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

With a noon kickoff....The dome makes plenty of sense.

 

I wish they would add more to the Sunday schedule for Week 1. Slot over about half dozen games and it would be a beautiful weekend.

 

When I applied I believe it was something like 7,001 applications for 7,000 freshman slots.

Always felt bad for the kid who had to go to Roane State Community College instead.

 

I don’t bet on games, but if I had to give 50 points I’d still take the Ducks over Idaho.

Hopefully the Vandals are getting seven figures for that beat down in Eugene.

 

SOB (Soft Ol’ Bitch) Dabo Swinney will no longer take calls during his weekly radio show because Tyler from Spartanburg made him sad.

 

And this during a time of overall declining applications. I will add that after Katrina, Tulane dropped its application fee and applications took off like a Cat 5 hurricane.

 

My understanding is Oklahoma, Arkansas and Mississippi either waive tuition for students in bordering states or only have a small surcharge, maybe 10 percent above the in-state cost. I think Kansas may have something similar. So there are some public schools hurting somewhere, even in the higher end sportsball leagues.

 

That speech will be a killer.

 

Aren't application numbers meaningless with the uniform application? The family doesn't have to pay $75 for every application.

 

They don't waive tuition entirely. They just offer in-state tuition to students from neighboring states. At the University of Arkansas, that means around $8,000 per school year vs. $28,000 for out-of-state tuition.

It's part of the reason there are so many vehicles with Texas tags in Fayetteville now.

 

First time USC and LSU have played since ‘84, third time ever.

 

Sorry, mistyped. I have a friend from Memphis sending her daughter to architecture school in Fayetteville on that plan. Still closer than Rocky Top.