College Football Viewer's Guide Week 10

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 (think Michigan against Appalachian St.).

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

Alabama vs LSU (if this scale went higher than 5*, this would be the game), CBS 5PM; Verne Lundquist, Gary Danielson

4* Games

Oklahoma St. vs Kansas St., ABC/ESPN2 5PM; Brent Musberger, Kirk Herbstreit

Arkansas vs South Carolina, ESPN 4:15PM; Brad Nessler, Todd Blackledge

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

3* Games

Oklahoma vs Texas A&M, ABC Regional 12:30PM; Sean McDonough, Matt Millen

Iowa vs Michigan, ESPN 9AM; Dave Pasch, Chris Spielman, Urban Meyer

Texas vs Texas Tech, FX 9AM; Gus Johnson, Charles Davis

Wake Forest vs Notre Dame, ESPN2/ABC 5PM; Mark Jones, Ed Cunningham

Pittsburgh vs Cincinnati, ESPNU 4PM; Rob Stone, Danny Kanell

UCLA vs Arizona St., Versus 4:30PM; Ted Robinson, Glenn Parker

Baylor vs Missouri, FSN 4PM; Joel Meyers, Brian Baldinger

2* Games

Central Florida vs Tulsa, CBS Sports Thursday 5PM; Todd Harris, Doug Chapman

Wisconsin vs Purdue, ABC/ESPN2 12:30PM; Mike Patrick, Craig James

Oregon St. vs Stanford, ABC Regional 12:30PM; Carter Blackburn, Brock Huard

Air Force vs Army, CBS 12:30PM; Spero Dedes, Steve Beuerlein

Nebraska vs Northwestern, BTN 12:30PM; Eric Collins, Chris Martin

NC State vs North Carolina, ACC Network 9:30AM; Steve Martin, Dave Archer

1* Games

Boston College vs Florida St., ESPN Thursday 5PM; Rece Davis, Craig James, Jesse Palmer (Craig James penalty moves this game down to one-star)

Colorado vs USC, ESPN Friday 6PM; Dave Lamont, Rod Gilmore

Kent St. vs Central Michigan, ESPN2 Friday 5PM; Mike Morgan, Tom Luginbill

Connecticut vs Syracuse, ESPNU 9AM; Pam Ward, Dan Hawkins

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

Michigan St. vs Minnesota, BTN 9AM; Matt Devlin, Glen Mason

Ohio St. vs Indiana, BTN 9AM; Tom Hart, Derek Rackley

Vanderbilt vs Florida, SEC Network 9AM; Dave Neal, Andre Ware

Maryland vs Virginia, ACC Network 9:30AM; Tim Brant, Riley Skinner

Fresno St. vs Louisiana Tech, ESPNU 7:30PM; Adam Amin, David Diaz-Infante

0* Games

Miami (OH) vs Akron, ESPNU Thursday 4:30 PM; Anish Shroff, Jay Walker

Kentucky vs Ole Miss, ESPNU 12:30PM; Clay Matvick, Brian Griese

UAB vs Houston, CBS Sports 4PM; Dave Ryan, Rich Rodriguez

Rice vs UTEP, FSN 12:30PM; Ron Thulin, J.C. Pearson

UNLV vs Boise St., CBS Sports 7:30PM; James Bates, Aaron Taylor