The most boringest college football weekend in the history of ever

Submitted by dragonchild on

No two ranked teams are playing each other this weekend.  There aren't even that many "ranked team plays a decent team" matchups.  I double-checked out of disbelief.

Aside from being a homer cackling with glee as Michigan devours UCF, how many of these look even remotely interesting?

#1 Alabama vs. Western Kentucky
#2 Clemson vs. Troy
#3 Florida State vs. Charleston Southern (part of it, anyway)
#4 Ohio State vs. Tulsa
#5 Michigan vs. UCF
#6 Houston vs. Lamar
#7 Stanford (bye)
#8 Washington vs. Idaho
#9 Georgia vs. Nicholls
#10 Wisconsin vs. Akron
#11 Texas vs. UTEP
#12 Michigan State (bye)
#13 Louisville vs. Syracuse
#14 Oklahoma vs. Louisiana Monroe
#15 TCU vs. Arkansas
#16 Iowa vs. Iowa State
#17 Tennessee vs. Virginia Tech
#18 Notre Dame vs. Nevada
#19 Ole Miss vs. Wofford
#20 Texas A&M vs. Prairie View A&M
#21 LSU vs. Jacksonville State
#22 Oklahoma State vs. Central Michigan
#23 Baylor vs. SMU
#24 Oregon vs. Virginia
#25 Miami vs. Florida Atlantic

The B1G slate isn't much better with unranked conference teams facing such powerhouses as Florida International, Wyoming, Howard, Indiana State and Illinois State.

I'm glad football's back, but that kind of implies football is back, not cupcake-eating contest.  On the upside, at least Michigan's easy OOC schedule is now a relative thing.

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olm_go_blue

September 9th, 2016 at 7:59 PM ^

Battle for the right to call yourself the "true A&M of tx". aka the A&M bowl. and you aren't excited! if that doesn't get your blood racing, check your pulse!!

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reshp1

September 9th, 2016 at 8:06 PM ^

Pitt vs PedoU should be a good one. Narduzzi is going to light up that offensive line and rookie QB. I guess the Tennessee vs VT game will be entertaining.

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goblue224

September 9th, 2016 at 8:14 PM ^

It may not be a great weekend on paper, but a weekend with college football means someone entertaining will happen no matter what two teams are playing. Plus, like has been said a bunch already, I'd rather have this schedule than no games at all.

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LS And Play

September 9th, 2016 at 8:17 PM ^

Hey, as an Illinois law student I'm pumped for tomorrow. They play UNC and they'll probably get killed, but hey it's a night game and that means lots and lots of drinking. 

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jfk

September 9th, 2016 at 8:40 PM ^

but I wanted to post this and discovered I'm not allowed to start a new thread on the forum, which is fine.

Has anyone else noticed that during coach's thoroughly covered "warm up" routine with Speight, he tells Speight to "put your helmet on", ostensibly so he can start smacking the crap out of his head, because furiously beating upon his starting QB's chest is not enough HARBAUGH for even HARBAUGH HIMSELF?

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MMB 82

September 10th, 2016 at 9:06 AM ^

correspond to the eventual BCS rankings, we want OSU to go undefeated so that beating them (and then the B1G West champion) would get us into the playoffs, if we otherwise take care of business.

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BlueinLansing

September 9th, 2016 at 9:44 PM ^

 

My DVR selections are

Noon:

Pittsburgh vs Penn St.  -- probaby  for nostalgia since I'm old enough to remember the late 70's early 80's Pitt/PSU games.  I'm not expecting a real intersting game but its a chance to see the Lions vs a non-dead opponent.

UCF at Michigan  --obvious

3:30

Kentucky at Florida  --I always record the CBS SEC game of the week, I think this one might end up being more interesting than people think

7:30

Utah at BYU--fun rivalry, no idea how this years game will go.

8

Virgina Tech and Tennesse  --The Bristol game where 150,000 people all with terrible seats will hear rumors of a football game out there somewhere in the infield.  Might be a good game, not sure VTU is any good and given what UT did last week, yeah watchable probably.

 

10  Texas Tech at Arizona State  -- I actually think this might be the most entertaining game of the day.

1030  Virginia at Oregon  --  I'll be home by this time so I'll probably watch it live rather than record, Oregon is always a novelty to me and I've admired Bronco Mendenhall's BYU teams for awhile

 

I'll see if anything happens in the Arkansas/TCU or South Carolina/Miss State games worth watching and try to record a replay if possible.  I'm not all that excited about any of these teams but that Arkanasas/TCU might be really good.

 

For sure a weak week since most of the top notch teams aren't playing anyone really good.  Always good football to watch and many of these teams will have bigger games later in the year worth watching so its good to have seen them before hand.

I'll probably spend more time outside on Sunday though.

 

 

 

 

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lilpenny1316

September 9th, 2016 at 9:50 PM ^

BlueinLansing mentioned most of them.  I'm curious to see if Illinois truly is improved under Lovie Smith and I think the Washington St/Boise St game could be a shootout.  

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bamf16

September 9th, 2016 at 10:15 PM ^

They made such a big deal about last week being the best opening weekend in CFB history, which it very well may have been.  But after no football for 8 months, I don't think many would have complained as much if this week's slate were the opening week, given how badly we all wanted football back.

 

But after last weekend, this weekend just looks even worse.  I'm looking forward to the return of the Pitt/Penn State rivalry though.

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Blue from Ohio

September 9th, 2016 at 10:16 PM ^

Yeah its lousy but I'm kind of disappointed I haven't seen a million ESPN commercials advertising "the worst second week in college football ever but you'll still watch because college football is back".  

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markusr2007

September 9th, 2016 at 10:43 PM ^

"Right dude."

We end up starring at a screen with highlights of Iowa inexplicably losing to cross-state rival Iowa State at home.

And then some other team end up shitting the bed until the final seconds. 
Don't ask me who.  Probably North Carolina.

But I'm happy!

Michigan vs. UCF Wooo-Hoooo!

 

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