Week 6 College Football Thread

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10.8
Tulane at Houston (-6.5) 7:30 ESPN
10.9
Louisville at Georgia Tech (+6) 7:00 ESPN
10.10
Virginia Tech at North Carolina (-5.5) 12:00 ABC
Texas vs Oklahoma (-2.5) 12:00 FOX
Florida at Texas A&M (+6.5) 12:00 ESPN
South Carolina at Vanderbilt (+12) 12:00 SEC
Duke at Syracuse (+1.5) 12:30 ESPN3
Tennessee at Georgia (-14) 3:30 CBS
Pittsburgh at Boston College (+4.5) 4:00 ACC
Arkansas at Auburn (-16.5) 4:00 SEC
Alabama at Ole Miss (+24) 6:00 ESPN
Mississippi State at Kentucky (-3) 7:30 SEC
Miami (FL) at Clemson (-15) 7:30 ABC
Missouri at LSU (-20.5) 9:00 ESPN

Take OVER 73,5 PLUS Ole Miss to cover Saturday.

 

Stunned it's that low. First two games for Ole Miss were 86 and 83. Bammer may put 73 up by themselves.

 

I'm wondering how many games are going to get cancelled due to Hurricane instead of Covid this weekend. Alabama at Ole Miss looks like a candidate, although they might be able to get away with playing it in Tuscaloosa... maybe. Assuming that Ole Miss would even consider that. Mizzou at LSU is pretty much dead now.

More postponements and schedule juggling. 2020 blows dead rats.

 

Figures LSU-Missouri would get canceled with a line that looks like a license to print money.
I wonder if they'd postpone that until Monday night, like they did with the Tennessee game back in 2005 when Rita came through? Or just reschedule it for Nov. 7 when both teams have an open date?

Looks like the rest of the SEC caught a break in regards to the storm. Florida-A&M is the only other game potentially in its path, and that should be fine as long as Florida leaves Gainesville a little early.
Even Alabama-Ole Miss might be OK. It'll be windy and rainy, but the storm is supposed to weaken a good bit by the time it gets that far north. Thinking rain and 30-40 mph winds instead of winds that'll knock down parts of the stadium.

 

@Chef2 picks the over when a hurricane is coming through.

 

Week 6?? Hell, I didn't think the season had even started yet.

 

Where you live, it hasn't.
Reminds me of that great quote from Rocky when he's taking Adrian skating on Thanksgiving: "Well, to them it's Thanksgiving but to me it's just Thursday."

 

Nothing in the SEC will be postponed or canceled because of Covid. Their beloved president has beaten the Virus That Doesn't Exist. Postponing -- especially if done in furtherance of health -- is a cuck move in those parts. Hurricanes? Maybe a different story. But they're all in with their boy in the White House and his mandate to "live with it."

 

If a team has enough players test positive, it will be postpone or take a loss because of a short bench. I can see the front-runners preferring to reschedule if it can be worked out.

 

They'll adopt a very conservative view of contact tracing. "Close contact" is, after all, subjective. Must two people be closer than six feet apart for 15 uninterrupted minutes or 15 minutes over an unspecified period of time? As soon as they are separated by more than six feet, does the Close Contact Clock re-start? There are ways around this. And LSU, which has said it's abandoning temperature checks, is clearly willing to prioritize speedy access through the gates over common sense.