College Football Viewer's Guide Week 8

Games ranked on a scale of what you must do to watch it

0* - Truly insufferable games that will be blowouts. The only way you do watch is if you go to the game in person (even this can be a stretch) or if something is going horribly awfully wrong for the favored team.

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 and times are PACIFIC TIME

5* Games

none, next possibility Nov. 5 (Alabama vs LSU)

4* Games

LSU vs Auburn, 12:30PM CBS; Verne Lundquist, Gary Danielson

Missouri vs Oklahoma St., 9AM FX; Gus Johnson, Charles Davis

Stanford vs Washington, 5PM ABC Reg; Sean McDonough, Matt Miller

Michigan St. vs Wisconsin, 5PM ESPN; Brent Musberger, Kirk Herbstreit

Notre Dame vs USC, 4:30PM NBC; Tom Hammond, Mike Mayock

3* Games

Clemson vs North Carolina, 9AM ESPN; Dave Pasch, Chris Spielman, Urban Meyer

Miami vs Georgia Tech, 12:30PM ESPN; Bob Wischusen, Bob Davie

Southern Miss vs SMU, 5PM CBS Sports; Dave Ryan, Rich Rodriguez

2* Games

Syracuse vs West Virginia, 5PM Friday ESPN; Joe Tessitore, Rod Gilmore

Louisville vs Rutgers, 5PM Friday ESPN2; Dave Lamont, David Diaz-Infante

Florida St. vs Maryland, 12:30PM ABC Reg/ESPN2; Mike Patrick, Craig James (I'm sorry Seminole and Terp fans)

Iowa St. vs Texas A&M, 12:30PM ABC Reg; Mark Neely, Ray Bentley

Purdue vs Illinois, 9AM ESPN2; Beth Mowins, Mike Bellotti

Boise St. vs Air Force, 12:30PM Versus; Paul Burmeister, Shaun King

Oklahoma vs Texas Tech, 5PM ABC Reg; Brad Nessler, Todd Blackledge (celebrate guys, you get to see some offense

Alabama vs Tennessee, 4:15PM ESPN2; Mark Jones, Ed Cunningham

Northwestern vs Penn St., 4PM BTN; Tom Hart, Derek Rackley (would be a step higher except the Penn St. offense still induces pain and suffering when watched)

1* Games

Minnesota vs Nebraska, 12:30PM ABC Reg/ESPN2; Carter Blackburn, Brock Huard (who did they insult at the ESPN main office)

Virginia vs NC State, 12:30PM ESPNU; Pam Ward, Dan Hawkins

Navy vs East Carolina, 12:30PM CBS Sports; Josh Lewin, Randy Cross

Kansas vs Kansas St., 9AM FSN; Bill Land, Dave Lapham

Colorado vs Oregon, 12:30PM FSN; Joel Meyers, Brian Baldinger

Iowa vs Indiana, 9AM BTN; Eric Collins, Chris Martin

Ole Miss vs Arkansas, 9AM SEC Network; Dave Neal, Andre Ware

Duke vs Wake Forest, 9:30AM ACC Network; Steve Martin, Dave Archer

Vanderbilt vs Army, 4PM ESPNU; Clay Matvick, Brian Griese

Rice vs Tulsa, 4PM FSN; Ron Thulin, JC Pearson

Oregon St. vs Washington St., 7:30PM FSN; Craig Bolerjack, Joel Klatt

0* Games

Kentucky vs Jacksonville St., 9AM ESPNU; Rob Stone, Danny Kanell

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