College football Week 1 thread

See you that and raise you UMass. We'll play our games 100 miles from campus!

 

Baylor with a $300 million homage to rape is a strong player.

 

Good one. The Fighting Ken Starrs are going to have a hard time filling that joint for the next several years.

 

Funny, though ... UConn and UMass once were chief rivals.

As a UConn grad, I will say that football was doing OK until Edsall left after the 2011 season. Then Paul Pasqualoni and Crazy Bob Diaco came in to run the program into the ground, and without the Big East, it is going to be a long, long hill to climb.

They announced that 9,000 season tickets were sold this season, down from 16K last season. Noticed they haven't shown many shots of the crowd tonight? It's pretty pathetic. There is a good chance that UConn - which went to the Fiesta Bowl this decade - will bring in fewer fans than Yale this year.

 

Good chance Harvard, where tickets are way cheap ($20 for the 40-yard line) except for the Yale game, will outdraw UMass.

 

The answer to that is yes.

 

Cal is a contender. They did the same thing with a stadium renovation, at a school that could probably give two shits about football or most sports in general, pissed off the environmentalists by cutting down some sacred trees or some shit to build it, and ran the athletic department into a huge debt hole the team won't be good enough to pull them out of for a long, long time.

 

Isn’t the stadium also built on a fault line?

 

Akron built a white elephant stadium that is best known for hosting LeBron’s homecoming party while the university’s finances went to shit.

 

The award for sustained crappiness sits in the shadow of Ann Arbor, at Eastern Michigan
Nobody cares, which is appropriate

 

What's weirder?
That Wake Forest and Tulane have combined for almost 900 yards of total offense, and only two turnovers, yet the score is only 17-14?
Or that the Tulane Green Wave is wearing all-powder blue uniforms?

 

The train tracks around Purdue field is very very cool.