Friday, February 2	Scores	Stream
1:30 ET/10:30 PT – TWU @ Centenary	LINK	CC($)
7:00 ET/4:00 PT – [5] Florida @ [17] Auburn	LINK	SECN
7:00 ET/4:00 PT – Southern Utah @ [20] Central Michigan	LINK	ESPN3
7:00 ET/4:00 PT – North Carolina @ New Hampshire	LINK	FREE
6:00 ET/3:00 PT – Illinois-Chicago @ Eastern Michigan	LINK	EMU($)
7:30 ET/4:30 PT – West Virginia, Northern Illinois, Yale @ [24] Iowa State	LINK	ISU($)
7:30 ET/4:30 PT – Western Michigan @ SEMO	LINK	FREE
7:30 ET/4:30 PT – UW-Eau Claire, Gustavus Adolphus @ UW-La Crosse		FREE
7:30 ET/4:30 PT – UW-Stout @ Hamline
8:00 ET/5:00 PT – Iowa @ Illinois	LINK	BTN+ FLO
8:30 ET/5:30 PT – [6] Kentucky @ [2] LSU	LINK	SECN
8:30 ET/5:30 PT – [8] Arkansas @ [10] Alabama	LINK	SEC+
9:00 ET/6:00 PT – [16] Boise State @ Utah State	LINK	FREE
10:00 ET/7:00 PT – [21] Stanford, San Jose State, Seattle Pacific @ UC Davis	LINK	FREE
Saturday, February 3	Scores	Stream
1:00 ET/10:00 PT – Penn @ Cornell		Ivy($)
1:00 ET/10:00 PT – Rhode Island @ Southern Connecticut		SC($)
2:00 ET/11:00 PT – NC State, Towson, Temple @ Pittsburgh	LINK	ACC+
2:00 ET/11:00 PT – [23] Missouri @ [14] Georgia	LINK	SECN
3:30 ET/12:30 PT – [15] Washington @ [3] Utah	LINK	P12N
5:30 ET/2:30 PT – [12] Arizona State @ [13] Oregon State	LINK	P12N
7:00 ET/4:00 PT – Ohio State, West Chester, UW-Whitewater @ Rutgers	LINK
8:00 ET/5:00 PT – [22] Minnesota @ [9] Nebraska	LINK	UNL
8:00 ET/5:00 PT – [18] BYU, Bowling Green, Ball State @ [11] Denver	LINK
10:00 ET/7:00 PT – Sacramento State, Air Force @ Alaska	LINK	FREE
Sunday, February 4	Scores	Stream
12:00 ET/9:00 PT – Bridgeport, Rhode Island @ Brown
12:00 ET/9:00 PT – Cortland @ Springfield		FREE
1:00 ET/10:00 PT – Penn State @ Michigan State	LINK	BTN
1:00 ET/10:00 PT – Kent State, William & Mary, UW-Oshkosh @ [25] George Washington	LINK	GW
1:00 ET/10:00 PT – Ithaca @ Brockport		FREE
2:00 ET/11:00 PT – Maryland @ [7] Michigan	LINK	BTN+ FLO
3:00 ET/12:00 PT – TWU @ Centenary	LINK	CC($)
4:00 ET/1:00 PT – [1] Oklahoma @ [4] UCLA	LINK	ESPN
5:00 ET/2:00 PT – [19] Arizona @ Cal	LINK
5:00 ET/2:00 PT – Lindenwood, Winona State @ Illinois State
Monday, February 5	Scores	Stream
7:00 ET/4:00 PT – Ursinus @ West Chester

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Marquee Meet

 [1] Oklahoma @ [4] UCLA

It’ssssss a big one. We know that because the meet will be televised live on Big ESPN, a fairly significant coup for NCAA gymnastics in what is probably some astute Super Bowl Sunday counter-programming that will be welcomed by almost all. Cut to Miss Val: “Um…I choose the Super Bowl.”

This needs to become a tradition, an annual marathon of big rivalry meets framed opposite the Super Bowl. UCLA has already taken to calling it Super Beam Sunday.

…we’ll work on the name.

After the incident at Florida last weekend, you should be worried about the scoring. I know I am. Exactly nothing about this meet screams “level-headed scrutiny” or “I’ve read the code of points.”

In the pre-season, this looked like it would be a fun but fairly predictable competition: Oklahoma as the heavy favorite and UCLA doing what it could to draft off the back of Oklahoma’s scores and get a usable total. That’s probably still the case, but the Bruins’ success in the first few meets of the year indicates that this should be a bit closer than it might previously have appeared. While both teams are excellent on beam, this UCLA lineup is capable of outscoring Oklahoma’s depending on the day. Plus, given some of the depletion for Oklahoma on floor—and UCLA getting to end on HOME FLOOR—it’s not unreasonable to think the Bruins could have a scoring edge there as well.

Oklahoma’s real advantage comes in the first half of the meet, where a nearly full lineup of Y1.5s and the potential for a bunch of scores over 9.900 provide the opportunity to gain a significant edge over UCLA’s vault lineup. UCLA’s vault is staying afloat much better than last year, but it’s still not at the same level in difficulty or execution as Oklahoma’s. The ability level between the two teams is closer on bars, but Oklahoma has shown crisper execution and landings so far this year and will expect the higher score there. Bars will be telling, though. If UCLA can use big Ross/Lee scores to keep things close on bars and close at the halfway point, we’ve got ourselves a meet.

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Arkansas @ Alabama

A test. A serious test. This wasn’t necessarily supposed to be a schedule highlight going into the season, but Arkansas is already breaking program records, while at the same time some “wait, is Alabama…like…bad this year?” clouds have started gathering.

Because of that, it’s a significantly more important meet for Alabama than for Arkansas, with Alabama needing to use home-gym advantage to start finding those 197s. Nothing says that the Tide needs to be at postseason level yet, but we do need to start seeing the potential for competitive April lineups and composition, even if the individual routines aren’t 9.9ing yet. Could they 9.9 eventually? In a few recent lineups, especially on vault and floor, the answer to that has looked like no. We need to see more yes.

Arkansas doesn’t have a lot to prove here—Arkansas losing to Alabama wouldn’t exactly be a headline—but the meet will be telling with regard to how (or whether) those big home numbers can be maintained on the road against a team that is, on paper, stronger. Is the entire beam lineup still 9.9s when directly compared to the Alabama beam team?

Arizona State @ Oregon State

Basically copy that part about Arkansas and put it here because Arizona State is in a very similar position in the Pac-12. There are no expectations on Sun Devils, but they come into this meet as the higher-ranked team with what is at least a possibility of defeating one of the perennial Big 4 in the conference. But when these two are directly compared by the same judges, does Arizona State still look like a 196.8 team?

Missouri @ Georgia

This one will be fascinating, a meet between two teams that won’t be totally happy with how they’ve started the season. Missouri should be good enough this year to have nationals aspirations but has thrown in a couple 194s already, and while Georgia looks like it’s starting to find its 196 feet, there’s no shortage of drama, both on the competition floor (five people…) and off. We would expect nothing less. The latest: Charlie Tamayo got fired.

“I have performance expectations for myself, my assistants, our student-athletes, and all the staff members in the gymnastics program. Those performance expectations were not being met at an acceptable level.”

Ba-damn.