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Good morning New York Giants fans!
Happy Saturday and welcome to Week 7 of the college football season. This is a week in which we’ll be circling back to check in on some teams that we’ve already looked at this year. NFL scouts routinely visit the same schools in their area two or three times in a season to get a look at prospects against different opponents. It also gives them an opportunity to get a feel for their development over the course of a year.
And we’ll be doing that for the same reasons. We’ve looked at three of today’s highlighted teams already this year, but that also gives us a good baseline to look at their opponents.
This year has been a chaotic one for college football, but we also have some great opportunities to look at some under-the-radar prospects against good competition.
Fox – noon
We just looked at Ohio State two weeks ago (Week 5, against Washington), but we haven’t checked in on Illinois since Week 1 and this is a great opportunity to do so.
I’ll start out by saying that my usual advice applies for stacked teams applies to Ohio State in this game. Watch, enjoy, and take note of which players jump off the field. There will be NFL players at pretty much every position for the Buckeyes. Giants fans might want to pay attention to WR Carnell Tate, given the current state of the receiving corps.
(17) Illinois
(1) Ohio State
CBS – 3:30 p.m.
Once again, we just checked in on Oregon in Week 5 (against Penn State), but we haven’t looked at Indiana yet this year. This is a fantastic opportunity to look at Indiana against one of the top teams in the country. This is going to be “must watch” scouting tape for the Hoosiers, so it’s a good idea to get a familiar now.
This could also be a preview of the 2026 NFL Draft, as both Oregon red-shirt QB Dante Moore and Indiana junior Fernando Mendoza are in the running to be the first player off the board in April. I don’t like to predict red-shirt sophomores as draft prospects until they declare (and I tend to prefer they stay in school for more development before they go to the NFL), but Moore has been generating a ton of buzz this year.
(3) Oregon
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