COLLEGE FOOTBALL WATCH GRID, Week 8: Still charging - Welcome to the Watch Grid, a weekly attempt to guide your Saturday viewing.
It's college football season. We can pretend we only wanna watch good games, or we can face facts.
As always, the Watch Grid sorts your Saturday into three watchability columns. And as always, watchability is not strictly about game quality, team quality or quality of any kind. These things matter, though, I guess.
We remain in that regular annual October lull, when most conferences get their lesser matches outta the way before November raises all h*ck. Several amazing things and several dumb things (which are also amazing in their own ways) will happen regardless, because rankings are just suggestions.
And congratulations to Appalachian State for not only already being done playing football this week, but winning.
Thursday, Oct. 21 and Friday, Oct. 22 college football schedule
No two ways around it, folks: That’s a weeknight college football schedule.
Saturday, Oct. 23 college football schedule
SICKOS GAME OF THE WEEK
Here are two options:
- In terms of content that does not have a strong reason for existing, it’s gotta be New Mexico State at Hawaii. Most viewers will be staying up well past midnight to watch this game on some app, but that part’s pretty normal, because college football was a bad idea. This game is triple special because NMSU is quite arguably the worst team in FBS and has already lost to Hawaii by 20 points this season.
- I think the winner between unranked Clemson (a sicko term) and ranked Pitt (equally sicko) will win the ACC (a truly sicko conference on some of its worst behavior ever).
The actual most important game of the week
Oklahoma State-Iowa State and Oregon-UCLA appear likely to tidy up the playoff picture a little bit.
Now that LSU and Washington State are officially in the coaching market, the biggest hot seat game might be Manny Diaz’s 2-4 Miami hosting NC State as a three-point underdog.
And I added Ohio State-Indiana to the Watch This portion of the chart just because … uh … it felt strange to leave it blank except for one game that involves a 4-2 team.
But I guess I really do think Clemson-Pitt is the week’s most important game. Told you October is a weird lull!