The big game is in Tallahassee; if there were any doubt, ESPN's College GameDay cleared that up by picking that site as this week's staging ground.
But Miami-FSU is not the only game, and it's not the only big game. Scroll down the Top 25 and you'll get all the way to No. 12 Washington State before you find a team you won't be able to watch this week on network or basic cable.
In all, 19 ranked teams will be in action on games televised to local viewers.
"With all all due respect to the Cubbies, Marlins, Yankees and Red Sox, for college football fans, this is our weekend," said College GameDay's Kirk Herbstreit.
He's right. Though baseball is undergoing a resurgence in popularity with a highly charged postseason, and NASCAR is back in primetime Saturday, it's hard to argue that this weekend doesn't belong to the college football fan.
But why wait until Saturday? The biggest game in USF history (vs. Texas Christian) is at 8 tonight on ESPN2 (Mark Malone, Sean Salisbury and Jimmy Dykes work the game), while No. 13 Minnesota hosts No. 19 Michigan over on ESPN at the same time.
Saturday's FSU-Miami game is, of course, the highlight of what ABC/ESPN is billing as "Separation Saturday," alluding to the second week in October as a line of demarcation between the contenders and the pretenders (unless Oklahoma, Miami, Ohio State, Virginia Tech and LSU all win ... but let's not quibble).
This will be the fifth time the College GameDay crew has been there for the FSU-Miami game and 18th time it has done its live remote from a game featuring the Seminoles, the most appearances by any team since the program's first road trip (Florida State at Notre Dame on Nov. 13, 1993).
The fire Ron Zook crowd can pick up more ammunition at 3:30 Saturday on CBS when the Gators travel to the No. 6 Tigers, a game analyst Todd Blackledge says is pretty unusual for an LSU-UF contest.
"I've covered this matchup a couple of times in the past, and I can't remember it ever being a game that LSU was supposed to win," he said. "But that is the case this year."
Even TBS, with No. 7 Nebraska against Missouri at 7 p.m., and Fox Sports Net, with Stanford at No. 9 Southern Cal at 10 p.m., have Top 10 games to boast about this weekend.
Almost every team in the Top 10 has had a major scare this season, and the Nos. 1-3 teams all are on the road. And it is college football, where unpredictable games rule the day.
Considering that of the six top-rated programs in the Tampa Bay market last week, four were college football games, Separation Saturday is probably not a reference to viewers and their remote controls.
