2021 College Football Discussion and Pick'em Thread

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Week 1 * (Week 1 includes everything from Saturday August 28th through Monday, September 6th)

Saturday, August 28th

Nebraska @ Illinois 1 PM EDT FOX

UTEP @ New Mexico State 9:30 PM EDT

Thursday, September 2nd

Boise State @ UCF 7 PM EDT ESPN

East Carolina @ Appalachian State 7:30 PM EDT ESPNU

#4 Ohio State @ Minnesota 8 PM EDT FOX

Friday, September 3rd

#10 North Carolina @ Virginia Tech 6 PM EDT ESPN

Michigan State @ Northwestern 9 PM EDT ESPN

Saturday, September 4th

#19 Penn State @ #12 Wisconsin Noon EDT FOX

Stanford vs Kansas State at AT&T Stadium Noon EDT FS1

Army @ Georgia State Noon EDT ESPNU

#1 Alabama vs #14 Miami (FL) at Mercedes-Benz Stadium 3:30 PM EDT ABC

#17 Indiana @ #18 Iowa 3:30 PM EDT BTN

Marshall @ Navy 3:30 PM EDT CBSSN

West Virginia @ Maryland 3:30 PM EDT ESPN

Northern Iowa @ #7 Iowa State 4:30 PM EDT ESPN+

#23 Louisiana @ #21 Texas 4:30 PM EDT FOX

Syracuse @ Ohio 7 PM EDT CBSSN

Oregon State @ Purdue 7 PM EDT CBSSN

Texas Tech @ Houston 7 PM EDT ESPN

#5 Georgia @ #3 Clemson 7:30 PM EDT ABC

UTSA @ Illinois 7:30 PM EDT BTN

#16 LSU @ UCLA 8:30 PM EDT FOX

Nevada @ California 10:30 PM EDT FS1

Sunday, September 5th

#9 Notre Dame @ Florida State 7:30 PM EDT ABC

Monday, September 6th

Louisville vs Ole Miss at Mercedes-Benz Stadium 8 PM EDT ESPN

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Real good special teams play there, Nebraska!

(If you're not watching the game, that's sarcasm.)

Are you referring to the safety, the missed extra point, or the 26-yard punt?

The two missed extra points.

By the way, by even trying an extra point on that last one, Scott Frost might as well have been screaming "I don't understand statistics".

https://footballscoop.com/news/coaches-always-go-two-14-late

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Saturday, September 11th

Illinois @ Virginia 11 AM EST ACCN

Western Kentucky @ Army 11:30 AM EST CBSSN

#11 Oregon @ #4 Ohio State Noon EST FOX

Pittsburgh @ Tennessee Noon EST ESPN

Tulsa @ Oklahoma State Noon EST FS1

Rutgers @ Syracuse 2 PM EST ACCN

Toledo @ #9 Notre Dame 2:30 PM EST Peacock Streaming App

#6 Texas A&M @ Colorado 3:30 PM EST FOX

Georgia Southern @ FAU 3:30 PM EST

Buffalo @ Nebraska 3:30 PM EST BTN

California @ TCU 3:30 PM EST ESPNU

Air Force @ Navy 3:30 PM EST CBS

#18 Iowa @ #7 Iowa State 4:30 PM EST ABC

Houston @ Rice 6:30 PM EST CBSSN

Appalachian State @ #14 Miami (FL) 7 PM EST ESPNU

#21 Texas @ Arkansas 7 PM EST ESPN

NC State @ Mississippi State 7 PM EST ESPN2

North Texas @ SMU 7 PM EST ESPN+

Missouri @ Kentucky 7:30 PM EST SECN

#20 Washington @ Michigan 8 PM EST ABC

Vanderbilt @ Colorado State 10 PM EST CBSSN (I really don't think we're as bad as we looked last week, but I'm still not picking us.  Hope I'm wrong).

San Diego State @ Arizona 10 PM EST PAC12

#24 Utah @ BYU 10:15 PM EST ESPN

Stanford @ #15 USC 10:30 PM EST FOX

Hawai'i @ Oregon State 11 PM EST FS1

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This is a tough game to pick because, on the one hand, Colorado State also just got the sh**t beat out of them by an FCS team. On the other hand, South Dakota State is a better football program than Vandy.

I think that, as recently as 2018, we would have been a double digit favorite against someone like CSU, but we've dropped so far in the last three years.  Vandy was actually a halfway decent team from 2016-2018.  Now, that didn't remotely resemble the James Franklin days, but we did have some very solid wins those three years, beat UT three years in a row, went to two bowl games, and had some close calls of major upsets. 

The 2018 season, especially, where we finished the regular season 6-6, was nearly a truly special season.  We had a chance with the ball deep in their territory in the final minute to beat a Notre Dame team that would go undefeated in the regular season and went to the CFP.  We had a 21-3 lead on a Florida team that would go on to win the Peach Bowl and finish ranked #7.  We were tied in the fourth quarter with the best Kentucky team in a generation that would go on to win ten games and finish ranked #11.

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Upset Alert!

Midway through the Second Quarter, Arkansas leads #15 Texas 13-0.

That would be a mild upset, I guess, but Arkansas is a lot better than they have been the last few years.  I couldn't quite bring myself to pick Arkansas, but that was very much expected to be a competitive game.

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Florida State just lost to Jacksonville State on one of the most poorly defended Hail Mary attempts I've ever seen

https://twitter.com/CBSSports/status/1436902199037149184

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Florida State just lost to Jacksonville State on one of the most poorly defended Hail Mary attempts I've ever seen

https://twitter.com/CBSSports/status/1436902199037149184

The Faux Irish almost lost to this team last week.

Today, they almost lost to Toledo.

Why are they a top 10 team again?

College football tradition dictates that Notre Dame, Michigam, and Texas must start out the year drastically overrated.

Tennessee used to be in that group too and it looks like pollsters finally learned their lesson after all those years, so maybe there is still hope.

Notre Dame does have that one year every five years or so where they go 12-0 against a questionable schedule and then get blown out in the BCS or CFP.

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Oops, I missed picking in time for the Friday games

Saturday, September 18th

Nebraska @ #3 Oklahoma

#8 Cincinnati @ Indiana Noon EDT ESPN

#15 Virginia Tech @ West Virginia Noon EDT FS1

Michigan State @ #24 Miami (FL) Noon EDT ABC

Minnesota @ Colorado 1 PM EDT PAC12N

Nevada @ Kansas State 2:05 PM EDT ESPN+

Purdue @ #12 Notre Dame 2:30 PM EDT NBC

#1 Alabama @ #11 Florida 3:30 PM EDT CBS

Florida State @ Wake Forest 3:30 PM EDT ESPN

USC @ Washington State 3:30 PM EDT FOX

Mississippi State @ Memphis 4 PM EDT ESPN2

Northwestern @ Duke 4 PM EDT ACCN

Ball State @ Wyoming 4 PM EDT

Charlotte @ Georgia State 7 PM EDT ESPN+

Utah @ San Diego State 7 PM EDT CBSSN

#22 Auburn @ #10 Penn State 7:30 PM EDT ABC

Virginia @ #21 North Carolina 7:30 PM EDT ACCN

Utah State @ Air Force 7:30 PM EDT FS2

Tulane @ #17 Ole Miss 8 PM EDT ESPN2

Oklahoma State @ Boise State 9 PM EDT FS1

#19 Arizona State @ #23 BYU 10:15 PM EDT ESPN

Fresno State @ #13 UCLA 10:45 PM EDT PAC12N

San Jose State @ Hawaii 12:30 AM EDT FS1

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After 700 days, I'm finally going to return to Dudley Field tonight!  A little rain (and a flash flood watch) won't keep me out tonight!

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After 700 days, I'm finally going to return to Dudley Field tonight!  A little rain (and a flash flood watch) won't keep me out tonight!

No in-person game for me today, but I got to listen to this one — something right about college football on the radio during a long drive (to Santa Cruz and back for me).

Rough one, but our crowd was at least way more into it than what I saw in 2019.  Clark Lea wasn't left with a whole lot, so he's going to need a couple years to get us competitive.

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Friday, September 24th

Wake Forest @ Virginia 7 PM EDT ESPN

Liberty @ Syracuse 8 PM EDT ACCN

Saturday, September 25th

#12 Notre Dame vs #18 Wisconsin Noon EDT FOX

LSU @ Mississippi State Noon EDT ESPN

Missouri @ Boston College Noon EDT ESPN2

SMU @ TCU Noon EDT FS1

Texas Tech @ Texas Noon EDT ABC

Boise State @ Utah State Noon EDT CBS

San Jose State @ Western Michigan 2 PM EDT ESPN+

Toledo @ Ball State 2 PM EDT ESPN+

Washington State @ Utah 2:30 PM EDT PAC12N

#7 Texas A&M @ #16 Arkansas 3:30 PM EDT CBS

#9 Clemson @ NC State 3:30 PM EDT ESPN

#14 Iowa State @ Baylor 3:30 PM EDT FOX

Rutgers @ #19 Michigan 3:30 PM EDT ABC

UTSA @ Memphis 3:30 PM EDT ESPNU

#24 UCLA @ Stanford 6 PM EDT PAC12

#25 Kansas State @ Oklahoma State 7 PM EDT ESPN+

Kentucky @ South Carolina 7 PM EDT ESPN2

West Virginia @ #4 Oklahoma 7:30 PM EDT ABC

UAB @ Tulane 8 PM EDT ESPN+

New Mexico @ UTEP 9 PM EDT ESPN+

California @ Washington 9:30 PM EDT PAC12

Oregon State @ USC 10:30 PM EDT FS1

Colorado @ Arizona State 10:30 PM EDT ESPNU

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Did ExtremeR go to the Georgia-Vandy game?  So far it's starting about like you'd expect.

No, I knew what was coming and decided I didn't want to subject myself to that.  It somehow went even worse than my expectation.  I'll probably go to the UConn game next week.

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Friday, October 1st

Houston @ Tulsa 7:30 PM EDT ESPN

#5 Iowa @ Maryland 8 PM EDT FS1

Saturday, October 2nd

#8 Arkansas @ #2 Georgia Noon EDT ESPN

#14 Michigan @ Wisconsin Noon EDT FOX

Tennessee @ Missouri Noon EDT SECN

Pittsburgh @ Georgia Tech Noon EDT ACCN

Minnesota @ Purdue Noon EDT BTN

Texas @ TCU Noon EDT ABC

Western Michigan @ Buffalo Noon EDT CBSSN

#7 Cincinnati @ #9 Notre Dame 2:30 PM EDT NBC

Eastern Michigan @ Northern Illinois 2:30 PM EDT ESPN+

#12 Ole Miss @ #1 Alabama 3:30 PM EDT CBS

#3 Oregon @ Stanford 3:30 PM EDT ABC

#6 Oklahoma @ Kansas State 3:30 PM EDT FOX

Syracuse @ Florida State 3 PM EDT ACCN

Texas Tech @ West Virginia 3:30 PM EDT ESPN2

Tulane @ East Carolina 3:30 PM EDT ESPN+

Central Michigan @ Miami (OH) 3:30 PM EDT ESPN+

#10 Florida @ Kentucky 6 PM EDT ESPN

#21 Baylor @ #19 Oklahoma State 7 PM EDT ESPN2

Liberty @ UAB 7 PM EDT CBSSN

Boston College @ #25 Clemson 7:30 PM EDT ACCN

#22 Auburn @ LSU 9 PM EDT ESPN

Washington @ Oregon State 9 PM EDT PAC12

Arizona State @ #20 UCLA 10:30 PM EDT FS1

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Does anyone have a picture of the "We Want Vandy" sign that a Mizzou fan held up?

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Week 6

Friday, October 8th

Stanford @ #22 Arizona State 10:30 PM EDT ESPN

Saturday, October 9th

#6 Oklahoma vs #21 Texas at the Cotton Bowl in Dallas, TX Noon EDT ABC

Maryland @ #7 Ohio State Noon EDT FOX

#11 Michigan State @ Rutgers Noon EDT BTN

#13 Arkansas @ #17 Ole Miss Noon EDT ESPN

South Carolina @ Tennessee Noon EDT ESPN2

West Virginia @ Baylor Noon EDT FS1

Northern Illinois @ Toledo Noon EDT CBSSN

Virginia @ Louisville 3 PM EDT ACCN

#2 Georgia @ #18 Auburn 3:30 PM EDT CBS

Boise State @ #10 BYU 3:30 PM EDT ABC

#19 Wake Forest @ Syracuse 3:30 PM EDT ESPN2

#24 SMU @ Navy 3:30 PM EDT CBSSN

Florida Atlantic @ UAB 3:30 PM EDT

Florida State @ North Carolina 3:30 PM EDT ESPN

Wisconsin @ Illinois 3:30 PM EDT BTN

UConn @ UMass 3:30 PM EDT (we're really picking the Toilet Bowl?!)

#4 Penn State @ #3 Iowa 4 PM EDT FOX

East Carolina @ UCF 6 PM EDT ESPN+

TCU @ Texas Tech 7 PM EDT ESPN

Buffalo @ Kent State 7 PM EDT ESPNU

Wyoming @ Air Force 7 PM EDT CBSSN

#9 Michigan @ Nebraska 7:30 PM EDT ABC

LSU @ #16 Kentucky 7:30 PM EDT SECN

Utah @ USC 8 PM EDT FOX

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Unlike two weeks ago when Vandy lost 62-0 to Georgia, but it was somehow far worse than the box score suggested, today we're losing 42-0 to Florida, but we've actually been better than the score indicates.  We just can't convert in the red zone (4 trips to the 21 yard line or closer with 0 points to show for it), but we actually somehow have more first downs than they do.

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Alabama now has a transitive property loss to UC-Davis

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Week 7

Friday, October 15th

Clemson @ Syracuse 7 PM EDT ESPN

Saturday, October 16th

#12 Oklahoma State @ #25 Texas Noon EDT FOX

Auburn @ #17 Arkansas Noon EDT CBS

Nebraska @ Minnesota Noon EDT ESPN2

Ball State @ Eastern Michigan 2 PM EDT ESPN+

#11 Kentucky @ #1 Georgia 3:30 PM EDT CBS

#19 BYU @ Baylor 3:30 PM EDT ESPN

Western Kentucky @ Old Dominion 3:30 PM EDT ESPN3

Miami (FL) @ North Carolina 3:30 PM EDT ACCN

Pittsburgh @ Virginia Tech 3:30 PM EDT ESPN2

Toledo @ Central Michigan 3:30 PM EDT CBSSN

Arizona @ Colorado 3:30 PM EDT PAC12

Fresno State @ Wyoming 3:30 PM EDT FS2

Vanderbilt @ South Carolina 4 PM EDT SECN

TCU @ #4 Oklahoma 7 PM EDT ABC

#5 Alabama @ Mississippi State 7 PM EDT ESPN

#13 Ole Miss @ Tennessee 7:30 PM EDT SECN

#22 NC State @ Boston College 7:30 PM EDT ACCN

Iowa State @ Kansas State 7:30 PM EDT ESPN2

Stanford @ Washington State 7:30 PM EDT ESPNU

Army @ Wisconsin 8 PM EDT BTN

UCLA @ Washington 8:30 PM EDT FOX

Air Force @ Boise State 9 PM EDT FS1

Louisiana Tech @ UTEP 9 PM EDT ESPN+

Arizona State @ Utah 10 PM EDT ESPN

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Ahahahahaha Texas will never be back.

But UCONN is back!! Thrilling upset win in East Hartford today

The fact that UConn upset Yale is almost impossible to fathom.  I wonder when the last time an Ivy League school was favored against a program in the top level of CFB (FBS/1-A/Division 1 pre-split) was.

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Tennessee should be fined $1 million and banned from having live attendance for one year. Shocked NYE hasn't called for the death penalty and/or SEC Expulsion yet.

The SEC fines for completely harmless (99.9% of the time) field stormings, so they better fine way more for something like this that actually disrupted the game, showed poor sportsmanship, and, most importantly, put people in danger.

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UCF tonight

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UCF tonight

Saturday, October 23rd

#16 Wake Forest @ Army Noon EDT CBSSN

Kansas State @ Texas Tech Noon EDT FS1

Northern Illinois @ Central Michigan Noon EDT ESPNU

Syracuse @ Virginia Tech 12:30 PM EDT ESPN3

Texas State @ Georgia State 2 PM EDT ESPN+

Wisconsin @ #25 Purdue 3 PM EDT BTN

#8 Oklahoma State @ Iowa State 3:30 PM EDT FOX

#10 Oregon @ UCLA 3:30 PM EDT ABC

LSU @ #12 Ole Miss 3:30 PM EDT CBS

Clemson @ #23 Pittsburgh 3:30 PM EDT ESPN

Maryland @ Minnesota 3:30 PM EDT ESPN2

Miami (OH) @ Ball State 3:30 PM EDT ESPN+

Buffalo @ Akron 3:30 PM EDT ESPN+

Colorado @ California 3:30 PM EDT PAC12

BYU @ Washington State 3:30 PM EDT FS1

Boston College @ Louisville 4 PM EDT ACCN

East Carolina @ Houston 4 PM EDT ESPNU

Tennessee @ #4 Alabama 7 PM EDT ESPN

#22 San Diego State @ Air Force 7 PM EDT CBSSN

Nevada @ Fresno State 7 PM EDT FS2

USC @ #13 Notre Dame 7:30 PM EDT NBC

Georgia Tech @ Virginia 7:30 PM EDT ACCN

West Virginia @ TCU 7:30 PM EDT ESPNU

Utah @ Oregon State 7:30 PM EDT PAC12

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#6 Michigan @ #8 Michigan State Noon EDT FOX

#9 Iowa @ Wisconsin Noon EDT ESPN

Texas @ #16 Baylor Noon EDT ABC

Miami (FL) @ #17 Pittsburgh Noon EDT ACCN

Virginia Tech @ Georgia Tech Noon EDT ESPN3

Indiana @ Maryland Noon EDT

#22 Iowa State @ West Virginia 2 PM EDT ESPN+

#1 Georgia vs Florida at TIAA Bank Field in Jacksonville, FL 3:30 PM EDT CBS

Texas Tech @ #4 Oklahoma 3:30 PM EDT ABC

Florida State @ Clemson 3:30 PM EDT ESPN

Boston College @ Syracuse 3:30 PM EDT ESPN3

Purdue @ Nebraska 3:30 PM EDT ESPN2

TCU @ Kansas State 3:30 PM EDT ESPNU

UL Monroe @ Appalachian State 3:30 PM EDT ESPN+

Wyoming @ San Jose State 4 PM EDT FS2

UTEP @ Florida Atlantic 6 PM EDT ESPN+

#10 Ole Miss @ #18 Auburn 7 PM EDT ESPN

#12 Kentucky @ Mississippi State 7 PM EDT SECN

#19 SMU @ Houston 7 PM EDT ESPN2

#20 Penn State @ #5 Ohio State 7:30 PM EDT ABC

Louisville @ NC State 7:30 PM EDT ACCN

UCLA @ Utah 10 PM EDT ESPN

Virginia @ BYU 10:15 PM EDT ESPN2

Fresno State @ #21 San Diego State 10:30 PM EDT CBSSN

Washington @ Stanford 10:30 PM EDT FS1

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Air Force
North Carolina
Ole Miss
SMU
Miami
East Carolina
UL-Monroe
Cincinnati
Michigan State
Oklahoma State
Texas A&M
Baylor
Penn State
Troy
Mississippi State
Florida Atlantic
Tennessee
Boise State
Old Dominion
Oregon
Clemson
Iowa State
Nevada
UTSA
Arizona State

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#7 Michigan @ Penn State Noon EST ABC

#8 Oklahoma @ #12 Baylor Noon EST FOX

#17 Mississippi State @ #13 Auburn Noon EST ESPN

Syracuse @ Louisville Noon EST ESPN3

Rutgers @ Indiana Noon EST

West Virginia @ Kansas State Noon EST

UCF @ SMU Noon EST ESPNU

East Carolina @ Memphis Noon EST ESPN+

Georgia Southern @ Texas State 3 PM EST ESPN+

Purdue @ #5 Ohio State 3:30 PM EST ABC

#20 Minnesota @ #22 Iowa 3:30 PM EST

UAB @ Marshall 3:30 PM EST ESPN+

Miami (FL) @ Florida State 3:30 PM EST ESPN

Boston College @ Georgia Tech 3:30 PM EST ACCN

Iowa State @ Texas Tech 3:30 PM EST ESPN2

USC @ California 3:30 PM EST

Tulsa @ Tulane 4 PM EST ESPNU

#14 Texas A&M @ #16 Ole Miss 7 PM EST ESPN

#19 NC State @ #9 Wake Forest 7:30 PM EST ACCN

#10 Notre Dame @ Virginia 7:30 PM EST ABC

Arkansas @ LSU 7:30 PM EST SECN

Kansas @ Texas 7:30 PM EST ESPNU

TCU @ #11 Oklahoma State 8 PM EST FOX

Washington State @ #4 Oregon 10:30 PM EST ESPN

Nevada @ #24 San Diego State 10:30 PM EST CBSSN