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
Stanford vs Oregon, ABC 5PM; Brent Musberger, Kirk Herbstreit
Penn St. vs Nebraska, ESPN 9AM; Dave Pasch, Chris Spielman, Urban Meyer (special circumstances obviously as the game on its own merits would be on the borderline of a 3* and 4* game, probably a 4*)
4* Games
Iowa vs Michigan St., ESPN2 9AM; Beth Mowins, Mike Belotti
Clemson vs Wake Forest, ESPNU 9AM; Rob Stone, Danny Kanell
Georgia vs Auburn, CBS 12:30PM; Verne Lundquist, Gary Danielson
3* Games
Cincinnati vs West Virginia, ABC/ESPN-GP 9AM; Mark Neely, Ray Bentley
Illinois vs Michigan, ABC/ESPN 12:30PM; Mike Patrick, Craig James (ugh, can't he be fired yet?)
Florida St. vs Miami, ABC/ESPN 12:30PM; Sean McDonough, Matt Millen
Kansas St. vs Texas A&M, ABC/ESPN-GP 12:30PM; Carter Blackburn, Brock Huard
South Carolina vs Florida, CBS 9AM; Tim Brando, Spencer Tillman (Brando doing play-by-play will be either Craig James intolerable or unintentionally hysterical, possibly both)
Boise St. vs TCU, Versus 12:30PM; Paul Burmeister, Shaun King
Missouri vs Texas, FX 9AM; Craig Bolerjack, Joel Klatt
USC vs Washington, FX 12:30PM; Gus Johnson, Charles Davis
Mississippi St. vs Alabama, ESPN 4:45PM; Brad Nessler, Todd Blackledge
2* Games
Texas Tech vs Oklahoma St., ABC/ESPN-GP 9AM; Bob Wischusen, Bob Davie
Purdue vs Ohio St., BTN 9AM; Tom Hart, Derek Rackley
Arkansas vs Tennessee, ESPN2 3PM; Mark Jones, Ed Cunningham
Nevada vs Hawaii, ESPNU 7PM; Adam Amin, David Diaz-Infante
Notre Dame vs Maryland, NBC 4:30PM; Tom Hammond, Mike Mayock
1* Games
Syracuse vs South Florida, ESPN Friday 5PM; Joe Tessitore, Rod Gilmore
Army vs Rutgers, CBS Sports 12:30PM; Gary Thorne, Randy Cross
Tulsa vs Marshall, FSN 9AM; Bill Land, Dave Lapham
SMU vs Navy, FSN 12:30PM; Ron Thulin, J.C. Pearson
Northwestern vs Rice, BTN 9AM; Matt Devlin, Glen Mason
Minnesota vs Wisconsin, BTN 12:30PM; Eric Collins, Chris Martin
Vanderbilt vs Kentucky, SEC Network 9AM; Dave Neal, Andre Ware
Boston College vs NC State, ACC Network 9:30AM; Tim Brant, Dave Archer
BYU vs Idaho, ESPN2 6PM; Dave Lamont, Tim Brown
LSU vs Western Kentucy, ESPNU 4PM; Clay Matvick, Brian Griese
Washington St. vs Arizona St., Versus 7:30PM; Ted Robinson, Glenn Parker
0* Games
Penn St. vs Nebraska, ESPN 9AM; Dave Pasch, Chris Spielman, Urban Meyer (yes I know this game is listed with the 5* games, but it also deserves to go here as many won't be able to watch or stomach this game with all that is going on at Penn St.)
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