I type this four or five times each season: every college football weekend is a good college football weekend. A look at Week 7’s Saturday morning will test this. But things get better! And the weeknights could be OK!
Your Week 7 college football Watch Grid is doing the very best it can
The full college football Week 7 Saturday TV schedule, sorted by watchability.
Below, the Watch Grid sorts your Saturday by watchability. As always, only one game may earn WATCH THIS status per time slot, and watchability is not based on how prestigious your university is or how much I respect your student-athletes, because I think your school is too good to be measured.
Weeknights removed, for your Saturday convenience.
Saturday, Oct. 13 college football schedule
I TRIED TO WARN YOU.
I actually considered telling you to maybe watch Tennessee-Auburn. That’s how dire things are here. In all honesty, the best game is likely either Toledo-EMU or Duke-Georgia Tech. Unlimited respect to all of you who’ll be clocking in along with us to watch this early slate. It’ll all pay off when ...
... the way too loaded second shift gets going.
Georgia’s surprisingly hard middle schedule kicks off with a trip to Baton Rouge, by far the weekend’s likeliest game to introduce a little Playoff anarchy. But for those who prefer scoreboards to have points on them, the fallback options are more promising ... and no, I’m not referring to the Washington game. Washington games don’t have those.
Anyway, the SEC, Pac-12, and AAC all have one of their most important games going on at once. Good thing one of those games wasn’t earlier in the day!
Not so bad!
Yes, I’m giving Mizzou a lot of credit by elevating a game involving Bama to Maybe Watch status, but there’s a decent chance the Tide actually have to do some scoring this week, for the first time all year. The Tigers played Georgia really tough, can score, and actually have one of the better defenses Bama’s faced yet, believe it or not. (This paragraph will self-destruct when Tua Tagovailoa clocks out for a coffee with 17 minutes left in the first half.)
Wisconsin-Michigan will be a gruntball delight that has some real importance, some ranked teams are in interesting road spots, Ole Miss-Arkansas is annually the stupidest thing you’ve ever beheld, and Colorado-USC is The Weekly Pac-12 South Championship Of The Week (But Maybe For Real This Time) and one of several decent options to shut down your Saturday.
See? Patience pays off. Those who stay through this Saturday’s noon ET group will be champions.
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