FanHouse Thursday Night College Football

With impeccable conference records of 4-2 and 4-3, Miami and Georgia Tech sit atop the ACC Coastal Division standings. They're also playing tonight. If Miami wins they're probably off to the ACC Championship and will certainly lock the thing up with another victory against North Carolina State the following week.

A Georgia Tech victory pulls the ACC into further chaos as North Carolina would also enter the picture. If you're into anarchy root for the boys from Atlanta. If you have any hope for a brand name team representing the ACC in the BCS, swallow hard and root for the 'Canes. Stylistically it's option football against a rapidly improving Miami defensive line. You should be watching.

We'll be here to chronicle the madness, starting around 730 ET. The wise guys have Miami a field goal favorite right now. Chat application after the jump.

The storyline is obvious here: these are two teams looking to get their mojo back. College football just isn't college football (post 1980) without Miami to hate. The program's rebounded a bit this year with a young and explosive roster built with South Florida kids but the pieces just haven't all come together yet.

Meanwhile Virginia Tech is like the little known fourth part of former Chrysler Chairman Lee Iacocca's phrase -- "lead, follow or get out of the way". In the absence of an ability to enthusiastically lead a rudderless ACC, too good defensively to follow and with their peers too inept to get pushed out of the way, Virginia Tech does the one thing its best at -- "get in the way". We'll be watching for another fine stonewalling or a Miami breakthrough.

We'll also be monitoring a pair of other games tonight between Buffalo and Akron (7 ET, ESPNU) and Wyoming and UNLV (9 ET, CBS College Sports). Come join us, the party begins at 730 ET, chat application after the jump.

Otherwise known as Maryland at Virginia Tech. This being the ACC in 2008, this is quite the relevant game. Virginia Tech will do its best to bore us all to tears, but that's why Maryland is such a great foil. The Terrapins are anything but boring.

What other team can get blanked 31-0 by Virginia one week and turn around the very next week and blank a much better Wake Forest team 26-0? Manic stuff I tell ya. But ...crab cakes and football, that's what Maryland does!

Current odds have the castrated turkeys and their castrated offense by three points. Something tells me this being played in Lane Stadium has a lot to do with that. Its worth noting that in the killing fields of college football coaching, it looks like Maryland's Ralph Friedgen is one oversized coach not in danger of losing his job this year. It wasn't always that way, but the Terps have rallied in a nice way this year to where they are now 6-2.

Whatever the outcome, we'll be there. Please join us at 730 ET for the live blog and get in on the conversation for College Football's Monday night. Chat application after the jump.

Oh, and we'll also be monitoring the perhaps superior "undercard" between TCU and Utah on CBS College Sports at 8 ET.

Update: we're live!

We're back! Its week ten of an increasingly tense and tightening dash towards the end of the 2008 college football season. ESPN's Thursday night showcase game this week is between Big East contenders USF and Cincinnati.

Of some intrigue, USF is ranked despite a 1-2 conference record second-worst to lowly Syracuse. Meanwhile, Cincinnati is having all kinds of quarterback issues. They play like wild animals at home though, and are 3-0 there on the year. Desperation is in the air and that makes for great football.

Join us in our College Football Thursday Night Live Blog, starting at 730 ET. Chat application after the jump.

We don't want to get too sappy, but this may be Bobby Bowden's last major primetime game as the head coach at Florida State. Mind you its on a Thursday night, but when your program takes the turn Florida State's has, them's the breaks, sadly.

Maybe ESPN will ignore the significance of it, or maybe there's a goofy showing of respect/admiration/appreciation with montages of Charlie Ward and Chris Weinke and Deion Sanders and a million other interesting players and events that have been part of the man's remarkable career.

And if all of that stuff somehow bores you, we'll also be monitoring another game starting a half hour later, No. 9 BYU at TCU. Whatever strikes your fancy, it's College Football's Monday night, and we're here to emcee.

Festivities begin at 730 ET (BYU at TCU begins at 8 ET on Versus). Chat application after the jump.

As usual, the College Football FanHouse is here to discuss the latest tension-filled Thursday night game. Amazingly, the scheduling Gods have smiled upon ESPN with five straight Thursday night upsets. Will tonight's contest between shaky Clemson and suddenly stung No. 21 Wake Forest be the sixth?

We'll be here to find out and invite you to join us. As usual it will be a fun time on what one ESPN commentator called "college football's Monday night".

Festivities begin at 7:30 PM ET after the jump.

As always we're your host for the evening. Come watch the game with the College Football FanHouse and generally spend quality electronic water cooler time with us as Pittsburgh slips further into its misery. Or will they? Thursday night games are just weird which is why we're here to keep an eye on them.

As a doubleheader of sorts, Oregon State visits Utah later in the evening, which is something we'll also be monitoring.

The live blog kicks off at 7:30 Eastern, the game's on ESPN, we're here, and the chat application is after the jump. See you there.