College Football In Full Force
This is it – the holiday weekend. Sure, there’s Labor Day, but the holiday is college football. This is a blowout, an extravaganza, a smorgasbord. If we do not include your favorite team here, it is only because of the glut.
In other words, you can only put six in a Weekend TV Six-Pack. Your heiner may never leave the recliner…
In fact, you might as well sleep in your chair and wake up at 7:30 a.m. ET on Saturday for Boston College-Georgia Tech. Is either any good? Who knows? But the game is in Dublin, Ireland. While most folks prefer the passing game, some of us remain intrigued by triple-option run by Tech. We are, sadly, a limited number. ESPN2 will show this one.
It’s hardly the best of the lot. You’d have to give that nod to No. 3 Oklahoma at No. 15 Houston (noon Saturday, ABC). You’ll love the power of Sooners running back Samaje Perine, the passing of Baker Mayfield and Houston’s explosiveness and high-speed attack.
A close second would be No. 20 Southern Cal against No. 1 Alabama. Bama, the defending national champion, doesn’t rebuild – it reloads. Saturday, 8 p.m. ABC.
No. 10 Notre Dame goes on the road to play an uncertain Texas team that could start a freshman quarterback. This will be a key year for Longhorns coach Charlie Strong, who is 11-14 in two seasons and probably needs nine wins to keep his job. You can see this one on Sunday night on ABC at 7:30 p.m.
Back to Saturday we go for No. 18 Georgia, under new coach Kirby Smart, at No. 22 North Carolina. UNC has a potential hidden gem in quarterback Mitch Trubisky. ESPN has this at 5:30 p.m.
One more to make six? OK. No. 5 LSU and running back Leonard Fournette, a Heisman Trophy candidate, plays unranked Wisconsin on Saturday at 3:30 p.m. on ABC. The added appeal? It’s at Lambeau Field in Green Bay. Wisconsin has not played a game in the state outside of its home in Madison since 1905.
Hate to leave No. 2 Clemson and the brilliant DeShaun Watson vs. unranked Auburn out of the mix, but six means six.
Feel free to choose other games. Those are your eyeballs at stake.
As always, watch responsibly. It’s going to be a challenge.
Post By: Larry Weisman, a longtime sportswriter for USA TODAY, blogs for Twistity.com. Follow him on Twitter @MrLarryWeisman
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