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Is Week 6 gonna be a good weekend of college football? Folks, every weekend is a good weekend of college football. I'm glad we had this discussion.
Let me hit you with four ranked-vs.-ranked games, a full weekend of pretty much nothing but conference games (Michigan State, you're playing BYU, and that's cool too), and a handful of major rivalries. The weeknights aren't so good, probably, but Saturday will be great.
Below is TV and online streaming info for each FBS game, with the whole schedule ranked by a subjective assessment of stakes, competitiveness, style, and what else is on at the time.
(Weeknight games removed, for your Saturday convenience.)
| WATCH THIS | Maybe watch this | This is a football game | |
| 11:30 a.m. ET | Cincinnati at UConn CBSSN |
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| Noon ET | ESPN, WatchESPN |
Auburn at Mississippi State ESPN, WatchESPN |
TCU at Kansas ESPNU, WatchESPN |
| #20 Oklahoma vs. Texas FS1, Fox Sports Go |
Notre Dame at NC State ABC, WatchESPN |
Iowa at Minnesota ESPN2, WatchESPN |
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| Maryland at Penn State BTN, BTN2Go |
Southern Miss at UTSA ASN |
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| ECU at USF ESPNews, WatchESPN |
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| 12:30 | Georgia Tech at Pitt ACC Network, WatchESPN |
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| 2 | Bowling Green at Ohio WatchESPN |
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| WATCH THIS | Maybe watch this | This is a football game | |
| 3 | #6 Houston at Navy CBSSN |
Toledo at EMU WatchESPN |
Miami (Ohio) at Akron WatchESPN |
| 3:30 | #9 Tennessee at #8 Texas A&M CBS, CBSSports.com |
Indiana at #2 Ohio State ESPN, WatchESPN |
Kent State at Buffalo WatchESPN |
| #25 Virginia Tech at #17 UNC | Ball State at CMU WatchESPN |
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| BYU at Michigan State ABC, WatchESPN |
Army at Duke ACC Network, WatchESPN |
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| Air Force at Wyoming Root Sports |
Texas State at Georgia State WatchESPN |
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| Iowa State at Oklahoma State ESPNU, WatchESPN |
Purdue at Illinois BTN, BTN2Go |
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| 4 | #21 Colorado at USC Pac-12 Networks |
Vanderbilt at Kentucky SEC Network, WatchESPN |
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| 4:30 | Hawaii at San Jose State Oceanic PPV |
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| 6:30 | NIU at WMU CBSSN |
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| WATCH THIS | Maybe watch this | This is a football game | |
| 7 | #1 Alabama at #16 Arkansas ESPN, WatchESPN |
#4 Michigan at Rutgers ESPN2, WatchESPN |
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| Syracuse at Wake Forest ACC Network, WatchESPN |
Texas Tech at Kansas State ESPNU, WatchESPN |
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| Fresno State at Nevada WatchESPN |
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| Marshall at North Texas ASN |
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| Idaho at ULM WatchESPN |
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| 7:30 | #5 Washington at Oregon Fox, Fox Sports Go |
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| 8 | #23 FSU at #10 Miami ABC, WatchESPN |
FIU at UTEP UTEPAthletics.com |
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| 9 | Cal at Oregon State Pac-12 Networks |
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| 10 | Arizona at #24 Utah FS1, Fox Sports Go |
Utah State at Colorado State CBSSN |
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| 10:30 | WSU at #15 Stanford ESPN, WatchESPN |
UCLA at Arizona State ESPN2, WatchESPN |
UNLV at San Diego State ESPNU, WatchESPN |
| WATCH THIS | Maybe watch this | This is a football game |
As always, notes on the WATCH THIS games:
- If you're new to this, you might be tempted to not watch this year's Red River Shootout. Oh no, you always watch the Red River Shootout. I don't care if its participants have lost four games already. Per science, this is one of the country's least predictable rivalries.
- [LSU-Florida has been postponed and possibly canceled.]
- UH-Navy is one of the two or three most challenging games left on a Playoff contender's regular season schedule, and also a revenge spot for the Midshipmen, after last year's beatdown by the Cougars.
- Tennessee-A&M, the SEC's No. 1 contender match! Bama plays both of these teams between now and Oct. 22, and this game will tell us which one to take slightly more seriously than the other.
- Do not watch Washington-Oregon in anticipation of a good game. By all measures, the Huskies should stomp the Ducks. Watch to see what it looks like when a resurrected power takes out 12 years of anger on a fading rival. (And, if you're lucky, see the latest evidence that anything can happen in rivalry games! (But probably just the stomping.))
- FSU-Miami should be a better game than you might expect, if you only look at scores and records. Take a look at this for some convincing. Also, the Canes start wearing their '80s throwbacks as of this weekend. Say no more.
- Anything in this #Pac12AfterDark/#MountainWestNearMidnight slate is pretty good. I'm picking Wazzu-Stanford as the starting point, but mayhem will find us all either way.
Sunday
| WATCH THIS | Maybe watch this | This is a football game | |
| 2:30 p.m. ET | Georgia at South Carolina SEC Network, WatchESPN |
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This game was moved from Saturday night. What else are you gonna do, watch the NFL?
Elsewhere
Former Florida QB Chris Leak is reportedly the subject of a sexual assault investigation.
Hurricane Matthew has made some changes to the weekend schedule already, and more could be on the way. We're keeping track here.
Wednesday night, Arkansas State scored its first win of the year, with this twisting TD catch in the final seconds against Georgia Southern. (If you're new around here, here's why there are suddenly games on Wednesdays ... Tuesdays soon, too.)
How ESPN turned Clemson's entrance into this nine-minute epic, including cameras normally used for filming battle scenes in war movies.
Ohio State has been the best team in the country, Bill C finds, so he tries to spot Buckeye weaknesses.
Let's say 28 teams remain in the Playoff race, technically. Here are their odds of going a Playoff-friendly 11-1 or better.
Washington's three-step plan for shutting down Christian McCaffrey, which worked, ICYMI.
Shutdown Fullcast sprints through a 40-minute weekend preview, which still means enduring 40 minutes of the Shutdown Fullcast.
Let us appreciate Oregon's run of not firing a coach since 1976. You know, just in case.
Indiana's new "Candy Stripe" uniforms are beautiful, and they continue Adidas' astounding streak of good uniforms. (I do not miss the old Adidas.)