Florida St at Louisville on Friday night is a huge game for each program. The losing coach is going to hear more about the old Hot Seat, while the winner will be thrilled with the Atlantic W.
Syracuse throttled Louisville earlier this year, and an Orange W over Purdue in Week 3 would signal strongly that Cuse is indeed for real this season.
Last week, Texas A&M lost to App St, and this week the Aggies face Miami. Jimbo's season would be ruined with back to back OOC losses. A Canes loss could tip Miami away from any upward movement. AS with the rest of us, beating any SEC team not named Vanderbilt is a very big deal for national respect.
Clemson hosts Louisiana Tech, which is under 1st year HC Sonny Crumbie. who has been OC at both TCU and TTU.
Speaking of TTU, the Red Raiders visit urine- stained Carter-Finley to take on everybody's darlings, the Fightin' Wufs. TTU also has a 1st year HC: Joey McGuire, who previously was Baylor's AHC. McGuire was one of those great TX HS coaches who'd been hired by northeasterner Matt Rhule when he took the Baylor HC job. Aranda kept McGuire on his staff. TTU enters the game 2-0. Their 2nd W was an upset of #25 Houston. This is the big test for Moo before getting to tough ACC games, starting at Clemson.
GT hosts the Ole Miss Rebels. Geoff Collins has had 3 consecutive 3 win seasons. His seat is getting very hot. An upset of a ranked SEC team would do wonders for him and GT.
Pitt heads to Western Michigan a week after losing in OT to a ranked SEC team. AS starting QB Slovis was knocked out, and back up Patti played with a limp, Pitt likely still feels good about its season matching last year's.
Wake hosts 2-0 Liberty. Hugh Freeze will have circled this game back in Spring, along with games against VT and at Arkansas.
Notre Dame will try to get on track this week against Cal.
Syracuse throttled Louisville earlier this year, and an Orange W over Purdue in Week 3 would signal strongly that Cuse is indeed for real this season.
Last week, Texas A&M lost to App St, and this week the Aggies face Miami. Jimbo's season would be ruined with back to back OOC losses. A Canes loss could tip Miami away from any upward movement. AS with the rest of us, beating any SEC team not named Vanderbilt is a very big deal for national respect.
Clemson hosts Louisiana Tech, which is under 1st year HC Sonny Crumbie. who has been OC at both TCU and TTU.
Speaking of TTU, the Red Raiders visit urine- stained Carter-Finley to take on everybody's darlings, the Fightin' Wufs. TTU also has a 1st year HC: Joey McGuire, who previously was Baylor's AHC. McGuire was one of those great TX HS coaches who'd been hired by northeasterner Matt Rhule when he took the Baylor HC job. Aranda kept McGuire on his staff. TTU enters the game 2-0. Their 2nd W was an upset of #25 Houston. This is the big test for Moo before getting to tough ACC games, starting at Clemson.
GT hosts the Ole Miss Rebels. Geoff Collins has had 3 consecutive 3 win seasons. His seat is getting very hot. An upset of a ranked SEC team would do wonders for him and GT.
Pitt heads to Western Michigan a week after losing in OT to a ranked SEC team. AS starting QB Slovis was knocked out, and back up Patti played with a limp, Pitt likely still feels good about its season matching last year's.
Wake hosts 2-0 Liberty. Hugh Freeze will have circled this game back in Spring, along with games against VT and at Arkansas.
Notre Dame will try to get on track this week against Cal.