The Troy Aikman Memorial Week 8 NCAA Football Running Thread

The officials were too busy calling phantom penalties on Arkansas to notice.

 

According to this, there's still a chance he could play on Saturday:

http://sports.espn.go.com/ncf/news/story?id=4579960

 

Crap game tonight. North Carolina can't score and FSU can't stop anyone.

 

Isn't that tomorrow, hondo? UTEP and Tulsa tonight. I'll take the over, please.

 

Isn't there a shitload of rain stormin' down that part of the country right now?

 

Let's see how many I get right this weekend.

Wednesday, October 21

8:00 PM ET Tulsa at UTEP --UTEP

Thursday, October 22

8:00 PM ET Florida State at North Carolina --FSU

Friday, October 23

8:00 PM ET Rutgers at Army --Rutgers

Saturday, October 24

12:00 PM ET No. 12 Georgia Tech at Virginia--GT
12:00 PM ET Minnesota at No. 19 Ohio State --OSU

12:00 PM ET South Florida at No. 20 Pittsburgh --PITT
12:00 PM ET Connecticut at No. 23 West Virginia --WVA
12:00 PM ET Indiana at Northwestern --NW
12:00 PM ET Central Michigan at Bowling Green --BG
12:00 PM ET UAB at Marshall --Marshall
12:00 PM ET Illinois at Purdue --Purdue
12:21 PM ET Arkansas at Mississippi --Arkansas
12:30 PM ET No. 15 Oklahoma State at Baylor --Okla. St.
12:30 PM ET Iowa State at Nebraska --Nebr
12:30 PM ET Colorado at Kansas State --CU
1:00 PM ET Northern Illinois at Miami (OH) --Miami
1:00 PM ET Ball State at Eastern Michigan --Eastern
1:30 PM ET Maryland at Duke --Duke
2:00 PM ET Kent State at Ohio --Ohio
2:00 PM ET Buffalo at Western Michigan --Western
3:00 PM ET Louisiana Tech at Utah State --La. Tech
3:30 PM ET Tennessee at No. 2 Alabama CBS --Bama
3:30 PM ET Louisville at No. 5 Cincinnati --Cinci
3:30 PM ET Clemson at No. 10 Miami (FL) --Miami
3:30 PM ET No. 11 Oregon at Washington --Oregon
3:30 PM ET No. 13 Penn State at Michigan --PSU
3:30 PM ET Oklahoma at No. 25 Kansas --KU
3:30 PM ET Boston College at Notre Dame --ND
3:30 PM ET Akron at Syracuse --Cuse
3:30 PM ET UCF at Rice --Rice
3:30 PM ET Western Kentucky at Middle Tennessee State --MTSU
3:30 PM ET Wake Forest at Navy --Wake
3:30 PM ET North Texas at Troy --Troy
4:00 PM ET Air Force at No. 18 Utah --Utah
4:00 PM ET San Diego State at Colorado State --Colo. St.
4:05 PM ET Idaho at Nevada --Idaho
4:30 PM ET Washington State at California--Cal
5:00 PM ET Florida Atlantic at Louisiana-Lafayette--LA
6:30 PM ET UCLA at No. 22 Arizona --Zona
7:00 PM ET No. 6 Iowa at Michigan State --Iowa
7:00 PM ET Vanderbilt at No. 24 South Carolina --USC
7:00 PM ET Louisiana-Monroe at Kentucky --KY
7:00 PM ET Florida International at Arkansas State--Arkie
7:00 PM ET Tulane at Southern Miss --So. Miss
7:00 PM ET Texas A&M at Texas Tech --Tech
7:00 PM ET Temple at Toledo --Toledo
7:30 PM ET No. 1 Florida at Mississippi State --FLA
7:30 PM ET No. 8 TCU at No. 16 Brigham Young --Byu
7:30 PM ET Auburn at No. 9 LSU --LSU
7:30 PM ET Southern Methodist at No. 17 Houston--Houston
8:00 PM ET No. 3 Texas at Missouri --Texas
8:00 PM ET Oregon State at No. 7 USC --USC
8:00 PM ET UNLV at New Mexico --UNLV
10:15 PM ET Arizona State at Stanford --Stanford
10:15 PM ET Fresno State at New Mexico State --Fresno St.
11:05 PM ET No. 4 Boise State at Hawaii--Boise St.

 

Before tonight, I'd never heard of anyone having the name "Shavodrick"
Turns out, there's a person with just that name in the UTEP/Tulsa game.
Shavodrick Beaver ... they zoomed in on him as I was getting out of the shower.
Unusual name.
Tulsa's trailing UTEP (BTW) 13-7 in the third quarter

 

Lot lower scoring of a game than I expected.

 

UTEP inside the 10, trailing 24-21 with 1:30 left.

 

Hmmm ... I wonder if he goes by "Shave" for short ...

 

Miners win.

 

So if Houston wins out, and UTep wins out in their division - how classic would it be to see Houston get a BCS berth without even qualifying for the the CUSA championship game. It would be funny, but I realize Missouri achieved that distinction a couple of years ago.