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

I have a feeling it’s going to be a looooooong year in Lubbock.

 

So Kentucky and USM basically only played a half and peaced out?

 

I don't know which fans are having a cruddier Sunday, the fans of teams that had high hopes and lost, or the fans of teams with high hopes who didn't steamroll as expected. Yes, I'm talking about the Oregon Ducks.
There is a reason why they wait until all of the games are played before awarding the national championship trophy. I don't even know if the Ducks will still be undefeated when Ohio State comes to Eugene. Don't know if Buckeyes will be either.

 

Florida is also not good.

 

Oh, they're less than not good. That was after eight months of preparation for playing Miami let's lay a giant turd in front of 90,000 people not good.

With the schedule remaining, like 2-10 getting Billy Napier fired not good. Samford in two weeks and South Florida are probably the only games where Florida will be favored.

And hopefully Napier takes down Scott Stricklin as well. Dude cannot hire a football coach to save his job.

 

As Mac Davis so wisely noted, happiness is Lubbock, Texas, in your rear-view mirror.

 

I give 'em 4-8, at best with toss ups at home against Kentucky and at Mississippi State.

 

Have you been to Lubbock? It’s ALWAYS a looooooong year there.

 

Listened to that on the drive home. They had already had one weather delay of two hours or so. When the second one came about five minutes into the third quarter it was after midnight local time. They hadn’t officially called it by the time I switched stations, but you could tell it was trending that way.

 

I watched about a quarter of Idaho State - Oregon State (when it was still close), and was pleasantly surprised by the CW's production values (although I think whoever is still under contract from the old Pac-12 network is doing the broadcasts).