College Football 2016 Week 11 running thread

Here are the most interesting games and lines for Week 11. All point spreads from Vegas Insider and all times Eastern:

Tuesday

Western Michigan (-20) at Kent State, 7:30 p.m., ESPN2

Wednesday

Northern Illinois (+6.5) vs. Toledo (at U.S. Cellular Field, Chicago), 8 p.m., ESPN2

Thursday

North Carolina (-11.5) at Duke, 7:30 p.m., ESPN

Utah (-5.5) at Arizona State, 9:30 p.m., Fox Sports 1

Friday

Boston College (+21) at Florida State, 7:30 p.m., ESPN2

Saturday

Baylor (+14.5) at Oklahoma, noon, ABC

Mississippi State (+29) at Alabama, noon, ESPN

Kentucky (+12.5) at Tennessee, noon, SEC Network

Pittsburgh (+20.5) at Clemson, 3:30 p.m., ABC

Auburn (-10) at Georgia, 3:30 p.m., CBS

Army (+14) vs. Notre Dame (at San Antonio), 3:30 p.m., NBC

Texas Tech (+12) at Oklahoma State, 3:30 p.m., Fox Sports 1

Stanford (-3) at Oregon, 4 p.m., Pac-12 Network

LSU (-6.5) at Arkansas, 7 p.m., ESPN

South Florida (-3.5) at Memphis, 7 p.m., ESPNU

Ole Miss (+20) at Texas A&M, 7:30 p.m., SEC Network

USC (+8) at Washington, 7:30 p.m., Fox

Michigan (-20) at Iowa, 8 p.m., ABC

California (+14.5) at Washington State, 10:30 p.m., ESPN

Colorado (-15) at Arizona, 11 p.m., Fox Sports 1

 

Man, if you'd been shipwrecked on a desert island since 2013 and were brought home to see those Pac-12 betting lines, it'd be very disorienting.

 

USC beats Washington.

 

By more than they beat Alabama?

 

When I attended Iowa, we used to joke that ABC only televised Iowa games when the Hawkeyes were double-digit underdogs. (Ugh, the Desmond Howard game ...)

If Penn State put up 41 points on Iowa, Harbaugh and the Wolverines can probably top 60. Another blowout televised by ABC.

At least Burnt Hamburger won't be there.

 

If you were wondering why a capable Ole Miss team is a 20-point underdog at Texas A&M, this is why. Quarterback Chad Kelly has a torn ACL and is done for the season.
Rebels still need two wins to become bowl eligible, and might be lucky to get there.

http://www.clarionledger.com/story/...1/06/ole-miss-chad-kelly-out-season/93404340/

 

By even moar!

But this isn't the same USC team and has a quarterback who knows how to play the position.

Even if USC doesn't win, it will be a good and tight game.

 

They're being generous to Pitt here. I'll be at this one so I'm sure they'll do their finest to stay within 35 at best.

 

Unfortunately "vacate due to lack of merit" isn't listed as an option.

What happens if Florida, Kentucky, Georgia, South Carolina, Tennessee and Vanderbilt finish in a 6-way tie for the SEC East title?

 

Quickly bring Louisville into the SEC East and claim that they were there the whole time, you just weren't paying attention, forget all that LOOK AT THIS AWESOME SEC TITLE GAME!

 

Read something last week that the SEC East computer ranking is just a hair above that of the Mountain West. I'd be ok with swapping out San Diego State or Wyoming for the last championship game (seems odd typing that) in the Georgia Dome.

 

A tie is like kissing your sisters and cousins.