College football Week 13 thread

[Cosmo]

With the usual caveat about COVID wrecking things ... here's what we have on the docket this week.

FRIDAY
15 Iowa State at 20 Texas (-2), Noon, ABC
2 Notre Dame (-4.5) at 25 North Carolina, 330, ABC
9 Oregon (-14) at Oregon State, 7, ESPN

SATURDAY
3 Ohio State (-28.5) at Illinois, Noon, FS1
Kentucky at 6 Florida (-23.5), Noon, ESPN
Maryland at 12 Indiana (-14), Noon, ESPN2
Texas Tech at 21 Oklahoma State (-10.5), Noon, FOX
24 Tulsa at Houston (-1), Noon, ESPNU
Minnesota at 18 Wisconsin (-21), 2, BTN
16 Coastal Carolina (-17) at Texas State, 3, ESPN+
23 Louisiana (-28.5) at UL Monroe, 3, ESPN3
22 Auburn at 1 Alabama (-23.5), 3:30, CBS
Pittsburgh at 4 Clemson (-25), 330, ESPN
11 Northwestern (-13) at Michigan State, 330 ESPN2
Colorado at 19 USC (-13.5), 330, ABC
7 Cincinnati (-36) at Temple, 4, ESPNU
LSU at 5 Texas A&M (-14), 7, ESPN
13 Georgia (-21.5) at South Carolina, 730, SECN
14 Oklahoma (-11) at West Virginia, 730, ABC

 

[2muchcoffeeman]

Is there a pool on which of those games gets dumped first? And is there an over-under on when the first one happens for wagering purposes?

 

[Batman]

The Pac-12 seems to be trying to go head to head with the NFL. Utah at Arizona State has been moved to Sunday.

Arizona State football game against Utah moved to Sunday

 

[2muchcoffeeman]

If you had the under …

 

[UPChip]

I think Michigan-Penn State, aka the Schadenfreude Bowl, is a noon ET game on BTN?

 

[2muchcoffeeman]

Somebody should tell Dabo to go chug a tall frosty mug of STFU.

 

[tapintoamerica]

If you had the under …

Tennessee loses its best chance at breaking its losing streak.

 

[Chef2]

Fairly anxious for Notre Dame @UNC.
I think Notre Dame covers (-4.5), but won't be a rout.........45-38......something like that..........Heels can score A LOT.

 

[UPChip]

67, GET ON YOUR HORSE!

 

[Neutral Corner]

That's hilarious. "The horse is on him!"

 

[Songbird]

7 Cincinnati (-36) at Temple, 4, ESPNU

We live in a time when Cincy is #7 ... and giving 36 ... on the road ...

On principle alone you put 25 bucks on Temple.

 

[UPChip]

That's hilarious. "The horse is on him!"

As an alumnus of a participant in the infamous 2014 Bahamas Bowl ("CENTRAL GOES FOR TWO!"), I am worried that we may lose our perch as the best chapter of Bad Beats all time, but that's some tough competition. It has been reported that the only reason UVa ran that throwback play in the end zone was that the OC was on the wrong line of his play sheet.

 

[maumann]

Not on par with moving the Rose Bowl to Durham, N.C. but ...

 

[Neutral Corner]

So if Northwestern runs the table and beats Ohio St., will they "meet the eye test" or get treated like an unbeaten G5 trying to crash the party?

If Florida beats 'Bama in the SEC championship, and Clemson beats Notre Dame in the ACC championship, will there be 2 SEC and 2 ACC teams in the playoff? Would Ohio St. get left out?

~ Questions from Finebaum callers this afternoon. (I might have slightly rephrased the end of the first question just a bit)

 

[micropolitan guy]

As an alumnus of a participant in the infamous 2014 Bahamas Bowl ("CENTRAL GOES FOR TWO!"), I am worried that we may lose our perch as the best chapter of Bad Beats all time, but that's some tough competition. It has been reported that the only reason UVa ran that throwback play in the end zone was that the OC was on the wrong line of his play sheet.

Might be time for a new OC if he needs a play sheet for what to do with the ball on your 2-yard line with a 30+ point lead and less than a minute to go.

 

[Batman]

Working @Neutral Corner 's ... ummm, corner, here.
Southern Miss and UAB have canceled their game. From all appearances it will not be made up. UAB has an open date next week, but Southern Miss has a rescheduled game with UTEP on the schedule.
UAB's next game, COVID permitting, is Dec. 12 at Rice, which will be six weeks since its last one on Halloween. It has now had three consecutive games postponed because of COVID.

 

[tapintoamerica]

Working @Neutral Corner 's ... ummm, corner, here.
Southern Miss and UAB have canceled their game. From all appearances it will not be made up. UAB has an open date next week, but Southern Miss has a rescheduled game with UTEP on the schedule.
UAB's next game, COVID permitting, is Dec. 12 at Rice, which will be six weeks since its last one on Halloween. It has now had three consecutive games postponed because of COVID.

CUSA is becoming a joke. They intended to play 54 conference games after ODU opted out. They have played 28 so far and will have a maximum of 41.

 

[ChrisLong]

USC has a positive. Player was with them in Utah. Saturday's game vs. Colorado in jeopardy.

 

[Neutral Corner]

UAB's last home game with Southern Miss cancelled due to their problem with Covid. One game on the road remaining. Unless a conference game can be cobbled together on 12/5, UAB will not have enough conference games to qualify for the division championship.

I won't be sorry to see the last of this ill advised season.

 

[2muchcoffeeman]

Houston has COVID-19 issues, so its home game against Tulsa is postponed. Tulsa Time will be in the future.