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Gameday Open Thread: Leave 'em If You Got 'em...With Venom!

By Matt Hinton Nov 17, 2007, 11:28am EST

*National TV Schedule (all time Eastern)*

Noon	Ohio State at Michigan	ABC
Noon	N’western at Illinois	ESPN

Noon	Syracuse at UConn	ESPN2
Noon	Tulsa at Army	ESPN Classic
Noon	Maryland at Fla. State	LF Sports
Noon	N. Carolina at Ga. Tech	LF Sports


12:30	Missouri at K-State	FSN
12:30	Kentucky at Georgia	LF Sports

2:30	Duke at Notre Dame	NBC
3:30	Miami at Va. Tech	ABC (map)

3:30	Penn St. at Mich. St.	ABC (map)
3:30	Iowa St. at Kansas	ABC (map)

3:30	Cal at Washington	ABC (map)
3:30	LSU at Ole Miss	CBS

7:00	Okla. State a Baylor	FSN
7:30	So. Miss at UTEP	ESPN2

7:45	West Va. at Cincinnati	ESPN
7:45	Boston Coll. at Clemson	ESPN2

8:00	Oklahoma at Tx. Tech	ABC
8:00	L’ville at So. Florida	ESPNU

Today's slate of games being what it is - the morbid, sideshow curiosity of Duke-Notre Dame is perhaps the most fascinating of the worst mid-afternoon lineup in years, one that features only one game (Penn State-Michigan State) between two winning teams, and that only in the Great Lakes and Rust Belt states, with nothing particular at stake - the story of the day barring an Ole Miss/Iowa State/Kansas State/Texas Tech upset will be Ohio State-Michigan.

For new readers, or "brotherhood of man" types outside the Midwest (or the South, where there's an intuitive understanding of such matters), a quick primer on the right and wrong way to think about this classic collision for the Rose Bowl:

Wrong.
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