It's that time of year again, woooooooo! We've had to deal with MLB and preseason NFL for too long! Now we get the bread and butter: college football.

Not on the schedule below, but the 2009 CFB season really kicks off on Thursday, Sep. 3, where we have South Carolina at North Carolina St. After that is #16 Oregon at #14 Boise St. Both of those games are airing on ESPN.

Some notes: The shitty SEC game of the week has historically been shown on Jefferson Pilot (JP), which became Lincoln Financial (LF), which became Raycom. This year, the new SEC Network will carry these games. The same station that brought you JP/LF/Raycom should also bring you the SEC Network game. And yes, there will be an HD broadcast.

I will now begin listing Big 10 Network games on the schedule, as many folks get this channel standard now.

I will not, however, list Fox College Sports Network channels. Most people won't get these stations, I doubt my readers care much about the shitty west coast games anyway.

As usual, I will include MLB, as well as anything else of interest that happens on Saturday. (Which, of course, means no NASCAR.)

I remember making a new plan for how I was going to use rankings in the schedule this year, but I can't for the life of me remember it. So for lack of any other great idea, I'll use the AP Top 25. I didn't use it last year because it's not a part of the BCS rankings, but I think I'm going to actually use it for that very reason this time. Screw the BCS.

Ole Miss is easily the team with the most inflated ranking. Watch them go down quickly. Notre Dame could take the field with 9 players and still be ranked in the Top 25 each season. And if you didn't notice, Old Man Holtz predicted ND will reach the BCS Championship game. Someone forgot to take his reality pills.

And without further ado... The schedule!

Sports Saturday - 5 Sep 09

Time (Central)	Matchup	TV Station
11:00am	Western Kentucky @ Tennessee	SEC Network
	Kentucky @ Miami (OH)	ESPNU
	Navy @ #6 Ohio St.	ESPN
	Minnesota @ Syracuse	ESPN2
	Liberty @ West Virginia	CSS
	Akron @ #9 Penn State	Big 10 Network
2:30pm	#13 Georgia @ #9 Oklahoma St.	ABC
	Nevada @ #23 Notre Dame	NBC
	Missouri @ Illinois	ESPN
	Western Michigan @ Michigan	ESPN2
	San Jose St. @ #4 USC	FOX Sports South
	Jackson St. @ Mississippi St.	ESPNU
3:00pm	Rice @ UAB	CSS
	Red Sox @ White Sox	FOX
6:00pm	#20 BYU @ #3 Oklahoma	ESPN
	Charleston Southern @ #1 Florida	FOX Sports South
	Louisiana Tech @ Auburn	ESPNU
	Northern Illinois @ Wisconsin	Big Ten Network
6:30pm	Western Carolina @ Vanderbilt	CSS
7:00pm	#5 Alabama @ #7 Virginia Tech (Atlanta, GA)	ABC
9:00pm	Maryland @ California	ESPN2
9:30pm	#11 LSU @ Washington	ESPN
	Texas Southern @ Prairie View A&M	ESPNU