I've got some good news and some bad news for you. Let's get the bad out of the way first.
Last week's schedule wasn't great, and this week's may be worse. There are three games pitting ranked-on-ranked teams. They are No. 12 Syracuse versus No. 3 Notre Dame at Yankee Stadium, a de facto Big 12 semifinal with No. 16 Iowa State visiting No. 15 Texas on Longhorn Network and the AAC East championship game with No. 24 Cincinnati at No. 11 UCF -- which happens to be the ABC Saturday Night Football game. Bearcats-Knights is a big game, but when that's the top picking among all the games the Worldwide Leader has the rights to, it's a pretty light week.
Now here's the good news. Once the clock hits midnight on Saturday night, it's on. Rivalry week will be upon us, and then it's Championship Weekend and bowl season.
So... does that get you pumped for Week 12? No? Well here we go anyway.