**** OFFICIAL College Football Week 14 Game Thread ****
 

All times EST.

Thursday
7:30 Louisville at Rutgers - ESPN

Friday
7:00 #21 Northern Illinois vs. #17 Kent State - ESPN2
8:00 #16 UCLA at #8 Stanford - FOX

Saturday
12:00 #11 Oklahoma at TCU - ESPN
12:00 #23 Oklahoma State at Baylor - FX
12:00 UCF at Tulsa - ESPN2
2:30 Nicholls State at #15 Oregon State - PAC12N
2:30 Kansas at West Virginia
3:00 Middle Tennessee at Arkansas State
3:00 Louisiana-Lafayette at Florida Atlantic
3:30 #20 Boise State at Nevada - ABC
3:30 Cincinnati at Connecticut - ABC
4:00 #2 Alabama vs. #3 Georgia - CBS
4:00 New Mexico State at Texas State
7:00 Pittsburgh at South Florida - ESPN2
8:00 #18 Texas at #6 Kansas State - ABC
8:00 #13 Florida State vs. Georgia Tech - ESPN
8:17 #12 Nebraska vs. Wisconsin - FOX
11:00 South Alabama at Hawaii

Enjoy the games!

Bold NIU vs Kent State.

DO IT NOW

I normally don't acquiesce, but in this instance I agree. It has BCS implications.

Hope N. Illinois wins!

Wait...there's another week?

3:00 Middle Tennessee at Arkansas State

This will be for the Sunbelt Championship, but no TV except the Internet on ESPN 3.

Go KSU (Flash)

FYP

You'd think they will. That Kentucky game really makes me wonder about Kent State and I think common opponents generally speak well for NIU (army being the obvious exception...):

Akron: Kent St 35-24; NIU 37-7
Army: Kent St 31-17; NIU 41-40
Ball State: Kent St 45-43; NIU 35-23
Buffalo: Kent St 23-7; NIU 45-3
Eastern Michigan: Kent St 41-14; NIU 49-7
Western Michigan: Kent St 41-24; NIU 48-34

And, again, losing 18-17 to Iowa seems less egregious to me than losing 47-14 to Kentucky. I get that they've only lost one game, but losing by that much to a team that bad makes me wonder how exactly they're ranked in the top 20. I guess the win over Rutgers balances it out. But damn...

I just want to see Kent crash the party. People seem to love cinderella in basketball but hate her in football. I don't get it.

This is different. Kent State got crushed by Kentucky. They're not Cinderella, they're her ugly step sisters trying to force the glass slipper to fit.

The other difference is people care more about football. People want the best team(s) to play for the Championship. For basketball it's a tournament and people don't really care as much. Could you imagine the outrage if a team that was 0.500 in conference play was in the BCS National Championship game?

I think it has a lot to do with the format and the history behind each postseason. The media embraces Cinderella in CBB, I think because it's a long tournament and everyone knows upsets are going to happen... plus everyone roots for them after filling out office pools... everyone who fills out a bracket is expected to know that you pick at least one 12 seed, you don't pick all 1 seeds in the FF, etc.

CFB simply isn't used to that kind of parity... hell, they just now accepted a plus 1. A CBB team can have a couple of bad losses on their resume and still get a 1 seed... and something like that is supposed to completely eliminate a CFB team. Also, relatively unknown CBB teams have been known to compete with top 25 teams for years... but, Kent State football?

I generally don't like Cinderella teams.... at least in CBB, there are generally at least a handful of teams worthy of NC talk, so if one goes down, it's not a huge deal. In CFB, mentioning 3 teams is stretching it some years, so I think people simply prefer seeing those few teams play each other.

*bangs on the hood of sauls car* Go big red Go big red!

**** zeroU. GO FROGS!

I was actually poking fun at you for nearly being a bigger fan of the SEC then your own team.

That would make sense if Kent was gunning for a slot in the NCG. They aren't, though. They would be bumping some team like Oklahoma who also has no claim at the title.