College football Week 9: Top 25 TV schedule and predictions

The college football season rolls along into Week 9 with several exciting games.

College football gives us several spooktacular games this Halloween in Week 9.

While it stinks having the Wisconsin Badgers’ game vs. the Nebraska Cornhuskers canceled due to a COVID outbreak in Madison, at least the other games of note are still going down in the Big Ten. This was bound to happen once the league decided to return with no margin for error. For now, we’ll appreciate every college football game we get the rest of the way. Who is playing this week?

College football Week 9 schedule

Saturday, Oct. 31 (12:00 p.m. ET)

• Boston College Eagles at No. 1 Clemson Tigers – ABC
• No. 5 Georgia Bulldogs at Kentucky Wildcats- SEC Network
• Memphis Tigers at No. 7 Cincinnati Bearcats – ESPN
• Michigan State Spartans at No. 13 Michigan Wolverines – FOX
• No. 16 Kansas State Wildcats at West Virginia Mountaineers – ESPN2
• No. 20 Coastal Carolina Chanticleers at Georgia State Panthers – ESPNU
• No. 23 Iowa State Cyclones at Kansas Jayhawks – FS1

Saturday, Oct. 31 (3:30 p.m. ET)

• No. 4 Notre Dame Fighting Irish at Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets – ABC
• No. 17 Indiana Hoosiers at Rutgers Scarlet Knights – Big Ten Network

Saturday, Oct. 31 (4:00 p.m. ET)

• Texas Longhorns at No. 6 Oklahoma State Cowboys – FOX

Saturday, Oct. 31 (6:00 p.m. ET)

• No. 25 Boise State Broncos at Air Force Falcons – CBSSN

Saturday, Oct. 31 (7:00 p.m. ET)

• Mississippi State Bulldogs at No. 2 Alabama Crimson Tide – ESPN

Saturday, Oct. 31 (7:30 p.m. ET)

• No. 3 Ohio State Buckeyes at No. 18 Penn State Nittany Lions – ABC
• Arkansas Razorbacks at No. 8 Texas A&M Aggies – SEC Network
• Missouri Tigers at No. 10 Florida Gators – SEC Network Alt
• Navy Midshipmen at No. 22 SMU Mustangs – ESPN2

Saturday, Oct. 31 (8:00 p.m. ET)

• No. 15 North Carolina Tar Heels at Virginia Cavaliers – ACC Network
• No. 24 Oklahoma Sooners at Texas Tech Red Raiders – FOX

Saturday, Oct. 31 (10:15 p.m. ET)

• Western Kentucky Hilltoppers at No. 11 BYU Cougars – ESPN

Bold indicates the projected Week 9 winner.

I’m not as bold as I was last week, but I do have one ranked team going down to an inferior opponent in the early-afternoon window. Neal Brown’s West Virginia Mountaineers should have won in Lubbock last week but handed a victory over to the Texas Tech Red Raiders. They win a good, old-fashioned shootout over the Kansas State Wildcats to wreck K-State’s season.

Though there are only a few games of note in the mid-afternoon window, if a team is going to lose in that time slot, it will be the Indiana Hoosiers. Being ranked is uncharted territory for Tom Allen’s team. They will be riding high after stunning the Penn State Nittany Lions last week in Bloomington. Don’t be shocked if Greg Schiano’s Rutgers Scarlet Knights get to 2-0 on Saturday.

If there is going to be an upset in the primetime window, it will be the Arkansas Razorbacks over the Texas A&M Aggies. We think the Aggies are one of the four best teams in the SEC. While that may be true, who is fifth? Some might argue it’s the Auburn Tigers, but anybody who has watched Sam Pittman’s team this year won’t have much of an issue if it is indeed the Hogs at some point.

Which games are you planning to watch this weekend in major college football?

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