Sports this weekend

This is the first weekend of college basketball but there aren’t too many big games, or even games on TV. That’s kind of disappointing. What isn’t disappointing is UCLA’s performance on Friday night, as they dominated their opener against Portland State 69-48.

There aren’t as many football games I’m looking forward to as last week, but there are some:

• Air Force/Notre Dame — can Notre Dame lose to two military schools in a row? (How did UCLA lose to them again?)
• Illinois/Ohio State — in a season full of upsets, #1 hasn’t fallen in a long time. It needs to, to open up the championship to two teams that look more talented than Ohio State (LSU and Oregon) or a better underdog story in Kansas.
• Kansas/Oklahoma State — How long can Kansas keep this up? Here’s hoping they make it through one more week.
• Fresno State/Hawaii — Our first chance to see Hawaii play against a half-decent team. Fresno State has built a reputation of knocking off the big schools or at least giving them a scare — does that apply to unbeaten Hawaii?
• Arizona State/UCLA — as usual, I list them only because I’m a UCLA fan. As bad as the Bruins have looked the last two weeks, I wouldn’t be surprised at all if they won. That’s what UCLA does in the Dorrell era — build your hopes up and then knock them down in the most demoralizing way possible. My prediction: UCLA beats Arizona State and Oregon, meaning they’d go into the season finale against USC with a win sending them to the Rose Bowl — but USC wins 100-6.

Here’s your weekend TV listings:

SATURDAY

9 a.m., #12 Michigan at Wisconsin (ESPN)
9 a.m., Wake Forest at #21 Clemson (ESPN2)
9 a.m., #23 Penn State at Temple (ESPNU)
9 a.m., Minnesota at Iowa (BTN)
9 a.m., Michigan State at Purdue (BTN)

9:30 a.m., Texas A&M at #7 Missouri (FSN)
9:30 a.m., Kansas State at Nebraska (Versus)

11:30 a.m., Air Force at Notre Dame (NBC)

12:30 p.m., One of these games on ABC:
Illinois at #1 Ohio State
#9 Arizona State at UCLA
Florida State at #11 Virginia Tech
Texas Tech at #14 Texas
12:30 p.m., #18 Auburn at #10 Georgia (CBS)
12:30 p.m., #13 Connecticut at Cincinnati (ESPNU)
12:30 p.m., Wyoming at Utah (CSTV)

3:30 p.m., Baylor at #4 Oklahoma (FSN)
4:15 p.m., #19 Virginia at Miami (ESPN2)
4:30 p.m., UCF at UAB (CSTV)
4:45 p.m., #15 Florida at South Carolina (ESPN)

5 p.m., One of these games on ABC:
#4 Kansas at Oklahoma State
#8 Boston College at Maryland
#17 USC at California

7:15 p.m., Washington at Oregon State (FSN)

8 p.m., Fresno State at #16 Hawaii (ESPN)
8 p.m., San Diego State at UNLV (CSTV)

SUNDAY

10 a.m., NFL on CBS distribution map, NFL on FOX distribution map
1 p.m., NFL on CBS distribution map, NFL on FOX distribution map
5:15 p.m., Indianapolis Colts at San Diego Chargers (NBC)

9 a.m., men’s hoops, Brown at Michigan (BTN)
3 p.m., men’s hoops, IPFW at Wisconsin (BTN)
5 p.m., men’s hoops, North Florida at Maryland (ESPNU)
11:30 a.m., women’s hoops, Arizona State vs. North Carolina (ESPN)
2 p.m., women’s hoops, Oklahoma vs. Maryland (ESPN2)
5 p.m., women’s hoops, Stanford vs. Rutgers (ESPN)