College Football 2017 Week 8 running thread

Here are the most intriguing games and lines for Week 8. All point spreads from Vegas Insider and all times Eastern:

Thursday

Memphis (+2.5) at Houston, 8 p.m., ESPN

Friday

Colorado State (-6.5) at New Mexico, 10:15 p.m., ESPN2

Saturday

Oklahoma State (-7) at Texas, noon, ABC

Maryland (+24) at Wisconsin, noon, Fox

Louisville (+7) at Florida State, noon, ESPN

Tennessee (+34) at Alabama, 3:30 p.m., CBS

Syracuse (+14) at Miami, 3:30 p.m., ESPN

Arizona State (+10.5) at Utah, 3:30 p.m., Fox Sports 1

Central Florida (-7) at Navy, 3:30 p.m., CBS Sports Network

Oklahoma (-12.5) at Kansas State, 4 p.m., Fox

Kentucky (+10.5) at Mississippi State, 4 p.m., SEC Network

South Florida (-11.5) at Tulane, 7 p.m., ESPN2

LSU (-7) at Ole Miss, 7:15 p.m., ESPN

Michigan (+10) at Penn State, 7:30 p.m., ABC

USC (+4) at Notre Dame, 7:30 p.m., NBC

Fresno State (+10) at San Diego State, 10:30 p.m., CBS Sports Network

Colorado (+10.5) at Washington State, 10:45 p.m., ESPN

 

Bet everything you own on Oklahoma. Kansas State couldn't score in a whorehouse with a fistful of hundreds.

 

Oh My Holy God.
FOX National primetime game Saturday Night is Kansas @ TCU.
Peacock has USC @ Notre Dame while ABC has Michigan @ Penn State.
"One of these things is not like the other, not like the other, not like the other."

 

I almost always watch the Kansas game. Weekly affirmation that things could be worse

 

Can't have a Tennessee/Bama week without this video:

"And I don't like pumpkins."

 

You forgot:
Bye (-1) at Florida

My gosh, what a craptastic season. The FSU game could be a battle for bowl eligibility ... 1996 was so long ago.

 

That figures. Florida would never actually travel to Bye.

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Fortunately for you, Florida's next game is the only one in which how good or bad each team is means absolutely nothing. The demon that Steve Spurrier sold his soul to decides the outcome of that one, and that demon is a mischievous sonofabitch.

 

Reminds me of when I was a freshman at LSU during the dreadful 1994 season, and at a game in a half-empty Tiger Stadium with some friends. While LSU was getting its weekly ass-kicking, he found a pocket schedule on the ground and starts checking off the remaining games with a tone that's a perfect blend of pissed off and sarcastic.
"South Carolina? That's a loss. Ole Miss? That's a loss. Alabama? Hell yes that's a loss. Open date? Oh, we'll whip the fuck outta open date."

 

That Tennessee could be getting 34 points against any team is astounding.

 

The Curse of the Mangino. As much as I hate it, KU deserves to suck for firing him. Mizzou stuck with Pinkel when some schools might have fired him and delayed the regression to the mean by several years.