Your College Football Saturday Viewing Guide: November 4, 2017

The schedule makers sure know how to put a slate of games together, I tell you what.

The first edition of the college football playoff rankings came out on Tuesday, and would you look at this? Five of the top nine teams in the rankings are on the road today. Three of them — Penn State, Clemson, and Oklahoma — will be tangling with teams also ranked in the top 25. That’s a precipitously high chance of losses throwing the rankings completely out of whack almost immediately after issuing them.

While there’s a lot of top ranked teams on the road on this fine Saturday, the top three teams are all at home. Georgia is hosting South Carolina, Notre Dame is hosting Wake Forest, and in what might end up as the most lopsided two ranked teams game of the season, #2 Alabama is hosting #19 LSU. There is a really solid chance that Nick Saban gets the Tide worked into a nasty mood and they eviscerate the Tigers merely because ‘Bama isn’t ranked #1 at the moment. It could be ugly as ugly can get, and thus, really fun to watch for those of us with no emotional attachment to the game!

All told, there’s 17 games on national television today involving at least one ranked team, and that’s pretty good. A quick heads up for you: SEC Network and Big Ten Network are doing the regional coverage thing again today in the afternoon window, so keep that in mind as you try to tune in.

Without further ado, here’s your schedule for the day: