Northern Illinois (5-2) at Eastern Michigan (2-5) Oct. 25, 1:00, ESPN3 Here’s The Deal: Northern Illinois got past its stunning home loss to Central Michigan to get the offense going in a shootout win over Miami University, but now it has to go on the road for four of its last five games. The running offense might not […]
Oregon (6-1) at California (4-3) Oct. 24, 10:15, Fox Sports 1 Here’s The Deal: A rough patch in the first half of the season behind it, Oregon controls its own destiny. Now that the Ducks have routed UCLA and Washington in consecutive weeks, a close call with Wazzu and a loss to Arizona feel as if they occurred […]
UCLA (5-2) at Colorado (2-5) Oct. 25, 2:00, Pac-12 Network Here’s The Deal: UCLA began to slowly heal from back-to-back losses to Utah and Oregon with last Saturday’s dramatic 36-34 victory at Cal. The Bruins can take another step in the right direction with another win outside Los Angeles this weekend. However, the program will ultimately be judged […]
Oregon State (4-2) at Stanford (4-3) Oct. 25, 3:30, ESPN2 Here’s The Deal: Has the rest of the Pac-12 finally caught up to Stanford? The two-time defending league champs have fallen on hard times, losing all three of its games versus ranked opponents, including last week at Arizona State. Still, the Cardinal has won both of its games […]
Arizona (5-1) at Washington State (2-5) Oct. 25, 6:00, Pac-12 Network Here’s The Deal: Arizona and Washington State exit their bye weeks looking to capture a tailwind that can be carried throughout the second half of the season. The 15th-ranked Wildcats, the only team to defeat Pac-12 frontrunner Oregon, will be looking to rebound from their first loss […]
USC (5-2) at Utah (5-1) Oct. 25, 10:00, Fox Sports 1 Here’s The Deal: The game of the week in the Pac-12 is going to have a particularly profound impact on the tight race in the South Division. Both USC and Utah have five wins, one league loss and a spot within the Top 25. The victor in Salt […]
Arizona State (5-1) at Washington (5-2) Oct. 25, 10:45, ESPN Here’s The Deal: Arizona State and Washington meet this weekend in Seattle with very different frame of minds. The Sun Devils are coming off a decisive win over Stanford. And by virtue of the surprisingly easy defeat of the Cardinal, coupled with the Oct. 4 walk-off win against […]
Mississippi State (6-0) at Kentucky (5-2) Oct. 25, 3:30, CBS Here’s The Deal: If someone had told you before the season that Mississippi State vs. Kentucky would be the featured CBS game of the week, you’d assume something went really, really wrong with the 2014 SEC season. This would normally be a battle between two of the SEC […]
Vanderbilt (2-5) at Missouri (5-2) Oct. 25, 4:00, SEC Network Here’s The Deal: Which Missouri team is going to show up? Will it be the one that decided not to get off the bus in an ugly blowout loss to Georgia, or the one that came up with one of the weirdest victories ever last week against Florida? […]
Ole Miss (7-0) at LSU (6-2) Oct. 25, 7:15, ESPN Here’s The Deal: LSU isn’t going to go down quietly, even if this is a bit of a transitional season. This is a very talented, very young team that’s struggling to come up with the same performance two weeks in a row. It got blown out by Auburn, survived […]
South Carolina (4-3) at Auburn (5-1) Oct. 25, 7:30, SEC NetworkHere’s The Deal: It’s about time the SEC East shows up. 2014 has been the year of the West, coming up with one of the most dominant seasons by any division ever, and part of the reason has been the beatings applied to the other division. Georgia’s […]
Alabama (6-1) at Tennessee (3-4) Oct. 25, 7:30, ESPN2 Here’s The Deal: Still reeling from a loss to Sewanee, Tennessee couldn’t get much done in a 24-0 loss to Alabama – in 1903. Ever since, this has been one of the South’s greatest rivalries, even if it hasn’t been up to snuff over the last several seasons. 2006 […]
BYU (4-3) at Boise State (5-2) Oct. 24, 9:00, ESPN Here’s The Deal: Before the season started, the hope for both teams was that this might turn into a key battle to stay alive for a possible playoff spot – if everything went perfectly. Of course, that went bye-bye for Boise State in the opener against Ole Miss, […]
Troy (1-6) at South Alabama (4-2) Oct. 24, 7:30, ESPNU Here’s The Deal: Just when it seemed like Troy was about to turn a corner after a decisive win over New Mexico State, pfffffffft – the air went out of the balloon. The Trojans got their doors blown off by Appalachian State 53-14 in a loss that was […]
The real College Football Playoff committee won’t come up with its first set of rankings until late October. Each member of the Campus Insiders Playoff Committee have submitted his or her own set of rankings based on how good the teams are, and they’ll keep cranking them out throughout the year. The one difference between this […]