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Happy Halloween, football fans! Hopefully, this evening the Gators will give us quite the treat by beating Georgia. Florida takes on the Bulldogs today in Jacksonville at 3:30 p.m. on CBS. The Gators are in control of the SEC East race and can almost clinch a berth to the SEC title game with a win today. Once again on paper this week's slate of games doesn't look to be the strongest but I said that last week and then this happened. Such is the wonderful volatility of college football.
Here are our picks for today's viewing windows:
Early (noon to 3:30 p.m. Eastern)
Mississippi at Auburn (noon, ESPN): Ole Miss got some of its mojo back last week but how much of that was the result of true improvement or of facing the spiraling Texas A&M Aggies?
South Carolina at Texas A&M (noon, SECN): Speaking of those Aggies, and speaking of teams that are spiraling, the Gamecocks travel to College Station.
Evening (7:00 p.m. to 10:00 p.m. Eastern)
Tennessee at Kentucky (7:30 p.m., SECN): Stop me if you've heard this one before - Tennessee narrowly lost to a good team it had a lead on last week, while Kentucky was shellacked (by Mississippi State). I have no idea what is going to happen with these two in this game.
Notre Dame at Temple (8:00 p.m., ABC): The College GameDay game of the week. The surprising Owls are unbeaten and boast college football's No. 14 defense*. The Irish should prevail, but it figures to be a low-scoring affair.
Stanford at Washington State (10:30 p.m., ESPN): This one is for all you night owls out there. This game was the runner up for College GameDay this week. Washington State is a surprising 5-2 and Stanford looks like one of the best teams in the country, making this an important Pac 12 North matchup.
*Take a look at the top 25 - Florida is No. 17 ... and will be playing three of the top 25 defenses in consecutive games (No. 19 LSU, No. 15 Georgia and No. 21 Vanderbilt).
FSN
Western Kentucky
ESPNN
Cincinnati
CBSS
ESPN2
Illinois
Penn State
ESPNU
Nebraska
Purdue
BTN
Rutgers
Wisconsin
ESPN
(19) Mississippi
Auburn
SECN
South Carolina
Texas A&M
ABC
Syracuse
(17) Florida State
ESPN3
Virginia Tech
Boston College
Massachusetts
UTEP
Georgia Tech
Virginia
FOX
USC
Cal
PAC12
Colorado
(24) UCLA
ABC/ESPN2
(3) Clemson
NC State
CBS
(11) Florida
Georgia
FS1
(14) Oklahoma
Kansas
(12) Oklahoma State
Texas Tech
Maryland
(10) Iowa
Boise State
UNLV
Tennessee-Martin
Arkansas
Oregon State
(13) Utah
Vanderbilt
Miami (FL)
(22) Duke
(15) Michigan
Minnesota
Texas
Iowa State
Tennessee
Kentucky
(9) Notre Dame
(8) Stanford
Washington State
Arizona
Washington