On the tube: Weekday edition

A day early, but I'll be sitting in meetings for six hours tomorrow. Woohoo!

This week, we've got a couple games with BCS impact but little intrigue.

Skip it: ESPN2 needs to find something better to air than the 2-5 showdown of Ohio at Temple (7 p.m. Tuesday, ESPN2). Aren't there baseball reruns or preseason NBA or something?

Biggest game: I'm going out on a limb and saying Auburn-West Virginia (6:30 p.m. Thursday, ESPN) will be a sleeper. But Auburn needs at least a couple more wins to be bowl-eligible. West Virginia, amazingly, is unranked yet tied for the Big East lead. On the other hand, they're nearly through with the patsy part of its schedule. If the Mountaineers want to build up confidence for challenges against Pitt and South Florida, they'll need to snag a win this week.

Runner-up: Next in the series of Friday night WAC games is Boise State-San Jose State (8 p.m. Friday, ESPN2). Both are undefeated in conference play. Boise beat the bejesus out of Hawaii last week and is looking to run the table and get into a second BCS bowl in three years. The Spartans have been marvelously inconsistent this year -- scored just 13 in a win over UC Davis but beat Hawaii 20-17 on the road (even today a tough task) and is coming off blowouts over two WAC teams. No BCS for SJSU if they win, but they could certainly play spoiler. Which is always fun.

What's not on (yet) that should be: So I asked for a game last week that turned out to be a blowout. This week, I've got two Saturday games on my hot list (AKA, the ESPN360.com list), just for their postseason importance. First is NC State at Maryland (2:30 p.m.), wherein the Terps try to stay in the hunt for the ACC title game. Also up there is Rutgers at Pittsburgh (2:30 p.m.), wherein Pitt can maintain a conference lead or be forced into pinning hopes on South Florida and West Virginia losses.