I will be watching each of these games because they have strong fantasy implications for my game this week. I am sitting one game out of the playoffs and am going against my friend’s undefeated wife. Is this not the way fantasy football goes every year? Someone shows up never having played before and wins the whole thing. Well anyways this is my dilemma. Adrian Peterson is out this week so I need great WR play. I have the following wide receivers and need to start 3 of them please give suggestions as to which I should start (I really want this upset):

Dwayne Bowe KC vs. JAC
Miles Austin Dal vs. PHI
Mike Simms-Walker (what’s up with the jaguars and their hyphenated players?) JAC vs KC
Chad Ochocinco CIN vs. BAL
Greg Jennings GB vs TB

Please tell me who and why.

Also here is the NFL Week 9 Printable Schedule

ESPN2/ABC just send out an email updating the reverse mirror. Now everyone in the blue area will get both of the other games that will be played on ABC. The Wake Forest at Georgia Tech game will still be in HD with the Penn State vs. Ohio State game in Standard Definition.

Here is a link to evening coverage map, and the full college football HD schedule.

Here is a link to the afternoon maps.

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They will broadcast eight games all in high definition. This year they get two major holidays with the New York Giants at Denver Broncos on Thanksgiving and the San Diego Chargers at Tennessee Titans on Christmas day. All of the games will kick off at 8:20 with the exception of the Christmas game that will kick off at 7:30

Brett Favre goes back to Green Bay for the first time since pulling his Male Prima Donna routine over the last few years. I actually went to a preseason game in Green Bay and wore a Brett Favre jersey and got heckled, I can’t even imagine what the real Brett Favre will get.

Without further ado here is the Week 8 Printable Schedule.

So here are the match ups, none of these games really get me too excited so here is a link to the evening ABC Map, which has the best two games of the day Texas at Oklahoma State and USC at Oregon. Also here is the College Football HD Schedule.

This brings us to the topic of the BCS with the BCS rankings having been out for two weeks there are some things that really bother me. First off why is a team like TCU behind USC in the BCS rankings? Losing to a team that is 3-5 should eliminate you from the National Title chase? Why is Ohio State ranked so high after having done absolutely nothing? I’ll tell you why it’s their brand name. Both Arizona and California have almost the exact same resume but are ranked 20th and 24th respectively.

Arizona has lost at Iowa and at Washington. Ohio State has lost to USC at home and Purdue on the road. California has lost at Oregon and at USC which are both very tough games, but somehow Ohio State is ranked ahead of them. I would even say that if you take a look at the teams BYU has played, beat and lost to it is very similar to Ohio State, but because of their brand name Ohio State is #17 and BYU is not in the top 25 of the BCS standings.

Like most of America I would love to have a playoff, but one of the biggest problems is the preseason bias that shows up by leaving teams like Arizona in the dust while teams brand name teams like Ohio State get put ahead because of preseason expectations.

Going along with this, if the NCAA is going to be so hard nosed about player punishments like with Dez Bryant, then I say they need to start putting their fingers in the BCS. It seems very weird to me that they would worry so much about control over player actions and recruiting, but not have one ounce of control about how their national championship is decided in their flagship sport.

Something I found interesting this week was the formation of Playoff PAC a political action committee that is lobbying against the BCS. I do not know how much help they can actually do. But if you want to listen they were on the solid verbal this week.

Anyway I will get off my soapbox, and say that I am really excited for these games and may even go old school with the picture in picture because these games should be great. Last week Texas finally played up to their potential and will probably roll to the National Championship game if they win this one. USC needs someone to slip up, but a big win over Oregon on the road could solidify their position as the best one-loss team.

For the afternoon ABC coverage map and the college football hd schedule follow those links.

Visit the National NBA HDTV Schedule to see only those games being played on national networks.

ESPN will continue broadcasting games on Wednesdays and Fridays throughout the season. Their first national games will be on Wednesday October 28 with New Orleans at San Antoion, and Utah at Denver. ESPN will broadcast 75 games throughout the 2009-10 NBA Season. The following teams will make the maximum allowable 10 appearances the, Boston Celtics, Cleveland Cavaliers, L.A. Lakers, Phoenix Suns, Portland Trail Blazers and San Antonio Spurs. ESPN has flexible scheduling so some of these games may be changed.

Visit the National NBA HDTV Schedule to see only those games being played on national networks.

The National NBA HDTV Schedule will be updated but this schedule is as of 10/27/2009.