The first true week of college football, with the NFL still yet to start, it is a full weekend of games. Decent games that could give some idea of how good some of our future opponents might be. There are certain time slots that are pretty "bleh." Bunch of FCS and directional schools this week.

* All times are Central Time Zone (the best time zone)

Thursday
6:30 - NC State @ UConn - CBSSN - Future opponent in NC State on the road, UConn is a terrible football school though.
7:00 - Florida @ #14 Utah - ESPN - The big game of the day, definitely a must watch
7:00 - Nebraska @ Minnesota - FOX - mid tier B1G game, but should be very competitive

Friday
6:00 - Central Michigan @ Michigan St - FS1 - Future opponent, but could easily be a blowout
6:30 - Louisville @ Georgia Tech - ESPN - future opponent, but looks like a competitive game on paper
10:00 - Stanford @ Hawai'i - CBSSN - Hawaii fought hard last week against Vandy, how good/bad will Stanford be?

Morning Games - Saturday (Not a good slate of games to be honest, this is mostly just if you really want to watch CFB)
11:00 - Virginia @ #11 Tennessee - ABC - Lets see how good that Tenn offense is
11:00 - Colorado @ #17 TCU - FOX - How good will Deion be in his debut? How good will TCU be this year? I think they fall off a bit.
11:00 - Arkansas St @ #20 Oklahoma - ESPN - I just want to see Oklahoma struggle...
11:00 - Utah St @ #25 Iowa - FS1 - Upset potential in my opinion, however, I have no idea how good Iowa will be this year, they are a wildcard.

Afternoon Games - Saturday
2:30 - Tennessee St @ #13 Notre Dame - NBC - Go Irish!!!
2:30 - #3 Ohio State @ Indiana - CBS - Indiana has played OSU tough most years and OSU is on the road, how good will their QB, OL, and Defense look?
2:30 - Boise State @ #10 Washington - ABC - Still not sold on Washington...

Evening Games - Saturday
6:30 - West Virginia @ #7 Penn State - NBC - How good will Penn St look against a mid-tier opponent?
6:30 - #21 North Carolina @ South Carolina - ABC - The prime game of the day in my opinion. Future opponent, Drake Maye, Spencer Rattler...

Sunday
11:00 - Northwestern @ Rutgers - CBS - Only if you want to watch football Sunday morning, should be competitive at least. lol
2:30 - #18 Oregon St @ San Jose St - CBS - Again, if you just want to watch football, I dont expect much from this game
6:30 - #5 LSU @ #8 Florida St - ABC - The big matchup of the week that will set the tone early for the CFP

Monday
7:00 - #9 Clemson @ Duke - ESPN - Two future opponents, favorite is on the road against a quality team.

This is what I will be flipping through this weekend, are there any other games that interest you? Most of the quality teams are playing FCS and bottom feeder FBS teams (like us sadly) this week.

Edited August 29, 20231 yr by NDhoosier

27 minutes ago, mcgov12 said:

Clemson looks bad.

I think they have OL problems and nowhere near the great WR they had 5+ years ago.  It's basically Shipley on offense.

Not to take away from Duke, they are up for this game.  This isn't the Duke of old, someone we cannot overlook when we play them.

1 hour ago, jessemoore97 said:

I think they have OL problems and nowhere near the great WR they had 5+ years ago.  It's basically Shipley on offense.

Not to take away from Duke, they are up for this game.  This isn't the Duke of old, someone we cannot overlook when we play them.

Klubnik had a big mistake there, but Clemson defense is pretty good and bailing out the offense.

Elko's team (Duke) forces a huge redzone turnover up 6 on the brink of fg range.

36 minutes ago, FaithInIrish Forever said:

Elko's team (Duke) forces a huge redzone turnover up 6 on the brink of fg range.

Clemson’s offense is so sloppy, and Duke is capitalizing! 14 point swing right there! Duke has me like 😳…

Just now, Baldy said:

Clemson’s offense is do sloppy, and Duke is capitalizing! 14 point swing right there! Duke has me like 😳…

yup 21-7 with 10 minutes to go on ESPN.

26 minutes ago, FaithInIrish Forever said:

yup 21-7 with 10 minutes to go on ESPN.

And with that big run, 28-7 Duke! Wow!!!

Wish I’d been able to watch this, but Spectrum cable isn’t showing ESPN at the moment 

Clemson looked lost on offense, Klubnik was not impressive at all. Duke played much better than I anticipated.

Need to have a shadow on Duke's QB.  He's a good runner and doesn't go down easy.  Lots of dink and dunk passes and screens.  Their D is always looking to strip the ball.

Crazy to think Clemson had a blocked field goal, a missed field goal, two fumbles inside the ten(one on the two) and still only lost by 21. This game could have been closer or the other way. Just sloppy terrible offense from Clemson.