Marshall vs. Georgia Southern FREE LIVE STREAM (10/12/24): Watch College Football Week 7 Online | Time, TV, channel

The Marshall Thundering Herd, led by quarterback Braylon Braxton, will face the Georgia Southern Eagles, led by quarterback JC French, on Saturday, October 12, 2024 (10/12/24) at Allen E. Paulson Stadium in Statesboro, Georgia.

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Here’s what you need to know:

What: NCAA Football, Week 7

WHO: Marshall vs. Georgia Southern

When: Saturday, Oct. 12, 2024

Where: Allen E. Paulson Stadium

Time: 8pm ET

TV: ESPNU

Live stream: fuboTV (free trial), DirecTV stream (free trial)

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Here’s a college football story from the Associated Press:

A matchup of top-five teams, the Red River Rivalry and a possible College Football Playoff knockout game are the main events on the Week 7 college football schedule.

No. 2 Ohio State meets No. 3 Oregon for the second game between top-five opponents in three weeks. Something amazing would have to happen for the Buckeyes and Ducks to repeat the Alabama-Georgia drama.

Still, anyone who predicted that Ohio State-Oregon on Saturday would play a bigger role than the traditional regular-season finale game between Ohio State and Michigan — at least this year — is looking pretty smart right now given the recent performances of the reigning national champion Wolverines.

This could be the first of up to three meetings between the Buckeyes and Ducks, with matchups in the Big Ten championship game and playoffs possible.

No. 1 Texas and No. 18 Oklahoma meet in their annual game in Dallas. The Longhorns returned to the top of the rankings after Alabama’s surprising loss to Vanderbilt. They have an open date and it looks like quarterback Quinn Ewers has recovered from his abdominal injury and is ready to get back in the starting lineup. If not, Arch Manning has proven himself more than capable.

OU, meanwhile, will start a true freshman quarterback (Michael Hawkins) for the first time against Texas.

The Southeastern Conference’s other big game is No. 9 Mississippi vs. No. 13 LSU. Neither team has had a smooth ride this season, and the loser will have two losses and will have their playoff hopes significantly dented. The Rebels’ offense has faltered over the past two weeks, and they could be without injured star receiver Tre Harris.

Best game

No. 2 Ohio State (5-0, 2-0 Big Ten) vs. No. 3 Oregon (5-0, 2-0), Saturday, 7:30 p.m. ET (NBC)

This is the third time in four meetings since 2010 that both teams have finished in the top 10 in their play. The only other time a top-five matchup occurred was in the first College Football Playoff championship game in 2015, which Ohio State won.

The Buckeyes were nothing short of dominant, outscoring their opponents by a total of 230-34. Oregon, which began with narrow wins over Idaho and Boise State, appears to have found its rhythm over the last three games.

BetMGM Sports lists the Buckeyes as 3 1/2-point favorites.

Heisman watch

Oregon QB Dillon Gabriel entered the season as the Heisman Trophy favorite. As steady as he has been, players like Cam Ward, Jalen Milroe and Travis Hunter seem to emerge every week and overshadow him. Gabriel has the biggest stage this week and can establish himself in the top group again.

He throws for 290 yards per game and completes a national-best 78% of his attempts. Playing for the Buckeyes is motivation enough for any quarterback. But Gabriel will certainly be looking to make up for his mediocre performance last week, when he threw two interceptions in the red zone against Michigan State.

Numbers you should know

0 – Rushing touchdowns allowed by Nebraska in six games.

8 – Runs of 40 yards or more by Boise State’s Ashton Jeanty, twice as many as anyone in the FBS.

17 – Consecutive wins by Liberty in the regular season after Tuesday’s overtime win over FIU, the longest active streak in the country.

57 – Passes intercepted by North Carolina State since 2021, most by power conference teams.

101 – New Mexico’s average penalty yards per game, the highest by an FBS team through Week 6 since 2020.

Under the radar

No. 18 Kansas State (4-1, 1-1 Big 12) at Colorado (4-1, 2-0), Saturday, 10:15 p.m. ET (ESPN)

These teams are again in the same conference and the Wildcats are returning to Boulder for the first time since 2010. It is also the first crucial back-to-back road game for a K-State team trying to compete in the open field Big 12.

The Buffaloes’ biggest problem will be controlling the impressive one-two punch of QB Avery Johnson and RB DJ Giddens. Johnson is one of the nation’s top quarterbacks, averaging 7.3 yards per carry, and Giddens is averaging 121 yards per game.

Shedeur Sanders had an open deadline to rest his body after being sacked 18 times in five games and will face a K-State defense that has a tendency to give up big passing plays.

Hot seat

Akron’s Joe Moorhead went 2-10 in each of his first two seasons and is 1-5 in the Zips’ Western Michigan game. Of his five victories, three came against second-tier teams in the Football Championship Subdivision.

The Zips are a strict program that pays Moorhead $620,000 per year through 2027. A potential acquisition of around $2 million would be no small expense. Administrators must decide whether someone else could do a better job leading a team that hasn’t won more than four games in a season since Terry Bowden’s Zips reached the MAC championship game in 2017 and finished 7-7.

Only four schools in the Mid-America Conference have an average attendance of more than 20,000. Even by this modest measure, interest in the Zips has waned. Average attendance was 17,958 in 2019, when the Zips were 0-12. This season they have drawn just 8,932 and 9,337 games respectively at their 30,000-seat stadium.

(The Associated Press contributed to this report)

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