Week 1 College Football Thread: Seven Years of College Station Down the Drain

Here is the Week 1 college football schedule. All times Central:

Thursday
Western Carolina at No. 24 N.C. State 6 pm ACC Network
Murray State at No. 11 Missouri 7 pm SEC Network
Lindenwood at No. 22 Kansas 7 pm ESPN Plus
Southern Utah at Utah 8 pm ESPN Plus

Friday
Temple at No. 16 Oklahoma 6 pm ESPN

Saturday
No. 14 Clemson vs No. 1 Georgia (Atlanta) 11 am ABC
No. 8 Penn State at West Virginia 11 am Fox
Illinois State at No. 25 Iowa 11 am BTN
Chattanooga at No. 15 Tennessee 11:45 SEC Network
South Dakota State at No. 17 Oklahoma State 1 pm ESPN Plus
Akron at No. 2 Ohio State 2:30 pm CBS
Colorado State at No. 4 Texas 2:30 pm ESPN
No. 19 Miami (Fla.) at Florida 2:30 pm ABC
Western Kentucky at No. 5 Alabama 6 pm ESPN
Furman at No. 6 Ole Miss 6 pm ESPN Plus
Tennessee-Martin at No. 18 Kansas State 6 pm ESPN Plus
Idaho at No. 3 Oregon 6:30 pm BTN
No. 7 Notre Dame at No. 20 Texas A&M 6:30 pm ABC
Fresno State at No. 9 Michigan 6:30 pm NBC
New Mexico at No. 21 Arizona 9:30 pm ESPN

Sunday
No. 13 LSU vs. No. 23 USC (Las Vegas) 6:30 pm ABC

Monday
Boston College at No. 10 Florida State 6:30 pm ESPN

 

Clemson-Georgia in the dome makes zero sense.
Sanford Stadium holds 20,000 more.

 

You think Dabo would play a true road game at Georgia? Clemson last non-con roadie that wasn't Notre Dame (part of ACC agreement) or South Carolina was aTm in 2018.

 

My in my head: “2018 wasn’t that long a- … shit.”

 

Reasons to keep an eye on Pitt this year: They've brought in an entirely new offensive staff that is running an up tempo spread, the exact opposite of the sludgeball Narduzzi usually likes. We are five days away from kickoff and a quarterback has yet to be named, which could mean nothing and could mean everything. This could be fun as in enjoyable or fun as in a stolen bus just t-boned a moving train that's loaded with oil tankers and the black cloud keeps getting bigger.

 

Just read that Tennessee had 59,000 applicants for 7,000 freshman slots. SEC excitement indeed.

 

Makes sense for Clemson.

Whose home game was it supposed to be?

 

They have home-and-homes scheduled with LSU and Georgia the next six years. They're at LSU in 2026 and at Georgia in 2030, with the respective games at Clemson in 2025 and 2029. Whether any of those get moved to neutral sites, or canceled because of more conference realignment, remains to be seen.
There's also a second home-and-home series with Georgia and one with Oklahoma in the 2030s.

 

The university where I work had 53,000 applications for a freshman class of about 3,500.

 

Bison. Sharpie.

 

Today, the Little Rock Touchdown Club will have its second luncheon of the season. Sam Pittman started the season last week. This week? Brett Favre. Chances of anybody in the Little Rock media mentioning Favre defrauding the State of Mississippi to build his daughter's school a new volleyball arena? Zero!

Anyway, I'm sure they're have a better quality speaker next week to discuss college football since <checks schedule> ... Ray Lewis ... is the speaker.