Your Watch Grid guide to a loaded Week 11 of college football

Week 11 might be the most important week of 2017’s regular season, maybe even topping HATE WEEK in overall stakes, if not raw emotion. As always, it takes a while to get rolling, but Saturday is so loaded, “three top-10 games” really undersells it.

Below, the Watch Grid attempts to sort your weekend based on each time slot’s watchability. (Weeknight games removed, for your Saturday convenience.)

Ball State-NIU (7 p.m ET, CBSSN/CBSSports.com), Georgia Southern-Appalachian State (7:30, ESPNU/WatchESPN), and North Carolina-Pitt (7:30, ESPN/WatchESPN) are grim options. Watch the NBA or The Office season 2.

No. 9 Washington at Stanford (10:30 p.m. ET, FS1/Fox Sports Go) is a WATCHer. Temple-Cincinnati (7, ESPN2/WatchESPN) and BYU-UNLV (10:30, ESPN2/WatchESPN) are not.

Early shift

The almost certain Big Ten East title game, backed by a group that would’ve been a good-enough heap of East Coast nooners anyway. That Big 12 game could end up being for a spot in the conference title game.

Middle shift

Either UGA clamps even harder on the No. 1 ranking and sustains a scenario in which it loses the SEC title game and still makes the Playoff, or Auburn’s bid to become the first-ever two-loss Playoff team is officially a thing. Elsewhere, Wisconsin faces its toughest test yet (by far?).

Pre-late shift

Bama stomping on MSU will probably not be funny, but here’s what will be: that’ll suddenly become Bama’s best win on the entire year so far.

Actual late shift

One rule of The Watch Grid: only one WATCH THIS game at a time. That rule has to be broken this week, obviously. Either the Canes shut down their many skeptics, or the Irish move within two wins of a certain Playoff trip, and there’s a Big 12 eliminator at the same damn time. Even the worst game in this group has Khalil Tate in it. Let’s get after it.