College Football week 1

[ShogunOfFear]

Didn't see a thread for this figure we could use one cause its that time of year again.   Let the games begin!

Thursday, August 28
7:00 PM Northeastern at Ball State
7:00 PM UTEP at Buffalo
7:00 PM Eastern Illinois at Central Michigan
7:00 PM Indiana State at Eastern Michigan
7:30 PM Hofstra at Connecticut
7:30 PM Jacksonville State at Georgia Tech
7:30 PM Vanderbilt at Miami (OH)
7:30 PM Eastern Kentucky at Cincinnati
7:30 PM Charleston Southern at Miami (FL)
7:30 PM Troy at Middle Tennessee
8:00 PM #23 Wake Forest at Baylor
8:00 PM South Dakota State at Iowa State
8:00 PM North Carolina State at South Carolina
9:00 PM Oregon State at Stanford

Friday, August 29
7:00 PM Temple at Army
8:00 PM Southern Methodist at Rice

Saturday, August 30
12:00 PM Youngstown State at #2 Ohio State
12:00 PM Akron at #13 Wisconsib
12:00 PM #17 Virginia Tech at East Carolina
12:00 PM Coastal Carolina at #22 Penn State
12:00 PM Bowling Green at #25 Pittsburgh
12:00 PM Syracuse at Northwestern
12:00 PM Western Kentucky at Indiana
12:00 PM Maine at Iowa
12:30 PM Georgia Southern at #1 Georgia
12:30 PM Hawaii at #5 Florida
2:00 PM Southern Utah at Air Force
2:00 PM Ohio at Wyoming
3:30 PM #3 USC at Virginia
3:30 PM Villanova at #8 West Virginia
3:30 PM Utah at Michigan
3:30 PM Oklahoma State at Washington State
3:30 PM Towson at Navy
3:45 PM Delaware at Maryland
4:00 PM Tulsa at UAB
4:30 PM Illinois State at Marshall
5:00 PM Appalachian State at #7 LSU
6:00 PM Northern Iowa at #16 Brigham Young
6:00 PM McNeese State at North Carolina
6:00 PM TCU at New Mexico
6:00 PM South Carolina State at UCF
6:45 PM Mississippi State at Louisiana Tech
7:00 PM Chattanooga at #4 Oklahoma
7:00 PM Louisiana-Monroe at #10 Auburn
7:00 PM Florida Atlantic at #11 Texas
7:00 PM Eastern Washington at #12 Texas Tech
7:00 PM Florida International at #14 Kansas
7:00 PM Western Illinois at Arkansas
7:00 PM Northern Illinois at Minnesota
7:00 PM Memphis at Mississippi
7:00 PM James Madison at Duke
7:00 PM Western Michigan at Nebraska
7:00 PM Arkansas State at Texas A&M
7:00 PM Southern University at Houston
7:00 PM Louisiana-Lafayette at Southern Miss
7:05 PM North Texas at Kansas State
7:30 PM Tennessee-Martin at #19 South Florida
7:30 PM Boston College at Kent State
8:00 PM #24 Alabama at #9 Clemson
8:00 PM UC Davis at San Jose State
8:00 PM Michigan State at California
8:00 PM Idaho State at Boise State
8:30 PM #20 Illinois at #6 Missouri
9:05 PM Grambling State at Nevada
9:30 PM Cal Poly at San Diego State
10:00 PM Northern Arizona at #15 Arizona State
10:00 PM Washington at #21 Oregon
10:00 PM Idaho at Arizona
10:00 PM Utah State at UNLV

Sunday, August 31
3:30 PM Kentucky at Louisville
7:30 PM Colorado State at Colorado

Monday, September 1
4:00 PM Fresno State at Rutgers
8:00 PM #18 Tennessee at UCLA



Associated Press
1. Georgia (22)
2. Ohio St. (21)
3. USC (12)
4. Oklahoma (4)
5. Florida (6)
6. Missouri
7. LSU
8. West Virginia
9. Clemson
10. Auburn
11. Texas
12. Texas Tech
13. Wisconsin
14. Kansas
15. Arizona St.
16. BYU
17. Virginia Tech
18. Tennessee
19. South Florida
20. Illinois
21. Oregon
22. Penn St.
23. Wake Forest
24. Alabama
25. Pittsburgh

USA Today
1. Georgia (22)
2. USC (14)
3. Ohio St. (14)
4. Oklahoma (3)
5. Florida (5)
6. LSU (3)
7. Missouri
8. West Virginia
9. Clemson
10. Texas
11. Auburn
12. Wisconsin
13. Kansas
14. Texas Tech
15. Virginia Tech
16. Arizona St.
17. BYU
18. Tennessee
19. Illinois
20. Oregon
21. South Florida
22. Penn St.
23. Wake Forest
24. Michigan
25. Fresno St.











And don't forget to hookem...

[Phoenix Dark]

3:30 PM Utah at Michigan

GO BLUE

I'm not confident in our QB situation at all; from what I've heard no one has distinguished themselves yet...and we're days away from opening week.

Defense is going to be sound, offense has the weapons but possibly no one to get things started. I still think we can win 7 or 8 games. Next year is going to be awesome

[ShogunOfFear]

I really hope you guys beat Ohio St this year.  Keep them away from the title game!

[Phoenix Dark]

What? Seeing OSU get fucked every year in the title game is an official holiday for us.

This is why I'm excited about Rich Rod. If you watch football or basketball the style of play in the Big Ten is a lot slower than SEC/powerhouse conferences. We slog it out and grind, but that doesn't translate to wins against faster teams with more powerful athletes. But now Michigan has a training regimen that rivals the best in the country - we're stronger and faster than we were last year. Unfortunately we don't have the same talent level that we had last year, but that will obviously change in the future. In a couple years we should be running circles around the Big Ten

[Tabasco]

I'm looking forward to another successful Sooners' run to a BCS blowout loss

[ShogunOfFear]

What? Seeing OSU get fucked every year in the title game is an official holiday for us.

True watching them choke has been a rather relishing, satisfying experience

[Ganhyun]

Well, time to post my allegiance.



woof woof


*No I'm not that guy from Gaf, lol.*

[ShogunOfFear]

12:30 PM Georgia Southern at #1 Georgia

Go Eagles!  Will be the greatest upset in CF history.  (I did it for da damn boro)

[Ganhyun]

The 'Boro boys can dream on all they want. They know whats coming 

[ShogunOfFear]

After last season anything is possible, but alas GA will never go undefeated.

[Ganhyun]

Maybe not undefeated, but I'm betting that the Cocktail Party decides the SEC champ (who will be Florida or GA this year, no one in the west is really strong enough to challenge either of them) and also one spot in the National Title Game.

[bachikarn]

Its the SEC dude. Auburn or LSU could easily beat UF or UGA in the SEC Title game. It's probably a lower than 50% chance, but it can definitely happen.

[ShogunOfFear]

Yep and keep an eye on Ol Miss, they are better this year than people realize.

[Ganhyun]

My picks on the first week of games:

Thursday, August 28
7:00 PM Northeastern at Ball State
I'm gonna go with Northeastern

7:00 PM UTEP at Buffalo
I say UTEP

7:00 PM Eastern Illinois at Central Michigan
Toss up, but Central Michigan gets the nod.

7:00 PM Indiana State at Eastern Michigan
Indiana State I say.

7:30 PM Hofstra at Connecticut
Connecticut

7:30 PM Jacksonville State at Georgia Tech
Ga Tech gets a win here.

7:30 PM Vanderbilt at Miami (OH)
Vandy pulls out a win here.

7:30 PM Eastern Kentucky at Cincinnati
cincinnati

7:30 PM Charleston Southern at Miami (FL)
Miami gets a win here.

7:30 PM Troy at Middle Tennessee
Troy.

8:00 PM #23 Wake Forest at Baylor
Wake forest.

8:00 PM South Dakota State at Iowa State
Iowa State

8:00 PM North Carolina State at South Carolina
South Carolina starts off right

9:00 PM Oregon State at Stanford
Oregon State

Friday, August 29
7:00 PM Temple at Army
I say Army

8:00 PM Southern Methodist at Rice
Rice I guess

Saturday, August 30
12:00 PM Youngstown State at #2 Ohio State
Ohio State wins obviously. But an upset would rock.

12:00 PM Akron at #13 Wisconsin
Wisconsin

12:00 PM #17 Virginia Tech at East Carolina
VA Tech gets the win

12:00 PM Coastal Carolina at #22 Penn State
Joe Pa gets another win

12:00 PM Bowling Green at #25 Pittsburgh
Pitt wins

12:00 PM Syracuse at Northwestern
hmm.. I say Northwestern

12:00 PM Western Kentucky at Indiana
Indiana

12:00 PM Maine at Iowa
Iowa

12:30 PM Georgia Southern at #1 Georgia
UGA obviously.

12:30 PM Hawaii at #5 Florida
Florida destroys Hawaii

2:00 PM Southern Utah at Air Force
Air Force

2:00 PM Ohio at Wyoming
Wyoming

3:30 PM #3 USC at Virginia
USC wins this.

3:30 PM Villanova at #8 West Virginia
West Virginia

3:30 PM Utah at Michigan
Michigan

3:30 PM Oklahoma State at Washington State
OK State

3:30 PM Towson at Navy
Navy

3:45 PM Delaware at Maryland
The Terps!

4:00 PM Tulsa at UAB
UAB

4:30 PM Illinois State at Marshall
Marshall

5:00 PM Appalachian State at #7 LSU
LSU. No week 1 upset for App this year.

6:00 PM Northern Iowa at #16 Brigham Young
BYU

6:00 PM McNeese State at North Carolina
North Carolina

6:00 PM TCU at New Mexico
TCU

6:00 PM South Carolina State at UCF
UCF

6:45 PM Mississippi State at Louisiana Tech
Miss State

7:00 PM Chattanooga at #4 Oklahoma
Oklahoma

7:00 PM Louisiana-Monroe at #10 Auburn
Auburn

7:00 PM Florida Atlantic at #11 Texas
Texas

7:00 PM Eastern Washington at #12 Texas Tech
Texas Tech

7:00 PM Florida International at #14 Kansas
Kansas

7:00 PM Western Illinois at Arkansas
Arkansas

7:00 PM Northern Illinois at Minnesota
Minnesota

7:00 PM Memphis at Mississippi
Mississippi

7:00 PM James Madison at Duke
Duke

7:00 PM Western Michigan at Nebraska
Nebraska

7:00 PM Arkansas State at Texas A&M
Texas A&M

7:00 PM Southern University at Houston
Houston

7:00 PM Louisiana-Lafayette at Southern Miss
Southern Miss

7:05 PM North Texas at Kansas State
Kansas State

7:30 PM Tennessee-Martin at #19 South Florida
South Florida

7:30 PM Boston College at Kent State
Boston College

8:00 PM #24 Alabama at #9 Clemson
I'm saying Roll Tide!

8:00 PM UC Davis at San Jose State
San Jose State

8:00 PM Michigan State at California
Cal

8:00 PM Idaho State at Boise State
Boise

8:30 PM #20 Illinois at #6 Missouri
Missouri even those I'd rather the Illini win

9:05 PM Grambling State at Nevada
Grambling

9:30 PM Cal Poly at San Diego State
Cal Poly

10:00 PM Northern Arizona at #15 Arizona State
AZ state

10:00 PM Washington at #21 Oregon
Oregon with their hot cheerleaders

10:00 PM Idaho at Arizona
Arizona

10:00 PM Utah State at UNLV
UNLV


Sunday, August 31
3:30 PM Kentucky at Louisville
Louisville

7:30 PM Colorado State at Colorado
Colorado

Monday, September 1
4:00 PM Fresno State at Rutgers
Rutgers

8:00 PM #18 Tennessee at UCLA
Tennessee

Its the SEC dude. Auburn or LSU could easily beat UF or UGA in the SEC Title game. It's probably a lower than 50% chance, but it can definitely happen.

True, but its slim this year compared to years past, but possible.

Yep and keep an eye on Ol Miss, they are better this year than people realize.

This too.

But the way things are looking this year, the SEC East is the cream of the crop in the SEC again.

UGA, UF, both highly ranked and returning alot of good players.
Tenn: should be good as usual
SC: Spurrier will eventually get his way with the AD there and get players that he wants in there. And they were just a few bad breaks the last 2 years from being 10 win seasons back to back.
Kentucky: Alot better than thye used to be.

But yea the west has LSU, Alabama should start getting better again, Auburn will be good, and then Old Miss bears keeping an eye on.

[Bloodwake]

God, last year's SEC was a fucking mess and a half. UK was in the top ten in the nation at one point last season, for christ's sake.

Still, anxious to see how the SEC turns out this year, and now that Kentucky sucks again, to see who we upset this year and make cry (hopefully Tennessee, for fuck's sake)

[Ganhyun]

God, last year's SEC was a fucking mess and a half. UK was in the top ten in the nation at one point last season, for christ's sake.

Still, anxious to see how the SEC turns out this year, and now that Kentucky sucks again, to see who we upset this year and make cry (hopefully Tennessee, for fuck's sake)

If you guys play Florida, save your upset to take them out why dontcha?

[Bloodwake]

God, last year's SEC was a fucking mess and a half. UK was in the top ten in the nation at one point last season, for christ's sake.

Still, anxious to see how the SEC turns out this year, and now that Kentucky sucks again, to see who we upset this year and make cry (hopefully Tennessee, for fuck's sake)

If you guys play Florida, save your upset to take them out why dontcha?

Well, Kentucky - Tennessee is the most pathetic rivalry game in college football, seeing as we haven't won in more than twenty years.

Edit, yeah, we haven't beaten Florida in a while either.

[Ganhyun]

God, last year's SEC was a fucking mess and a half. UK was in the top ten in the nation at one point last season, for christ's sake.

Still, anxious to see how the SEC turns out this year, and now that Kentucky sucks again, to see who we upset this year and make cry (hopefully Tennessee, for fuck's sake)

If you guys play Florida, save your upset to take them out why dontcha?

Well, Kentucky - Tennessee is the most pathetic rivalry game in college football, seeing as we haven't won in more than twenty years.

We upset Florida in the early nineties sometime, I think.

Then your overdue to upset them again. Hopefully the College Football Gods decide to rectify this and also let UGA win the National title this year.

But if it cant be UGA, then at least another SEC team.

[Kestastrophe]

I was at the Michigan/App State upset megaton last year, but I will not be going to the season opener this year. Hopefully the team has it together.

[Bloodwake]

Kentucky has two of the top three losing streaks against specific teams in college football. Florida, and Tennessee.

[Bacon]

  Huskers 

[ShogunOfFear]

Avatar updated for the season.

[T234]

HOLLYWOOD YOU'RE GOIN DOWN

MEOW MEOW BITCHES

[Brehvolution]

Penn State

Mishitagain, Ohigho State welfare line, SEC

[ShogunOfFear]

Ohigho State welfare line, Norte Dame

Fixed

[Brehvolution]

Your right man. I can't believe I forgot about ND.
It was such a joy watching them languish in suckitude last season.

[Joe Molotov]

It's the most wonderful time of the year.

[Kestastrophe]

Changed my avatar for football season

[Tabasco]

Huskers 

Did you choose that emoticon in honor of the Pinkshirts?

[Lone]

Oh yeah, Football is here.

[Tucah]

Come on Northeastern 

[max_cool]

I'll probably pop my head in here from time to time. mostly gonna be on GAF though.

Can't wait to rub it in Ganhyun's face when my Sun Devils beat Georgia.

Sun Devil Pride!

[ShogunOfFear]

Well it all begins tonight NC State @ SC.  Should be a win for the cocks.

[Joe Molotov]

LOL @ Oregon State

WOO look at me, Imma gonna be on Sportcenter, ma! OH CRAP WHAT DO YOU MEAN TOUCHBACK?

[Tabasco]

I was really hoping the Big 12 would ditch Baylor and get Arkansas to come back (so to speak), but that new SEC TV deal means it will never happen.  Baylor is so terrible.  I'm not sure they are better than North Texas.

[ShogunOfFear]

  @ Hawaii
Think they've had enough of the SEC?  Go Gators!

[Joe Molotov]

Any Wolverines fans here?

[ShogunOfFear]

   I knew that was coming, it was just a matter of when.

[Phoenix Dark]

Any Wolverines fans here?

(Image removed from quote.)

It's true though: next year will be better. Today proved we don't have a QB. You can't win games like that. The second half defense was great, and the offense seemed to come alive a bit but damn

shame about Wells. I can't stand OSU but I hope he's ok

[Tabasco]

Michigan fans deserve a long season for getting in bed with a dick like Richie R.  He acted like a little bitch at WVU and I wish him nothing but failure.

[Kestastrophe]

The final play of the Michigan game was Carr-esque. As a matter of fact, for all the talk of the spread offense being explosive and dynamic, it was incredibly conservative.

[Phoenix Dark]

i wouldn't blame the offense: it needs someone who can administer it. kinda hard to do when you don't have effective QBs

[T234]

HOLLYWOOD TODAY IS THE DAY WHY AM I UP AT 8 WTF

[ShogunOfFear]

WOW @ Clemson last night boy were they overrated.  It's getting harder and harder to take the ACC serious, not that I ever did.

[Bloodwake]

UK vs. U of L

time for Kentucky to win.

[Joe Molotov]

WOW @ Clemson last night boy were they overrated.  It's getting harder and harder to take the ACC serious, not that I ever did.

Preseason polls are about as accurate at the NFL Draft at picking winners.

[Bloodwake]

That about wraps it up for Louisville.

[ch1nchilla]

CU vs. CSU = victory.

[Phoenix Dark]

michigan

racist 

spoiler (click to show/hide)

:'(

[close]

[Joe Molotov]

That about wraps it up for Louisville.

The Louisville QB's complete and utter collapse in the 4th Qtr was good entertainment for the train wreck value. Neither QB was exactly putting on a clinic out there, but wow, that was like three picks and a fumble in the last 8 minutes or so. I like how the announcers were like "Well, you know the most improvement as an individual and a team comes in between the first and second week." I think that's being a little optimistic.

[Bloodwake]

That about wraps it up for Louisville.

The Louisville QB's complete and utter collapse in the 4th Qtr was good entertainment for the train wreck value. Neither QB was exactly putting on a clinic out there, but wow, that was like three picks and a fumble in the last 8 minutes or so. I like how the announcers were like "Well, you know the most improvement as an individual and a team comes in between the first and second week." I think that's being a little optimistic.

lol, if that's the case, Hartline should win the Heisman

[Kestastrophe]

UCLA 27
TENN 24

UCLA QB throws 4 ints in the first half

SEC
the South

[Brehvolution]

What a great week. Penn State won, Michigan lost, and Ohio State's RB is out. If only ND had played and lost would the week been better.

[Bloodwake]

Damn, Tennessee lost.

It sucks not having ESPN anymore

College FTL.

[ShogunOfFear]

Poor Tenn 

Good game though.

[TakingBackSunday]

Pitt 

[Bloodwake]

SEC Upset Alert:

Kentucky's defense was DAMN impressive Sunday.

[Lone]

OH YEAAAAAAAH :rapetime

[max_cool]

Based largely on feeling, and a little homerism, I thought I would trow out M_C's Pac 101 Pick of the season*.

1. USC, well they look pretty much unstoppable, would take a fluke to beat them this year (counting on you Arizona).

2. ASU, yeah yeah, homerism right? Not exactly. I have seen ASU counted out this year entirely due to the O-line. Well this is a young O-line no one knows how it will play out. I don't know where these predictions are coming from. As for the rest, ASU has a better D than last year, better receivers (if not the best bunch in the Pac), a deeper (though not necessarily better) RB situation, and Rudy Fucking Carpenter!

3. Well, now it gets hard. I'm going to throw out Oregon. Not only are they a pretty trendy pick to do well this year, seemingly no matter what, they generally lost skill players from last season, don't underestimate what a strong core can do (OrSt the last 2 years).

4. UCLA, sure this may be a reaction to the Tennessee game, but I think that UCLA's talent runs fairly deep and with Neuheisel and Chow at the helm I expect good things from the boys in baby blue this year. Shit, if ASU can turn around in one year UCLA sure can.

5. Cal, I just am not convinced the team has it together yet. They had such a monumental collapse last year that I still think the team is affected by it.

6. OrSt, They will probably finish 3 or 4 but I can't in good conscience make that prediction, it might jinx 'em.

7. Stanford, they are on an upswing, but they are starting from quite a low point. look for them to beat a few teams the shouldn't and get a decent conference record.

8. Arizona, look for their signiture big win over a ranked conference foe (ASU fan's are already thinking "Oh God, not again (in reference to keeping us out of yet another rose bowl)). I think they may pull of 2-3 conference wins

9. Washington, just because they are better than their in state rivals...

10. Wazzu, Cougin' it 2008!

*This is conference record, not overall.

[Ganhyun]

Been good football so far.

Some upsets and good close games.