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Fun week last week. The most Sickos news occured when BOWL-ELIGIBLE Wake Forest and Cal ripped apart the ACC's best shots at being a two-bid league and opened the door for Duke to do the funniest shit of all time - win the ACC after losing to Tulane and UConn and make it a zero-bid league (it won't happen, but it's fun to dream).

This week's MACtion already started, as Western Michigan blew open the title race with a win over Ohio and Kent State (led by Ryan Niblett's closest competition for Special Teams First Team All-American De'Realyst Clark) showed you can plant a wagon wheel rivalry trophy at your opponent's 50-yard line.

 God I love college football. On to the rest of the week!

Wednesday

Buffalo @ Central Michigan (-2) (7/6 CBSSN): A MACtion tripleheader starts with a clash of title contenders in Mount Pleasant. Buffalo takes the conference lead with a win, the Chippewas need to win to stay in the hunt.

Northern Illinois (-11) @ UMass (7/6 ESPNU): SHSU's win in Corvallis leaves UMass as the only winless FBS program. A home matchup with a bad NIU team that's already mentally checked out of its time in the MAC is the perfect place to rectify that.

Toledo (-2.5) @ Miami of Ohio (7/6 ESPN2): Toledo is rocketing its way back into title contention after a bad start, and is the road favorite against a team above it in the standings. This should be a fun one.

Thursday

Troy @ Old Dominion (-10) (7:30/6:30 ESPN): Why watch NFL Corporateball when you could watch Fun Belt action live from Norfolk, Virginia, home of the world's largest naval base? Troy is still alive in the Sun Belt West race to see who gets blown off the field by JMU in the conference championship, but ODU is a heavy home favorite.

Friday

Clemson @ #20 Louisville (-4) (7:30/6:30 ESPN): Jeff Brohm continues to be the reverse James Franklin (or a homeless man's Kalen Deboer) - winning the big games and turning around and doing this at home:

Entertaining for neutral fans, infuriating for ACC execs.

Minnesota @ #8 Oregon (-20) (9/8 FOX): Short week for Oregon after defeating Kirk Ferentz at his own game in Iowa City. They should take care of business at home.

Saturday

Early Games

#9 Notre Dame (-11) @ #22 Pittsburgh (12/11 ABC): College Gameday in town. Top ten opponent with paper tiger written all over them. Opportunity for a program defining win. So Pat Narduzzi turns around and gives one of the weakest, most gutless press conferences in cfb history.

The Irish are going to win by three scores.

#24 South Florida (-10) @ Navy (12/11 ESPN2): The American is the G5's premier gauntlet and it's South Florida's turn for a tough road test in Annapolis. If Navy QB Blake Horvath is back (he was out vs. ND), this could get fun.

Wisconsin @ #2 Indiana (-29) (12/11 BTN): Wisconsin finally won a ranked game last week. Their leading passer was their punter.

Indiana did this in Happy Valley

IU should smoke the Badgers at home, but I'm happy to see Wisco show signs of life.

Midafternoon

#11 Oklahoma @ #4 Alabama (-6.5) (3:30/2:30 ABC): OU is in the same position we are but a little worse - a loss here doesn't 100% knock them out of the Playoff, but it's pretty bad regardless. This is a bonafide big game, it's Kalen Deboer vs. Brent Venables, I know who I'm putting my imaginary money on.

#19 Virginia @ Duke (-6) (3:30/2:30 ESPN2): Remember that scenario I mentioned at the top where the ACC misses the CFP? It starts with a close Duke win here. Darian Mensah is good enough to win any game - hence a team that just lost to UConn being favored by 6. His supporting cast is good enough to lose any game. Meanwhile, how the fuck did you lose to Wake Forest at home, UVA?

#21 Iowa @ #17 USC (-5) (3:30/2:30 CBS): USC has quietly built up a run at the Big 10 Championship after false starting against Illinois. If Iowa can avoid a post-loss hangover, they're easily good enough to stop that effort in its tracks.

Primetime

#10 Texas @ #5 Georgia (-5) (7:30/6:30 ABC): A primetime network game against our recent bete noire, let's fucking go. Sark, Arch, and the defense have all shown the ability in flashes to win this game. But it's going to take more than flashes to beat an excellent-but-not-elite edition of Kirby Smart's Dawgs.

Florida @ #7 Ole Miss (-13) (7/6 ESPN): Lane Kiffin's teams tend to have one mystifying loss in them. Last year, it was Florida (and Kentucky). Can he and Trinidad Chambliss take care of business?

Kennesaw State (-3.5) @ Jacksonville State (7/6 ESPNU): Not a lot of counterprogramming in primetime, so fuck it, let's do the defacto CUSA regular season title game! What a turnaround for Kennesaw State after being atrocious in their first two years of FBS play (outside of a hilarious upset of Liberty). 

RIP Pac-12 After Dark

TCU @ #12 BYU (-14) (10:15/9:15 ESPN): A good test of BYU's ability to quickly jump back up off the mat and cruise into a Big XII Championship rematch with Tech.

Boise State @ San Diego State (-2) (10:30/9:30 CBSSN): Another G5 regular season title decider - SDSU removed themselves from Playoff contention by getting their doors blown off in Honolulu last week - but the Aztecs still are Mountain West favorites coming into the weekend.

Have fun everyone! Should be a great week.

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