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Your College Football Saturday Viewing Guide: September 16, 2017

Through a weird quirk of coincidence, there are nine ranked teams playing a nationally televised game on the road today. Seven of them are playing against an unranked team. Now, maybe that’s not that weird of an event. There’s lots of unranked teams in every conference, so maybe this happens on a regular basis.

However, six of these games are non-conference matchups. In other words: there’s six ranked teams playing on the road against teams that they are not regularly familiar with playing. It would seem to me that the combination of unfamiliarity plus road game could end up equaling a completely absurd level of upsets today.