Schedule of Ranked matchups

[ELA]

Keeping prior weeks locked in, but adjusting weeks going forward as the poll shifts...

SEPTEMBER 2
#1 Alabama vs. #3 Florida State @ Atlanta
#11 Michigan vs. #17 Florida @ Dallas
#21 Virginia Tech vs. #22 West Virginia @ Washington DC

SEPTEMBER 9
#5 Oklahoma at #2 Ohio State
#13 Auburn at #3 Clemson
#14 Stanford at #6 USC
#15 Georgia at #24 Notre Dame

SEPTEMBER 16
#5 Clemson at #14 Louisville
#23 Tennessee at #24 Florida

SEPTEMBER 23
#16 TCU at #6 Oklahoma State
#17 Mississippi State at #11 Georgia

SEPTEMBER 30
(Fri) #5 USC at #16 Washington State
#2 Clemson at #12 Virginia Tech
#24 Mississippi State at #13 Auburn

OCTOBER 7
(Thu) #17 Louisville at #24 NC State
#23 West Virginia at #8 TCU

OCTOBER 14
NONE

OCTOBER 21
#19 Michigan at #2 Penn State
#11 USC at #13 Notre Dame

OCTOBER 28
#2 Penn State at #6 Ohio State
#4 TCU at #25 Iowa State
#9 Notre Dame at #14 NC State
#11 Oklahoma State at #22 West Virginia

NOVEMBER 4
#19 LSU at #2 Alabama
#4 Clemson at #20 NC State
#5 Oklahoma at #11 Oklahoma State
#7 Penn State at #24 Michigan State
#13 Virginia Tech at #10 Miami
#22 Arizona at #17 USC
#21 Stanford at #25 Washington State

NOVEMBER 11
#1 Georgia at #10 Auburn
#2 Alabama at #16 Mississippi State
#3 Notre Dame at #7 Miami
#6 TCU at #5 Oklahoma
#20 Iowa at #8 Wisconsin
#12 Michigan State at #13 Ohio State
#15 Oklahoma State at #21 Iowa State

NOVEMBER 18
#24 Michigan at #5 Wisconsin

NOVEMBER 25
#1 Alabama at #6 Auburn
#3 Clemson at #24 South Carolina
#8 Notre Dame at #21 Stanford
#13 Washington State at #17 Washington

DECEMBER 2
(Fri) #10 USC vs. #12 Stanford
#1 Clemson vs. #7 Miami
#2 Auburn vs. #6 Georgia
#3 Oklahoma vs. #11 TCU
#4 Wisconsin vs. #8 Ohio State
#20 Memphis at #14 Central Florida

[ELA]

More even distribution than in most year.  Normally there are weeks with none, and this year every week has at least two, but no weeks jump off the page as huge weekends.

Labor Day weekend is a dropoff from the last couple too, is what sticks out.

[utee94]

Some fun matchups this year.  In the OOC slate, I'm really looking forward to

Alabama-FSU
Michigan - Florida
Oklahoma - Ohio State
Texas - USC

That's a nice 3-week start to the season

[Anonymous Coward]

I know it's just recency bias (or involvement of my team), but my feeling is that this September starts "bigger" than usual. And the last half of October looks very "big," too.

[ELA]

I know it's just recency bias (or involvement of my team), but my feeling is that this September starts "bigger" than usual. And the last half of October looks very "big," too.

It "starts" much smaller.  Major downgrade from Labor Day 2016 to Labor Day 2017, but on a whole September is probably better.  IIRC Weeks 3 and 4 have been really bad the past couple years, but they are solid this year.  Labor Day 2016 is an impossible bar to live up to though.

[Anonymous Coward]

I can believe that. But because I tend to forget the short life of the CFB season when it starts (September is 1/3 but feels like less than that until its gone), I guess I could call all of September "the start."

[Cincydawg]

Notre Dame is ranked in a few polls, so that could add one more game.

[TyphonInc]

I'll be curious to watch this update through the season. We will several of these teams drop out only to be replaced by others.

[ELA]

I'll be curious to watch this update through the season. We will several of these teams drop out only to be replaced by others.

Right, I'm guessing as conference games are announced later and later for TV impact, I don't think it's a coincidence that we have such an even distribution, but as the rankings chance, a truly big time weekend may emerge.

[ELA]

Going to keep updating this as the season progresses, but locking in past weeks.

October 21 still looking like the marquee Saturday.  In addition to the four ranked games you have plenty of other interesting ones

#9 Oklahoma State at Texas
#15 Auburn at Arkansas
Colorado at #21 Washington State
Oregon at #25 UCLA
#4 USC at Notre Dame

[ELA]

Updated, and now November 11 has 5, PLUS:

#7 Washington at Stanford (Friday night)
#5 USC at Colorado
Iowa at #9 Wisconsin
MSU at #10 OSU
#13 VT at GT
ND at #14 Miami

[Cincydawg]

Bump:


SEPTEMBER 23
#16 TCU at #6 Oklahoma State
#17 Mississippi State at #11 Georgia

That is a comparatively thin week, and MSU was not expected to be ranked of course.

Oklahoma State will score about 63 points or so.  

[ELA]

Bump:


SEPTEMBER 23
#16 TCU at #6 Oklahoma State
#17 Mississippi State at #11 Georgia

That is a comparatively thin week, and MSU was not expected to be ranked of course.

Oklahoma State will score about 63 points or so.  

Yeah we lost UCLA-Stanford but gained that game.
I wasn't planning on making this one sticky?

[rolltidefan]

thought vandy would have been ranked.