Games ranked on a scale of what you must do to watch it
1* - Games that really shouldn't be televised. Likely some sort of grizzly blowout or a low quality game that is only on basically because it can be. Hard even for people like me to stomach for the entire game.
2* - Casual fans should only watch if its their team or they are watching with hardcore fans. Hardcore fans, you know you will watch, but if other plans get in the way then so be it.
3* - A solid matchup that has the potential to have an impact. The hardcore college football fan will watch no matter and the casual fan will find quite a bit of enjoyment out of this game.
4* - Well worth building a day around and if you are a fan of a specific team these can trump a five-star game. Most weeks have at least one of these if not two or three, sometimes more depending on the circumstances.
5* - Everything possible. If this means watching on your phone at a wedding, you do it. If this means working all night on either a work or school project on Friday and/or Saturday, you do it. There aren't too many of these in any given year. Last season included all of four regular season games that fit (Boise St.-Virginia Tech, Oregon-Stanford, Auburn-LSU, Auburn-Alabama). These are rare indeed.
All games are Saturday unless otherwise noted
5* Games
Oklahoma @ Florida St., ABC 8 ET, 5 PT; Brent Musberger, Kirk Herbstreit
4* Games
LSU @ Mississippi St., ESPN Thursday 8 ET, 5PT; Rece Davis, Craig James, Jesse Palmer
Auburn @ Clemson, ABC Noon ET, 9AM PT; Dave Pasch, Chris Spielman, Urban Meyer
Tennessee @ Florida, CBS 3:30 ET, 12:30 PT; Verne Lundquist, Gary Danielson
3* Games
West Virginia @ Maryland, ESPNU Noon ET, 9AM PT; Rob Stone, Danny Kanell
Texas @ UCLA, ABC/ESPN 3:30 ET, 12:30 PT; Bob Wischusen, Bob Davie
Washington @ Nebraska, ESPN/ABC 3:30 ET, 12:30 PT; Sean McDonough, Matt Millen
Pittsburgh @ Iowa, ESPN2 Noon ET, 9AM PT; Beth Mowins, Mike Bellotti
Michigan St. @ Notre Dame, NBC 3:30 ET, 12:30 PT; Tom Hammond, Mike Mayock
Ohio St. @ Miami, ESPN 7:30 ET, 4:30 PT; Brad Nessler, Todd Blackledge
Syracuse @ USC, FX 8 ET, 5 PT; Gus Johnson, Charles Davis
Arizona St. @ Illinois, BTN 7ET, 4PT; Eric Collins, Chris Martin
2* Games
Boise St. @ Toledo, ESPN Friday 8 ET, 5PT; Joe Tessitore, Rod Gilmore
Iowa St. @ Connecticut, ESPN2 Friday 8 ET, 5 PT; Mike Gleason, John Congemi
Penn St. @ Temple, ESPN Noon ET, 9AM PT; Dave Lamont, Ray Bentley
Virginia @ North Carolina, ESPNU 3:30 ET, 12:30 PT; Pam Ward, Dan Hawkins
Ole Miss @ Vanderbilt, SEC Network 12:30 ET, 9:30AM PT; Dave Neal, Andre Ware
Stanford @ Arizona, ESPN 10:30 ET, 7:30 PT; Carter Blackburn, Brock Huard
Navy @ South Carolina, ESPN2 6 ET, 3 PT; Mike Patrick, Craig James
Utah @ BYU, ESPN2 9 ET, 6 PT; Mark Jones, Ed Cunningham
1* Games
Northwestern @ Army, CBS Sports 3:30 ET, 12:30 PT; Gary Thorne, Randy Cross
Texas Tech @ New Mexico, Versus 3:30 ET, 12:30 PT; Paul Burmeister, Shaun King
Colorado St. vs Colorado in Denver, 1:30 ET, 10:30AM PT; Craig Bolerjack, Joel Klatt
Duke @ Boston College, ACC Network 12:30 ET, 9:30AM PT; Steve Martin, Dave Archer
Louisville @ Kentucky (I don't give 0* or this would be getting it), ESPNU 7 ET, 4PT; Clay Matvick, Brian Griese
Hawaii @ UNLV, CBS Sports 10 ET, 7 ET; Bill Doleman, Jay Leeuwenberg
Oklahoma St. @ Tulsa, FSN 10 ET, 7PT; Ron Thulin, J.C. Pearson
All Big Ten Network Day Games (this has been and will continue to be a recurring theme until conference play starts)
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