Noon Games (open thread) + Viewing Schedule

Submitted by Mr. Yost on

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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YoOoBoMoLloRoHo

October 7th, 2017 at 12:30 PM ^

First time to visit Clemson. Great noon time experience. Dabs is probably the best O coach right now. He is doing some interesting combinations from the spread. Great talent at the specialties roles, but boy sues Dabo havevtgr right combination of running and passing downfield.

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MGlobules

October 7th, 2017 at 12:32 PM ^

be able to watch the game with a pretty clear stream on my desktop? That is my preferred position--a submarine sandwich beside me in honor of our other big male sport--with mgoblog commentary open in a tab. 

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Mr. Yost

October 7th, 2017 at 12:37 PM ^

For everyone saying PSU looks like shit, we're going to beat them.

Yes, they do look like shit today...on the road, against an unranked team, at 11am local time.

Yes we're going to beat them because I'm a biased Michigan fan.

BUT...all teams have this game. Clemson looked like this versus NC State AND Pitt last year and won the national championship over Alabama.

That's why they call it "playing down to the competition." This game is not indicative of us playing in Happy Valley, at night, in a primetime game, white out, with Gameday, etc. - it's just completely different. If we think because PSU looks like this versus Northwestern, they're going to look like this versus us...we're going to get stomped.

We're going to beat PSU because we'll be the better football team. Not because of what we're watching today (unless it's an injury that affects our game).

Let's just root for N'Western because they're easy to like and PSU is deservedly hated. And because it would be funny to see them lose. But let's not act like we're going to be facing this PSU team anymore than they're facing the sleepy Michigan team we saw in the 1st half of the Air Force.

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BrownJuggernaut

October 7th, 2017 at 2:30 PM ^

While I agree that we shouldn't base our assumptions about Michigan beating Penn State solely on this game, I do feel that they've struggled with some average teams like Iowa and Northwestern. Both of those games were on the road, one a hostile night game, the other a early game in another time zone. There were definitely reasons for Penn State not being at their best.

I do think that there are some takeaways that are positives for us. Northwestern has been able to bottle up Saquon. Seeing it actually done is nice. McSorely has been good, but not great. Penn State hasn't been able to run away with it. Our defense is

Nevermind, Saquon just scored, benefiting from a pick from the referee.

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Maynard

October 7th, 2017 at 1:09 PM ^

A lot of guys would beg to differ. He isn't even the best running back on the planet. He is getting some serious hype this year. I get that. He is damn good. But from this point forward when they actually have to play decent teams let's see how he does. I would take an in-game-shape Zeke Elliott any day over Saquon and I can't stand OSU and their former players.

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Avant's Hands

October 7th, 2017 at 1:01 PM ^

To be fair, I was referring to when a better team just plays slow and can't get it together rather than when a bad team is just hot trash. I wouldn't call last year so much taking advantage of MSU not playing up to what they should be doing so much as them being bad, and feeling bad. This is more along the lines of Ferentz not having a killer instinct against anyone else.

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