Welcome to the Defector College Football Watch Guide, where Israel Daramola and Ray Ratto will tell you which of the weekend’s college football games are worth giving a crap about.
Ray: Only a few assistants got fired this week, so the coaching bloodletting is either easing, or the law of diminishing returns may be taking effect. After all, Bill Belichick isn’t gone until he’s stake-through-the-vampire’s-chest-gone. The season is entering its doggy period, where the number of can’t-miss games at either end of the success spectrum is diminishing. When your mind strays to UCLA-Michigan State just to see if kicking Penn State in the front makes the Bruins a serious operation again, you are having focus issues. But the nor’easter heading for the East Coast may (and let us pray to our local gods that “may” becomes “will”) turn some games into absolute dogfights, and that will do for hoots and whiskeys. Mud makes us all better, especially when we send relative children into the dreck without having to worry about hosing them off. It’s totally good with us if Charlotte-Army is delayed by flood.
