A weekly guide to the best major-college games in 1996. Clip and affix to VCR.
– Aug. 31: Texas Tech at Kansas State
The first Big 12 shootout between former members of the Southwest and Big Eight conferences.
– Sept. 14: Michigan at Colorado
The Wolverines will try not to relive one of the more memorable plays in college football history: the deflected Kordell Stewart-to-Michael Westbrook bomb that beat Michigan 27-26 two years ago in Ann Arbor.
– Sept. 21: A triple-header
Florida at Tennessee for the SEC East. Notre Dame at Texas for intersectional bragging rights. Nebraska at Arizona State for the heck of it.
– Sept. 28: Ohio State at Notre Dame
Not as enormous as last year’s epic, but close, especially if the Irish survive the previous week’s trip to Austin.
– Oct. 5: Big Ten double dip
Rose Bowl hopes are on the line with Michigan at Northwestern and Penn State at Ohio State.- Oct. 12: Florida State at Miamit’s the first big game of the season for the Seminoles, who haven’t won in Miami since 1984.
– Oct. 19: Iowa at Penn State
If the Hawkeyes are for real, they will prove it here.
– Oct. 26: Alabama at Tennessee
Important only if the Vols defeat the Gators. Also keep an eye on Texas at Colorado and Ohio State at Iowa.
– Nov. 2: Northwestern at Penn State
Wildcat fans believe this one will matter a lot.
– Nov. 16: Penn State at Michigan
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It has been one of the Big Ten’s better rivalries. It may decide who goes to Pasadena.
– Nov. 23: Rivalry time
Alabama vs. Auburn in Birmingham; Michigan at Ohio State and USC at UCLA.
– Nov. 29: Colorado at Nebraska
Winner represents the North in the first Big 12 title game.
– Nov. 30: Florida at Florida State
The winner has played for the national title two of the last three years.
– Dec. 7: Championship showdowns
It’s playoff time in the Big 12, SEC and WAC.