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BEST OF THE WEEKCollege Football Conference title gamesFriday, November 30
Pac-12: Utah (9-3) vs. Washington (9-3), 5 p.m., Fox.Saturday, December 1Big 12: Texas (9-3) vs. Oklahoma (11-1), 9 a.m., ABCSEC: Alabama (12-0) vs. Georgia (11-1), 12:30p.m., CBSACC: Clemson (12-0) vs. Pitt (7-5), 5 p.m., ABC.Big Ten: Northwestern (8-4) vs. Ohio State (11-1), 5 p.m., Fox.
There are five other showdowns, too, featuring the Group of Five conferences, the best of which will be the Mountain West Conference game (4:45 p.m., ESPN) between Fresno State (10-2) and Boise St. (10-2).
This is the most hyped weekend because the games will impact which four teams make it to the national title playoffs, but while upsets happen, never forget that these playoff games were designed to make more TV revenue for the leagues. They often are a rematch of a regular season game or, worse, a mismatch.
Washington beat Utah 21-7 early in the Pac-12 season. Texas handed OU its only loss of the season, 48-45, in a neutral site game. Unbeaten Clemson is facing a 7-5 Pitt Panther team, and Northwestern, which lost early games at Duke and Akron, is 8-4 against the one-loss Buckeyes.
The Pac-12 game has no impact on the playoff bracket, Clemson will likely get a bid even if they lose to Pitt, and it’s possible that Alabama and Georgia makes it to the playoffs regardless of the SEC title game result. That would leave Alabama, Georgia and Clemson at 12-1 and Notre Dame 12-0. Oklahoma and Ohio State would also be one-loss teams but would have a hard time making a case against the aforementioned.
Texas has a chance of eliminating Oklahoma from the debate. The Sooners have scored 45 points or more in ten games but are giving on defense, too. Northwestern could upset an Ohio State team that played a rinky-dink schedule, lost to Purdue by 29 points, allowed Maryland to score 51, and was feckless in general all season until it pounded Michigan Saturday. Don’t count the Wildcats out. The score has been close in all 12 of their games (biggest margin 14) and eight were decided by five points or less.
Besides the other bowls, there’s a handful of regular season games that were postponed to Dec. 2 because of weather issues, including Stanford-Cal (noon, Pac-12 network).
BEST OF THE RESTNFLNov. 26, 29, Dec. 2
A tip-of-the-cap to the NFL scheduling department. When the Rams and Chargers settled in L.A., concerns about the old days of L.A. suffering with bad teams and missing big games because of blackout rules has been eased. The NFL no longer puts a curtain around Sunday telecasts to protect local teams, and the Thursday and Sunday night games have expanded options.
The Raiders are on TV again, but at least its against Kansas City (Sunday, 1 p.m., CBS). So is Dallas, but the pokes play New Orleans (5:20 p.m., Thursday, Fox and NFL Network). Sunday also gives us the Rams at Detroit for breakfast (10 a.m., Fox) and Chargers at Pittsburgh for dinner (5:30 p.m., NBC).
COLLEGE BASKETBALLNov. 26-Dec. 2
The Pac-12 Network has been in a dilemma since it opened for business. It was the last major conference to launch its own network and came in looking for SEC money despite the conference not having a titular team since Pete Carroll’s Trojans and also suffering from a time disparity whenever they play night games that start at 10 p.m. in the East. DirecTV thumbed its nose at the Pac-12 demands and a lot of cable systems also passed or put the network on a high-end tier.
It especially hurts hoop. The Pac-12 actually has a solid lineup of non-conference and tournament games before league play begins, but they’re nowhere to be found for potential viewers. The league could solve this problem by creating a local over-the-air package from their inventory for, say, KTLA or KTTV. Both UCLA and USC have home games this week on the invisible network.
The best of the week: Tuesday, Michigan State-Louisville (4:30 p.m., ESPN) and Indiana-Duke (6:30 p.m., ESPN); Thursday, North Carolina-Michigan (6:30 p.m., ESPN); and Saturday, Gonzaga-Creighton (11 a.m., Fox) and Stanford-Kansas (2:30 p.m., ESPN).
SoccerNov. 27-Dec. 2
We can’t get local Pac-12 Network football or basketball telecasts but we can import every major soccer game in the world, both foreign and domestic.
TNT has UEFA games Tuesday, Athens-Ajax (9:55 a.m.) and Roma-Real Madrid (11:50 a.m.), and Wednesday, Tottenham-Inter-Milan (noon).
Outdoor Life Network (OLN) has Premier League games Saturday, Manchester City vs. Bournemouth (7 a.m.) and Sunday, Arsenal-Tottenham (6 a.m.) and Liverpool-Everton (8:10 a.m.).
The MLS playoffs Thursday feature the N.Y. Red Bulls against Atlanta United (4:30 p.m., FS1) and Sporting KC versus Portland (6:30 p.m., ESPN), and the NCAA Championships will play out Friday with semifinals at 2 and 4:30 p.m. (ESPNU) and Sunday’s title game (10 a.m., ESPNU).
BOXINGDec. 1
There’s a reason why Floyd Mayweather and Manny Pacquiao keep popping up on boxing shows even though they’re both closing in on social security: There’s such an absence of top names in the sport, because athletes who could be stars in the ring abandoned that idea because of the money available in other sports.
Now HBO is bidding adieu to the sport, which could be crippling without the stage the network gave the sport. We’re left touting matches like the one Saturday (6:45 p.m.) on Showtime, a light-heavyweight match between 41-year-old Adonis Stevenson (31-1) and Ukraine’s Oleksandr “The Nail’’ Gvozdyk (15-0). The Nail trains out of Oxnard. Title-holder Stevenson refuses to fight outside of Canada as long as he holds the title, which is why this fight will be held in Quebec City.
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