Wednesday is a quiet one, which is fine. Everybody needs a night to recover from the committee. Here’s what’s worth your remote. All times Central.
- Buffalo at Ball State, 6:30 p.m., ESPN2. Wednesday night MACtion in Muncie. Buffalo is 6-3 and only a 1.5-point favorite against a 3-6 Ball State team. A line that tight on a team with a winning record tells you somebody knows something. I want to see what it is.
- UMass at Toledo, 6:30 p.m., CBSSN. Toledo is 7-2 and a 14.5-point favorite at the Glass Bowl. UMass is 5-4, which, if you’ve followed UMass football, is a sentence I didn’t expect to type in November. Also at 6:30: Sacramento State at Central Michigan on ESPNU.
- Marquette at No. 20 Michigan, 6 p.m., FS1. Marquette is 2-0 and Michigan is 1-1 and a 3.5-point favorite at home. A ranked team that already has a loss in the second week needs this one more than the visitor does.
- No. 21 USC at Cal, 10 p.m., ESPN2. The late game. USC is 2-0 and an 8.5-point road favorite in Berkeley. If you’re still up, this is your nightcap.
- Vols basketball is back Friday. Tennessee hosts Tennessee State at 6 p.m. Then next Tuesday, Michigan State comes to Knoxville, and Michigan State just beat No. 2 Duke. Circle that one.
How Tuesday went
The committee put out its rankings: Georgia 1, Utah 2, Alabama 3, UCLA 4, Notre Dame 5. Tennessee is 8th, five spots behind an Alabama team it beat by 16. I made a video about that. The Correct Top 10 is up here.
Last night I said I’d want the points with Tom Izzo against Duke. Michigan State didn’t need them. The Spartans beat No. 2 Duke 79-73 in Chicago, and Jeremy Fears Jr. led them with 18. No. 16 Texas Tech beat No. 3 Illinois 84-78 in Lubbock behind 20 from Cruz Davis. No. 1 Florida won 81-72 at Florida State, and Thomas Haugh had 21 points and 10 rebounds. No. 22 Vanderbilt dropped 105 on Memphis, 105-81, with 23 from Ace Glass.
In Tuesday MACtion, Western Michigan won 42-14 at Akron and Bowling Green beat Kent State 33-28.
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Jeremy Durham is a sports columnist for TriStar Daily and the founder of Five and a Fade.
