Bye week: what games will you watch?

Sparty/ND - this is one of two games a year in which I cheer on the Spartans.

Tenn/Fla - will Tennessee stop the skid against the Gators?

Utah/Air Force - AF won last week without completing a single pass, also will be interesting to see how Utah looks.

Wake/FSU, Auburn/LSU also are on the list.

I'm also interested in the Iowa/Pitt game - can Iowa beat a team with a pulse?

I'll watch Purdue/CMU, since the lack of defense will provide a lot of entertainment value.

ND/MSU of course

Tennessee/Florida.  Florida should win handily, but you never know

I forgot about Utah/AF, but that could be a very interesting game

I'm thinking about Auburn/LSU, but I think it has the potential to be an excruciatingly boring punt fest.

 Edit:  Is the Utah/AF game actually on?  I can't find a TV listing for it.

Gentlemen, I'll let you in on a little secret...  When you get married, no matter how much she says she doesn't care if you watch the game every Saturday, no matter how cute she says you look when you don your replica jersey during the last commercial of College Gameday, no matter how much she says she loves Blue because you do...

THAT WILL CHANGE.  Eventually it becomes "Well... it's just Eastern Michigan.  Can't we stain the deck today?  Can't we go into the city?  Can't we go shopping?"

Of course, at that point you have to make a decision to either cave or step up and lay down the law, which then begins the dangerous discussion/fight that 'you love michigan more than her.'  Be very careful here...   you don't want to make the obvious mistake of taking away her faith in you, but at the same time you must remember you're setting up a precedent here for the rest OF YOUR UM-WATCHING LIFE.  (A tip-- the phrase 'it's only twelve days a year I get to watch them' works very well.)

SO with that being said, there's an easy peace offering to be given, thanks to the modern miracle of college scheduling-- GIVE HER THE BYE WEEK.  Go to the park with the kids or dog.  Go to her aunt's picnic.  Even (swallows hard) take her to the sale at Linens n Things.  Granted, It's a far, far, far cry from the Saturdays ten years ago where I'd wake up for ESPN Classic games at 7:30 and watch straight through to the last Pac-10 games on sports channels I never knew I even had.  But I've tried to have those kind of Saturdays now, and they come with a side serving of guilt.

Usually I stick to just two games a week now-- all tempered in part by OFFERING HER THE BYE WEEK to do whatever she wants.  And she does her part by knowing what big games are on the schedule and WHAT date-- I don't even know what date next year's OSU game is being played on, but chances are my wife does and has the schedule cleared.  Why?

The BYE WEEK.  WIFE WEEK.

I have b-school classes all day Saturday and will miss most of the action. 

WFU-FSU looks promising.  I guess LSU-Auburn.  I'll probably stick with UGA-ASU (although ASU so unceremoniously lost Saturday).

I'm playing golf, because the other college football nut in the group's team is also on a bye.  This way I don't miss the Bears game.  Will probably flip around to whatever's on the 3:30ET games though.

WIFE WEEK doesn't exist when WIFE is in school - she's always doing classwork during the day Saturday while I watch the games.  Works out quite nicely actually.

Living down here in Phoenix I have had this weekend circled on the calender for 6 months now...infact its the only reason I bought damn ASU season tickets.  And that reason my friends is not because #3 Georgia is coming to town...not because I get to watch potential #1 pick Matt Stafford or heisman hopefull Knowshawn Moreno.  I bought those tickets so I can mingle with those damn fine southern bells.  I don't know about you guys but by being from the midwest, there is nothing hotter then a hot blonde with a southern accent.  Go Georgia!

will be on versus. http://www.versus.com/cfb

 

What's the other game you root for MSU?

That would be the MSU/OSU game. (chrisgocomment was right on with his guess)

Pitt has a pulse?

Compared to the sludge that Iowa has played so far (Maine, Florida International and Iowa State) they have a pulse.

I'll be at the Manhattan Beach AVP Tournament!  Misty May-Kerri Walsh will dominate the women just as Todd Rogers and Phil Dalhausser will win the men's bracket.  Last big chance to see all the ladies prancing around in bikinis.  I love football as much as the next guy, but if you haven't been to an AVP tourney in the South Bay, you're missing out.

I want ND to smoke state this weekend. They (msu) are insufferable already, so to hear their stupidity on how they will beat us after they've beaten ND puts it to the breaking point.

Nothing would please me more this season than to absolutely destroy them.

I hope MSU beats ND, and I would like to see Iowa defeat Pitt.

"I told my wife UM has a crucial doubleheader against Minnesota State."

 

I just spit coffee.  Brilliant. May I borrow this line sometime? 

Utah vs Air Force is on Versus.  Sweet. 

 I can't bring myself to watch LSU-Auburn.  Something about watching a 7-6 game just doesn't appeal to me.

Something in my gut tells me Les's Tigers don't match up very well against the other Tigers.  New quarterback, Jordan-Hare, as-of-now-cupcake schedule-- I shudder at the thought, but something tells me LSU goes down in this one.

LSU-Auburn: First one to 10 wins.