College Football Viewing Guide: Week Nine

There's a whole slate of solid conference matchups this Saturday - Georgia/Florida, USC/Cal, and Ole Miss/Auburn, to name a few - but there's only one showdown that features two ranked teams. One of those teams is...Temple.

#21 Temple will host #9 Notre Dame in a game that should gauge whether or not the Owls can actually play Cinderella this fall. Temple started out the season strongly with wins over Penn State and Cincinnati, but a weak AAC schedule has left them searching for a legitimizing win. In their last five weeks, they've beaten UMass, Charlotte, Tulane, Central Florida, and East Carolina. Getting past the Fighting Irish would mean a likely spot in the top 15 and a signature win for the BCS rankings.

Things aren't nearly as meaningful acrss the rest of the NCAA football landscape. #5 TCU already scorched West Virginia. #14 Oklahoma gets 0-infinity Kansas. Undefeated Iowa plays 2-5 Maryland, but they'll probably still lose anyway.

Best Game: #15 Michigan at Minnesota. Ignore the tremendous sadness of Jerry Kill's retirement. You know his players are going to rally around their now-departed coach, especially at home. They are going to take it to the Wolverines, and even if they lose this should be an emotionally-charged, physical, and exciting game.

Worst Game: Idaho at New Mexico State. The nation's #151 ranked team visits #196. This is like watching hepatitis A wrestle hepatitis B inside Pamela Anderson's liver.

Thu, Oct 29, 2015
7:00 PM ET ESPNWatchESPN	North Carolina	at	(23) Pittsburgh
7:30 PM ET FS1FoxSportsGo	West Virginia	at	(5) TCU
7:30 PM ET CBSS	Western Michigan	at	Eastern Michigan
7:30 PM ET ESPN3WatchESPN	Buffalo	at	Miami (OH)
7:30 PM ET ESPNUWatchESPN	Texas State	at	Georgia Southern
10:30 PM ET ESPNWatchESPN	Oregon	at	Arizona State
Fri, Oct 30, 2015
7:00 PM ET ESPN2WatchESPN	Louisville	at	Wake Forest
7:00 PM ET ESPNUWatchESPN	East Carolina	at	Connecticut
8:00 PM ET FS1FoxSportsGo	Louisiana Tech	at	Rice
10:15 PM ET ESPN2WatchESPN	Wyoming	at	Utah State
Sat, Oct 31, 2015
12:00 PM ET FSNFoxSportsGo	Western Kentucky	at	Old Dominion
12:00 PM ET ESPNNWatchESPN	UCF	at	Cincinnati
12:00 PM ET CBSS	South Florida	at	Navy
12:00 PM ET ESPN2WatchESPN	Illinois	at	Penn State
12:00 PM ET ESPNUWatchESPN	Nebraska	at	Purdue
12:00 PM ET BTNBTN2Go	Rutgers	at	Wisconsin
12:00 PM ET ESPNWatchESPN	(19) Mississippi	at	Auburn
12:00 PM ET SECNWatchESPN	South Carolina	at	Texas A&M
12:00 PM ET ABC	Syracuse	at	(17) Florida State
12:30 PM ET ESPN3WatchESPN	Virginia Tech	at	Boston College
1:00 PM ET ESPN3WatchESPN	Massachusetts	at	Ball State
2:00 PM ET ESPN3WatchESPN	Central Michigan	at	Akron
2:30 PM ET ESPN3WatchESPN	UTEP	at	Southern Miss
3:00 PM ET ESPN3WatchESPN	Georgia Tech	at	Virginia
3:00 PM ET FOXFoxSportsGo	USC	at	Cal
3:00 PM ET PAC12Pac-12 Live	Colorado	at	(24) UCLA
3:30 PM ET ABC/ESPN2WatchESPN	(3) Clemson	at	NC State
3:30 PM ET CBSSEC Live	(11) Florida	at	Georgia
3:30 PM ET FSNFoxSportsGo	Marshall	at	Charlotte
3:30 PM ET FS1FoxSportsGo	(14) Oklahoma	at	Kansas
3:30 PM ET ESPNWatchESPN	(12) Oklahoma State	at	Texas Tech
3:30 PM ET ABC/ESPN2WatchESPN	Maryland	at	(10) Iowa
3:30 PM ET ESPNUWatchESPN	Boise State	at	UNLV
3:30 PM ET CBSS	San Diego State	at	Colorado State
3:30 PM ET ESPN3WatchESPN	Troy	at	Appalachian State
4:00 PM ET ESPNNWatchESPN	Tulsa	at	SMU
4:00 PM ET SECNWatchESPN	Tennessee-Martin	at	Arkansas
5:00 PM ET ESPN3WatchESPN	Louisiana-Monroe	at	Louisiana-Lafayette
7:00 PM ET ESPN3WatchESPN	Georgia State	at	Arkansas State
7:00 PM ET CBSS	Tulane	at	(16) Memphis
7:00 PM ET PAC12Pac-12 Live	Oregon State	at	(13) Utah
7:00 PM ET ESPN2WatchESPN	Vanderbilt	at	(18) Houston
7:00 PM ET ESPNUWatchESPN	Miami (FL)	at	(22) Duke
7:00 PM ET ESPNWatchESPN	(15) Michigan	at	Minnesota
7:00 PM ET FS1FoxSportsGo	Texas	at	Iowa State
7:00 PM ET ASN	Texas-San Antonio	at	North Texas
7:30 PM ET SECNWatchESPN	Tennessee	at	Kentucky
8:00 PM ET ABC	(9) Notre Dame	at	(21) Temple
8:00 PM ET ESPN3WatchESPN	Idaho	at	New Mexico State
10:30 PM ET CBSS	Air Force	at	Hawaii
10:30 PM ET ESPNWatchESPN	(8) Stanford	at	Washington State
11:00 PM ET FS1FoxSportsGo	Arizona	at	Washington