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College Football Open Thread

by John Cole|  September 13, 201412:20 pm| 75 Comments

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  1. 1.

    raven

    September 13, 2014 at 12:22 pm

    And my high flying Hokies are down 14-0!

  2. 2.

    burnspbesq

    September 13, 2014 at 12:26 pm

    Now I have truly seen it all.

    Stephen A. Smith as the voice of a blond snowboarder’s stomach, in a TV spot for Oberto beef jerky.

  3. 3.

    Tissue Thin Pseudonym (JMN)

    September 13, 2014 at 12:29 pm

    The Gophers are actually playing a non-conference opponent with a winning record. I’m expecting a disaster.

  4. 4.

    raven

    September 13, 2014 at 12:31 pm

    3d and 17 for ECU, play clock at 5 seconds and the Hokies call time out!!!!!!

    eta, well, they had the right scheme anyway.

  5. 5.

    raven

    September 13, 2014 at 12:35 pm

    Could Ohio State have really been THAT bad?

  6. 6.

    Tissue Thin Pseudonym (JMN)

    September 13, 2014 at 12:40 pm

    Why the hell is ESPN Gameday in Fargo? I mean, at least it isn’t Grand Forks so there might be someplace better than an Olive Garden to eat, but really.

  7. 7.

    khead

    September 13, 2014 at 12:41 pm

    @raven:

    Hangover spot for VT + good ECU QB = danger, will robinson

  8. 8.

    raven

    September 13, 2014 at 12:43 pm

    @Tissue Thin Pseudonym (JMN): Second year in a row.

  9. 9.

    schrodinger's cat

    September 13, 2014 at 12:44 pm

    Why call it football when you rarely kick the ball? For exercise, I prefer climbing.

  10. 10.

    raven

    September 13, 2014 at 12:45 pm

    @schrodinger’s cat: Climb this.

  11. 11.

    Tissue Thin Pseudonym (JMN)

    September 13, 2014 at 12:47 pm

    @schrodinger’s cat: Handegg.

  12. 12.

    schrodinger's cat

    September 13, 2014 at 12:49 pm

    @raven: Did not get the joke.
    @Tissue Thin Pseudonym (JMN): Yes, that’s seems to be more accurate.

  13. 13.

    raven

    September 13, 2014 at 12:51 pm

    @schrodinger’s cat: Probably for the better.

  14. 14.

    Tissue Thin Pseudonym (JMN)

    September 13, 2014 at 12:51 pm

    @raven: I had to check which of my posts you meant, because it turns out that the Gophers played a non-conference team with a winning record last year, too. One of them. 7-6 UNLV. Our other three non-Big 10 opponents had a combined 12-24 record.

    God, we’ve sucked at football for 50 years. Bernie Bierman, where have you gone?

  15. 15.

    raven

    September 13, 2014 at 12:53 pm

    @Tissue Thin Pseudonym (JMN): I remember Marion Barber and Rick Upchurch. Of course I also remember Ron Behagan and Davey Winflield.

  16. 16.

    raven

    September 13, 2014 at 12:54 pm

    @Tissue Thin Pseudonym (JMN): No, this is the second year in a row Gameday has been in Fargo.

  17. 17.

    Tissue Thin Pseudonym (JMN)

    September 13, 2014 at 1:01 pm

    @raven: My first experience as a Gopher football fan was Lou “The Music Man” Holtz leaving townto go to Notre Dame, leaving behind the same wake of NCAA sanctions he left everywhere else he ever coached.

  18. 18.

    Tissue Thin Pseudonym (JMN)

    September 13, 2014 at 1:03 pm

    @raven: Winfield didn’t even play football here; the Vikings drafted him purely as an athlete/publicity stunt.

  19. 19.

    raven

    September 13, 2014 at 1:03 pm

    @Tissue Thin Pseudonym (JMN): He’s a jerk, he went to the Gophers the year I left Illinois.

  20. 20.

    raven

    September 13, 2014 at 1:07 pm

    @Tissue Thin Pseudonym (JMN): I know that. Preston Pearson, Cowboys wide out, only played hoops at Illinois as well.

  21. 21.

    raven

    September 13, 2014 at 1:16 pm

    Dumb call to go for it by ECU.

  22. 22.

    Gene108

    September 13, 2014 at 1:27 pm

    Wow. EZU is really handing it to Va. Tech

  23. 23.

    raven

    September 13, 2014 at 1:35 pm

    @Gene108: Kickin our Hokie azzz.

    eta ECU had three possessions in the redzone that came up dry.

  24. 24.

    Poopyman

    September 13, 2014 at 1:51 pm

    Pro rather than college, but this one’s a two-fer!

    From ESPN.go.com links on their right side:

    Redskins’ Snyder: Fortunate to have Goodell

    We now return you to college FB, where my boys in blue don’t start until 8:00 tonight. But I ain’t gonna watch.

  25. 25.

    RobertDSC-iPhone 4

    September 13, 2014 at 1:52 pm

    I just hope my Wolverines show up & play well today.

  26. 26.

    Mr Stagger Lee

    September 13, 2014 at 2:18 pm

    @Poopyman: Money sez Ray Rice will be a Redskin next year. Take it to the bank!

  27. 27.

    benw

    September 13, 2014 at 2:21 pm

    I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again: go Jackets!

  28. 28.

    burnspbesq

    September 13, 2014 at 2:22 pm

    It’s official. Aston Villa is the surprise team in the Premiership.

  29. 29.

    Amir Khalid

    September 13, 2014 at 2:23 pm

    Woe is me! Liverpool have lost 0-1 at home to Aston Villa. This has been an erratic start to the season.

  30. 30.

    Mike J

    September 13, 2014 at 2:25 pm

    Leicester City continued their rampage today.

  31. 31.

    raven

    September 13, 2014 at 2:25 pm

    @Mr Stagger Lee: Only because Auburn can’t sign him. In other news it looks like scumbag Petrino’s boys were in a brawl at UVA

  32. 32.

    burnspbesq

    September 13, 2014 at 2:34 pm

    @raven:

    Jury is still out on whether trading Maryland for Louisville is really a net positive for the ACC.

  33. 33.

    raven

    September 13, 2014 at 2:39 pm

    @benw: Hahaha Georgia Southern making a run atcha’ll!

  34. 34.

    raven

    September 13, 2014 at 2:41 pm

    @burnspbesq: A shame to take Terp hoops out of the ACC.

  35. 35.

    PaulW

    September 13, 2014 at 2:45 pm

    Rooting for the USF Bulls vs. NC State in a few minutes.

  36. 36.

    burnspbesq

    September 13, 2014 at 2:56 pm

    @raven:

    Twerps haven’t been much in men’s basketball in about the last eight years. They were good in women’s basketball, lacrosse, soccer, and field hockey.

  37. 37.

    raven

    September 13, 2014 at 2:57 pm

    38-35 Ga So over Tech in the 4th! Go Eagles!!!

  38. 38.

    burnspbesq

    September 13, 2014 at 2:59 pm

    If Boston College really wants to honor the memory of Welles Crowther, it should restore men’s lacrosse to NCAA D1 status. All the red-bandana-motif football shoes in the world aren’t enough.

  39. 39.

    raven

    September 13, 2014 at 3:00 pm

    @burnspbesq: And it ain’t a college and it ain’t in Boston!!

  40. 40.

    Gene108

    September 13, 2014 at 3:01 pm

    @burnspbesq:

    There is no net positive, from a fan’s perspective, with conference realignment.

    The executives at the TV networks that enabled this need to be punched in the neck.

  41. 41.

    Tissue Thin Pseudonym (JMN)

    September 13, 2014 at 3:01 pm

    @Amir Khalid: It’s going to be a long season for Newcastle United fans. Pretty much all we’ve got is wondering when Pardew gets the sack and who follows him.

  42. 42.

    Tissue Thin Pseudonym (JMN)

    September 13, 2014 at 3:02 pm

    @raven: University of Newton.

  43. 43.

    Gene108

    September 13, 2014 at 3:03 pm

    @PaulW:

    As an NCSU alum, I will be rooting for you to have a sad.

  44. 44.

    raven

    September 13, 2014 at 3:03 pm

    @Tissue Thin Pseudonym (JMN): It’s in Chestnut Hill and it’s a University.

  45. 45.

    raven

    September 13, 2014 at 3:09 pm

    GA Southern jamming it down buzz’s throat!

  46. 46.

    Tissue Thin Pseudonym (JMN)

    September 13, 2014 at 3:10 pm

    @raven: There’s no such town as Chestnut Hill. It’s in Newton.

    Edit: More technically, Chestnut Hill is an unincorporated village that is spread across three actual municipalities and BC is in the part that’s in Newton.

  47. 47.

    raven

    September 13, 2014 at 3:11 pm

    @Tissue Thin Pseudonym (JMN): Beats me, it’s what the president of the school said.

    “Chestnut Hill is an affluent New England village located six miles (10 km) west of downtown Boston, Massachusetts, United States. Like all Massachusetts villages, Chestnut Hill is not an incorporated municipal entity. Unlike most Massachusetts villages, it encompasses parts of three separate municipalities, each located in a different county: the town of Brookline in Norfolk County; the city of Boston in Suffolk County (parts of its neighborhoods of Brighton and West Roxbury), and the city of Newton in Middlesex County. Chestnut Hill’s borders are roughly defined by the 02467 ZIP Code. Chestnut Hill is not a topographical designation; the name refers to several small hills that overlook the 135-acre (546,000 m²) Chestnut Hill Reservoir rather than one particular hill. Chestnut Hill is best known as the home of Boston College, part of the Boston Marathon route, as well as the Collegiate Gothic canvas of landscape architect Frederick Law Olmsted.[1]”

  48. 48.

    Tissue Thin Pseudonym (JMN)

    September 13, 2014 at 3:12 pm

    Ohio State is certainly taking out some frustrations.

  49. 49.

    raven

    September 13, 2014 at 3:13 pm

    Chestnut Hill is best known as the home of Boston College,

  50. 50.

    Tissue Thin Pseudonym (JMN)

    September 13, 2014 at 3:13 pm

    @raven: Oh, BC people love to tell you that it’s in Chestnut Hill. It ‘s so much more tony than the rest of Newton. But ask any Boston University alum and they’ll make sure you know that it’s the University of Newton.

  51. 51.

    burnspbesq

    September 13, 2014 at 3:20 pm

    @Tissue Thin Pseudonym (JMN):

    If it’s the University of Newton, shouldn’t its sports teams be known as the Fightin’ Figs?

  52. 52.

    Tissue Thin Pseudonym (JMN)

    September 13, 2014 at 3:23 pm

    @burnspbesq: Mostly they should just be known as assholes.

  53. 53.

    raven

    September 13, 2014 at 3:27 pm

    Crap, Ga Tech scored.

  54. 54.

    raven

    September 13, 2014 at 3:53 pm

    Hokies tie it up!!! And the Dawgs are in a lighting delay!

  55. 55.

    raven

    September 13, 2014 at 4:18 pm

    boooo

  56. 56.

    BillinGlendaleCA

    September 13, 2014 at 4:35 pm

    UW up by 7, not that I can see it. FTFY.

  57. 57.

    raven

    September 13, 2014 at 4:37 pm

    @BillinGlendaleCA: There is a lot of bitching on the Illini message board that Fox is running a baseball game. It’s 7-3 now. The UW’s D looks as bad a ours.
    eta 14-3, 80 yd td on the 1st play.

  58. 58.

    BillinGlendaleCA

    September 13, 2014 at 4:42 pm

    @raven: I guess the ONLY reason to have the baseball game on here in LA is hatred of the Yankees. FTFY.

  59. 59.

    raven

    September 13, 2014 at 4:43 pm

    Pick, TD UW 21-3. Come on Georgia

  60. 60.

    BillinGlendaleCA

    September 13, 2014 at 4:46 pm

    @raven: And still there is a baseball game on my TV Machine.

  61. 61.

    Tissue Thin Pseudonym (JMN)

    September 13, 2014 at 4:50 pm

    Minnesota down 10-0. Welcome to Gopher football.

  62. 62.

    BillinGlendaleCA

    September 13, 2014 at 5:16 pm

    Missed all of the first quarter(thanks FOX), looks like a nice day in Seattle.

  63. 63.

    paulw

    September 13, 2014 at 5:20 pm

    My Bulls are getting killed…

  64. 64.

    paulw

    September 13, 2014 at 5:22 pm

    I still wonder if my family stayed in Vrginia which college Id be rooting fer

  65. 65.

    benw

    September 13, 2014 at 5:37 pm

    @raven: Christ, that was close.

  66. 66.

    raven

    September 13, 2014 at 5:49 pm

    Fucking bullshit holding.

  67. 67.

    Gene108

    September 13, 2014 at 6:03 pm

    @paulw:

    USF has quit.

    Last TD by NCSU was a drive where the Wolfpack was direct snapping to the RB.

    And as I type this NCSU fumbles a punt.

  68. 68.

    burnspbesq

    September 13, 2014 at 6:15 pm

    Duke cruising. 34-3 after Q3.

  69. 69.

    Howard Beale IV

    September 13, 2014 at 6:26 pm

    @Tissue Thin Pseudonym (JMN): As a Twin Cities transplant, It ain’t looking good for the Gophers.

  70. 70.

    burnspbesq

    September 13, 2014 at 6:37 pm

    Shaun Wilson, Duke freshman RB: 11 carries, 237 yards, 3 TDs (69, 68, and 45).

  71. 71.

    encephalopath

    September 13, 2014 at 8:02 pm

    So Sekerlina is going to beat Georgia. This is fun.

  72. 72.

    raven

    September 13, 2014 at 9:06 pm

    @encephalopath: fuck you

  73. 73.

    encephalopath

    September 13, 2014 at 9:26 pm

    @raven: So you had a dog in that fight?

  74. 74.

    raven

    September 13, 2014 at 9:29 pm

    @encephalopath: Byte me

  75. 75.

    billb

    September 13, 2014 at 10:51 pm

    Ducks roll on a good Wyoming team. MM takes a scary flight into the endzone to score. Coach says do not do that again! AND J. LLoyd, our tiny stud BBall player scores a TD in his transition to football, Good To Be A Duck, roaring to the National Title Game!

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