October 17 Open Thread

Seven Saturdays into the season, and this is by far the best one for the Vols to be off.  Not only do we get to enjoy Georgia and rest up before Alabama for an extra week, you get to feast your eyes on the following:

• The noon slate obliterates all other noon slates this year.  #13 Ole Miss is at the Liberty Bowl and #17 Iowa is at #20 Northwestern on an ABC/ESPN2 split.  Undefeated Florida State and undefeated Baylor could get tests from Louisville (ESPN) and West Virginia (Fox) respectively.
• At 3:30, #7 Michigan State is at #12 Michigan on ESPN, and the #10 Crimson Tide are at #9 Texas A&M on CBS in what should be a pair of playoff elimination games.  An Alabama win is the best possible outcome for Tennessee across the board, both in terms of the mood I'd like to see these guys in next week and any potential tiebreaker scenarios in the SEC East.
• And if that's going to matter, we need #6 LSU to hold serve at home over #8 Florida tonight at 7:00 PM on ESPN.  If the Gators somehow find a way to win this one on the road with Treon Harris, we're going to start needing all kinds of truly crazy things to happen to get back in the SEC East race.  But should the Gators falter tonight, the door can swing open a little further.

Today's full schedule is below - as always, this is your open thread as you're watching along live.

Sat, Oct 17, 2015
12:00 PM ET ESPN3WatchESPN	Western Michigan	at	Ohio
12:00 PM ET ESPN3WatchESPN	Eastern Michigan	at	(22) Toledo
12:00 PM ET ESPNUWatchESPN	South Florida	at	Connecticut
12:00 PM ET ESPNNWatchESPN	Tulsa	at	East Carolina
12:00 PM ET BTNBTN2Go	Purdue	at	Wisconsin
12:00 PM ET FCS	Marshall	at	Florida Atlantic
12:00 PM ET FSNFoxSportsGo	FIU	at	Middle Tennessee
12:00 PM ET FS1FoxSportsGo	Texas Tech	at	Kansas
12:00 PM ET CBSSN	Bucknell	at	Army
12:00 PM ET FOXFoxSportsGo	West Virginia	at	(2) Baylor
12:00 PM ET ABC/ESPN2WatchESPN	(17) Iowa	at	(20) Northwestern
12:00 PM ET ABC/ESPN2WatchESPN	(13) Mississippi	at	Memphis
12:00 PM ET SECNWatchESPN	Louisiana Tech	at	Mississippi State
12:00 PM ET ESPNWatchESPN	Louisville	at	(11) Florida State
12:30 PM ET ESPN3WatchESPN	Pittsburgh	at	Georgia Tech
1:00 PM ET ESPN3WatchESPN	Buffalo	at	Central Michigan
2:30 PM ET ESPN3WatchESPN	Northern Illinois	at	Miami (OH)
3:00 PM ET ESPN3WatchESPN	Akron	at	Bowling Green
3:00 PM ET ESPN3WatchESPN	Georgia State	at	Ball State
3:30 PM ET ESPN3WatchESPN	Kent State	at	Massachusetts
3:30 PM ET CBSSN	Air Force	at	Colorado State
3:30 PM ET ESPN3WatchESPN	Idaho	at	Troy
3:30 PM ET ESPNUWatchESPN	Virginia Tech	at	Miami (FL)
3:30 PM ET CBSSEC Live	(10) Alabama	at	(9) Texas A&M
3:30 PM ET ESPN3WatchESPN	Syracuse	at	Virginia
3:30 PM ET ABC	(19) Oklahoma	at	Kansas State
3:30 PM ET BTNBTN2Go	Rutgers	at	Indiana
3:30 PM ET ESPNWatchESPN	(7) Michigan State	at	(12) Michigan
3:30 PM ET ESPN2WatchESPN	Nebraska	at	Minnesota
3:30 PM ET ASN	Charlotte	at	Old Dominion
4:00 PM ET SECNWatchESPN	Vanderbilt	at	South Carolina
4:00 PM ET PAC12Pac-12 Live	Oregon State	at	Washington State
4:00 PM ET ESPN3WatchESPN	Nevada	at	Wyoming
6:00 PM ET ESPN3WatchESPN	New Mexico State	at	Georgia Southern
7:00 PM ET ESPN3WatchESPN	Appalachian State	at	Louisiana-Monroe
7:00 PM ET MWC	Hawaii	at	New Mexico
7:00 PM ET ESPNWatchESPN	(8) Florida	at	(6) LSU
8:00 PM ET ESPN3WatchESPN	Wake Forest	at	North Carolina
7:00 PM ET ESPNUWatchESPN	Boston College	at	(5) Clemson
7:00 PM ET FCS	Texas-San Antonio	at	Southern Miss
7:00 PM ET ESPN2WatchESPN	(3) TCU	at	Iowa State
7:30 PM ET CBSSN	UCF	at	Temple
7:30 PM ET NBCNBC Sports Live Extra	USC	at	(14) Notre Dame
7:30 PM ET SECNWatchESPN	Missouri	at	Georgia
8:00 PM ET ABC	Penn State	at	(1) Ohio State
9:00 PM ET FS1FoxSportsGo	Arizona	at	Colorado
10:00 PM ET ESPNWatchESPN	Arizona State	at	(4) Utah
10:30 PM ET ESPN2WatchESPN	Oregon	at	Washington
10:30 PM ET ESPNUWatchESPN	San Diego State	at	San Jose State