Week 3 college football games

[Dan]

Here's the rundown of the other Big Ten games, plus other selected matchups in Week 3. Feel free to add and discuss any other games of interest.

# It's an overflow channel paradise- 8 of 12 B1G games on BTN.
# Spartans host yet another exciting night game, vs Notre Dame 7:00pm, ABC.
# Tennessee ranked for first time since 2008. College Gameday heading to Knoxville for Florida game. Are the Vols back?
# USC at Stanford, 6:30pm, FOX.


Saturday, September 15

Arkansas State at Nebraska
11:00am CT - ESPN2

Western Michigan at Minnesota
11:00am CT - BTN

Cal at Ohio State
11:00am CT - ABC

Eastern Michigan at Purdue
11:00am CT - BTN

Massachusetts at Michigan
2:30pm CT - BTN

Boston College at Northwestern
2:30pm CT - BTN

Navy at Penn State
2:30pm CT - ABC or ESPN2

Alabama at Arkansas
2:30pm CT - CBS

Northern Iowa at Iowa
2:42pm CT - BTN

Florida at Tennessee
5:00pm CT - ESPN

Arizona State at Missouri
6:00pm CT - ESPN2

USC at Stanford
6:30pm CT - FOX

Ball State at Indiana
7:00pm CT - BTN

Notre Dame at Michigan State
7:00pm CT - ABC

Utah State at Wisconsin
7:00pm CT - BTN

[trevdv]

My Top Five Games of the Week

1. Notre Dame @ Michigan State - I wanna see what happens when these two teams meet up...Something's gotta give!

2. Florida @ Tennessee/Arizona State @ Mizzou - Suddenly both FLA and TEN are ranked, and looking good this year. ASU may not put up as many points as they did against us, but these are two good teams meeting up.

4. Utah State @ Wisconsin - This matchup suddenly got much more interesting seeing as how WISC can't score, Utah State is GOOD and just beat Utah, and it'll be in primetime. This might be a great game...14-13 or something like that lol

5. USC @ Stanford - This matchup is very overrated. Stanford let both San Jose State and Duke hang around for a while, and USC is looking dominant. I predict a blowout in the Trojan's favor.

Games like Bama-Ark lose interest when the Razorbacks go out and lose to UL Monroe, and Navy-PSU outta be a slugfest of a game. Cal is looking, uhhh, BAD. OSU'll handle them in that game.

[256ILLINI]

Wisconsin fired their OL coach

[AHSIllini32]

That WMU-Minny game should provide us with information about our team as well. IS WMU as bad as made them look or are they just struggling with new WR's? If they struggle against Minny then that would obviously take a little luster off our win.

[GilThorpe]

Originally Posted by 256ILLINI

Wisconsin fired their OL coach

that is like a MLB team firing their batting coach when they start the year off 2-16.

Someones head has to roll, its lip service to the fans. I'm surprised Wisconsin didnt fire the team bus driver.

[Dan]

A match for K-State Mask Man?

[stevo99]

So if Northern Iowa goes into Iowa City and wins, is Ferentz on the hot seat?

[jmontgo3]

That's a decent slate of games! A good one in every time slot.

[Illini Inn Mug Club Prez]

I'm a little excited about the Utah St v. Wisco game. Utah State has been getting a little better better every year for the past 3 or 4 years. Last week they upset Utah, I know the Badgers are going to be looking to bounce back with a vengence but I think Utah State is going to give them all they can handle.

[Dan]

Lane Kiffin barred LA Daily News writer from practice for 2 wks & won't credential him for CAL-USC bc he reported injury news.

http://twitter.com/BFeldmanCBS

[HsvIllini]

Looks like something's cookin' in Baton Rouge:

http://www.nola.com/lsu/index.ssf/20...onfirms_f.html

[Illini2016]

Originally Posted by stevo99

So if Northern Iowa goes into Iowa City and wins, is Ferentz on the hot seat?

Absolutely. Last season was a downgrade for the Hawks and so far he has had a near loss to NIU and a loss to IA St. A loss to Northern Iowa puts him on the very hot seat.

[Dan]

Corn Maze MACtion

http://www.sbnation.com/2012/9/13/33...n-maze-maction

[Dan]

Ohio State up 28-21 on Cal, 8:30 left in the 4th.

[AHSIllini32]

OSU getting gashed on the outside with read options. Bodes well for us considering the offense we run with Ferguson.

EDIT: 60 yard TD run by Cal...wow

[illinidarrin]

Oh man, the Cal kicker sucks.

[AHSIllini32]

Originally Posted by illinidarrin

Oh man, the Cal kicker sucks.

No kidding, I could have made better kicks than that. Okay probably not but those were horrible. OSU eeked out a win today for sure.

[illinidarrin]

N. Iowa is up on Iowa 7-0 early.

[illiniobserver22]

The defensive genius known as Vic Koenning was down 36-7 at halftime to Louisville.

[AHSIllini32]

Originally Posted by illiniobserver22

The defensive genius known as Vic Koenning was down 36-7 at halftime to Louisville.

Blasphemy!!!!

[Illini125]

UNC making a comeback. Down 39-34 now.

[AHSIllini32]

Originally Posted by AHSIllini32

That WMU-Minny game should provide us with information about our team as well. IS WMU as bad as made them look or are they just struggling with new WR's? If they struggle against Minny then that would obviously take a little luster off our win.

Minny won 28-23 but lost Grey for what looks to be quite a while.

[RyanK]

Originally Posted by AHSIllini32

Minny won 28-23 but lost Grey for what looks to be quite a while.

B10 dual threat quarterbacks are dropping like flies

[AHSIllini32]

Originally Posted by RyanK

B10 dual threat quarterbacks are dropping like flies

No joke.

[Wokker]

Originally Posted by RyanK

B10 dual threat quarterbacks are dropping like flies

It's incidents like Minny's that make me happy Beckman didn't force things with Nate today or last weekend. Save him for Next week.

Also, B1G is having a bounce back week against mostly cupcakes after getting smeared in week 2. Hopefully this will save face a bit nationally.