College football week 13 thread: The Adventures of Buckeye Banzai Across the Big 10th Dimension

[dixiehack]

Here is this week’s college football schedule. All times Central and rankings are from the Associated Press.

Friday
No. 23 UNLV at San Jose State 9 pm FS1

Saturday
No. 5 Indiana at No. 2 Ohio State 11 am Fox
No. 9 Ole Miss at Florida 11 am ABC
Wake Forest at No. 11 Miami (Fla.) 11 am ESPN
No. 13 SMU at Virginia 11 am ESPN2
No. 24 Illinois at Rutgers 11 am Peacock
Massachusetts at No. 8 Georgia 11:45 am SEC Network
UTEP at No. 10 Tennessee Noon ESPN Plus
Kentucky at No. 3 Texas 2:30 pm ABC
No. 4 Penn State at Minnesota 2:30 pm CBS
No. 14 BYU at No. 21 Arizona State 2:30 pm ESPN
No. 16 Colorado at Kansas (at Kansas City, Mo.) 2:30 pm Fox
The Citadel at No. 17 Clemson 2:30 pm CW
Wofford at No. 19 South Carolina 3 pm ESPN Plus
No. 18 Army vs. No. 6 Notre Dame (at New York) 6 pm NBC
No. 12 Boise State at Wyoming 6 pm CBS Sports Network
No. 25 Washington State at Oregon State 6 pm CW
No. 7 Alabama at Oklahoma 6:30 pm ABC
No. 15 Texas A&M at Auburn 6:30 pm
No. 22 Iowa State at Utah 6:30 pm Fox

 

[MileHigh]

FYI, Colorado-Kansas is at Arrowhead.

 

[dixiehack]

KU and Northwestern have screwed with me the second half of the year because their home games don’t carry the “vs.” designation that reminds me to check for a different stadium site.

 

[FileNotFound]

Imagine an Indiana-Ohio State game that matters in a month other than March.

 

[maumann]

Awesome thread title.

 

[HappyCurmudgeon]

That 3:30 p.m. (EST) block of games will decide a lot in the Big XII.

 

[Neutral Corner]

 

[HanSenSE]

Is Washington State-Oregon State for the Pac-2 title?

 

[I Should Coco]

Is Washington State-Oregon State for the Pac-2 title?

The winner gets to meet the USC-UCLA winner in this year’s I’m Going Hungry (I’M GOING HUNGRY, YEAH-AH!) Bowl.

 

[Shropshire Slasher]

Would be a Smoo move to crap the bed at UVA ... and an anti-UVA move (at least in general sports) to upset the applecart this way (other than the 1995 MBB region semifinal win over KU at Kemper, which was glorious).

 

[tapintoamerica]

Kirby Smart ripped the CFP Selection Committee the other day for its alleged ignorance of football. Eight of the 13 members played or coached the game at the college level.

 

[swingline]

More whiny, Smart of Heupel?

 

[Batman]

I can't remember what the realignment thread is called, so I'll put this here.
Division II Mississippi College announces, two days after its final game of the season and apparently with no warning to players or coaches, that it is discontinuing its football program effective immediately.
Mississippi College played its first game in 1907. Its early coaches included College Football Hall of Famers Edwin "Goat" Hale and Dana X. Bible, and it won the 1989 Division II national championship — which was later vacated because of recruiting violations.

 

[dixiehack]

Apparently it announced this at the same time it announced it will be changing its name to Mississippi Christian University. No word if it will also be getting a nose piercing, a red convertible and will be moving to Fire Island.

 

[Shropshire Slasher]

I can't remember what the realignment thread is called, so I'll put this here.
Division II Mississippi College announces, two days after its final game of the season and apparently with no warning to players or coaches, that it is discontinuing its football program effective immediately.
Mississippi College played its first game in 1907. Its early coaches included College Football Hall of Famers Edwin "Goat" Hale and Dana X. Bible, and it won the 1989 Division III national championship — which was later vacated because of recruiting violations.

A little surprised they were still D-II. I thought they dropped to D-III many years ago.

 

[tapintoamerica]

Apparently it announced this at the same time it announced it will be changing its name to Mississippi Christian University. No word if it will also be getting a nose piercing, a red convertible and will be moving to Fire Island.

As opposed to Mississippi Muslim University, I presume.

 

[Batman]

A little surprised they were still D-II. I thought they dropped to D-III many years ago.

They were in Division II in the 1980s (I messed up the original post; the 1989 national title that was vacated was in Division II, not III), went down to D-III in the 90s, then came back to D-II around 2010. They have not done well since coming back to D-II. Their last winning season was in 2009.
Lately, they've been putting up passing numbers that would make Army look like it's running the Air Raid. In their last game of existence, the quarterbacks were a combined 4-for-7 passing for 105 yards. In the four games before that — combined — they were 1-for-6 for 38 yards. They did not attempt a pass in their penultimate game, a 35-7 win over Northeastern State.

 

[Shropshire Slasher]

They still played football games in Handmaid's Tale.

 

[Batman]

Mississippi College's kicker unloaded both barrels, then reloaded and fired two more.
Also, it appears the school's athletics website has gone kaput. I was on it earlier this evening, looking up old rosters to find out when some of the locals I was trying to reach played there, and it went down and hasn't been back up since.

 

[dixiehack]

MC isn’t some fly by night school either. Nearly 200 years old. But they may be facing the same undertow we’ve been describing on the other thread.