Hopefully, this doesn't turn into ESPN-Slap-Another-Stupid-Disney-Trademarked-Label-On-It Saturday. Using TFP Rankings:
Missouri @ #1 Oklahoma
#2 Miami-Florida @ Temple
#4 Georgia @ Vanderbilt
#5 Florida State @ Virginia
#6 Southern California @ Norte Dame
#7 Washington State @ Stanford
#8 Iowa @ #9 Ohio State
Florida @ #10 Arkansas
#11 Louisiana State @ South Carolina
#14 Purdue @ #12 Wisconsin
Western Michigan @ #13 Northern Illinois
#14 Michigan State @ #16 Minnesota
Illinois @ #17 Michigan
Texas A&M @ #18 Nebraska
#19 Texas Christian @ Alabama-Birmingham
hm Air Force @ Colorado State (Thursday)
hm Miami-Ohio @ Ball State
hm Texas @ Iowa State
#3 Virginia Tech & hm Tennessee idle
- Oklahoma will need a fifth-straight 50 point game to beat Missouri.
- Temple covers the spread. Miami is caught yet again looking forward to the next week and has to come from behind in the fourth quarter against another bottom 20 team.
- It's Vanderbilt, what do YOU think Georgia is going to do?
- Virginia's grounds crew has a mysterious water pipe rupture in the hours before the game, flooding the field. (You're smiling now, just wait and see.)
- Norte Dame in an upset over the Trojans in front of Touchdown Jesus™? Ya never know.
- Stanford suffers another whipping.
- Iowa-Ohio State loser can forget the Rose Bowl and start thinking Florida (Citrus or Gator) or Texas (Alamo or Sun) for the holidays.
- Florida tries to continue the carnage in the SEC West. Why couldn't have they played Auburn this year instead?
- LSU tries to keep up with the other Tigers, the Cocks want a good Bowl game.
- Purdue-Wisconsin winner could be alone atop Big 10 with a little luck; loser is still in the chase.
- All the anti-BCS pressure is on Northern Illinois to keep winning.
- Minnesota wants redemption, Michigan State wants Pasadena.
- Wolverines sharpen their teeth for Spartans the next week. Hopefully (for them) they won't pull a page from Miami's book and forget to play this week.
- Texas A&M would love to hang 73 on Nebraska. Nebraska fights for air in the Big XII North.
- TCU is in the same boat as Northern Illinois.