[Game Day Thread] Saturday, Week 11

[u/damnyoutuesday]

WAKE UP, THE GALES OF NOVEMBER HAVE COME EARLY

GRAB YOUR FAVORITE YEAST WATER*, AND LET'S WATCH SOME FOOTBALL

*OR BEAN WATER, OR FRUIT WATER, OR WATER WATER. IDC, I'M NOT YOUR MOM

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Today's Pick 'Em games (all times listed in Central, the heavily disputed best time zone for football) (all rankings from the r/FCS poll)

Away	Home	Time	Stream/TV	r/FCS Sportsbook spread
New Hampshire	#8 Monmouth	11am	FloSports	Monmouth -10.5 (O/U 56)
St. Thomas	Drake	Noon	ESPN+	Drake -2 (O/U 52)
Southern Illinois	Youngstown State	1pm	ESPN+	YSU -0.5 (O/U 57.5)
#1 North Dakota State	#10 North Dakota	1pm	ESPN+	NDSU -8 (O/U 55)
#9 Mercer	Western Carolina	1:30pm	ESPN+	Mercer -9 (O/U 58.5)
Bethune-Cookman	Grambling	2pm	SWAC TV	BCU -1 (O/U 56)
#11 South Dakota State	#22 South Dakota	3pm	ESPN+	SDSU -9 (O/U 50)
#17 Southeastern Louisiana	#21 Lamar	3pm	ESPN+	SLU -9.5 (O/U 52.5)
McNeese State	East Texas A&M	4pm	ESPN+	ETAMU -3 (O/U 56.5)
#13 UC Davis	Idaho	6pm	ESPN+	Idaho -0.5 (O/U 56.5)

You can find the full Week 11 schedule with up-to-the-minute results over at the r/CFB Scoreboard

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Also seriously do not ask for "alternate" streams, because we don't want to deal with takedown notices. Most games have radio broadcasts available for free if you're really desperate.

[u/Top_Judge_1943]

Sure, but we’ve now played enough common opponents that we can compare how the teams have performed against said opponents to get a better idea on how the teams compare…and brother, ignoring the W-L column, one team is clearly performing at a different level than the other. 

[u/NutzyPoo53 → u/Top_Judge_1943]

1 loss > 0 losses

The Griz and Cats have different philosophies in games. The Griz get up and then try to get out of there. The Cats have their starting offense in up 55.

Common opponents are bullshit. The Griz hung 60 on a team who beat the team that beat the cats. We can go round and round all day on this.

[u/Top_Judge_1943 → u/NutzyPoo53]

If you’re going to talk about the SDSU game without acknowledging the multiple injuries they’ve incurred, you’re just being flat ignorant. Unless you think UM would be the same team with Ah Yat, Wortham, and Wing all injured. 

MSU took their starters out in the 3rd quarter. Am I supposed to apologize because MSU has the ability to finish teams off, and apparently UM lacks that? If I were you, I’d be concerned about that, but I suppose you think that’s a feature rather than a bug. 

[u/NutzyPoo53 → u/Top_Judge_1943]

We’ll see in two weeks, until then this is all useless speculation. One team is 8-2, and 1 is 10-0. Id rather be 10-0.

[u/Top_Judge_1943 → u/NutzyPoo53]

I’d rather be the better team. ;)

If the only thing you can talk about is team records, that’s fine, it’s just pretty boring and lazy imo. Talking football is fun. And yes, it is useless speculation. None of it determines what our teams will do. I’m glad you were able to figure that out.