College football games today: Week 8 schedule and predictions for every Top 25 game

College football games today, include Notre Dame and USC renewing their rivalry after a year off and UCLA hosting Oregon with College GameDay in attendance.

For the first time all year, we have a weekend without two Top 25 teams playing. We still have a handful of exceedingly important matchups on the slate. Let’s take a peek.

College football Week 8 schedule and predictions

Note: predicted winner in bold.

Saturday, October 23

• No. 2 Cincinnati at Navy — 12 p.m. ET — ESPN2
• No. 3 Oklahoma at Kansas — 12 p.m. ET — ESPN
• Northwestern at No. 6 Michigan — 12 p.m. ET — FOX
• Illinois at No. 7 Penn State — 12 p.m. ET — ABC
• No. 16 Wake Forest at Army — 12 p.m. ET — CBSSN
• Wisconsin at No. 25 Purdue — 3 p.m. ET — BTN
• No. 8 Oklahoma State at Iowa State — 3:30 p.m. ET — FOX
• LSU at No. 12 Ole Miss — 3:30 p.m. ET — CBS
• Clemson at No. 23 Pittsburgh — 3:30 p.m. ET — ESPN
• Tennessee at No. 4 Alabama — 7 p.m. ET — ESPN
• No. 22 San Diego State at Air Force — 7 p.m. ET — CBSSN
• No. 24 UTSA at Louisiana Tech — 7 p.m. ET
• No. 5 Ohio State at Indiana — 7:30 p.m. ET — ABC
• USC at No. 13 Notre Dame — 7:30 p.m. ET — NBC
• South Carolina at No. 17 Texas A&M  — 7:30 p.m. ET — SECN
• No. 18 NC State at Miami — 7:30 p.m. ET — ESPN2

It is a do-or-die weekend for Wisconsin, Iowa State, and Clemson. Three teams that started the year with National Championship hopes are coming down to their last shots at conference titles, barring anything too crazy. While Iowa State is favored in just about every way imaginable, analytics do not favor the Badgers or Tigers, the latter of which is a dog in just about every sense of the word.

In ostensibly the highest-profile game this week, Notre Dame should get a win against rival USC.

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