…and Liberty - Norfolk State, although this game will be played on 12/1 if Norfolk State is not in the FCS tournament that weekend.
UNC was glad to avoid a likely beating from UCF. NCSU-WV probably would have been a good game.
East Carolina at Virginia Tech also cancelled
Bama-Ole Miss is my game of the week. Well…ok, I’m expecting a blow out, so it probably won’t be a close/competitive game…but with Ole Miss having no defense, I want to see if Bama can actually run for a quarter mile or more against them.
There’s LSU at Auburn. Personally, I think Auburn wins at home, as home teams tend to dominate that series IIRC, and Auburn’s defensive line is probably stronger than LSU’s O-line, but one never knows…
Personally, I think ESPN has a bias toward the SEC and against the Big Ten. I credit this to the fact that the Big Ten Network is aligned with Fox and not ESPN/ABC.
Michigan State can’t catch a break this year. Dropped several points in the polls after week 1, in which they overcame a late score in a game in which every single break and bounce went the other way, and every single close call went the other way. Even a replay official overturned a correct call to favor USU. Then on week 2 they did not trail until the game was over, playing 2000 miles from home in god awful heat (115 on the field to start the game) and dropped to number 25. On top of that their very fine punter was injured and now a backup quarterback is taking over (punting, that is). Thank goodness for a bye week this week and then 3 very winnable games against Indiana, Central Michigan, and Northwestern. Perhaps the answer is to emulate certain other schools and play nothing but cupcakes in out of conference games.
Which schools are those?
There’s enough to go around. A TON of teams play ONE decent out of conference games plus 2-3 cupcakes. Some examples:
Georgia: Austin Peay, Middle Tennessee, UMass, Georgia Tech. OK, GTU is their big rivalry game but still, Austin Peay?
Oregon: Bowling Green Portland State, San Jose State.
Mississippi State: Stephen Austin, Kansas State, Louisiana, Louisiana Tech.
Oklahoma State: Missouri State, South Alabama, Boise State. Yeah, BSU was tough once.
Illinois: Kent State, Western Illinois, South Florida
Minnesota: New Mexico State, Fresno State, Miami (Oh)
Virginia Tech: William and Mary, East Carolina, Old Dominion
It isn’t limited to one conference.
Yes of course. But what you said before was “nothing but cupcakes” which is why I asked.
Gotta give a shout out to my local D1 teams, UC and UK. Cincinnati beat UCLA in California in week one and are now 2-0. UC looks to continue to improve as coach Luke Fickell gets more and more of “his” recruits.
Kentucky beat Florida and is also 2-0. This UK team looks pretty good. It’s too bad they are a basketball school in a football conference.
Yes I see your point and I shall walk it back just a bit. In my examples, there are a few teams (I’m looking at you, Oregon) that do indeed play pure cupcake NC schedules and a few play one halfway decent team plus two cupcakes. Rare is the team that plays two NC opponents that actually has a chance to beat them.
What I’d like to see is that teams play 10 conference teams, 1 true cupcake at the beginning of the season to serve as a tuneup, then one decent team. This would make playoff selection a bit more difficult as there would be fewer undefeated teams but it would save us from those teams waltzing through the schedule having only a couple challenging games.
The Big-10 teams are not helped by the fact they have 9 conference games; if they want a good opponent, they don’t have a lot of space for “cupcakes”. But, yeah, the tendency in the SEC to schedule three teams who have no business calling themselves Div I teams and then one rival opponent of quality doesn’t seem to hurt them in ranking. Of course, at the end of the season, if you’re beating the teams from other conferences in accordance with the ranking you have, then it really doesn’t matter, does it?
As for Boise St., aren’t they 17th in the nation? I think that’s worth being considered as more than a cupcake. 
a game ended 91-61. in FB not BB.
and the team with 61 also scored 61 last week in a win
Also I see that a Division III school I’ve never heard of, Guilford, was able to put up 61 points on FCS Davidson, thus limiting its margin of defeat to only 30.
edit: Bijou Drains has a promising future as a ninja.
The stats for that game are just sick.
I’d love to see a recording of that game just for the novelty.
1,662 combined yards…in ONE GAME?
LOL.
Davidson and Guilford both have around 2k students. Davidson is pretty highly ranked for academics and hard to get into. Their recent fame is Steph Curry of the Warriors played BB there.
FSU looks horrible and I think this year will be the year that the bowl streak is busted. I just don’t see enough wins on the schedule for them to get into the most minor of the ESPN bowls.
FSU is 113th out of 118 in FBS APR if you leave out the Pac-12 schools which are banned by the conference from going to a bowl if they’re 5-7, so 5-7 won’t be good enough for FSU to get in.
Go 'Huskers!!! :o