The leaves have started to change, the air is crisp and fall is finally here. That’s right folks: The time for power conference college football teams to stop playing FCS schools and lesser FBS competition has officially arrived.
The change of the seasons gives way for a scrumptious Week 5 slate with plenty of top-tier matchups and potential trap games. The action gets started on Friday night, when a pair of ranked progams—one in the ACC and one in the Big 12—go on the road to face frisky opponents. Then on Saturday, the Big Ten and SEC take center stage as they so often do since becoming college football’s main characters. USC plays at the crack of dawn (or so Lincoln Riley says), Ohio State goes sailgating and Oregon closes the night with its first white-out at Penn State. Plus, another edition of an old-school rivalry and the Kirby Smart Bowl headline the SEC schedule.
