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College football schedule: Your Week 12 Watchability Grid guide to the best games

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Week 12 isn't the most loaded college football schedule ever, but that's what we said about Week 11, and see where that got us? A good place.

Below, we present the Week 12 FBS TV and streaming schedule with games categorized by quality. That's determined by a subjective combo of stakes, competitiveness, what else is on at the time, and so forth.

Three games feature ranked teams on both sides, with definite postseason stakes in the Big 12, Pac-12, and SEC. We've even got a big weeknight game this time around. Otherwise, we're finding fun where it arrives and waiting on big upsets because there's gonna be another one before this regular season ends.

The regular season ends really soon, by the way, so the time is now to absorb as much college football as possible before it's too late.

(Thursday and Friday removed, for your Saturday convenience.)

Watch THIS Maybe watch this This is a football game
Noon ET #11 Oklahoma State at TCU
FS1, Fox Sports Go
#2 Ohio State at Michigan State
ESPN, WatchESPN
#7 Wisconsin at Purdue
ABC, WatchESPN
Kansas State at Baylor
ESPN2, WatchESPN
Maryland at #18 Nebraska
ESPNews, WatchESPN
UTSA at #25 Texas A&M
ESPNU, WatchESPN
Morgan State at Army
CBSSN
UL Lafayette at Georgia
SEC Network, WatchESPN
Iowa at Illinois
BTN, BTN2Go
UTEP at Rice
WatchESPN
12:30 Miami at NC State
ACC Network, WatchESPN
Virginia at Georgia Tech
ACC Network, WatchESPN
1 #23 Florida at #16 LSU
SEC Network, WatchESPN
UConn at Boston College
ACC Network, WatchESPN
2 Oregon at #12 Utah
Pac-12 Networks
UMass at BYU
WatchESPN
MTSU at Charlotte
WatchESPN
Ga. Southern at Ga. State
WatchESPN
2:30 ULM at App State
WatchESPN
3 Duke at Pitt
ACC Network, WatchESPN
3:30 #22 Wash. State at #10 Colorado
Fox, Fox Sports Go
Indiana at #3 Michigan
ESPN, WatchESPN
Missouri at #19 Tennessee
CBS, CBSSports.com
#17 FSU at Syracuse
ABC/ESPN2, WatchESPN
Buffalo at #21 WMU
ESPNU, WatchESPN
Virginia Tech at Notre Dame
NBC, NBCSports.com
Texas Tech at Iowa State
FS1, Fox Sports Go
SDSU at Wyoming
CBSSN
Texas at Kansas
ABC/ESPN2, WatchESPN
Northwestern at Minnesota
BTN, BTN2Go
The Citadel at North Carolina
ACC Network, WatchESPN
Temple at Tulane
WatchESPN
4 Navy at ECU
ESPNews, WatchESPN
Utah State at Nevada
WatchESPN
Texas State at NMSU
WatchESPN
WCU at South Carolina
SEC Network, WatchESPN
4:30 Austin Peay at Kentucky
SEC Network, WatchESPN
5:30 #24 Stanford at Cal
Pac-12 Networks
Southern Miss at North Texas
beIN Sports
6 ODU at FAU
CampusInsiders.com
7 #4 Clemson at Wake Forest
ESPN, WatchESPN
UTC at #1 Alabama
ESPN2, WatchESPN
Arkansas at Miss. State
ESPNU, WatchESPN
Marshall at FIU
ASN
USF at SMU
CBSSN
Hawaii at Fresno State
Oceanic PPV
Presbyterian at South Alabama
WatchESPN
7:30 Arizona State at #6 Washington
Fox, Fox Sports Go
Alabama A&M at #15 Auburn
SEC Network, WatchESPN
8 #9 Oklahoma at #14 WVU
ABC, WatchESPN
Ole Miss at Vanderbilt
SEC Network, WatchESPN
#8 Penn State at Rutgers
BTN, BTN2Go
Tulsa at UCF
ESPNews, WatchESPN
10:15 New Mexico at Colorado State
ESPN2, WatchESPN
10:30 #13 USC at UCLA
ESPN, WatchESPN
Arizona at Oregon State
Pac-12 Networks
Air Force at SJSU
CBSSN

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Notes on the WATCH THIS games:

The weekly Big 12 nooner almost guaranteed to go off the rails includes an Oklahoma State team with a decent shot at the New Year's Six and a TCU team that's three scores away from being 8-1 right now. The other nooners are so lacking, Purdue's on ABC and I'm advising you to consider watching 2016 Michigan State.

Oh right, they're gonna play Florida-LSU! After that big scheduling fussthis game looks completely different than it did a month ago, and it's only gotten bigger. It's now on a Saturday with less going on elsewhere, and it has clear Sugar Bowl implications, with the winner likely in good shape. The Gators can clinch the SEC East with a W, though I don't know why anybody would want to do that.

Washington State-Colorado could decide much of the Pac-12. The two combined to have zero winning seasons from 2006-14. Nothing is real.

Why is WVU five spots behind Oklahoma? I dunno! Guess we'll find out if the committee's onto something!

The Battle for Los Angeles is your closeout game, featuring one of the country's hottest teams and one of the country's coldest teams. Why would you watch this? Why am I requesting that you watch this? What are we doing here?