We’re in the second quarter of the college football schedule, the part when most of the country has already adjusted its goals and we’re just waiting for true contenders to start thinning each other out. Things can feel a little slow in early October, but fun’s always right around the corner.
Your Week 6 college football schedule Watch Grid guide to finding the best games
The full weekend FBS schedule, sorted by watchability and including full viewing info.
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Below, the Watch Grid aims to sort the Week 6 schedule by likely game quality, attempting to find you one great game and at least one solid backup in each window.
On paper, this isn’t the greatest weekend ever, but it’s another weekend with several chances for weird upsets, plus all the usual stuff. (Weeknight games removed, for your Saturday convenience.)
Saturday, Oct. 7 college football schedule
Early shift
Hey, it’s better than last week’s early group! Penn State faces another grunty Big Ten West team away from home, aka the only scenario in which PSU’s been challenged at all so far. Georgia’s away from home, Clemson faces a team that’s nearly 5-0, and — I don’t want to alarm you — the winner of Duke-Virginia will have only one loss.
Middle shift
WVU-TCU should be a pretty good pew pew pew game, but Miami-FSU has so much more emotion at stake. LSU-Florida is a sad hatefest, Minnesota-Purdue is the Big Ten hipster game of the year, and Air Force and Navy hate each other for real.
Late shift
MSU vs. Michigan or WSU vs. Oregon? Tough call, but go with the rivalry, if forced to pick just one. In Stanford-Utah, the far more explosive participant in the Pac-12’s Grit Bowl has to face a tough road spot. And our new weekly tradition of watching SDSU’s 17-16 high-wire act compete with #Pac12AfterDark shuts the whole thing down.
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