College football schedule, Week 10: What games to watch, TV times, channels

The schedule for Week 10 could be misleading.

If you look at the games that are going on this Saturday on the surface, you'll see a couple of big-time games taking place on Saturday night, but things don't look nearly as appealing in the morning and afternoon games. These are sometimes the most dangerous Saturdays of all.

November is a month of chaos in college football, and has been since the creation of the BCS and now the College Football Playoff. Weird things start happening, and they usually go down when you aren't expecting them.

And this is the perfect weekend to be caught off-guard. Based on what we think should happen on Saturday, these are the games you should look to watch, but be flexible and ready to change the channel at a moment's notice.

This could be the weekend you've spent your entire lifetime honing those remote control skills for. Don't get caught napping.

Marquee matchups

No. 8 Wisconsin at Northwestern -- Noon, ABC: Of all the games in the early slate, I think this one carries the best combination of "important game" and "chaos potential." After Wisconsin beat Nebraska last weekend, the Big Ten's West Division is suddenly up for grabs. Nebraska -- which has a big game itself that we'll get to in a bit -- sits in first place at 4-1, but four teams are right behind it at 3-2. Two of those teams happen to be Wisconsin and Northwestern. Wisconsin is one of four Big Ten teams in the top 10 of the College Football Playoff rankings, but it is going to Evanston after playing through a difficult stretch of its schedule. Its last four games have been against Michigan, Ohio State, Iowa and Nebraska. Now it must face a Northwestern team on the road, and one that's been playing much better as of late. The last we saw the Wildcats, they were giving Ohio State more than it asked for in Columbus.

No. 11 Florida at Arkansas -- 3:30 p.m., CBS: The Gators are an interesting case this season. They're 6-1, and in first place of the SEC East, and nearly everybody expects them to stay there. It's a team with an elite defense -- opinions vary, but most agree the best defense in the country is either Alabama, Michigan or this Florida unit -- but an offense that's hard to trust. And while it is in first place, it still has a difficult schedule left to get through, beginning with this game on the road against an Arkansas team coming off a bye. Now, the last we saw of the Razorbacks, they were getting their tusks yanked out by Auburn in a 56-3 beatdown, but I don't think that's a true reflection of this Arkansas team's ability. I think the fact it was Arkansas' eighth game in eight weeks taking a toll, and a week off probably did this team some good. I fully expect this game to be up for grabs come the fourth quarter.

No. 1 Alabama at No. 13 LSU -- 8 p.m., CBS: This is the game everybody is looking forward to on Saturday. In every one of Alabama's last three games -- against Arkansas, Tennessee and Texas A&M -- you've thought "OK, this team will give the Tide a test," and Alabama has gone out and won all three of those games by an average of 25.7 points, winning by no less than 19 points in any of them. But this LSU team, surely this team will provide a challenge for the Tide! Listen, the last four games between these two in Baton Rouge have been decided by an average of four points, with two of the games having to go to overtime first. LSU has been a much better team since Ed Orgeron took over, and even if we all naturally assume Alabama is going to win the SEC, a loss to the Tigers on Saturday night would change everything. It's the biggest game of the weekend for a reason.

No. 10 Nebraska at No. 6 Ohio State -- 8 p.m., ABC: This is an important game for both teams. As I mentioned earlier, Nebraska is coming off a loss to Wisconsin, and even though it still leads its division, the cushion it built up isn't quite so soft and fluffy anymore. Now it has to face an Ohio State team on the road at night. An Ohio State team that, quite frankly, hasn't been playing all that well as of late. In its last four games, the Buckeyes have struggled a bit with Indiana, struggled a lot with Wisconsin, just plain lost to Penn State, and had difficulties dealing with Northwestern. It's a team that's been relying on the fact it just has more talent than its opponent to get by rather than out-playing them. I don't know if I want to call this one a "must-win" for either team, but I'll definitely say it's a "don't want to lose."

No. 5 Washington at California -- 10:30 p.m., ESPN: I have this game here strictly for the chaos potential. There's a reason the #Pac12AfterDark hashtag exists on Twitter, and it's because late games in the Pac-12 like to get weird. This game provides not only a chance to get strange, but also shake up the CFP picture in the process. I've no doubt that Washington enters this game as the better team, but it's playing on the road for the second consecutive week, coming off what was a big, but difficult win over Utah last week. Cal comes into this game off a bye week, and is a team that just tends to get into crazy games, particularly at home. The average final score of the Golden Bears three home games this season (wins against Texas, Oregon and Utah) has been 43-38.