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If UT Martin is level one and Fresno State is level two, that makes Alabama the final boss, right? Pretty sure that's the way it works. Anyway, Saturday's throwdown in Oxford brings to town the not-from-Starkville-or-Athens Bulldogs, who share strikingly similar colors with Ole Miss, though for wildly divergent reasons.
Whether you're watching from the glorious swell of Vaught-Hemingway or from the drunken intimacy of Penn Quarter Tavern in D.C. or from your hangover-stupor couch spot, the Rebs' week two start time offers a reprieve from the hazy scramble that is an 11:00 a.m. Saturday kickoff. Not that a 2:30 p.m. start should lull you into some false sense of aimless weekend apathy; on the contrary, our very own smeargle demands that you Grove early and Grove often and while you're Groving hit RCR up on Twitter because we wanna see those #GroveCup digs, y'all. It's for science.
As will be the case every week, this space apprises you of the Rebels' game-time and television information as well as a handful of other games worth paying attention to after Fresno State eventually implodes.
How to watch
When: 2:30 p.m. CT
TV: ESPN2
Online Streaming: WatchESPN
Other games of interest
No. 19 Oklahoma (1-0; 0-0 Big 12) at No. 23 Tennessee (1-0; 0-0 SEC)
This week's conference whip-around pondered -- if only for a vague moment -- whether Rocky Top had legs enough to take a serious run at the SEC East. They almost certainly do not and Bob Stoops will almost certainly douse whatever nascent inklings Vols' fans might have about Georgia Dome tickets in December. Still, should Tennessee pull this one off, we should all rest happy knowing that we won't hear the end of it in the CFB echo chamber until, well, they finally self-destruct against Florida.
When: 5 p.m. CT
TV: ESPN
Online Streaming: WatchESPN
No. 7 Oregon (1-0; 0-0 Pac 12) at No. 5 Michigan State (1-0; 0-0 Big 10)
Oregon quarterback Vernon Adams Jr. took a nasty, nasty shot to the head in the Ducks' opener against Eastern Washington last week, but on Monday the star trigger man inexplicably said that he's ready to go for Saturday's heavyweight bout with Sparty. That plan sounds just crazy enough to argue vigorously for real head trauma, and it'd be surprising to see Vernon under center in East Lansing.
When: 7 p.m. CT
TV: ABC
No. 14 LSU (0-0; 0-0 SEC) at No. 25 Mississippi State (1-0; 0-0 SEC)
How better to really punch home that blackout drunk you've been working on through Oklahoma-Tennessee than a laughably late nightcap featuring Les "triple shot espresso" Miles against Dan "Yeezys" Mullen to the tune of 40,000 blinding cowbells in perfect harmony? This four-day work week was blasted beyond all recognition from the get-go, so why not open yet another bottle of Bulleit Rye and just let it ride, man? The Rad Hatter will have plenty of joe on the burner to bring you back around should you feel yourself slipping, and hell, whatever the outcome here there ain't a Schlitz's chance in Athens you're gonna remember what took place anyway.
When: 8:15 p.m. CT
TV: ESPN
Online Streaming: WatchESPN
Complete Saturday schedule
FS1
Miami (FL)
Florida Atlantic
ESPN2
Utah State
(24) Utah
ESPN
(11) Florida State
SECN
Jacksonville State
(6) Auburn
ABC
Oregon State
Michigan
Connecticut
Kansas State
BTN
Illinois
Bowling Green
Maryland
ESPN3
Louisville
Buffalo
Penn State
ESPNN
Purdue
Wisconsin
Wake Forest
Syracuse
(12) Clemson
Boston College
PAC12
Colorado
Washington
FOX
UTEP
Texas Tech
West Virginia
(1) Ohio State
CBSS
Minnesota
(3) TCU
Washington State
Rutgers
(15) Georgia Tech
(9) Notre Dame
Virginia
Virginia Tech
CBS
(10) Georgia
Vanderbilt
(17) Mississippi
(2) Alabama
(18) Arkansas
Northwestern
Iowa
Iowa State
Cal
(19) Oklahoma
(23) Tennessee
Duke
North Carolina
NC State
Pittsburgh
(22) Arizona
ESPNU
(16) Texas A&M
(21) Missouri
Florida
Kansas
Oklahoma State
FSN
(4) Baylor
Kentucky
South Carolina
(8) USC
(7) Oregon
(5) Michigan State
Nebraska
LHN
Texas
Indiana
Cincinnati
(14) LSU
(25) Mississippi State
(20) Boise State
BYU
(13) UCLA
Stanford
Arizona State