*THE Official FR College Football Live Thread--Week 1*

30 August 2007 | GOP_Raider

[GOP_Raider]

Ladies and Gentleman, Peeps of All Three Sexes, the College football season is here!!!

Tonight's slate works out a little somethin' like this (Due to East Coast bias, all times are Eastern):

7:00 PM Buffalo at #16 Rutgers

7:00 PM Miami (OH) at Ball State

7:00 PM Southeast Missouri State at Cincinnati

7:30 PM Murray State at #10 Louisville

8:00 PM #2 LSU at Mississippi State

8:00 PM Kent State at Iowa State

8:00 PM Southeastern Louisiana at New Mexico State

8:05 PM UNLV at Utah State

9:00 PM Weber State at #24 Boise State

And in a few short hours, I'll be heading on a jet plane to the West for:

10:00 PM Utah at Oregon State

Break out a case of Pabst, throw some steaks on the grill, and find a foam finger, the season is here!

[BurbankKarl]

Lloyd Carr will be forever remembered as the guy that lost to Appalachian State.

Good grief.

[Old_Mil]

But my Sporting News College Football magazine says Michigan goes 12-0.

Perhaps they meant 0-12 and it was a typo.

[Old_Mil]

The team you gotta feel sorry for is Oregon (Mich plays at Oregon next week).

Oregon's no pushover at home...the skunkbears could be in for a rough season.

[Zuben Elgenubi]

those girls have been and Florida State games the last 7 years.

What's in YOUR wallet?

[WhyisaTexasgirlinPA]

Tech looked pretty good and as is typical, they warmed up at halftime..... I think Minnesota would say Tech is a second half team... ;^)

[soccermom]

Well, they didn’t help last night!

[rockthecasbah]

Great description! Regrettably, I missed the Cal Tennessee matchup as I was sequestered at the Los Angeles Coliseum for Pete Carroll’s best impression of an NFL pre-season game. No Patrick Turner, no Chauncey Washington, no revelations about the 2007 Trojan playbook - just a bunch of second team freshman trying to make an impression running plays that looked like they came out of the nearby Loyola High School junior varsity playbook. Yawn... I hope they exert a little more effort in two weeks when they travel to Lincoln.

[rockthecasbah]

Pete gave the freshmen a chance to play and they still won by 28 points. I don’t think Pete even cracked open the 2007 playbook - he’s saving that for Lincoln.

[soccermom]

I hope you’re right! There were too many turnovers for my comfort. They can afford that with an Idaho team -— but not with the Huskers.

[soccermom]

“No Patrick Turner, no Chauncey Washington, no revelations about the 2007 Trojan playbook ....” LOL! I was wondering where Chauncey was. I seriously thought he must have gone pro!

[rockthecasbah]

Chauncey was banged up from practicing full speed against the Trojan defense the week before - we’ll see him play in Lincoln...

[Positive]

"Can Michigan ask for a refund? :-)"

Lol, but think about it, this is going to cost App State a lot of $ next year...

Big guys will look elsewhere for their "toon-ups."

[Positive]

It's about 11:30AM PST on Tuesday, where are the rankings?

Are they waiting for late returns from Big 10-11 voters?

[GOP_Raider]

Must be, seeing as I can’t find the rankings anywhere other than USA Today, which is a site where we can’t excerpt. When I see either poll, I’ll post a separate thread.

[Positive]

Thanks, I see that LSU gained some on USC and Michigan is OUT..

I found it a little surprising that there was not a single other mention of LSU on this thread...

[soccermom]

I’m a USC fan and I wouldn’t mind in the slightest to see USC and LSU swap rankings -— I don’t like having the bull’s eye. I was surprised there wasn’t more of a split in the votes for first place and I’m surprised Bezerkeley isn’t higher.

[soccermom]

Probably delayed because of the Monday night games.

[GraniteStateConservative]

The Western Athletic Conference will probably offer them a spot in their D1 conference. They only have Boise State and Hawaii as premiere football teams (and Louisiana, as in Louisiana Tech, isn’t any further west than North Carolina, really).

[fkabuckeyesrule]

*****Oregon's no pushover at home...the skunkbears could be in for a rough season.*****

My bad. The game is at Michigan. Which may be a good or bad thing for UM. If Oregon takes an early lead the crowd will boo them I'm sure.

[fkabuckeyesrule]

****I was sequestered at the Los Angeles Coliseum for Pete Carroll’s best impression of an NFL pre-season game.****

I thought that was a nice touch that USC did with the delay of game penalty on the first PAT after their first touchdown.