College Football - Week 1 (Sept. 3)

[Andy]

Top 25 games

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(1) Alabama vs (20) USC – in Arlington, TX (8 pm, ABC)

(2) Clemson at Auburn (9 pm, ESPN)

(3) Oklahoma vs (15) Houston – at NRG Stadium in Houston (12 pm, ABC)

(11) Ole Miss vs (4) Florida State – in Orlando (8 pm Monday, ESPN)

(5) LSU vs Wisconsin – in Green Bay (3:30 pm, ABC)

Bowling Green at (6) Ohio State (12 pm, BTN – Regional)

Hawaii at (7) Michigan (12 pm, ESPN)

Kansas State at (8) Stanford (8 pm Friday, FS1)

Appalachian State at (9) Tennessee (7:30 pm Thursday, SEC Network)

(10) Notre Dame at Texas (7:30 pm Sunday, ABC)

Furman at (12) Michigan State (7 pm Friday, BTN)

South Dakota State at (13) TCU (8 pm, FSN – Regional)

Rutgers at (14) Washington (2 pm, Pac-12 Network)

(16) UCLA at Texas A&M (3:30 pm, CBS)

Miami (OH) at (17) Iowa (3:30 pm, ESPNU)

(22) North Carolina vs (18) Georgia – in Atlanta (5:30 pm, ESPN)

Charlotte at (19) Louisville (7 pm Thursday, FSN/ESPN3)

SE Louisiana at (21) Oklahoma State (3:30 pm, FSN)

Northwestern State at (23) Baylor (7:30 pm Friday, FSN)

UC Davis at (24) Oregon (5 pm, Pac-12 Network)

UMass at (25) Florida (7:30 pm, SEC Network)

 

Other nationally available games

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California vs Hawaii – in Sydney (10 pm Aug. 26, ESPN)

 

Tulane at Wake Forest (7 pm Thursday, ESPN3)

Maine at UConn (7 pm Thursday, ESPN3)

Presbyterian at Central Michigan (7 pm Thursday, ESPN3)

UT Martin at Cincinnati (7 pm Thursday, ESPN3)

Indiana at Florida International (7:30 pm Thursday, ESPNU)

William & Mary at NC State (7:30 pm Thursday, ESPN3)

South Carolina at Vanderbilt (8 pm Thursday, ESPN)

Oregon State at Minnesota (8 pm Thursday, BTN)

Rice at Western Kentucky (8 pm Thursday, CBSSN)

Southern Utah at Utah (8 pm Thursday, Pac-12 Network)

Montana State at Idaho (9 pm Thursday, ESPN3)

 

Mississippi Valley State at Eastern Michigan (6 pm Friday, ESPN3)

Army at Temple (7 pm Friday, CBSSN)

Colgate at Syracuse (7 pm Friday, ESPN3)

Albany at Buffalo (7 pm Friday, ESPN3)

Ball State at Georgia State (7 pm Friday, ESPN3)

Colorado vs Colorado State – in Denver (8 pm Friday, ESPN)

Toledo at Arkansas State (9 pm Friday, ESPNU)

 

Boston College vs Georgia Tech – in Dublin (7:30 am, ESPN2)

Missouri at West Virginia (12 pm, FS1)

Howard at Maryland (12 pm, BTN – Regional)

Western Michigan at Northwestern (12 pm, ESPNU)

South Alabama at Mississippi State (12 pm, SEC Network)

Fordham at Navy (12 pm, CBSSN)

Eastern Kentucky at Purdue (12 pm, ESPNEWS)

Boise State at UL Lafayette (12 pm, ESPN3)

Liberty at Virginia Tech (12:30 pm, ACC Network/ESPN3)

Villanova at Pittsburgh (1:30 pm, ESPN3)

Kent State at Penn State (3:30 pm, BTN – Regional)

Murray State at Illinois (3:30 pm, BTN – Regional)

Texas State at Ohio (3:30 pm, CBSSN)

Richmond at Virginia (3:30 pm, ESPN3)

Louisiana Tech at Arkansas (4 pm, SEC Network)

Florida A&M at Miami (6 pm, ESPN3)

NC Central at Duke (6 pm, ESPN3)

Western Carolina at East Carolina (6 pm, ESPN3)

Austin Peay at Troy (6 pm, ESPN3)

Savannah State at Georgia Southern (6 pm, ESPN3)

VMI at Akron (6:30 pm, ESPN3)

San Jose State at Tulsa (7 pm, CBSSN)

Rhode Island at Kansas (7 pm, ESPN3)

SE Missouri State at Memphis (7 pm, ESPN3)

South Carolina State at UCF (7 pm, ESPN3)

Towson at South Florida (7 pm, ESPN3)

Southern at UL Monroe (7 pm, ESPN3)

Southern Miss at Kentucky (7:30 pm, ESPNU)

Fresno State at Nebraska (8 pm, BTN)

Eastern Washington at Washington State (8 pm, Pac-12 Network)

Stephen F. Austin at Texas Tech (8 pm, FSN – Regional)

BYU vs Arizona – in Glendale, AZ (10:30 pm, FS1)

Northern Illinois at Wyoming (10:30 pm, CBSSN)

Northern Arizona at Arizona State (10:45 pm, Pac-12 Network)

[philosophizer75]

It's exciting to see several top teams playing other top teams right off the bat. I'm excited as hell for college football to be back.

[Ding Dong Johnson]

what's with the eastern time nonsense?

[Andy]

what's with the eastern time nonsense?

Since like 70+ percent of the games are on ESPN anyway and that's how they display them on the bottom line. Figure Central time math is pretty solid on this board.

[Andy]

Bump so it doesn't get lost before the season begins.

 

Pretty darn excited, folks.

[badger]

Man if we could pull off the upset @ Lambeau...

[Cubswin11]

Man if we could pull off the upset @ Lambeau...

I don't see how you can be too confident about that with a QB who couldn't win the job from Stave the past 2-3 years.

[badger]

Man if we could pull off the upset @ Lambeau...

I don't see how you can be too confident about that with a QB who couldn't win the job from Stave the past 2-3 years.

 

 

I have no confidence to be honest. I haven't seen the line but it's gotta be large.

[Andy]

Apropos of nothing, I'm not sure how big the line would have to be for me to bet on Hawaii this week, but it would have to be large. They're literally going halfway around the world from one week to the next.

[Ding Dong Johnson]

Apropos of nothing, I'm not sure how big the line would have to be for me to bet on Hawaii this week, but it would have to be large. They're literally going halfway around the world from one week to the next.

my rainbow warriors will pull off the upset

[Cubswin11]

Man if we could pull off the upset @ Lambeau...

I don't see how you can be too confident about that with a QB who couldn't win the job from Stave the past 2-3 years.

 

 

I have no confidence to be honest. I haven't seen the line but it's gotta be large.

The only time I looked I saw it at -10 and that was late last week

[NOLA]

I fully expect LSU to go full implosion mode this year, by their standards anyway, and Les to be gone after the season. The rumblings from fans and HS coaches have evolved from the usual "Les is a moron" talk to "LSU can't develop QBs". If he doesn't beat Bama and wins under 9 games, Les is toast.

[Derwood]

Arguably the best opening week in CFB history and I won't be able to watch a minute of it

[OleMissCub]

Arguably the best opening week in CFB history and I won't be able to watch a minute of it

 

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[Derwood]

Arguably the best opening week in CFB history and I won't be able to watch a minute of it

 

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are you laughing at me, or the idea that it's an amazing good Week 1? Have you even looked at the schedule?

[OleMissCub]

Tennessee is losing to App State right now. Wow.

[OleMissCub]

Tennessee would have lost if App State's kicker hadn't missed an XP. Then in OT Tenn's QB fumbled the ball into the endzone and luckily a Tenn player was able to get it in the scrum.

[Butterscup]

Tennessee would have lost if App State's kicker hadn't missed an XP. Then in OT Tenn's QB fumbled the ball into the endzone and luckily a Tenn player was able to get it in the scrum.

 

App State's coaches also blew it at the end of the 4th with Andy Reid-esque clock management and play calling.

[OleMissCub]

Arguably the best opening week in CFB history and I won't be able to watch a minute of it

 

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are you laughing at me, or the idea that it's an amazing good Week 1? Have you even looked at the schedule?

 

Definitely at you

[Derwood]

Don't worry guys, THIS is the year Tennessee breaks out and dominates the SEC

[bcl412]

Don't worry guys, THIS is the year Tennessee breaks out and dominates the SEC

I hope they do so espn talks about how tough the sun belt all year

[OleMissCub]

Don't worry guys, THIS is the year Tennessee breaks out and dominates the SEC

 

Yeah, Tennessee fans are really, really bad about the whole "Vols are back, baby!" thing every single damn year. Even when Tennessee was successfully back in the late 90's, the rest of the league was an absolute wasteland other than Florida, whom they've only beaten 3 times in the last 23 years fwiw.

 

Also, lol at SEC sportswriters voting Josh Dobbs as the All-SEC QB over Chad Kelly. Kelly had the 3rd most offensive yards in SEC history last year behind only Manziel's two seasons.

 

Dobbs 2015: 2,291 yards, 15 TD, 671 yards rushing, 11 TD's, 115.27 passer rating

Kelly 2015: 4,042 yards, 31 TD, 500 yards rushing, 10 TD's, 155.86 passer rating

 

:lol:

 

Back to Tennessee, they are enormously lucky to have won that game. They fumbled twice at the end of the game and recovered both (one in the freaking endzone), App's coach went all Les Miles/Andy Reid with clock management at the end of the game, and most importantly App St's kicker left 4 points on the field. Had he nailed an XP earlier in the game, there would have been no OT.

[Old Style]

SEC! SEC! SEC!

[Transmogrified Tiger]

Tennessee hasn't won 10 games since the Bush administration, and their fanbase at large hasn't realized that they aren't special anymore. A lot like Nebraska, to be honest.

[Derwood]

The difference is that this year many media types have drank the Kool Aid and are predicting big things for the Vols based on.....reasons

 

Kinda like everyone picking Tampa Bay to do something in the NFL last year. No one knows why they're picking them, but everyone is doing it