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College Football Open Thread

by John Cole|  November 7, 200912:00 pm| 56 Comments

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  1. 1.

    geg6

    November 7, 2009 at 12:05 pm

    GO PITT!

  2. 2.

    dorkboy

    November 7, 2009 at 12:06 pm

    Bear down!

  3. 3.

    The Grand Panjandrum

    November 7, 2009 at 12:09 pm

    Heading over to Memorial Field in a few minute to watch the Big Green take on Cornell. Have a good’un.

  4. 4.

    Adam Collyer

    November 7, 2009 at 12:24 pm

    GO STATE! BEAT THE BUCKEYES!

    That’s it, really.

  5. 5.

    South of I-10

    November 7, 2009 at 12:25 pm

    Geaux Tigers!

  6. 6.

    ajr22

    November 7, 2009 at 12:32 pm

    How about them hawkeyes

  7. 7.

    geg6

    November 7, 2009 at 12:32 pm

    @Adam Collyer:

    We are…PENN STATE

    We are…PENN STATE

    We are…PENN STATE

    Thank you…YOU’RE WELCOME.

  8. 8.

    Third Eye Open

    November 7, 2009 at 12:59 pm

    Does it make me less of a fan that I am worried about my Canes’ ability to beat UVA?

    BRING THE PAIN!

  9. 9.

    South of I-10

    November 7, 2009 at 1:04 pm

    Must get off of Youtube! Anyway, here is the Tiger Band coming down Victory Hill to go into the stadium. They do it before every game and it is a really cool thing to go see. Everyone goes nuts.

  10. 10.

    MikeJ

    November 7, 2009 at 1:12 pm

    Yeah sports fans!

    Office workers from buildings lining the route got a little too enthusiastic and started throwing paperwork out of their windows. The records that were found included unshredded files from A.L. Sarroff, Goldman Sachs, and the Bronx Supreme Court, as well as medical test reports, some with identifying information and Social Security numbers which would make identity theft remarkably easy.

    http://blogs.villagevoice.com/runninscared/archives/2009/11/private_paperwo.php

    Ok, those aren’t sports fans. Those are yankees hangers on.

  11. 11.

    Third Eye Open

    November 7, 2009 at 1:15 pm

    @South of I-10: Thats a hell of a turn-out, but for pure performance, give me a good drum-line any day of the week

  12. 12.

    smiley

    November 7, 2009 at 1:20 pm

    @South of I-10: Ditto

  13. 13.

    Punchy

    November 7, 2009 at 1:27 pm

    @ajr22: A worse half could not be played. I’ve never seen so many turnovers in a 2-game span. Unpossible.

  14. 14.

    Common Sense

    November 7, 2009 at 1:28 pm

    @Third Eye Open:

    Jesus man you want drumlines you don’t go to Clemson. You look for The Ocean of Soul at TSU or Prarie View A&M. Look up Grambling, Southern University or the Funk Train at Jackson State.

    I hate link moderation, so I can’t grace you with enough of the clips. Just youtube any of them.

  15. 15.

    Common Sense

    November 7, 2009 at 1:30 pm

    My Bad TSU’s drum line is known as the Funk Train, within their band known as the Ocean of Soul. Jackson State has the Sonic Boom.

  16. 16.

    South of I-10

    November 7, 2009 at 1:37 pm

    @Third Eye Open: That is really cool. I posted this on here before, but in case you missed it, here is Southern’s band at the Southern/ULL game – amazing!!

    @smiley: My LSU superfan brother is feeling poetic this morning. He just posted on my Facebook wall “Roses are red, and don’t grow in ditches. Wake the hell up, it’s game day bitches”!

    I’m off to store for stuff to BBQ. Gotta give Mr. South something to do.

  17. 17.

    Third Eye Open

    November 7, 2009 at 1:40 pm

    @Common Sense: I was talking about FSU’s Big-8, Clemson is a bunch of pikers, in my opinion.

    But I will check out your links and report back.

  18. 18.

    ajr22

    November 7, 2009 at 1:43 pm

    Ya punchy, but we are like the 2001 bears. We find a way.

  19. 19.

    Common Sense

    November 7, 2009 at 1:45 pm

    @South of I-10:

    As a Texas fan who wants no part of the snoozefest that is Alabama, I am pulling for you guys tonight.

  20. 20.

    Common Sense

    November 7, 2009 at 1:49 pm

    @Third Eye Open:

    If Florida A&M were in the SWAC, there would be no need to see any other drumline perform. You can go to those games just for halftime. Even their practices are an absolute blast

  21. 21.

    J. Michael Neal

    November 7, 2009 at 2:28 pm

    The Gophers suck. Thank god it’s hockey season, except that they just can’t put the puck in the net. Other than a sweep of overmatched Alaska-Anchorage, we’red 0-4-1. We opened the season with a brutal loss to North Dakota, in which the Gophs just stood around and put in no effort. Since then, it’s been a different story. The second night in Grand Forks, both games against Denver, and last night against the Badgers, we’ve played hard, and the flow of the game has been about even every time, but we just can’t put the puck in the net. It’s tempting to say that we just aren’t catching any breaks, but, while that’s true, it’s in the category of good teams get the breaks. The Gophers can’t score, so the puck always seems to find the post.

    Oh, and fuck North Dakota.

  22. 22.

    licensed to kill time

    November 7, 2009 at 2:29 pm

    Have there seriously been no comments on this thread for 40 minutes? Or does my browser have brain lock?

  23. 23.

    South of I-10

    November 7, 2009 at 2:30 pm

    @Common Sense: Sweet! I have a feeling we are going to need all the help we can get.

  24. 24.

    Montysano

    November 7, 2009 at 2:37 pm

    @South of I-10: I’m not a huge football fan, but I’ll be watching today. Roll Tide!

  25. 25.

    South of I-10

    November 7, 2009 at 2:41 pm

    @Montysano: Around the bowl and down the hole, roll Tide, roll!

  26. 26.

    Nicole

    November 7, 2009 at 2:54 pm

    Ah, the special pain of following a niche sport (horse racing)- getting bumped at 3:30 so ABC can broadcast college football.

  27. 27.

    Bill H

    November 7, 2009 at 2:55 pm

    @South of I-10:
    That was worth turning the computer on. My grandmother is sitting up cheering you, and she passed away thirty years ago.

  28. 28.

    Third Eye Open

    November 7, 2009 at 3:02 pm

    @Common Sense: You know, IMHO, all the stuff floating around by A&M for the past few years has been lackluster. I think it has something to do with the financial troubles the school has been in. With that said, there is nothing quite like an A&M half-time show.

    …strike, strike, and strike again!

  29. 29.

    smiley

    November 7, 2009 at 3:06 pm

    Wow. Northwestern beat Iowa (and Iowa lost their starting QB). I hope Florida is aware of that upset when they face Vandy tonight.

  30. 30.

    Doonhamer

    November 7, 2009 at 3:07 pm

    Currently watching the closing minutes of Texas swatting aside my alma mater UCF (Actually, UCF is just one of my alma maters). Glad I’m really a ‘Canes fan.

  31. 31.

    Third Eye Open

    November 7, 2009 at 3:11 pm

    @Third Eye Open: Ok, I must admit, this might be some of the funkiest drum-core cadences I have heard. Bravo!

    At the risk of this being misinterpreted as something racial: Those gentlemen are cleaner than a Sunday suit, tell you what.

  32. 32.

    dfd

    November 7, 2009 at 3:16 pm

    Yay, the Illini beat Minnesota! Now they’re 3-6 overall! Gawd, what a disappointing season…

  33. 33.

    South of I-10

    November 7, 2009 at 3:33 pm

    @Bill H: Thanks! That made me smile.

    Game time! Here we go!

  34. 34.

    Adam Collyer

    November 7, 2009 at 3:36 pm

    @geg6:

    Had to come back to this thread to drop another comment. This game is now officially huge with the Iowa loss.

    Michigan losing made me smile too. We are…

  35. 35.

    Ked

    November 7, 2009 at 3:46 pm

    If Navy can really beat down Notre Dame like this, it’ll be the feel-good story of the college season.

    I say this as a South Bend-ish local and a lifetime ND fan – while I can appreciate some of the raw offensive talent on the team, the sooner we can boot Charlie’s ass out the door the better.

  36. 36.

    Epicurus

    November 7, 2009 at 4:04 pm

    My Yellow Jackets looking to go 9-1. Up on Wake 10-0 in the first.

  37. 37.

    burnspbesq

    November 7, 2009 at 4:04 pm

    Stanford has an early 10-point lead on Oregon. Liking it.

  38. 38.

    J. Michael Neal

    November 7, 2009 at 4:23 pm

    Yay, the Illini beat Minnesota! Now they’re 3-6 overall! Gawd, what a disappointing season…

    Yeah, and how about the team that lost to the Illini in the middle of such a disappointing season . . .

    Minnesota, pants off to thee!

  39. 39.

    erlking

    November 7, 2009 at 4:24 pm

    @Ked: I went to grad school at Notre Dame and the smug superiority towards the service academies makes this ass-whooping particularly tasty. Go Navy.

  40. 40.

    Mark S.

    November 7, 2009 at 4:31 pm

    @burnspbesq:

    Yeah, a little hangover for the Ducks.

    The Iowa loss shows why computer rankings should be taken with a grain of salt. The computers had Iowa at 1 or 2, but anyone who watched them play knew they weren’t nearly that good.

  41. 41.

    asiangrrlMN

    November 7, 2009 at 4:45 pm

    @dfd: Feel my pain being from MN. Fortunately, they are not my team.

  42. 42.

    Yutsano

    November 7, 2009 at 4:52 pm

    @South of I-10: Man the memories of my band geek days. We did stuff like that at Wazzu too, regardless of the outcome of the game we always had fun.

  43. 43.

    Hookers and Cocaine

    November 7, 2009 at 4:57 pm

    Psst, SEC groupies… The Pac-10 is the best conference in the country.

  44. 44.

    Yutsano

    November 7, 2009 at 5:05 pm

    @Hookers and Cocaine: Yeah, but we don’t brag about that. We just perform.

  45. 45.

    JoePo

    November 7, 2009 at 5:20 pm

    I especially like how the refs have just ignored Navy’s CBs groping Michael Floyd and Golden Tate every time the ball is thrown to them. Very patriotic of them.

  46. 46.

    J. Michael Neal

    November 7, 2009 at 6:35 pm

    Watching Nick Saban is pissing me off, though he probably isn’t any worse about this than any other college football coach. A kid makes a mistake, and he starts ripping them on the sideline. Hey, coach, this isn’t about you. You want it to be about you, go to the NFL. Oh, that’s right. You tried that, and you sucked at it.

    These are kids. They’re going to fuck up on a regular basis. We all did when we were twenty. (Ignore, for the moment, that most of us continue to fuck up on a regular basis when we’re forty, too.) Deal with it. Deal with it without getting angry. It happens.

  47. 47.

    Yutsano

    November 7, 2009 at 6:45 pm

    @J. Michael Neal: There seems to be an inordinate amount of injuries in this game as well. I get the whole playing cause you love it thing (the Dawg played football in college) but these kids are giving their heart and soul and their bodies for their coaches.

  48. 48.

    Hookers and Cocaine

    November 7, 2009 at 7:40 pm

    @Yutsano: Stanford impressed. I need to bet on that team more, especially when they’re big dogs.

  49. 49.

    Yutsano

    November 7, 2009 at 8:18 pm

    @Hookers and Cocaine: Getting undefeated out of the Pac-10 is almost an impossibility. Hell I don’t think the Trojans have managed to accomplish that.

  50. 50.

    Yutsano

    November 7, 2009 at 10:00 pm

    Jahvid Best, player for the Cal Golden Bears, landed flat on his back and was motionless. He was carted off to the hospital and I haven’t heard any news. Hopefully all will end well here.

  51. 51.

    Kayla Rudbek

    November 8, 2009 at 12:27 am

    @Ked: Hopefully the Board of Trustees and Swarbrick will finally wake up and smell the coffee. However, I’ve learned that the ND administration will always find ways to make your life as difficult as possible.
    /(fellow ND fan)

  52. 52.

    Scott H

    November 8, 2009 at 1:04 am

    woo. UT beat UM. Memphis, that is.

  53. 53.

    Common Sense

    November 8, 2009 at 1:31 am

    @Hookers and Cocaine:
    Psst “what’s defense?” fans. The National Champion is coming from the great state of Texas. I just wish we could humiliate USC in the Rose Bowl again.

  54. 54.

    4jkb4ia

    November 8, 2009 at 8:21 am

    There is no fairness. Pitt will play Notre Dame in prime time, but that is the same time as “The Lonely Man of Faith” at Wash.U.

  55. 55.

    4jkb4ia

    November 8, 2009 at 8:33 am

    Here is Chana’s JIB-nominated post on this movie

  56. 56.

    ET

    November 9, 2009 at 11:20 am

    ROOOOOOOLLlll TIDE ROLL!!

    SEC championship here we come.

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