Official College Football Week 13 Thread
 

Three weeks left to go in the regular season. Here are the match ups between Top 25 teams this weekend:

Baylor at Oklahoma State
Missouri at Mississippi
Texas A&M at LSU
Arizona State at UCLA
Wisconsin at Minnesota

Huge game for Mizzou. If they can survive Old Miss, they'll be playing for a trip to the SEC Championship next week at home in the season finale.

Edit: Forgot to note that James Franklin is listed as the starting QB on the depth charts released today.

Ugh, don't know where to post this one...it's not happy news. I know Utah is our rival, but their QB Travis Wilson has been a great kid and a solid QB for them, this news is not good.

Utah football: Wilson out for the season | Deseret News

The rumors are firing on things from an aneurism to tumor...prayers for Travis.

Utah Head Coach Kyle Whittingham has been quoted as saying if Travis was to take a head shot, it would means very bad things for him..

DOLA

But to make things fun..BYU @ ND this weekend!

Man, Utah is just snake-bit when it comes to QB's lately.

Iowa-Michigan. We usually handle Michigan pretty well at home. But who knows what will happen. These are 2 programs struggling. Michigan cant find an identity. But if their QB can run, Iowa is toast. Iowa needs to control the ball and the clock.
A win here moves us closer a better bowl game then the Gator.

Gardner hasn't as of late. If the NW game is any clue, Michigan might be putting a more conventional running game together. Still, Gardner is more of an athlete than he is a QB.

Yeah they have...update on the condition

http://www.sltrib.com/sltrib/utes/57...-utes.html.csp

It's a prior injury to an intracranial artery, It's not necessarily career threatening, but will be re-evaluated in three months.

If the kid is smart, he hangs it up.

We are doomed.

So... any chance Jameis wins the Heisman with current allegations swirling? Seems like this isn't going to get cleared up real soon.

Strongly doubt it, barring a quick resolution as you say.

I have no desire to watch tonight's game, but I will. Masochism at it's finest.

A buddy of mine asked if it was bad enough where I wouldn't torture myself by watching the game tonight and would want to go to a concert...his uncle manages a bunch of bands, so these usually turn into decent nights.

I'm seeking the torture.

already ugly.

Well, I was hopeful that Rutgers would help out Wisconsin for about 7 minutes :)

Perhaps you pull off an Arkansas comeback.

Leave the entire team in Florida.

I hope ESPN has a lot more of these random puff pieces to talk about tonight.

Not sure how Rutgers beating UCF would help Wisconsin, but ok.

I can't watch anymore, but I can't stop watching this trainwreck.

Wisconsin needs to get into top 14 for a possible BCS bid.. UCF is ahead of them in all CPU polls, I believe. A loss helps get one step closer.

ah, that makes sense.

heh, punt block td.

But a Badger win this weekend likely will give them the bump they need to jump them in most CPU polls anyway... and stay ahead as UCF has no games left against teams that are above .500.

Realistically Wisconsin needs to win and move up 4 spots so they only need two spots from their final game.

-MSU losing to Northwestern or Minnesota or OSU in B1G CG is required for WI to get a BCS bid.. or tOSU losing twice I guess.....
-One of UCLA/ASU will fall below
-WI will jump UCF in CPU, thus BCS poll
-A&M/LSU play
-A&M/Mizzou play
-Mizzou plays Ole Miss/SEC CG
-NIU/Fresno play tough games in their respective CCG's
-Ok St/Baylor
-South Carolina/Clemson

There are a lot of games that are guaranteed to help the Badgers in some shape or form.. so there isn't too much of a concern of getting to Top 14, for me anyway. And there is usually that huge upset that shocks everyone. What will that be?

How many more decommits and embarrassments before we make a change in staff. Gary Nova is 10-31 with a pick and he's still in??

UNLV up 20-0 at Air Force end of 1st quarter. Come on guys! Let's get bowl-eligible!

who's got the razor blades?

What if Wisconsin is that huge upset?

For the first time in 13 years, UNLV football is bowl-eligible!!! 41-21 final on the road over Air Force, but we frankly almost blew it. Lot of way, way too conservative play-calling in the fourth quarter gave the Falcons numerous chances back in, but luckily our defense held up.

Of course, my gut tells me we need to win our last game to fully lock up the invite.

Found the right coach finally?

:D

Congrats to UNLV!

Rutgers: You can't make this shit up

Temps in Iowa City for the game tomorrow: Below 20 temp with 20-30 MPH winds and 35 MPH gusts. Im glad Im sitting in my living room watching that one.

I will be enjoing TCF Bank as the Badgers Carry the axe around stadium around 5:45 tomorrow

Tailgating in temps in the teens. Boom. Pumped up.

7-7 at the end of the 1st quarter. Iowa threw a pick 6. And has been driving the ball. It is a decent game to watch.

The Purdue/Illini suckfest is underway, and tied 14-14 early 2nd quarter. I'm not quite sure what I'm rooting for in this one, given state of Illinois football. I really don't know what fastest road to recovery is, but my sense is that whatever that road is Tim Beckman is probably not part of it.

Is there even 5000 fans at the Miami / Virginia game today? I thought I had tuned into a late season Marlins game for a minute.

Still amazed by turnaround of Northwestern to go from #16 in the country and nearly beating Ohio State to needing to beat Illinois next week to avoid going winless in Big Ten play.

Iowas defense is dominating Michigan. We have out yarded UM 347 to 119. Yet its 21-21 due to a -4 turnover margin.
10 minutes left in the game. Iowa has momentum.

Wake Forest has a chance to tie Duke. Would never have thought these two teams would play a meaningful November football game.

That INT should get Duke to the ACC title game.

If they can beat North Carolina and get to 10 wins, Cutcliffe has a pretty good case for winning a coach of the year award.

YES! Iowa gets a come from behind win over Michigan on Senior day. Defense was outstanding. Just dominating. Gave up about 129 total yards.
Looks like the Gator Bowl will be calling.

Wow, North Carolina over Old Dominion 80-20. Yes, I posted this in the correct college sports thread.
Still 8 minutes to go, but evidently they are not stopping the clock, and the Tar Heels are taking a knee every down.

I would like to note that Iowa's 4 losses came to teams that have a combined record of 39-3.
This win makes me very happy.

Interesting way to go about the end of a blowout. Fedora appeared to go all out for 3 quarters. Then he and the ODU coach agreed to a 10-minute fourth quarter, and they're doing what you mentioned. ...Hard to know when and how to call of the dogs, exactly, and I guess this is an alright way of going about it. *shurg*

Going to be a long day for Indiana.

Furman wins the southern conference if Samford doesnt lose to Elon right now, but Samford isn't playing along.

Wow, Arizona over Oregon 21-3 early in the 2nd quarter.