Hello again, it's your pal Jason Kirk with another weekly Watch Grid. The typical preamble follows: this is not the best college football weekend on paper, but paper is for lawyers and Chinese aristocrat Cai Lun, supposedly the inventor of paper. It will be the best college football weekend regardless.

As always, the Watch Grid does not rank based purely on team quality. If it did, your team would always appear first or last, depending on your emotional state. The Watch Grid also considers each bad game's chances of becoming truly spectacularly bad, for instance.

THURSDAY, OCTOBER 3

Georgia Southern at South Alabama (7:30 ET, ESPNU) is light on consequence and interest, but Temple at East Carolina (8 ET, ESPN) could be something, if for no other reason than it's a short-week road trip for a solid team. ECU appears slightly improved (as in, they could possibly be a top-100 team), at least. I'm selling this game really well.

FRIDAY, OCTOBER 4

Hey, #18 UCF at Cincinnati (8 ET, ESPN)! Possibly the AAC game of the year, and possibly even the game that decides the New Year's Six non-power spot. Cincy's anti-efficiency defense vs. UCF's explosive offense could be the matchup. New Mexico at San Jose State (10 ET, CBSSN) will likely occur as scheduled.

SATURDAY, OCTOBER 5

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Another Saturday with a solid undercard, but with only one clear headliner: the Auburn-Florida crab bucket rivalry's first instance since 2011. We gotta just make this thing happen in non-conference -- say, here's a blog post about all the conference rivalries that should just do that.

Fox's Big Nude Saturday once again provides us the best (such as it is) early game. OSU-TTU probably looks like the bigger and nuder option, but it seems likely to deliver fewer EXPLOSIONS than we've come to expect from such a matchup. So let's go all in on the Big Ten punt duel. (Tbh, if I were to pick a game besides Big Nude Saturday, it would be North Dakota State possibly getting a real challenge in the swirling hells of Normal, Illinos.)

In the late shift ... I'm throwing up my hands here. Michigan State could do its usual thing and drag Ohio State into a game with the exact final score of 17-16, or the Buckeyes could just perform according to the laws of physics established so far in this season. Cal-Oregon, maybe, I guess? It's kind of the same game as MSU-OSU -- a game with two defenses and only one offense -- but at least it ... fine, I'm stalling because I don't have a reason for picking Cal-Oregon. The spirits are guiding us.