The Blogalicious College Football Games of the Week

Tuesday - Northern Illinois at Kent State. This game is not televised, but I assume is on Tuesday to set up next Tuesday's NIU-Navy broadcast. NIU will not play a weekend game this month, which I assume is a prelude to an all mid-week MAC schedule in 2009. I suppose I'm for it if it reduces the amount of World Series of Poker that's aired. Score: Northern Illinois 31, Kent State 10

Wednesday - Ball State at Central Michigan. Finally, the clash of the titans that's been anticpated for weeks, a gridiron slugfest to once and for all determine the champion of the MAC West. Be still my heart! Score: Ball State 23, Central Michigan 14

Thursday - Miami at Georgia Tech. While I'm sure it doesn't work out this way, if you look at the ACC standings it appears that only Duke has been eliminated from winning the Coastal division. I'm too lazy to go through the schedules to see who really has a shot; let's hope Miami can bail me out and clarify things. Score: Miami 28, Georgia Tech 20

Friday - Fresno State at San Jose State. You'd rather I talk about one of the two MAC games also on Friday? While I can't say this game really matters (outside of the loser getting knocked out of bowl contention), the real issue is that, somehow, Fresno is going to derail Boise State's BCS drive and screw the conference. But we'll save that for next week. Score: San Jose State 27, Fresno State 24

Saturday (early) - The Citadel at Florida. Giving Thanks for Cupcakes, Part I. The best part about this match-up is the Florida game notes, which leads off by noting that a majority of the current top 10 have played 1-AA teams this year, and that Texas Tech has played two. They then go on to note that after playing 1-AA Western Carolina in 2006, they actually went up in the rankings. Good that they got the propaganda out front. Score: Florida 77, The Citadel 3

Saturday (mid-afternoon) - Washington at Washington State. The football game that will set the sport back decades. The over/under on headlines that make a pun using the game's Apple Cup name and some form of rotting is 1.3 million. You should still take the over, and even then I don't think the astonishingly excremental nature of this game would be adequately captured. This is the sort of game someone should get Roger Ebert to review, if only to give North a break. I know ties are no longer possible in college football, but I can see this one ending that way out of sheer disinterest. And the best thing is that both teams have a game after this one, so they can spread their putridity into the holidays. Score: Washington 2, Washington State 2 (called after 137 OTs)

Saturday Mid-Afternoon Extra! Cal Poly at Wisconsin. Giving Thanks for Cupcakes, Part II. I didn't find the game notes for the Badgers (truth be told, I didn't look all that hard), but I'd love to have seen the section where they'd try to argue that winning this game would make them a better Motor City Bowl rep than the winner of Iowa/Minnesota. That may be putting the cart before the horse, as Cal Poly was the team that opened the season by beating San Diego State (who are, admittedly, a different brand of awful by an order of magnitude from Wisconsin). Score: Wisconsin 49, Cal Poly 14

Saturday (night) - Texas Tech at Oklahoma. Finally, decent football. I find it amusing that TCU is the only team to have held the Sooners under 45 points in a game this season (Sooners topped the Horned Frogs 35-10). The Sooners have also topped 60 points in their last two games, albeit against lesser opponents. I have to think this is when the Red Raiders finally fall, though I expect it to go much like the Texas game. Just with more points. Score: Oklahoma 69, Texas Tech 63

Sunday: Connecticut at South Florida. Do you think that Mark Mangino looks at the game tape from the South Florida game and wonders how he lost to them? Especially after the Bulls lost to Rutgers 46-19 this past week? UConn, meanwhile, just wants the win so they can get some sweet Meineke Car Care Bowl action, even if they do have to play Wake or UNC. Either way, this should be one useless game. Score: UConn 11, South Florida 10

Last week: 5-2
Season: 49-31