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College Football Open Thread

by John Cole|  October 25, 201412:56 pm| 36 Comments

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  1. 1.

    Hawes

    October 25, 2014 at 1:00 pm

    Go Real Madrid!

  2. 2.

    Felonius Monk

    October 25, 2014 at 1:04 pm

    I see that David Brooks farted again.

  3. 3.

    raven

    October 25, 2014 at 1:04 pm

    Somehow the Illini are up 14-3????

  4. 4.

    Steve from Antioch

    October 25, 2014 at 1:11 pm

    Since this is sports-related and I kind of doubt that there will be a golf thread anytime soon:

    http://www.sfgate.com/news/article/Ted-Bishop-out-as-PGA-president-5846615.php

    Nice to see the PGA taking action against someone for posting homophobic/misogynistic/just weird comments.

  5. 5.

    tybee

    October 25, 2014 at 1:32 pm

    i just can’t generate much hand egg ball enthusiasm this year.
    i’m gonna go molest some sea life.

  6. 6.

    raven

    October 25, 2014 at 1:33 pm

    @tybee: I got my kite.

  7. 7.

    Hildebrand

    October 25, 2014 at 1:36 pm

    Biggest game of the weekend – UChicago v. Wash U (Saint Louis). Homecoming game for UChicago.

  8. 8.

    Tissue Thin Pseudonym (JMN)

    October 25, 2014 at 1:44 pm

    @raven: You’re playing the Mighty Gophers in football. We play many sports well around here but football is not one of them.

  9. 9.

    jeffreyw

    October 25, 2014 at 1:44 pm

    Oh! I thought you said focaccia open thread.

  10. 10.

    Scratch

    October 25, 2014 at 1:48 pm

    Oh geeze, Noisemax says that “Illegal Voting by Non-Citizens Threatens Mid-Term Elections.” Cripes almighty, they forgot to add that the illegal voters will be spreading ebola too.

  11. 11.

    raven

    October 25, 2014 at 1:49 pm

    @Tissue Thin Pseudonym (JMN): Except that you are 6-1 and 3-0 in the Big1G.

  12. 12.

    big ole hound

    October 25, 2014 at 1:51 pm

    Gonna be an upset in the SEC…maybe SC over Auburn.

  13. 13.

    Tissue Thin Pseudonym (JMN)

    October 25, 2014 at 1:55 pm

    @raven: That’s the product of very cleverly scheduling all of our weak opponents early in the season. Northwestern is all right, but other than that, the only decent or better team Minnesota has played (TCU) shredded us. I fully expect us to lose our last four games after today (Iowa; Ohio State; Nebraska; Wisconsin) and then our bowl game.

  14. 14.

    Tissue Thin Pseudonym (JMN)

    October 25, 2014 at 1:56 pm

    Though, that was a very nice touchdown pass by Mitch Leidner.

  15. 15.

    raven

    October 25, 2014 at 1:58 pm

    @Tissue Thin Pseudonym (JMN): Haha, can’t decide can you? :)

  16. 16.

    Tissue Thin Pseudonym (JMN)

    October 25, 2014 at 2:01 pm

    @raven: Well, consider that my idea of “good” may be warped by having as my primary rooting interest a team that has gone 85-2-2 since the start of the 20012-13 season.

  17. 17.

    Tissue Thin Pseudonym (JMN)

    October 25, 2014 at 2:02 pm

    Dammit. Team Fascism won el Classico.

  18. 18.

    Tissue Thin Pseudonym (JMN)

    October 25, 2014 at 2:05 pm

    And the Gopher defense responds in classic fashion.

  19. 19.

    raven

    October 25, 2014 at 2:05 pm

    @Tissue Thin Pseudonym (JMN): OSKEEWOW!!!

  20. 20.

    Tissue Thin Pseudonym (JMN)

    October 25, 2014 at 2:11 pm

    Jesus. What’s with all of this passing?

  21. 21.

    raven

    October 25, 2014 at 2:13 pm

    @Tissue Thin Pseudonym (JMN): Our secondary is weak.

  22. 22.

    El Caganer

    October 25, 2014 at 2:13 pm

    @tybee: Molesting a mollusc?

  23. 23.

    Tissue Thin Pseudonym (JMN)

    October 25, 2014 at 2:17 pm

    Minnesota is so lucky getting that pass interference call. Even if it was a good call, the play was stupid.

  24. 24.

    raven

    October 25, 2014 at 2:23 pm

    @El Caganer: Fan mail from some flounder?

  25. 25.

    raven

    October 25, 2014 at 2:26 pm

    we suck

  26. 26.

    Tissue Thin Pseudonym (JMN)

    October 25, 2014 at 2:28 pm

    See? Run the damned ball.

  27. 27.

    Omnes Omnibus

    October 25, 2014 at 2:43 pm

    Wisconsin is just crushing Maryland.

  28. 28.

    raven

    October 25, 2014 at 2:58 pm

    Holy smokes!

  29. 29.

    raven

    October 25, 2014 at 3:19 pm

    YESSSSS, GO ILLINI!!

  30. 30.

    Tissue Thin Pseudonym (JMN)

    October 25, 2014 at 3:23 pm

    I guess we can stop pretending that this football team is good.

  31. 31.

    raven

    October 25, 2014 at 3:26 pm

    @Tissue Thin Pseudonym (JMN): good god did we figure out another way to fuck this up??

  32. 32.

    Tissue Thin Pseudonym (JMN)

    October 25, 2014 at 3:29 pm

    @raven: No,your team was fine.

  33. 33.

    mellowjohn

    October 25, 2014 at 4:12 pm

    time to harness the power of the innnertubes:
    i’m watching a couple college teams (ok, one college team; the other is michigan) and see a lot of players – especially O-linemen – wearing knee braces. question 1: why don’t more/all players wear them? question 2: why don’t more players in the pros use them?

  34. 34.

    JR in WV

    October 25, 2014 at 5:05 pm

    So I’m listening to the WVU OkSt game on the radio (NO cable) and I pull up the Marshall-Florida Atlantic on the intertubes, and Fla is ahead!! Then later I update and it’s 14—…oh no, its 16-14 Fla Atlantic!!!

    And WVU is still holding on at the half, 14-10…

    Pretty tough…

  35. 35.

    tybee

    October 25, 2014 at 8:33 pm

    @raven:

    pics? and have you used it yet?

  36. 36.

    tybee

    October 25, 2014 at 8:35 pm

    @El Caganer:

    poking a pompano, fondling a flounder, fingering fingerlings.
    i live in georgia, it’s mostly legal here.

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