College Football Week 5: Help us raise money for needy John L. Smiths

This week's top games, featuring the SportsJournalists.com poll, Sportsbook.ag's early lines and p.m. Eastern times:

Thursday, Sept. 27

No. 8 Stanford (-7) at Washington, 9, ESPN
Jim Harbaugh still wants to know why Chef2 thinks he's Stanford's coach.

Friday, Sept. 28

Hawaii at Brigham Young (-27½), 8, ESPN
Hawaii hasn't voted Republican since 1984.

Saturday, Sept. 29

Baylor at No. 7 West Virginia (-12½), 12, FX
Robert Griffin III hopes to be able to see straight again by kickoff after being hit 13 times by the Bengals.

Penn State at Illinois (-1½), 12, ESPN
We're still nationally televising Penn State games?

North Carolina State at Miami (Fla.) (-3), 12, ESPN
The Criminals will be ranked next week, when they face the Catholics. The story lines demand it.

Indiana at Northwestern (-11½), 12, Big Ten Network
Winner of this game gets to choke away any shot at the Big Ten Conference title game in October.

Arkansas at Texas A&M (-13½), 12
As if anyone has a damn clue what John L. Smith will do next.

Tennessee at No. 5 Georgia (-13), 3:30, CBS
Verne Lundquist and Gary Danielson are glad to be calling real Southeastern Conference football again.

No. 14 Ohio State at No. 21 Michigan State (-3), 3:30, ABC
A Big Ten team will beat a ranked team. What a novel concept.

No. 17 Clemson (-10) at Boston College, 3:30, ESPN2
Dabo Swinney still is a little butthurt that he's not the best -bo coach in the Atlantic Coast Conference.

Virginia Tech (-7) vs. Cincinnati, in Landover, Md., 3:30, ESPNU
The coaches still think Virginia Tech is worth ranking. Virginia Tech lost to Pittsburgh. Virginia Tech is not worth ranking.

Arizona State at California (-2½), 4, FX
Will Jeff Tedford ever be fired?

No. 4 Florida State (-17) at South Florida, 6, ESPN
It's about time for a Seminole meltdown loss, right?

No. 25 Boise State (-26) at New Mexico, 6
Boise State: still adorable, now unwatchable.

Towson at No. 3 LSU, 7, ESPNU
Les Miles isn't the vengeance sort. If Nick Saban still were coaching LSU and his team dropped a spot in the rankings without losing, dear lord.

No. 6 South Carolina at Kentucky, 7, ESPN2
Connor Shaw plans to run on every play to preserve his consecutive completitions streak.

No. 15 TCU (-16½) at Southern Methodist, 7
Craig James enjoys riding ponies. Naked. He's naked. The pony is wearing a sweater and pants. Craig James enjoys animals in clothes.

No. 11 Texas (-3) at Oklahoma State, 7:50, Fox
Is there a worse-named quarterback than Wes Lunt?

Wisconsin at No. 22 Nebraska (-13), 8, ABC
Carl Bo Pelini plans to tip cows in preparation. Also, for fun.

Mississippi at No. 1 Alabama (-31½), 9:15, ESPN
Nick Saban rebels only against losing.

No. 18 Oregon State at Arizona (-3), 10, Pac-12 Networks
Rich Rodriguez swears he'll do a better job if you just give him one more chance, Wolverines Wildcats.

No. 2 Oregon (-29) at Washington State, 10:30, ESPN2
The Cougars lost to Colorado and must be punished accordingly.

 

Oregon is only laying 29? Good Lord. Shouldn't that be in the 40s?

 

I wish they'd scheduled these games so I could go to the Ryder Cup in the morning, Northwestern at 1 and Illinois in the evening.

 

Bo Pelini. Carl's the FAU coach.

 

Ohio State +3
WVU -13
La. Tech -3
South Carolina -21

 

I normally avoid all point spreads that get into silly time like that, but holy shit are you right.

 

https://twitter.com/LarryLage/status/250607997993238531

 

Don't know how up-to-date this is, but here are ND's future football schedules:

http://www.fbschedules.com/ncaa/indep/notre-dame-fighting-irish.php

 

Michigan has been taken off from 2015-17, so I guess it's pretty up-to-date.

 

Notre Dame "can't" play Michigan, remember? They have that Wake Forest series coming up.

 

Looking at the 2015 schedule I can see why they dropped them there but even with the five game agreement with the ACC, there's still room for them in 2016 and 2017.

But the fact that they are dropping them seems to indicate that the ACC scheduling agreement is more ironclad than the one ND had with the Big East.

 

Score.