On Tap (College Football Championship Edition)

Helping you get your weekend viewing priorities straight since 2007

Friday

7:30 (ESPNU) UMass vs. Ohio State. Men’s Soccer Final 4. Key Fact: This is soccer, I expect no one who is reading this will watch this game, but I thought just in case I would let you know that it is on.

8:00 (ESPN2) Delaware vs. Appalachian State. Division 1 (AA) Football Championship game. It is fitting that App State plays a team in blue and yellow with winged helmets to end the year, now if only Delaware was coached by Lloyd Carr. App. State is playing for their 3^rd title in 3 years. Key Fact: This game should be an awesome battle between quarterbacks with vastly different styles: Joe Flacco (Delaware) is a classic drop back passer with NFL aspirations, and Armanti Edwards (App. St.), a duel threat QB with 1750 yards passing and 1499 yards rushing.

Saturday

12:00 (ESPN) Oklahoma State vs. Pitt. (hoops)

12:00 (ESPN2) NW Missouri State vs. Valdosta State. NCAA Division II National Championship. NWMS avenged last year’s championship loss to Grand Valley State (while also ending GVSU’s 40 game winning streak) in one of the semifinals, and Valdosta came back to defeat California (of Pennsylvania that is) in the other. Key Fact: I watched about 9 minutes of NWMS’s last game, their running back looked quite good.

1:00 (CSTV) Sioux Falls vs. Carroll. NAIA National Championship. Sioux Falls is trying to repeat as national champion. Carroll is trying to regain the throne that they held for the previous 4 years before Sioux Falls. Key Fact: I attended Montana Tech for undergrad and Carroll College was like our Michigan. Imagine watching Michigan play for 5 out of 6 national titles while rolling over OSU two times per year; how bad would that suck? Plus my sister went to Carroll. So GO SIOUX FALLS!!!

2:00 (ESPN) UAB vs. Kentucky. (hoops)

3:00 (ESPN2) Arkansas vs. Oklahoma. (hoops)

3:30 (CBS) Louisville @ Purdue. (hoops)

4:00 (ESPN) Mount Union vs. Wisconsin-Whitewater. Division III National Championship. Does Mount Union ever not play for the D-III title? That is a serious question, not that I watch a lot of D-III football but I can’t remember a year where they were not in the game. (Some quick wikipediaing has revealed since 1996 Mount Union has been in all but 2 title games where they have won 8, losing only once). This is the third straight year that the schools will face off for the title with Mount Union winning the two previous contests. Key Fact: Only the John Wooden led UCLA Bruins dynasty can even compare to the kind of dominance that has be laid down by Mount Union in the last 12 years.

5:00 (ESPN2) Ohio vs. Kansas. (hoops)

7:00 (ESPN2) Memphis vs. Middle Tennessee State. (hoops)

Sunday

1:00 (CBS) Buffalo @ Cleveland. The winner of this game will be in the driver’s seat for the final AFC Playoff spot. Key Fact: If you would have told me that at the beginning of the season I would have punched you in the jaw.

I still have not watched much college basketball. Once I have the faintest idea of what is going on, I will provide my usual limited/skewed/blatantly wrong analysis.

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

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