Category Archives: Game of the week

2018 Conference Championships

BIG 12 CHAMPIONSHIP AT&T STADIUM ARLINGTON,TX SATURDAY NOON/ET ABC TEXAS (9-3) vs. OKLAHOMA (11-1) Many times a rematch of conference rivals can be a bore. But not this one, because the higher ranked team today was beaten by the lower ranked team back in October. It was a 48-45 shootout, with the Longhorns winning with a dynamic offensive… Read More »

LSU-Florida

#8 FLORIDA (6-0) at #6 LSU (5-0); 7 PM ET; Saturday; ESPN One of the enduring questions in college football each season is can anyone in the SEC East challenge the dominant teams in the West for the conference title. And if anyone is going to do it this year it’s going to be Florida. Indeed, the Gators… Read More »

Oregon at Michigan State; 8 PM ET; ABC

Everybody kind of got their feet in the opening week of the college football season. And now the heavy lifting starts with a number of key intra-sectional games with none bigger than Oregon at Michigan State. Indeed, both the Ducks and Spartans have post-season playoff aspirations and the loser of Saturday’s game will find itself behind the 8-ball… Read More »

Thursday game of the week

While the NFL dawdles away another perfectly good early fall weekend with yet another round of essentially meaningless pre-season exhibition games, college football gets underway in earnest gets underway later tonight with a slew of games, perhaps the most interesting of which has #2 Texas Christian playing at Minnesota on ESPN at 9 PM ET. If nothing else… Read More »