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The Quad of the Week – Week 2 (Four games to watch at once)

by: RT Young09/05/25
Michigan Wolverines football quarterback Bryce Underwood made his first career start against New Mexico. (Photo by Lon Horwedel / TheWolverine.com)
Michigan Wolverines football quarterback Bryce Underwood made his first career start against New Mexico. (Photo by Lon Horwedel / TheWolverine.com)

Last week we debuted The Quad of the Week, where I give you a time window to fire up four squares on a checkerboard-like view of a particular streaming service.

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Once again, I invite them to sponsor this article if they’d like proper recognition. I also rolled out some rules. The TLDR? The Quad will never be when the Longhorns play, the four games must be at the same time, the games are meant to be a pairing, and we’ll rank them from 1–4.

Here’s Week 2’s Quad Of The Week: “The Quad of Cleansing”

Time: 6:30–7:30 CST

Game 1: Michigan at Oklahoma – ABC (Sooners -5.5)
Game 2: Vanderbilt at Virginia Tech – ACC Network (Hokies -2.5)
Game 3: Arizona State at Mississippi State – ESPN2 (Sun Devils -6.5)
Game 4: Boston College at Michigan State – NBC (Spartans -3.5)

Also worth keeping an eye on UNC vs Charlotte, just in case things get testy for Bill Belichick in week two.

Notes: I’m calling this week The Quad of Cleansing for Texas fans, because it’s about moving on from week one and Ohio State.

Hopefully Steve Sarkisian, Arch Manning and company deliver a whipping against San Jose State resembling a bloodletting, and then Longhorn fans can enjoy the rest of the slate. The Kansas-Missouri reunion at 2:30 will be fun, as will the old SWC matchup between Baylor and SMU. But the rest of the midday lineup leaves something to be desired. That’s why I went with the night window.

Michigan and Oklahoma might deserve their own screen rather than being diced up with the others. Two blue bloods in Norman, both breaking in new quarterbacks—John Mateer for Michigan and Bryce Underwood for Oklahoma. I’m interested to see how the Sooners’ defense holds up, but I also value schadenfreude in CFB. If Michigan and a true freshman QB manage to beat OU on the road, I want to be watching.

Vanderbilt vs Virginia Tech is a decent conference measuring stick, the bottom of the SEC against a Hokies team whose coach, Brent Pry, might be a top candidate for “first fired.” Kyron Drones is a fun watch because every play carries the chance of something inexplicably awesome or terrible.

Arizona State and Mississippi State face off for the second straight year in the non-conference. Their fanbases getting together should cue up an Imagine Dragons/Florida Georgia Line concert with a Nickelback cameo, but alas. Still, I’m curious why the Sun Devils are only favored by 6.5 against one of the most hopeless teams in the SEC.

And Boston College vs Michigan State? Something had to go here.

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Movie Pairing (No Explanation Given): Good Will Hunting (1997). 

“It’s not your fault.”

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