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College Football 2020 Season Week 12 TV Watch Em Ups: this is really still way too much football

Would you believe that I am not good at conveying accurate information? I know, it came as a shock to me, too! But it turns out this is week 12 of the college football season. Somebody else can leaf back through these posts but I’m not sure from this distance that I even made it as far as week 1 with the number listed correctly. But I’ve gotta trust what’s in front of me.

It doesn’t matter anyway. The long game for me has always been waiting for the season to be called off entirely and it’s becoming more and more clear that some version of this grotesquerie is going to make its way to the very bloody end of the playoffs. So even in my safest gambling prognostications I am utterly useless and wrong. (Maybe two consecutive days without my pills was a bad idea...) Here’s where things stand at postin’ time:

Saturday, November 21

Matchup Time (ET) TV/Mobile

Georgia Southern at Army 12:00pm CBSSN

What a miserable way to open a post. Let’s skip this one.

Illinois at Nebraska 12:00pm FS1

Still loling at Penn State. A great capper to Nebraska hanging on to beat Penn State last week would be to turn around and earn Lovie Smith another chance to win four more games in 2021.

LSU at Arkansas 12:00pm SECN

This appears to be a mistake as LSU suspended their football program for the 2020 season.

6 Florida at Vanderbilt 12:00pm ESPN

Florida hasn’t had a complete fuck up yet in 2020. Something seems really off about that.

9 Indiana at 3 Ohio State 12:00pm FOX

Indiana has been the feel good story of 2020 college football so far. Maybe the only feel good story. They’re going to lose this game but show enough pluck and fight and courage to stick pretty close to the top 10 before taking a soul shattering dive at home against Maryland next week. Or they’ll just lose to tOSU by 60.

4 Clemson at Florida State 12:00pm ABC

Bobby Bowden built Florida State into a powerhouse by taking road matchups against anybody dumb enough to take that win for granted. There is a whole “sod graveyard” at FSU commemorating the biggest of those wins. So there’s a decent chance the +35.5 line for this game (or +36.5 depending on where you bet) is the most anybody has ever been favored as a road team in Tallahassee. I’ve mentioned before in these posts that FSU is maybe at the lowest point of any of Florida’s big three programs in my lifetime. There is actually no maybe. This program is a total shambles right now.

East Carolina at Temple 12:00pm ESPN+

Eh, sure. Fine.

Arkansas State at Texas State 12:00pm ESPNU

Not sure if any of you caught the whole Farhad Manjoo controversy on twitter yesterday but basically he wrote an article for the New York Times about how many people he’s been exposed to in terms of COVID risk lately and how dangerous it could be for him to now fly home to his parents house for Thanksgiving. After going through all of the math and demonstrating pretty well what a horrible idea it would be for him to celebrate Thanksgiving with his parents he concludes by saying that he’s going to go ahead and celebrate Thanksgiving with his parents anyway. This game here, Arkansas State at Texas State, is about the same level of completely worthless risk of death and it’s still going to be played. I might start referencing that dumb Farhad Manjoo article/idea more regularly in watch em up posts.

Appalachian State at 15 Coastal Carolina 12:00pm ESPN2

Coastal Carolina is going to win a national championship against BYU because every other program is too close to an 100% infection rate to keep playing. BYU doesn’t believe in shit like COVID and Coastal Carolina used up all of their budget fielding a team in the first place.

Stephen F. Austin at Memphis 12:00pm ESPN+

There it is, the 100th game to kick off at noon this Saturday! Congratulations, everybody!

Rice at North Texas 2:00pm ESPN3

Rice has had a football program for a really long time for some reason.

FIU at WKU 2:00pm ESPN3

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North Alabama at 8 BYU 3:00pm BYUtv/ESPN3

One of sports great rivalry games.

UTSA at Southern Miss 3:00pm ESPN+

Mmm, another classic.

Western Carolina at Eastern Kentucky 3:00pm ESPN3

Thank god this one isn’t cancelled.

UCLA at 11 Oregon 3:30pm ESPN2

Chip Kelly is still at UCLA, right? It would be kind of funny if he beat Oregon but also might go more or less unnoticed. Oregon has to be the least hyped team in the country to feature maybe four 2021 first round picks and a clear path to a conference title. The Pac-12 came so close to actually doing the right thing and not playing this year.

Iowa at Penn State 3:30pm BTN

When I said that Indiana is the feel good story of the season so far I forgot that Penn State hasn’t won yet. Rockeye Chalkeye Hawkeyes or whatever Iowa’s chant is. Let’s keep it fucking going.

California at Oregon State 3:30pm FS1

Not a single feeling.

10 Wisconsin at 19 Northwestern 3:30pm ABC

For my money this is close to as unappealing as a top 20 matchup is liable to ever be. That’s only partially explained by the sham quality of this season overall.

San Diego State at Nevada 3:30pm CBS

This is good stuff normally but I might just skip this entire day of watching.

Middle Tennessee at Troy 3:30pm ESPN3

{URGE TO DO LITERALLY ANYTHING ELSE INTENSIFYING}

Georgia State at South Alabama 3:30pm ESPNU

I am boiling over with apathy at the thought of this one.

7 Cincinnati at UCF 3:30pm ESPN

The people’s champs are not particularly great this year but maybe they can do us all a solid and derail the train that is Ohio State, Jr. The line isn’t crazily tilted towards the Bearcats (-5) so maybe it’s a real possibility?

Virginia Tech at Pitt 4:00pm ACCN

Don’t let anybody convince you that the players aren’t wearing masks on the field during game action here. You’ve just gotta believe.

Kansas State at 17 Iowa State 4:00pm FOX

I should be interested in this one and yet...

Kentucky at 1 Alabama 4:00pm SECN

For the record I agree that Mac Jones is really good and I also put him at about the 15th best player on the Tide this year. So, no, he wouldn’t be in the lead for RTARLsman 2020 if that were happening.

Abilene Christian at Virginia 4:00pm RSN/ESPN3

UVA is completely inscrutable this year. Even more than usual. But they have been an absolute pleasure to watch in short bursts because their uniform game has been exceptionally sharp.

Tennessee at 23 Auburn 7:00pm ESPN

Missouri at South Carolina 7:30pm SECN Alt.

The SEC is putting their messiest foot forward in primetime this week.

Michigan at Rutgers 7:30pm BTN

Great conference matchup between two programs that peaked in the 19th century and will never be national champions again.

21 Liberty at NC State 7:30pm RSN/ESPN3

This Liberty being ranked thing is hilarious but I’ll be pretty happy if NC State wrecks them.

14 Oklahoma State at 18 Oklahoma 7:30pm ABC

Bedlam, baby! In primetime! Why!

Mississippi State at 13 Georgia 7:30pm SECN

I don’t root for the UGAs often but I’ll be deeply in their corner this week. I want Mike Leach out of a job by the end of next season.

Arizona at Washington 8:00pm FOX

Pretty sweet uniform matchup, if nothing else. It is nothing else.

20 USC at Utah 10:30pm ESPN

I should really want to watch this game but I really don’t.

Boise State at Hawaii 11:00pm CBSSN

Maybe Boise will be tired from travel but they have no business winning by less than 20. Hawaii is not running that GoGo shit and they deserve to burn for it.

GAMES OF THE WEEK

Charlotte at 15 Marshall Postponed

Wake Forest at Duke Postponed

ULM vs. Louisiana Tech (in Shreveport, LA) Canceled

Ole Miss at 5 Texas A&M Postponed

Central Arkansas at 24 Louisiana Canceled

Michigan State at Maryland Canceled

San Jose State at Fresno State Canceled

UNLV at Colorado State Canceled

Arizona State at Colorado Canceled

Washington State at Stanford Canceled

Navy at USF Canceled

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