The Quad Of The Week - Week 1 (Four Games To Watch At Once)

One of the best parts about College Football in 2025 is the multiview option on ____ (redacted)*. Televisions are nice and big enough now that someone can easily watch four games at once, and the fan can take in a little bit from each matchup. It’s the ultimate sign of someone who can’t get enough of this silly, stupid sport.

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And this season we’ll look at a “Quad Of The Week,” every single week, in an effort to help guide our degenerate readers in their quest to consume as much CFB as possible.

But first, some rules…

The Quad will never be at the same time the Texas Longhorns are playing. Because if you watch your favorite team on a checkerboard, I’m not sure what to tell you. But I bet you consume Texas games wearing a black Casey Thompson jersey with burnt orange flames on the sleeves. There’s a lot you need to reevaluate about your fandom, friendo.

The four games have to be on at the same time, naturally.

Like a snack tray, The Quad is meant to be a pairing. It’s intended for max consumption. It will opt for volume over quality, like on Saturday when Clemson and LSU play at 6:30. That game is a three-course meal in itself. You don’t need to slot Texas Tech–Arkansas Pine Bluff next to it just to fill boxes.

We’ll give you a time frame to dip into The Quad and decide if it’s for you. They’ll be ranked 1-4 in order of importance. Game 1 should be where your volume is tuned to.

It’s a little ironic to be celebrating a streaming service during a week Texas fans had their eyes glued to a dispute between a network and said streamer, putting the ability to watch the Longhorns/Buckeyes in doubt.

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Here’s Saturday’s Quad Of The Week

Name: Sinful Snack Saturday
Time: 10:30–11:30 CST

Game 1: Utah at UCLA (Utes -6.5)
Game 2: Colorado State at Washington (Huskies -21.5)
Game 3: Hawaii at Arizona (Wildcats -17.5)
Game 4: Northern Arizona at Arizona State (Sun Devils -28.5)

Notes: Though there are some elements of a Pac-12 After Dark reunion here (RIP), this Saturday Quad Slate is for the sickos in celebration of College Football returning. This is The Quad you don’t go to bed for—you tune it up like it’s a guilty pleasure or like something you’re sneaking out of the fridge.

Utah/UCLA takes the top spot because it should be a decent game if the spread is indicative of how things play out. Utah is trying to bounce back from a rare down year under Kyle Whittingham and DeShaun Foster is attempting to find where Los Angeles is on a map. It also gives fans a look at Nico Iamelava after he had the worst attempt at asking for a raise since Michael Scott.

Then there are things I like about the other teams for sure. I’m high on Washington and have them as a Big 10 “disrupter,” though probably not a sleeper. I want to see how they look in year two under Jedd Fisch, the growth of quarterback Demond Williams Jr. and underrated jumbo WR Denzel Boston. The Huskies also have one of the best names in football at cornerback: Ephesians Prysock. That sounds like the troubled main character in a William Faulkner novel. Lastly, Arizona State earned my respect, and I like Kenny Dillingham’s offense. But come on, this isn’t about grinding tape, it’s about gluttony. Why put Hawaii/Arizona on TV? It’ll be fun to see if the Rainbow Warriors can go 2-0 after beating Stanford. But putting on Timmy Chang and Hawaii after 10pm, it just feels right.

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Movie Pairing (No Explanation Given): Cobra (1986) by George Cosmatos, starring Sylvester Stallone.