The Black Friday college football slate is marked with rivalry games from power conferences, and they’re all interesting enough. But the real juice on Friday’s schedule comes from the midmajors, where division titles are on the line and major bowl bids might be at stake. The three games of the most consequence are as follows…
We’ve seen some of the great divides in American culture play themselves out this month. There’s the usual quadrennial red voter vs. blue voter. In baseball we saw the old-fashioned writers go toe-to-toe with the modern sabermetricians in the American League MVP debate. Now it’s time to showcase America’s traditional Black Friday divide—inveterate shoppers against college football junkies. I’ve never shopped a sale on Black Friday so I can’t help there, but TheSportsNotebook will do what it can to prep college football fans for the chunk of TV games on tap for Black Friday college football.