It's mid-October and the conference slates are starting to heat up with sold match ups across the country. There are only two match ups this weekend between ranked teams: 13th ranked Northwestern traveling to the Big House to take on 18th ranked Michigan, and 23rd ranked Cal traveling to 5th ranked Utah. Yet both games will go a long way to determining who the contenders are in both the Big 10 and Pac 12 conferences.
Thursday sees former Iowa State OC Tom Herman host Chad Morris and SMU (7 PM, ESPN2) and Washington traveling to USC (8 PM, ESPN).