2024 Watch Party: WEEK FOUR

[Jiggafini19Deux]

Friday, September 20, 2024

MATCHUP	TIME	TV
Stanford	@ Syracuse	6:30 PM	Line: SYR -8.5 O/U: 57.5
24Illinois	@ 22Nebraska	7:00 PM	Line: NEB -7.5 O/U: 42.5
San José State	@ Washington State	9:00 PM	Line: WSU -12 O/U: 55.5

Not an entirely bad slate here for a Friday night. Nebraska is only laying 7.5 at home to Illinois.

 

[Jiggafini19Deux]

Saturday, September 21, 2024

MATCHUP	TIME	TV
Marshall	@ 3Ohio State	11:00 AM	Line: OSU -40 O/U: 51.5
NC State	@ 21Clemson	11:00 AM	Line: CLEM -20.5 O/U: 46.5
Florida	@ Mississippi State	11:00 AM	Line: FLA -6 O/U: 58.5
James Madison	@ North Carolina	11:00 AM	Line: UNC -10.5 O/U: 47.5
Houston	@ Cincinnati	11:00 AM	Line: CIN -3.5 O/U: 47.5
Kansas	@ West Virginia	11:00 AM	Line: WVU -2.5 O/U: 56.5
Ball State	@ Central Michigan	12:00 PM	Line: CMU

All eyes on Mullen Bowl. If Florida losing at Mississippi State is what ultimately costs Dan Mullen successor Billy Napier his job, that'll be an interesting coincidence.

KU at WVU should be fun. Both are 1-2 and need the win. Neal Brown probably moreso.

 

[Jiggafini19Deux]

11 USC	@ 18 Michigan	2:30 PM	Line: USC -5.5 O/U: 46.5
UCLA	@ 16LSU	2:30 PM	Line: LSU -24 O/U: 56.5
Miami (OH)	@ 17 Notre Dame	2:30 PM	Line: ND -28 O/U: 43.5
Georgia Tech	@ 19 Louisville	2:30 PM	Line: LOU -10 O/U: 57.5
Buffalo	@ 23 Northern Illinois	2:30 PM	Line: NIU -14 O/U: 43.5
Arkansas	@ Auburn	2:30 PM	Line: AUB -3.5 O/U: 58.5
Arizona State	@ Texas Tech	2:30 PM	Line: TTU -3 O/U: 60.5
Memphis	@ Navy	2:30 PM	Line: MEM -9.5 O/U: 50.5

Rose Bowl Throwback in September between two conference rivals. Can't wait. Actually, I can. Both programs suck.

Mostly a bunch of pillow fights here, but GT at UL is some good advanced scouting for ND fans. Definitely worth a watch there.

 

[Jiggafini19Deux]

12 Utah

@ 14 Oklahoma State

3:00 PM

FOX

Boone Pickens Stadium, Stillwater, OK

Line: UTAH -2

Game of the Week, undoubtedly. I'd rather not bestow that honor to the Stain Bowl being played above.

 

[Jiggafini19Deux]

8 Miami	@ South Florida	6:00 PM	Line: MIA -16.5 O/U: 65.5
Northwestern	@ Washington	6:00 PM	Line: WASH -10.5 O/U: 42.5
California	@ Florida State	6:00 PM	Line: FSU -2.5 O/U: 44.5
6 Tennessee	@ 15 Oklahoma	6:30 PM	Line: TENN -7 O/U: 57.5
Bowling Green	@ 25 Texas A&M	6:30 PM	Line: TA&M -23 O/U: 52.5
Iowa	@ Minnesota	6:30 PM	Line: IOWA -2.5 O/U: 35.5

More Weird conference stuff.

FSU has to find the win column soon.

Josh Heupel returns to OU.

Elko takes on his former employer BGSU.

 

[Jiggafini19Deux]

UL Monroe	@ 1 Texas	7:00 PM	Line: TEX -44.5 O/U: 52.5
Michigan State	@ Boston College	7:00 PM	Line: BC -6.5 O/U: 45.5
Baylor	@ Colorado	7:00 PM	Line: COLO -1.5 O/U: 54.5
Purdue	@ Oregon State	7:30 PM	Line: ORST -4.5 O/U: 50.5
13 Kansas State	@ BYU	9:30 PM	Line: KSU -6.5 O/U: 48.5

Texas gets some work in.

More pillow fights between teams we should probably hope all lose, but a winner there must be.

KSU on upset alert?

 

[GrangerIrish24]

8 Miami	@ South Florida	6:00 PM	Line: MIA -16.5 O/U: 65.5
Northwestern	@ Washington	6:00 PM	Line: WASH -10.5 O/U: 42.5
California	@ Florida State	6:00 PM	Line: FSU -2.5 O/U: 44.5
6 Tennessee	@ 15 Oklahoma	6:30 PM	Line: TENN -7 O/U: 57.5
Bowling Green	@ 25 Texas A&M	6:30 PM	Line: TA&M -23 O/U: 52.5
Iowa	@ Minnesota	6:30 PM	Line: IOWA -2.5 O/U: 35.5

More Weird conference stuff.

FSU has to find the win column soon.

Josh Heupel returns to OU.

Elko takes on his former employer BGSU.

The UT-OU game is going to be interesting. I want to see how for real Tennessee is.

 

[Huntr]

I want to see if UF pukes on their own shoes 1st or if Miss St does.

 

[Jiggafini19Deux]

The UT-OU game is going to be interesting. I want to see how for real Tennessee is.

We'll get a glimpse, for sure.

I am a bit more interested to see if Ole Miss is for real, but we don't get to find that out probably until next month.

 

[Irish#1]

Stepping on Irishlions toes. Ouch!

 

[Irish2155]

Stepping on Irishlions toes. Ouch!

The Central Standard Times threw me off for a second

 

[GrangerIrish24]

Stepping on Irishlions toes. Ouch!

I want to see dueling threads.

 

[Jiggafini19Deux]

I want to see dueling threads.

Or they can eat their feelings and watch Gilmore Girls. I'm guessing it'll all be fine.

 

[Jiggafini19Deux]

@IrishLion Was there a week three thread or am I missing it? Apologies if I stole some thunder. I did a bunch of these last season. Hope it isn't an issue.

 

[GrangerIrish24]

Or they can eat their feelings and watch Gilmore Girls. I'm guessing it'll all be fine.

i feel judged

 

[Irish#1]

Or they can eat their feelings and watch Gilmore Girls. I'm guessing it'll all be fine.

Sorry to hurt your feelings. It's just been an unwritten rule around here for ages that you don't hijack someone's thread.

 

[Jiggafini19Deux]

i feel judged

Fuck Michigan.

And your feelings.

 

[IrishLion]

Do you all know how much time and effort this man just saved me?

I hereby declare that if my thread isn't posted by Tuesday at 11:59 PM each week, any of you are free to create the watch party thread.

I'll post my own game commentary where I see fit should such an occurrence arise.

 

[IrishLion]

Plus @Jiggafini19Deux was on it last year. He'd get them posted earlier than I could once MACtion starts.

 

[Irish2155]

SCum @ scUM looks like a Dr. Pimple Popper episode. 🤮

 

[stpeteirish]

Best week so far. Lots of good games but too many in the 3:30 time slot where, unfortunately, I am totally unable to not watch ND

 

[Some Irish Bloke]

As a Michigan resident, I cannot express enough how unbearable that fan base is. I have zero remorse in saying, go Trojans, beat skunkbears. If you lived here, you would get it.

Plus, SoS an all of that but mostly just fuck Michigan.

 

[IrishLion]

Really interested in Cal/FSU.

Cal is 3-0 (!) with almost no recognizable names on their stat sheet... but they beat Hugh Freeze and Auburn, and then avoided a letdown by handling SDSU, which was no easy task, regardless of SDSU being 1-2 overall.

If Cal beats FSU, it's gonna be a wild week on FSU Twitter, and also Cal will start getting some love, even though FSU is bad.

 

[Jiggafini19Deux]

I'm guessing it'll all be fine.

 

[Jiggafini19Deux]

Best week so far. Lots of good games but too many in the 3:30 time slot where, unfortunately, I am totally unable to not watch ND

Still September. Just getting started.

 

[IrishSpartan]

Michigan vs USC is going to show us a lot about what type of growth we will need to beat SC. If USC shuts down UM offensively then we know that by the time we play them we have to establish a competent pass game. If they can’t then we can worry less about RL’s growth. Interestingly we can also see the true ability of SC’s offense, UM’s defense is good and will be able to push USC to pull out everything in the book.

 

[Jiggafini19Deux]

Line: MIA -16.5
O/U: 65.5

This feels low against USF, even if it is on the road for The U.

 

[dublinirish]

The Central Standard Times threw me off for a second

poor man's timezone

 

[IRISHDODGER]

We'll get a glimpse, for sure.

I am a bit more interested to see if Ole Miss is for real, but we don't get to find that out probably until next month.

According to Charlie Weis, Sr, they are for real…LOL

 

[lcaps20]

As a Michigan resident, I cannot express enough how unbearable that fan base is. I have zero remorse in saying, go Trojans, beat skunkbears. If you lied here, you would get it.

Plus, SoS an all of that but mostly just fuck Michigan.

I can't emphasize this enough. It's been a brutal few years living here in the Mitten state.