On Tap

Helping you get your weekend viewing priorities straight since 2007

Thursday

7:45 (ESPN) Virginia Tech @ Georgia Tech. Coming off last Thursday nights performance against BC, Virginia Tech will look to right the ship to look for a possible rematch with the Eagles in the ACC championship game. Key Fact: Beware the rambling wreck at home in a prime time nationally televised contest.

Friday

8:00 (ESPN2) Nevada @ New Mexico State. Hopefully you have something better to do than watch this game. Key Fact: Friday night WAC games have been pretty solid so far this season; this game should be the same.

Saturday

12:00 (ESPN) Purdue @ Penn State. PSU has had a tough time stopping the pass this season and playing against Purdue is not the answer to this problem. Both teams are in contention for the 3^rd bowl slot in Big Ten. Key Fact: Purdue fans better watch out for flying half empty beer cans.

12:00 (%$*^%$* BTN) Wisconsin @ Ohio State. OSU’s one conference game on the BTN. This game was supposed to be the game of the year in the Big Ten, but now all that is left is for the Badgers to prove that they are not pushovers, and ruin Ohio State’s unexpected season. Key Fact: Wisconsin has owned OSU of late, expect that to change Saturday.

2:30 (NBC) Navy @ Notre Dame. The Midshipmen have lost 43 in a row to the pillow Fighting Irish, if there was any year that the Middies were going to have a chance to get a win this is it. ND has already been eliminated from bowl contention and is now playing the rest of the year for pride. Key Fact: If Navy finds a way to pull this off I am not sure I want to talk to any ND fans that I know.

3:30 (ABC) Michigan @ Michigan State. MSU needs to win this game to prove that they are not going to get oh so close to being bowl eligible only to fall apart yet another year. UM is trying to remain on track for a Big Ten championship showdown with OSU. Key Fact: Some people think this is a bigger rivalry than OSU/Michigan, whatever.

5:00 (CBS) LSU @ Alabama. Nick Saban and his Crimson Tide have a chance to knock his old team out of the national championship race. Key Fact: Les Miles will make a call in this game that will cost his team, it may not cost them the game, but it will make it closer than it should be.

6:40 (ESPN) Arizona State @ Oregon. Nice of ESPN to pick up the game of the day so that it could be viewed outside of Arizona and Oregon. Denis Dixon continues his Heisman like season taking on the upstart Sun Devils. Key Fact: Dennis Erickson like to recruit criminals (probably not true, but look at the teams he had at Miami and Oregon State).

8:00 (ESPN2) South Carolina @ Arkansas. I don’t intend to watch much of this game, but this blog randomly gets linked to by an Arkansas blog when I say bad things about the razorbacks. So here goes: Darren McFadden is a fraud, that’s right fraud. 19 carries for 61 yards against Florida International??? (I choose to ignore the 4 TDs) Granted McFadden is having a fine season, will be a top 7 NFL draft pick and would be in the Heisman talk if he did not play for such a lousy team. Key Fact: A South Carolina win keeps the SEC East in complete disarray leaving the possibility of every team finishing 4-4 (technically a loss for USC would keep this alive, but I don’t see them getting by Florida next week).

8:00 (ABC) Florida State @ Boston College. FSU looks to knock BC from the ranks of the undefeated. Key Fact: Playing 56 shitty minutes followed by 4 fantastic minutes does not make you the Heisman frontrunner, well not in a normal year it doesn’t.

Sunday

4:00 (CBS) New England @ Indianapolis. It is like the Super Bowl in November, only no NFC team, the game is in Indy, no bye week for build up, and no Phil Simms. What? Phil Simms will be there, Damn. Key Fact: Someone will still be undefeated after this game, but since there is a playoff in the NFL it does not matter much does it?

* there is very little respect for the word fact around here.

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