Good luck I guess.

Gamblers gonna gamble. Gundy making an NIL comment about Oregon's payroll drew attention to the game and therefore the gamblers. I think our defense can keep it within 28 points (lol) but it ain't gonna be pretty either way. 

15 hours ago, closetojumping said:

 

Who is this Drew character? 

I like the non-Cowboy fan NFL thread idea. 

@shadow_operative2.0 usually starts an "NFL Week (X)" thread as a catch-all for the non-Cowboys/Texans games and for people watching who aren't fans of those teams to discuss those games. 

I'm sure he will start one today for NFL Week 1, since we have Cowboys-Eagles tonight and Chargers-Chiefs tomorrow in Brazil 

I just paid $20 to something called FloSports so that I can watch Colorado Mines @ West Texas aggy tonight.

Edited by Beau Vine

18 minutes ago, Beau Vine said:

I just paid $20 to something called FloSports so that I can watch Colorado Mines @ West Texas aggy tonight.

Go Buffs!

1 hour ago, Beau Vine said:

Mines won 33-31 in case you were wondering. 

Not really but thanks for the update. 

Have a lot of family ties to WTAMU. 

On 9/3/2025 at 9:09 AM, texifornia said:

 

yeah sure alabama at 11 lmao

1 hour ago, texifornia said:

 

I missed it somewhere along the timeline, but what is the story behind the name "El Assico" for the Iowa vs ISU game each year? Is it just because those games are usually so ugly? What's the origin story?

Just now, closetojumping said:

I missed it somewhere along the timeline, but what is the story behind the name "El Assico" for the Iowa vs ISU game each year? Is it just because those games are usually so ugly? What's the origin story?

It’s a play on the Real Madrid-Barcelona soccer rivalry that is called “El Classico.” The games are usually good.

Iowa-ISU games are the opposite of that.

1 minute ago, closetojumping said:

I missed it somewhere along the timeline, but what is the story behind the name "El Assico" for the Iowa vs ISU game each year? Is it just because those games are usually so ugly? What's the origin story?

It's a parody of El Clásico (between Barcelona and Real Madrid) because the two teams are usually ass. 

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