Today's Schedule of Games
So, how was your week? Um, yeah. When I said that I wanted Michigan to be the center of the entire college football universe, I should have been more specific.
Anyhoo . . . there are games to be played. It’s a bye week for Michigan, but there are still a number of games today that could have an impact on our season.
Here are some of today’s highlights:
At Noon on CBS: Indiana at #10 Penn State. This is the first game where Michigan and Penn State share a common opponent. So it will be interesting to see how PSU matches up against Indiana. But, I’m not sure how much we will learn. Drew Allar at home against Indiana won’t be the same as Drew Allar in Columbus against Ohio State. Penn State will win big over Indiana (but not as big as Michigan won over Indiana).
Also at Noon on FOX: #6 Oklahoma at Kansas. Oklahoma looked like crap against UCF. But don’t be fooled. That was coming off a bye week, after a big win against Texas. They aren’t really as bad as they looked. They may still be overrated (IMO) as a top 6 team, but they are plenty good enough to overcome Kansas, which they will do today.
In the Afternoon at 3:30 PM on CBS: #1 Georgia at Florida. They are no longer allowed to call it “The World's Largest Outdoor Cocktail Party”. That name was banned in 2006 because it was deemed to be an endorsement of drinking too much alcohol among college students. And it worked perfectly, no college student ever drank alcohol in excess ever again. Just kidding, IT MADE NO FUCKING DIFFERENCE WHATSOEVER. So, I’m unilaterally bringing the name back. Bite me. This year’s version of The World's Largest Outdoor Cocktail Party will see Florida put a scare in Georgia, but then Georgia will shift into that extra gear that we all know they’ve been hiding, and pull out the win.
Also at 3:30 PM on FOX: #8 Oregon at #13 Utah. Oregon may be the most complete team in the nation, next to Michigan. Utah is a perpetually underrated team, and that’s true again this year. Utah should be able to go toe to toe with Oregon for a while. But at the end of the day, they are still essentially Oregon-lite. It won’t be enough, and Oregon will win to stay alive in the Pac12 race.
Also at 3:30 PM on ESPN: #20 Duke at #18 Louisville. No, this isn’t a Final Four preview. This is an honest-to-goodness American college football game preview. Both teams are in the running to face off against (likely FSU) for the title in the now-divisionless ACC. Duke QB Riley Leonard’s status still appears to be iffy, so I’ll go with Louisville in this one.
In the Evening at 7:00 PM on ESPN: #21 Tennessee at Kentucky. Another chance for Kentucky to announce on a national stage that they have finally arrived in the SEC. AND WE REALLY MEAN IT THIS TIME. But alas, Tennessee wasn’t paying attention, and missed the announcement. They will take care of Kentucky, just like we all knew they would. Kentucky is the SEC team of the future. And always will be.
At 7:30 PM on NBC: #3 Ohio State at Wisconsin. I’m saying there’s a chance. Wisconsin on the road at night is a tough place to play. Ohio State is coming of a big, draining win over Penn State. It’s the kind of game that has upset written all over it. It will look that way for about 3 quarters . . . and then Marvin Harrison will emerge and that will be that. Somebody double-cover that guy. Thx.
Finally, your Pac-12 After Dark Special - meaningless crazy football just for the fun of it:
At 10:30 PM on ESPN: #11 Oregon State at Arizona. Arizona may be most Pac-12 After Dark Special-est of all the Pac12 teams. You don’t ever want to find yourself facing an underdog Arizona, on the road, late at night, in a Pac-12 After Dark Special game. Weird ju ju happens down there. It will happen again, and Arizona will take out #11 Oregon State.
SATURDAY OCTOBER 28, 2023:
AWAY HOME TIME TV
NOON:
4 Florida State @ Wake Forest 12:00 PM ABC
6 Oklahoma @ Kansas 12:00 PM FOX
Indiana @ 10 Penn State 12:00 PM CBS
Massachusetts @ Army 12:00 PM CBSSN
UConn @ Boston College 12:00 PM ACCN
Maryland @ Northwestern 12:00 PM BTN
South Carolina @ Texas A&M 12:00 PM ESPN
Houston @ Kansas State 12:00 PM ESPN2
West Virginia @ UCF 12:00 PM FS1
Tulsa @ SMU 12:00 PM ESPNU
AFTERNOON:
Western Michigan @ Eastern Michigan 1:00 PM ESPN+
Clemson @ NC State 2:00 PM CW NETWORK
Memphis @ North Texas 3:00 PM ESPN+
1 Georgia @ Florida 3:30 PM CBS
BYU @ 7 Texas 3:30 PM ABC
8 Oregon @ 13 Utah 3:30 PM FOX
Pittsburgh @ 14 Notre Dame 3:30 PM NBC
20 Duke @ 18 Louisville 3:30 PM ESPN
Mississippi State @ Auburn 3:30 PM SECN
Michigan State @ Minnesota 3:30 PM BTN
Purdue @ Nebraska 3:30 PM FS1
Virginia @ Miami 3:30 PM ACCN
Iowa State @ Baylor 3:30 PM BIG12|ESPN+
East Carolina @ UTSA 3:30 PM ESPN+
Southern Miss @ Appalachian State 3:30 PM ESPN+
Miami (OH) @ Ohio 3:30 PM CBSSN
22 Tulane @ Rice 4:00 PM ESPN2
24 USC @ California 4:00 PM PAC12
Arkansas State @ UL Monroe 5:00 PM ESPN+
Louisiana @ South Alabama 5:00 PM ESPN+
Wyoming @ Boise State 5:30 PM FS2
EVENING:
Marshall @ Coastal Carolina 6:00 PM NFL NET
5 Washington @ Stanford 7:00 PM FS1
19 Air Force @ Colorado State 7:00 PM CBSSN
21 Tennessee @ Kentucky 7:00 PM ESPN
Troy @ Texas State 7:00 PM ESPN+
3 Ohio State @ Wisconsin 7:30 PM NBC
Vanderbilt @ 12 Ole Miss 7:30 PM SECN
Colorado @ 23 UCLA 7:30 PM ABC
17 North Carolina @ Georgia Tech 8:00 PM ACCN
Old Dominion @ 25 James Madison 8:00 PM ESPNU
Washington State @ Arizona State 8:00 PM PAC12
Cincinnati @ Oklahoma State 8:00 PM ESPN2
LATE NIGHT:
11 Oregon State @ Arizona 10:30 PM ESPN
New Mexico @ Nevada 10:30 PM CBSSN
UNLV @ Fresno State 10:30 PM FS1
San José State @ Hawai'i 11:59 PM -
October 28th, 2023 at 12:32 PM ^
Like a 90-yard TD pass for Indiana!
October 28th, 2023 at 12:32 PM ^
That safety (#6) looked sloooooooow for PSU.
October 28th, 2023 at 12:34 PM ^
Paging Mr. Wilson.
October 28th, 2023 at 12:33 PM ^
Hoosier your Daddy, Frames?
October 28th, 2023 at 12:34 PM ^
Penn State not afraid to forgo offense and defense today. It's a bold strategy, Cotton. Let's see if it pays off for them.
October 28th, 2023 at 12:35 PM ^
Allar is poo poo.
October 28th, 2023 at 12:35 PM ^
Drew Allar is garbage.
October 28th, 2023 at 12:35 PM ^
Vaunted PSU D is looking shaky. That was a nice throw and good to see so many missed tackles.
October 28th, 2023 at 12:36 PM ^
Indiana got a defensive stop. They must be stealing signs!
October 28th, 2023 at 12:36 PM ^
Whoever said Drew Allar was like sophomore John Navarre needs to apologize to Navarre.
October 28th, 2023 at 12:37 PM ^
He's not like him at all. Navarre always threw a good deep ball. His problem was his touch on the shorter stuff.
October 28th, 2023 at 12:36 PM ^
Didn't see a shootout involving a Big Ten West team ever happening, but looks like we've got one in Evanston.
October 28th, 2023 at 12:48 PM ^
Non-September Maryland is in full swing.
October 28th, 2023 at 12:37 PM ^
Only 10 minutes into the game and Penn State fans are booing their own team.
October 28th, 2023 at 12:37 PM ^
Yikes Allar is not good at all..no accuracy..no awareness..and Indiana fumbles..
October 28th, 2023 at 12:37 PM ^
Aaaand that's why you're Indiana
October 28th, 2023 at 12:37 PM ^
Oh, Indiana.
October 28th, 2023 at 12:37 PM ^
IU with all the momentum and you give a gift to Frames.
October 28th, 2023 at 12:38 PM ^
So everyone will start saying penn state didn’t know that sign/signal to stop the td like Michigan did. Can see it coming. Michigan already guilty in public opinion court. But also- PSU may not be that good, which means Buckeyes are lacking- already hearing bullshit from Ohio fans that they’re better this year 😂😂😂😂
October 28th, 2023 at 12:38 PM ^
Drew Allar has the potential to be a good college QB but it's sort of crazy that people talk about him like he hasn't been a bit of a disappointment. He's a highly-rated true sophomore - JJ McCarthy was a true sophomore last year and played great. Caleb Williams won a Heisman as a true sophomore. Drake Maye played well. Jaxson Dart played well. Quinn Ewers has been solid at Texas. He was a top-3 recruit nationally and the fact PSU seems afraid to have him throw downfield means something.
October 28th, 2023 at 12:40 PM ^
Kansas now up 14-0 on Oklahoma.
October 28th, 2023 at 12:40 PM ^
PSU cannot run the football and Allar can't throw the ball.
Bold strategy to have no offense.
October 28th, 2023 at 1:02 PM ^
Iowa-PSU would be quite a game.
October 28th, 2023 at 1:24 PM ^
Can't tell if joking.
They already played, and PSU won 31-0.
October 28th, 2023 at 12:41 PM ^
This PSU offensive line is terrible - they couldn't get a yard on 3rd down and then got an offsides penalty on 4th down when I think they jumped a bit early.
October 28th, 2023 at 12:46 PM ^
Same as it ever was.
October 28th, 2023 at 12:43 PM ^
PSU has to run PA pass on 4th and 1 because they can't run the ball.
October 28th, 2023 at 12:43 PM ^
That was a pretty obvious hold on that 3rd down.
October 28th, 2023 at 12:43 PM ^
PSU scores off a muffed punt. Their infection with Iowa continues.
October 28th, 2023 at 12:43 PM ^
Good playcall by PSU but probably not a great look that they needed to throw the ball on 3rd and 4th down to get 3 yards against IU.
October 28th, 2023 at 12:44 PM ^
Penn State: "Wow, Indiana is really good."
Michigan: "Huh?"
October 28th, 2023 at 12:44 PM ^
Non-September Maryland is always entertaining. 14-all in Evanston!
October 28th, 2023 at 12:44 PM ^
If Harbaugh decides to move on after winning the national championship this year, I wouldn't mind Leipold as a replacement. I know he's older (though still 6 months younger than Jim) but still has tons of energy and that running game is awesome. Get him an elite DC and I think he's a championship coach.
October 28th, 2023 at 12:47 PM ^
Let's not be writing off Jim Harbaugh just yet.
October 28th, 2023 at 12:57 PM ^
I agree, and I haven't "written him off"
October 28th, 2023 at 12:51 PM ^
Replacement is already on staff. But Harbaugh isn’t going anywhere.
October 28th, 2023 at 12:49 PM ^
Speaking for myself, I'll surely flip on a couple of games.
But this week has been, in football fan terms, exhausting. Having a pleasant diversion from the burdens and challenges of everyday life turned into something that is itself a source of contention and media rage and such is tiring.
So I might watch a bit less football than normal.*
One thing I do plan on: I'm tuning into the Rugby World Cup final. I'm vaguely disappointed that it's New Zealand vs South Africa, since they're the two most successful nations already and I was hoping for Ireland or France to supplant them (the QFs in which NZ and SF beat those respective teams were absolutely fantastic btw), but it should be a good match and I'm picking more up on the sport. And nobody calling it will say a single thing about a media-stirred controversy in American football, and that will be nice.
Should be a lot of fun.
*Of course there's a non-zero chance that I say this now and then wind up posting 20 times in the evening games thread because something catches my attention; this sentence is very much subject to change.
October 28th, 2023 at 12:51 PM ^
He signaled fair catch as much as Iowa did.
October 28th, 2023 at 12:51 PM ^
Was called back anyway but that little wave of the arm looked way closer to a fair catch than Dejean waving teammates away from the ball
October 28th, 2023 at 12:52 PM ^
Just tuned in to PSU vs IU. PSU still weak. IU standard, beating themselves. I’ve also seen fans in the stands with their cell phones pointed at the field.
October 28th, 2023 at 12:55 PM ^
Indiana is a 1st quarter team. They gave us our worst 1st quarter of the year. Problem is, there's always 3 quarters left.
October 28th, 2023 at 1:03 PM ^
IU with the uncovered WR TD. Their kick off and punt coverage are hugely lacking.
October 28th, 2023 at 12:53 PM ^
The Northwestern offensive juggernaut rolls on - 21-14 'Cats!
Dozens of fans are thrilled!
October 28th, 2023 at 1:06 PM ^
GO CATS!!
October 28th, 2023 at 12:55 PM ^
PSU must have Indiana's signals. That's the only way they could come back from a 7-0 first quarter deficit even if they were outgained. They must have just waited so people don't figure it out.
October 28th, 2023 at 12:56 PM ^
PSU's OL is so bad.
October 28th, 2023 at 12:57 PM ^
Allar with the slowest behind the scrimmage check downs I've ever seen, and he did it back to back.
October 28th, 2023 at 12:59 PM ^
He is a slow decision maker.
October 28th, 2023 at 12:59 PM ^
Indiana has a good defense. We would know this, they held us to only . . . 52 points.