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Week 8 Open Thread

The one in which Norm gets the week right

Jonathan Daniel

Back to the grind, folks.  Back to the grind.

Our beloved Clones return to conference play this week, heading down to the land of steers & queer hipsters and Charlie Strong to take on the bullies of the Big 12.  However, this week is absolutely rife with quality football.

For starters, look tonight show cases what should be a pretty entertaining match up in the Pac 12 as #20 Utah travels to Corvallis, Oregon to take on the unranked-but-getting-votes Beavers of Oregon State.

The Big 12 is full of interesting match ups as well.  #4 Baylor heads into the Mountains to take in our Riot Bowl brothers in what is sure to be an absolutely raucous crowd in Morgantown.  KSU travels to Norman and OSU travels to Ft. Worth as we watch a couple of Top 15 matchups start to create some separation around the league.  Tech and KU battle for the cellar.

The rest of the country has some great matchups to offer as well.  There's that game in Tallahassee that you might have heard about on ESPN, and Aggy returns to the site that where Johnny Something or Other won the Heisman Trophy in an evening.  The only other match up featuring 2 Top 25 squads is the Stanford vs. ASU tilt Saturday night.

So grab a beer, kick back, and enjoy some bowl.  And of course,

GO STATE!

Thu, Oct 16, 2014 Time (ET) TV
Virginia Tech @ Pittsburgh 7:30 PM ESPN
(20) Utah @ Oregon State 10:00 PM FS2/PAC12
Fri, Oct 17, 2014 Time (ET) TV
Fresno State @ Boise State 8:00 PM ESPN
Temple @ Houston 9:00 PM ESPNU
Sat, Oct 18, 2014 Time (ET) TV
Iowa @ Maryland 12:00 PM ESPN2
Furman @ South Carolina 12:00 PM SECN
Syracuse @ Wake Forest 12:00 PM ESPN3/ESPNGP
(4) Baylor @ West Virginia 12:00 PM FS1
Purdue @ Minnesota 12:00 PM
(14) Kansas State @ (11) Oklahoma 12:00 PM ESPN
Western Kentucky @ Florida Atlantic 12:00 PM AMSN
Texas-San Antonio @ Louisiana Tech 12:00 PM FSN
Tulane @ UCF 12:00 PM ESPNU
South Florida @ Tulsa 12:00 PM ESNN
Virginia @ Duke 12:30 PM ESPN3/ESPNGP
Western Michigan @ Bowling Green 2:00 PM ESPN3/ESPNGP
Akron @ Ohio 2:00 PM ESPN3
Eastern Michigan @ Massachusetts 3:00 PM ESPN3
Appalachian State @ Troy 3:00 PM ESPN3
(24) Clemson @ Boston College 3:30 PM ESPNU
(8) Michigan State @ Indiana 3:30 PM ESPN
Army @ Kent State 3:30 PM ESPN3
North Carolina State @ Louisville 3:30 PM ESPN3/ESPNGP
Rutgers @ (13) Ohio State 3:30 PM ABC/ESPN2
(21) Texas A&M @ (7) Alabama 3:30 PM CBS
Kansas @ Texas Tech 3:30 PM FSN
UCLA @ California 3:30 PM ABC/ESPN2
UAB @ Middle Tennessee 3:30 PM FCS
New Mexico @ Air Force 3:30 PM ROOT
Ball State @ Central Michigan 3:30 PM ESPN3
Cincinnati @ Southern Methodist 3:30 PM CBSS
(10) Georgia @ Arkansas 4:00 PM SECN
(15) Oklahoma State @ (12) TCU 4:00 PM FS1
San Jose State @ Wyoming 4:00 PM ESPN3
Miami (OH) @ Northern Illinois 5:00 PM ESPN3
New Mexico State @ Idaho 5:00 PM ESPN3
Colorado @ (22) USC 6:00 PM PAC12
(25) Marshall @ FIU 6:00 PM
Missouri @ Florida 7:00 PM ESPN2
Georgia Tech @ North Carolina 7:00 PM ESPNU
Tennessee @ (3) Mississippi 7:00 PM ESPN
Southern Miss @ North Texas 7:00 PM AMSN
Utah State @ Colorado State 7:00 PM CBSS
Kentucky @ LSU 7:30 PM SECN
(19) Nebraska @ Northwestern 7:30 PM BTN
Georgia State @ South Alabama 7:30 PM ESPN3
(5) Notre Dame @ (2) Florida State 8:00 PM ABC
Iowa State @ Texas 8:00 PM LGHN
Washington @ (9) Oregon 8:00 PM FS1
Nevada @ Brigham Young 10:15 PM ESPN2
(23) Stanford @ (17) Arizona State 10:30 PM ESPN
Hawaii @ San Diego State 10:30 PM CBSS