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Title: 2018 Look Ahead: Week 4
Post by: ELA on July 12, 2018, 11:30:15 AM
Reminder I'm using SN's composite ranking of the preseason mags for a Top 25

RANKED MATCHUPS
#13 Stanford at #25 Oregon
#24 TCU at #20 Texas

OTHER TOP 25 GAMES
7:00 (Fri) - Florida Atlantic at #21 Central Florida (ESPN)
9:00 (Fri) - #9 Penn State at Illinois (FS1)
10:30 (Fri) - Washington State at #18 USC (ESPN)
3:30 - #15 Virginia Tech at Old Dominion (CBSCS)
Texas A&M at #1 Alabama
#2 Clemson at Georgia Tech
Tulane at #3 Ohio State
#4 Georgia at Missouri
#5 Wisconsin at Iowa
Army at #6 Oklahoma
Arizona State at #7 Washington
FIU at #8 Miami
#10 Michigan State at Indiana
Arkansas at #11 Auburn
Nebraska at #12 Michigan
#14 Notre Dame at Wake Forest
#16 Mississippi State at Kentucky
Kansas State at #17 West Virginia
Northern Illinois at #22 Florida State
Louisiana Tech at 23 LSU

POWER FIVE MATCHUPS
NOON - Boston College at Purdue
Arizona at Oregon State
Florida at Tennessee
Kansas at Baylor
Louisville at Virginia
Minnesota at Maryland
Pittsburgh at North Carolina
South Carolina at Vanderbilt
Texas Tech at Oklahoma State
Title: Re: 2018 Look Ahead: Week 4
Post by: ELA on July 12, 2018, 11:31:36 AM
Not a great week as far as marquee matchups go, but a lot of conference games for ranked teams against middle of the road conference opponents.  So lots of chances for upsets.  Friday night is actually pretty solid here, with a Big Ten game, UCF-FAU in maybe the mid-major game of the year, plus the Pirate invading Troy.  Really solid Friday night.
Title: Re: 2018 Look Ahead: Week 4
Post by: FearlessF on July 12, 2018, 11:53:34 AM
and the first Frost/Harbaugh matchup
Title: Re: 2018 Look Ahead: Week 4
Post by: ELA on July 12, 2018, 12:14:54 PM
Quote from: FearlessF on July 12, 2018, 11:53:34 AM
and the first Frost/Harbaugh matchup
If you put a 1 in front of the 4, that would be a more interesting coaching matchup of former QBs coaching at their alma mater
Title: Re: 2018 Look Ahead: Week 4
Post by: FearlessF on July 12, 2018, 12:30:42 PM
maybe in a few years

won't be a fair fight this fall, but interesting

interesting that they will both have McCaffrey brothers as QBs
Title: Re: 2018 Look Ahead: Week 4
Post by: MaximumSam on July 12, 2018, 01:01:10 PM
Quote from: FearlessF on July 12, 2018, 11:53:34 AM
and the first Frost/Harbaugh matchup
They did face each other while his first year at UCF
Title: Re: 2018 Look Ahead: Week 4
Post by: 847badgerfan on July 12, 2018, 01:25:10 PM
@Iowa is extremely dangerous for Big Red.
Title: Re: 2018 Look Ahead: Week 4
Post by: FearlessF on July 12, 2018, 02:20:56 PM
you remember the outcome of the last two meetings?

:'(
Title: Re: 2018 Look Ahead: Week 4
Post by: FearlessF on July 12, 2018, 02:21:32 PM
Quote from: MaximumSam on July 12, 2018, 01:01:10 PM
They did face each other while his first year at UCF
that is correct, another mismatch
Title: Re: 2018 Look Ahead: Week 4
Post by: Brutus Buckeye on July 13, 2018, 11:43:32 AM
The Nebraska game is the wild card for Michigan. I don't think they win more than one out of Notre Dame, MSU, PSU or Wisconsin. So if Scott Frost gets 'em, the season could really go off of the rails. The back up QB will become extremely popular all of a sudden.