[Game Day Thread] Saturday, Week 5

[u/damnyoutuesday]

ON TO OCTOBER!

GRAB YOUR FAVORITE OKTOBERFEST 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) (rankings from the /r/FCS Poll)

Away	Home	Time	Stream/TV	/r/FCS Sportsbook spread
Princeton	Columbia	11am	ESPN+	PRIN -6.5 (O/U 47.5)
Chattanooga	ETSU	2:30pm	ESPN+	ETSU -2.5 (O/U 54)
Holy Cross	William & Mary	2:30pm	ESPN+	W&M -5.5 (O/U 56)
#8 Youngstown State	#22 Southern Illinois	4pm	ESPN+	YSU -3 (O/U 57)
Incarnate Word	#5 Stephen F. Austin	5pm	ESPN+	SFA -24 (O/U 57.5)
#9 Tennessee Tech	Western Carolina	5pm	ESPN+	TTU -13.5 (O/U 59)
Nicholls	Houston Christian	6pm	ESPN+	HCU -6 (O/U 57)
#20 Colgate	#16 Harvard	6pm	ESPN+	HARV -8 (O/U 45)
#2 South Dakota State	#10 Illinois State	6pm	ESPN+	SDSU -2.5 (O/U 56)
Eastern Washington	#18 UC Davis	9:30pm	ESPN2	UCD -5 (O/U 58.5)

You can find the full Week 4 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/Particular_Prior5344]

There’s been obvious flaws in each top team all year and some were bound to get exposed. SDSU is maybe the only one without a glaring flaw but we’ll see as the year goes on.

[u/_Rooster_ → u/Particular_Prior5344]

It's not glaring because you've only lost to Northwestern, but If something big happens to Chase like last year you might be in trouble.

[u/Particular_Prior5344 → u/_Rooster_]

Last year’s team had problems that were getting exposed even before Chase went down. Defense was struggling mightily and the o-line play was not good, this year is far superior in those areas. But we’ll see, anything can happen in CFB.

[u/SoDakJack1 → u/Particular_Prior5344]

Our O-line took it personal that they couldn’t hold up the 605 hogs reputation last year. Also helps that the RBs are a year older and things have slowed down for them. Defense looks as good as it ever has.

[u/DeZeeuw2 → u/SoDakJack1]

And our RB1 didn't literally die in the off-season this year