Noon Games (open thread) + Viewing Schedule

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Not a great week for college football, but it's college football nonetheless!

Saturday, October 7

MATCHUP   TIME  (ET) NAT TV LOCATION

Wake Forest

 12:00 PM ESPN2

WatchESPN		 Memorial Stadium , Clemson, SC

Iowa State

 12:00 PM FOX Memorial Stadium , Norman, OK

#4Penn State

 12:00 PM ABC

WatchESPN		 Ryan Field, Evanston, IL

#5Georgia

 12:00 PM ESPN

WatchESPN		 Vanderbilt Stadium, Nashville, TN

Texas Tech

 12:00 PM FS1 Memorial Stadium , Lawrence, KS

#23West Virginia

#8TCU

 3:30 PM FS1 Amon G. Carter Stadium, Fort Worth, TX

#13Miami

 3:30 PM ESPN

WatchESPN		 Doak Campbell Stadium, Tallahassee, FL

#21Notre Dame

 3:30 PM ABC

WatchESPN		 Kenan Stadium, Chapel Hill, NC

LSU

#21Florida

 3:30 PM CBS Ben Hill Griffin Stadium, Gainesville, FL

Minnesota

 3:30 PM ESPN2

WatchESPN		 Ross-Ade Stadium, West Lafayette, IN

Air Force

 3:30 PM CBSSN Navy-Marine Corps Memorial Stadium, Annapolis, MD

Maryland

 4:00 PM FOX Ohio Stadium, Columbus, OH

Kansas State

 7:00 PM FS1 Royal Texas Memorial Stadium, Austin, TX

#1Alabama

 7:15 PM ESPN

WatchESPN		 Kyle Field, College Station, TX

#16Virginia Tech

 7:15 PM ESPN2

WatchESPN		 Alumni Stadium , Chestnut Hill, MA

Michigan State

 7:30 PM ABC

WatchESPN		 Michigan Stadium, Ann Arbor, MI

#9Wisconsin

 8:00 PM BTN Memorial Stadium , Lincoln, NE

#11Washington State

 8:00 PM FOX Autzen Stadium, Eugene, OR

#25UCF

 8:00 PM ESPNU

WatchESPN		 Nippert Stadium, Cincinnati, OH

Stanford

#20Utah

 10:15 PM FS1 Rice-Eccles Stadium, Salt Lake City, UT

California

 10:45 PM ESPN

WatchESPN		 Husky Stadium, Seattle, WA

#19San Diego State

 10:45 PM ESPN2

WatchESPN		 Sam Boyd Stadium, Las Vegas, NV

 

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RockinLoud

October 7th, 2017 at 4:49 PM ^

That's what we call a Red Herring boys and girls. Iowa St has nothing to do with the quality of Michigan's OL.

Our O-line was average on a good day last season, it has consistently been mediocre in every single game this season and getting outperformed by significantly less talented teams against common oppenents. For all his previous dominant O-lines, Drevno has not at all performed up to expectations at UM.

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SalvatoreQuattro

October 7th, 2017 at 4:55 PM ^

The point being that this is college football. Inexplicable things happen. Under perform? That assumes that the graduated seniors were capable of more than what they actually did and demands a lot from a young OL. Am I disappointed in the OL? Yeah. But UM does have two guys with proven track records of producing good offensive lines.

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RockinLoud

October 7th, 2017 at 5:01 PM ^

I wouldn't call 3 straight years of dissapointing O-lines an inexplicable thing. It's a trend at this point. I'm truly baffled as to how someone with the track record of Drevno, combined with the talent we supposedly have, can have the OL continuously do so poorly against teams that get ripped by lesser teams.

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SalvatoreQuattro

October 7th, 2017 at 5:04 PM ^

What talent did the departing OL show in their four years? Your entire premise is based in the flawed assumption that the Hoke recruited OL had talent. Outside of Cole not one of them proved to be anything more than average under multiple OL coaches. The line this year is consisting of Cole, Bredeson, and three inexperienced players.

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rindyn

October 7th, 2017 at 5:45 PM ^

Now we're in a stand still with Cole playing LT not his best position, 3 sophomores and a center that couldn't beat out last year's average 5th year guys. It seems the physical skill level is still lacking. I guess we have to be patient waiting for another year to implement a sophomore Ruiz at center, 2 Junior guards, maybe a senior tackle and a possible extra sophomore at the other tackle spot. Sigh, idk. We've seen Harbaugh offenses get better throughout the year. There's only so much we can do with our current talent level.

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RockinLoud

October 7th, 2017 at 6:04 PM ^

So do you think the Minnesota OL who has paved the way to 152 yds at 5.6 ypr with 4:00 still left in the 3rd quarter - vs 139 yds at 3.2 ypr that Michigan put up against the same Purdue team through an entire game - are just flat out more talented than UM's OL? I get it they're young, but they still look way less well coached than lesser teams.

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RoseInBlue

October 7th, 2017 at 5:10 PM ^

Not really.  We've played shitty offenses and Air Force which we shut down appropriately.  The only thing that could be concerning about it would be our offense, which we already knew was lethargic.  I haven't seen anything in these games that concerns me now that didn't concern me before.

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lhglrkwg

October 7th, 2017 at 5:44 PM ^

So with Minnesota playing Purdue even and Florida getting beaten by a crap LSU team, I think it's safe to say all of our wins suck and we don't know how good (or bad) we are yet

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RoseInBlue

October 7th, 2017 at 5:49 PM ^

The only one of these teams that was actually supposedly good was Florida and everyone knew they were overrated long before that game.  We haven't played any good teams yet.  We knew that already.  Seriously, I don't get people freaking out about the teams we've played looking like shit.  They aren't good teams.  That's not news.  Our offense hasn't been good either. Also not news.  

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rindyn

October 7th, 2017 at 5:52 PM ^

Defense is pretty good, doesn't have the depth or experience imo to say we really are the best defense in the country, but they're elite regardless. The offense will be fine if they can keep improving and O'Korn can give us decent qb play. Overall on a good day I'd say we're about the 12th best team.

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