Week 6 Games

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Dan

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Welcome to the Week 6 (non-IL) CFB Games Thread 🏈

Big Ten & other selected games are listed below, & feel free to discuss any other games (as well as any storylines carried over from Week 5).


Friday, October 9th

Iowa at Washington
8:00pm CT - FOX

Saturday, October 10th

Indiana at Nebraska
11:00am CT - FOX

Ball State at Northwestern
11:30am CT - BTN

UCLA at Oregon
2:30pm CT - CBS

Texas vs Oklahoma (Dallas)
2:30pm CT - ABC

Maryland at Ohio State
3:15pm CT - BTN

LSU at Kentucky
6:00pm CT - ESPN

USC at Penn State
6:30pm CT - NBC

Georgia at Alabama
6:30pm CT - ABC

Minnesota at Purdue
7:00pm CT - BTN
 
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Dan
This is Week 7 news but I'll put it here.

When you consider that-

1) Indiana-Ohio State is not a protected game
2) The B1G is so big that teams avoid 8 league opponents each regular season
3) Matchups for this year were announced back in Oct 2023

It's quite the great fortune for the Big Ten that Ohio State at Indiana is happening on Oct 17th, also considering-

1) These are the last two National Champions in college football
2) Right now these are the 2 highest ranked B1G teams, & only league teams in the AP Top 10
3) This game will feature the current leading candidate to win the Heisman Trophy
4) This is a rematch of last season's blockbuster Big Ten title game

Talk about a rare matchup, and it's 100% Big Ten.

So today when the designations were released.. Ohio State at Indiana is a Noon ET game on FOX.

Reading around, apparently Noon was the only real option for this colossal matchup.

Imho the Big Ten should have intervened here and made this a night game. I know this would've been a night game in another league.
 
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Bucktown
Dan said:
This is Week 7 news but I'll put it here.

When you consider that-

1) Indiana-Ohio State is not a protected game
2) The B1G is so big that teams avoid 8 league opponents each regular season
3) Matchups for this year were announced back in Oct 2023

It's quite the great fortune for the Big Ten that Ohio State at Indiana is happening on Oct 17th, also considering-

1) These are the last two National Champions in college football
2) Right now these are the 2 highest ranked B1G teams, & only league teams in the AP Top 10
3) This game will feature the current leading candidate to win the Heisman Trophy
4) This is a rematch of last season's blockbuster Big Ten title game

Talk about a rare matchup, and it's 100% Big Ten.

So today when the designations were released.. Ohio State at Indiana is a Noon ET game on FOX.

Reading around, apparently Noon was the only real option for this colossal matchup.

Imho the Big Ten should have intervened here and made this a night game. I know this would've been a night game in another league.
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100% agree. The BIG office is completely lacking in strategic thinking regarding ratings.
 
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ChiefGritty
Dan said:
https://twitter.com/x/status/2107559847361171883
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Ohio State Osu GIF by Respective
 
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Dan
Looks like Alabama-Georgia is probably a go & on schedule [via]
 
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Illiniaaron
Mr. Tibbs said:
when’s the last time Iowa hung 42 on a B1G opponent?
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They beat Wisconsin 42-10 in 2024. They have laid some pretty big beat downs on conference foes in recent years. They have been scoring 38+ points on teams three or four times a year. They dropped 40 on Washington the last time they played them two years ago.
 
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Mr. Tibbs
Illiniaaron said:
They beat Wisconsin 42-10 in 2024. They have laid some pretty big beat downs on conference foes in recent years. They have been scoring 38+ points on teams three or four times a year. They dropped 40 on Washington the last time they played them two years ago.
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I obviously haven’t been playing close attention. in my mind they’ve been winning games or losing games 21-17 for a long time
 
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IlliniFaninHoosierLand
Top games today include Indiana-Nebraska, UCLA-Oregon, and Georgia-Alabama.

Today's schedule among the state schools:

-1:00 PM, ESPN+: SIU at South Dakota
-2:30 PM, ESPN+: EIU at Gardner-Webb
-6:30 PM, CBS Sports Network: Air Force at NIU
 
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Illiniaaron
Mr. Tibbs said:
I obviously haven’t been playing close attention. in my mind they’ve been winning games or losing games 21-17 for a long time
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I’m near the Quad Cities only about 70 miles from Iowa City so there are a lot of Squawkeye fans around. When I was growing up I despised them, they were the Illini’s no. 1 rival as far as I was concerned and Hayden Fry, although a great coach, was annoying and easy to dislike. The rivalry has kind of gone by the wayside since they quit playing every year but it’s still a big deal in this area. They are an interesting program to follow, I never understood why Illinois couldn’t have as successful a program as Iowa. Obviously a big key is finding two good coaches that can run a major program and sticking with them for 20 years plus. A lot of Iowa fans wanted to get rid of Ferentz a couple years ago with all the offensive problems they had over several years with his son as OC but it looks like they made a good decision to stick with him.
 
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