Chris Dufresne's Play It Forward

Five things to watch for this week in college football.

1 Whoever said college football was meant to be played at 1 p.m. on Saturday obviously never met a cable television executive. This week there are games on Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday and Friday, which could affect slow-pitch softball leagues, church choir practices, grocery shopping and helping Jimmy with his homework.

2 One-loss schools looking stay in the national-title race will have some points-scoring opportunities next weekend. No. 14 Ohio State at No. 18 Wisconsin and No. 23 Oregon at No. 9 USC are effectively elimination matches. So, probably, is No. 13 Auburn at No. 19 Vanderbilt.

3 Games we thought we were looking forward to this weekend but no longer are include three-loss Rutgers at two-loss West Virginia in the schools'Big East opener and unranked Florida State at unranked Miami in an Atlantic Coast Conference matchup with not much magnitude.

4 One of the more intriguing games of the week will be Oregon State at Utah on Thursday night. The Beavers are coming off an upset win over then-No. 1 USC and carry the burden of the Pacific 10 Conference's 1-5 record this season against the Mountain West Conference into Salt Lake City.

5 The team you don't want to be this week is Arkansas, which has given up 101 points the last two weeks in blowout losses to Alabama and Texas and now plays host to Florida, coming off a humiliating home loss on Saturday to Mississippi.

-- Chris Dufresne