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What a fucking bye week. A pure celebration of college football, and most of the teams that I assume the vast majority of us wanted to win won their games, leaving us looking as content as Puddles in a whiteout:

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Now it's time for Texas to start our SEC schedule with a trip to the Swamp, along with some other strong games.

Thursday

Sam Houston State @ New Mexico State (-2) (9/8 CBSSN): This is not one of the strong games. At least Las Cruces is pretty?

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Friday

Charlotte @ South Florida (-25) (7/6 ESPN2): USF is just barely out of the Top 25 and a serious contender for the G5 Playoff slot. Come watch them pummel a bad Charlotte team.

Western Kentucky @ Delaware (-2) (7/6 CBSSN): Hey, it's our newest FBS school! The Fightin' Blue Hens already have wins against UConn and FIU and should be a match for perennial CUSA contenders WKU. QB Nick Minicucci (born 2005) can watch fellow UDel alum Joe Flacco (born 1985) play on Sunday - wild!

New Mexico @ San Jose State (-2) (10/9 FS1): As a Texas fan who enjoys the comedy stylings of Nico Iamaleava, I've seen both of these teams play. Should be a fun one!

West Virginia @ #23 BYU (-19) (10:30/9:30 ESPN): BYU gets another deep late night assignment and stays under the national radar as they plunder Sark's playbook of fun reverses. WVU is plumbing new depths of badness under RichRod 2.0, losing at home 48-14 to an unexceptional Utah squad.

Saturday

Early Games

#14 Iowa State (-2) @ Cincinnati (12/11 ESPN2): Good day to get a slow warmup start into college football - the nooners are bad. This could be a fun trap game, though. Cincy looks revitalized somehow in a make-or-break year for Satterfield, and Nippert is a really fun, loud little stadium.

Clemson (-14) @ North Carolina (12/11 ESPN): Appointment viewing for the Sickos among us - watch two heavily hyped disappointment have a slap fight in Chapel Hill.

Air Force @ Navy (-7) (12/11 CBS): If the football product is bad this viewing window, you might as well max out the pageantry with a Commander in Chief's Cup faceoff in Annapolis. USAFA's only win is against Bucknell, but undefeated Navy looks like they could be a real threat in the dangerous AAC.

Mid Afternoon

#9 Texas (-7) @ Florida (3:30/2:30 ESPN): We're back! Will the Gators have any desire to save Billy Napier's job? Will the Texas offense show up? Will Florida score any points on the Texas defense?

#16 Vanderbilt @ #10 Alabama (-12) (3:30/2:30 ABC): Bama won't exactly be overlooking Vandy after last year's embarassment and with Gameday coming to town, but this could still be a big emotional letdown. Kalen DeBoer's problem last year in Tuscaloosa was an inability to win the "small" games. Does this quality anymore? And is Diego Pavia a potential Heisman winner?

#25 Virginia @ Louisville (-7) (3:30/2:30 ESPN2): Ranked Wahoos! Virginia comes into Louisville as pretty heavy underdogs, but lucked out in that their loss to NC State was "out of conference". The Cardinals are undefeated and ready to show up on the national stage. A surprisingly consequential matchup in the ACC!

Primetime

#3 Miami (-5) @ #18 Florida State (7:30/6:30 ABC): Hell yeah, a primetime in-state rivalry with the high-flying Canes facing a wounded Noles team. Cristobal and Norvell are high-delta coaches and this is the state of Florida, this could be really chaotic.

PS: Squirrel White is ok after this reenactment of World War Z

Minnesota @ #1 Ohio State (-22) (7:30/6:30 NBC): Yeah, not a lot of depth in this slot to be honest.

Mississippi State @ #6 Texas A&M (-12) (7:45/6:45 SECN): Miss State is much improved from a very low floor, but this feels like another ratchet up the rollercoaster.

RIP Pac-12 After Dark

Duke (-2) @ California (10:30/9:30 ESPN): An Atlantic Coast battle on the shores of San Francisco Bay. Which team's faint ACC hopes will stay alive on a foggy night in Berkeley?

Have fun, y'all. Even the quieter cfp weekends find ways to have some fireworks.

 

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Saturday

Early Games

#14 Iowa State (-2) @ Cincinnati (12/11 ESPN2): Good day to get a slow warmup start into college football - the nooners are bad. This could be a fun trap game, though. Cincy looks revitalized somehow in a make-or-break year for Satterfield, and Nippert is a really fun, loud little stadium.

Clemson (-14) @ North Carolina (12/11 ESPN): Appointment viewing for the Sickos among us - watch two heavily hyped disappointment have a slap fight in Chapel Hill.

Air Force @ Navy (-7) (12/11 CBS): If the football product is bad this viewing window, you might as well max out the pageantry with a Commander in Chief's Cup faceoff in Annapolis. USAFA's only win is against Bucknell, but undefeated Navy looks like they could be a real threat in the dangerous AAC.

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TIL that Delaware moved to FBS. They were a very good not great FCS/I-AA program with some NCs and decently recent playoff success. A lot of local support and enthusiasm, a good tradition of winning. 

I really wonder about the economics of this and in the long run being worth it.  I know if I were an alum I’d rather see my team do really well and be a FCS playoff contender against my old rivals than watch them just flounder about in the lower reaches of G5.  Delaware will likely never sniff a CFP playoff. 

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