The bye week gives us the opportunity to do what we don’t get to do very often: watch other teams play football.

I don’t know about you, but here’s how my Saturdays usually go for home games…

1: Wake up around 7:30
2: Tailgating by 8:30
3: In the stadium for a noon or 12:30 kickoff
4: Home at around 5pm after the traffic clears out
5: Monitor the message boards
6: Go through the box score to figure out what I’m going to write on Sunday
7: Hopefully catch the night games, or at least the second half of them

That doesn’t create much of an opportunity to actually sit down and watch college football games without a rooting interest.  Bye weeks, and road games to a lesser extent, mean I actually get a chance to watch football!  I was looking forward to this weekend, even though it was a plethora of major programs playing 1-AA teams the week before their big rivalry games.

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