2015 NFL Draft: Week 2 College Football

Soak it in, folks. Today and next week have some strong scouting opportunities (to say nothing of the overall college implications) before a two-week stretch of pretty soft scheduling.

For the good times.

In any case, the pickings are a bit slim early. Your best options are either #4 Oklahoma at Tulsa or #24 Missouri at Toledo from the first group. The draft offerings aren't spectacular from either, but OU has draftable pairs at both outside linebacker and offensive tackle.

Once you get to the second run of games, it becomes a Pac-12 day. #14 USC is heading to #13 Stanford to kick off this week's watchlist.

Tons of potential talent here including a solid number of day one and two guys that could impact NFL teams on day one. With Peat and Williams, the obvious look is the Stanford O-line against the USC defensive front, but I'm also interested in the USC passing attack against the Stanford secondary.

If you're wedded to SEC ball, Ole Miss-Vanderbilt kicks off an hour after that and could be fun if only for the turnovers. All in all from the draft's perspective, it's worth taking in the big California showdown above before getting to the day's marquee matchup.

This is a game we'll be pointing to next spring when we're looking at these guys going into the combine and draft. The obvious battle here is Oregon's offense against MSU's defense even after sending standout cornerback Darqueze Dennard to the Bengals in round one. It is unfortunate though that Oregon is without Johnstone and Addison, two key offensive parts that not only would have had a big impact here but also would have had plenty of NFL attention.Don't completely ignore the other side of things though. Connor Cook is a legit early draft option right now; a strong performance today might have round 1 buzz picking up. Of course that will require him to deal with my top corner in the draft, Oregon's Ifo Ekpre-Olomu. MSU can't Richard Sherman him and just ignore him all game, so it'll be a major factor in the game to see who wins that battle.

The schedule REALLY thins out after that aside from three games. You can take in the 7:30 Michigan-#16 Notre Dame contest. There might not be a better game featuring two unranked teams than BYU-Texas. I went with the third for the watchlist.

The Big Ten is having a down era right now, but don't expect that to last too much longer. With that being the case for now though, there's not a ton of out of conference battles that look all that enticing. This is one. After taking a while to put the game against Navy away last week, this game looks much less certain. If tOSU can get the win, they should coast for the the next month and a half until their schedule picks up. If they drop this one, the luster might begin to wear off of Urban Meyer. Ohio St. should win the line battles pretty easily, but Tech has speed. My kind of matchup.