OT: First Day of College Football Open Thread

Uh, shouldn't this be listed as OT?

When the Baptists and Presbyterians meet up, you can throw the records out the window...

Ive got USC (-21), Minnesota (-1), Marshall (+28.5) and Pitt straight up in a 4 team parlay. What do people think?

Nice little 5 dollar bet - pays out 15-1.

FOOTBAW! Bring it on!

Prepare to be "blown away" all season

Glad to have it back

Ill let this guy show my excitement for it just replace hedonism with college football

HELL YES! i am so glad its football season. I have been dying with nothing but a 12 game back baseball team (Tigers). What is everyone drinking tonight to celebrate football season's return? I have some ice cold Summer Shandy.

And just tuned in for the OSU Marshall game, first commercial?  You guessed it!  Velveeta and Ro-tel!  It's been so long.

Edit: Someone already mentioned it....so, in order to make this worthwhile, I'll give a game perdiction:  OSU 42  Marshall 10 

Jesus, I just turned on BTN and there was this intro rock song themed on the nuts...it was f*cking ridiculous.

Anyone know anything about that?

Holy Jesus that song they played at the beginning of the OSU game was terrrrrible.

Marshall's coach is really named Doc Holliday?

what a great start by marshall...

IU had nice kick off return to the 40 or so.  Fired up for the Hoosiers a bit here.  

make me want to vomit. That is all.

"Ohio state, obviously a lot of rabid... intelligent fans..."

Can someone link me a livestream to the OSU game? Stuck at work and the link at ATDHE is broken/needs a password.

Good stuff. We fired up at the JCB and had several posts today including the first officially Booked picks of the season. If you need shit to read, I'd be obliged if you checked it out

Otherwise, enjoy the night. Let's have some fun in this thread.

Sadly, Marshall has already crapped down one leg. They'll probably crap down the other one before this first quarter is over.

http://www.boxlive.tv/channels/junglevision

is former UCONN OC.  First series ended in INT--good sign.  

Does anyone know of a live stream?

Saine TD...man this is gonna be a long game ugh

covering the 28.5 points, yeah you probably will not be winning that bet.

There we go Marshall.

Now lets not go 3 and out!

Wow, swaths of empty seats in Bloomington, shocker!

OSU's brass section was seriously off-key on that little post-field-goal miss.

What a balloon from Pryor.

A Big Ten Network show hosted by Keith Jackson?  I'm in!

please post a link to Pitt/Utah when the game starts...

These Marshall receivers can't catch ANYthing.  That's like, 6 dropped passes in a row.

10 play, 85yd touchdown drive by south carolina, 7-0

By Garcia of USC (no, not that USC).

Minnesota is going to be TERRIBLE this year.

WF is killing Pres.  Ball St. sucks. 

HELL YEAH MARSHALL!!!!!!!!

and 6 points for Marshall.

Blocked FG TD for the herd. Glorious.

Marshall scores!!! Blocked fg return... c'mon Herd!

nice fg attempt!!!!

WOOOOOOO BAD SPECIAL TEAMS!!!!

absolutely suck. The one just had an orgasm about a "fake punt" that was a rugby kick

Making those with money on the game everywhere happier. Wonder if the 2nd string O-line will come out again.

got beat for that blocked FG attempt. He was blown back 3 yards

3.59 GPA in "Community Service and Hospital Visits". A true tOSU academic.

Pryor's first instinct is to throw?.......riiiiight

I'm really scared for our secondary after watching that deep ball by Pryor.

Way to jinx that, announcers.  TD OSU

No worries, James Rogers would have intercepted that.

"I've seen a lot of Heisman Candidates make the throw!"  

Did you see how open he was?

I've seen a lot of high school kids make that throw too

Holy crap, a Marshall receiver didn't drop a ball.

Tied 7-7 at halftime. Only good game of the night?

But the game on ESPN (S. Carolina vs. Southern Miss) Is shaping up to be a pretty good game thus far. 7-3 second quarter with SCar driving. 

I'm flipping between that and Rotel/Velveeta. The Minnesota game thus far is awful

blindside hit for the sack

but then the D got unsportsmanlike conduct. CMON MAN!

And he should have just thrown a pick, but the wide out made a good play to break up the INT

...that TP doesn't seem to have made that gigantic leap forward that Tressel has been talking about all off-season.

all the "hype" and "progress" of pryor? or the fact that OSU can win their games with him only throwing like 10 times per game?

Wow. Marshall is a wee bit undisciplined. 

OSU's offense doesn't quite look like a #2 team in the country to me.

How did Towson score on IU AGAIN???

Pitt vs Utah has started for those who have Verses.

Might be the best game of the night.

Towson's QB is looking like Armanti Edwards.

I see Pryor still gets nervous feet when the other team is blitzing. 

Anyone have a stream for Pitt/Utah?

Utah fumble?

"What kind of speed do they got?!?!"

BTN announcers are awful. 

Wow this announcer loves the phrase, "with a chance."

Ugh.  I'm watching this Pitt-Utah game....  Does anyone else find watching CFB on Versus as painful as I do?  (Or anything on Versus for that matter.)

(Also got Marshall-OSU going on the laptop, kind of watching both.)

Pitt FG no good

0-0

I'm actually listening on an internet stream (yeah, it's old fashioned but I don't have cable)

This announcer is terrible.  Every time a player is footsteps from the endzone, he yells, "HE'S GOT A CHANCE!!!!!"

is starting to turn it on against Minnesota. Gophers can't hit a FG. 14-7, MTSU driving.

Ohio State is scary good.

And, really, the overabundance of Seven Nation Army in this game, in an ideal world, would destroy any chance of hearing that blared in Michigan Stadium this season.

with 36 seconds left in the half, MTSU 14, Minnesota 14

Wow, MTSU pulls even.  

14 all Mid Tenn vs. Minny

On ESPN U

I just saw a Pitt commercial where they ended it by saying, "Hail to Pitt!"

WTF!?!

I know Marshall sucks, but OSU's defense is all over the place.  Ugh.

A lot of Marshall's recievers have been open if they could catch/if their QB could hit them. They're all over the place, but most of these incompletions wouldn't have to be. They're there to make the hit. They're NOT there to break up the pass.

So if MTSU ends up beating Minny, is that considered an upset?

I just want to say that the comments in this thread are making my night. That is all.

Also, I can't watch the game, but Jacory Harris and Miami (YTM) seem to be one-upping Pryor and the Buckeyes tonight. Gosh I hope Miami wins next week.

Also, Harris is much more stylish than Pryor. This will undoubtedly get in Pryor's head before the game and psych him out.

Lou Holtz just said something I didn't understand. I'm gonna need to go back and re-watch his analysis with my Donald Duck translator app. 

Is there a law that prevents people from drinking alcohol in a TV commercial?  I've noticed that in all beer commercials (as well as these Buffalo Wild Wings ads), you never actually see anyone drink.  They'll hold up the glass, toast, whatever, but they never, ever drink it. 

I can't believe that Brian Johnson is a QB coach for Utah.  He is a 23 year old full time assistant coach.  

The BW3 ads are supposed to be funny, but they're mostly scary. They apparently are involved in a far-reaching conspiracy to keep customers trapped in their restaurants through the use of deception and fear.

First they bought football refs, then basketball players, and now weathermen? Where does it end?

Utah ties Pitt.  PAC 1X is better than the Big East.  In other news, so are most high school all-star teams.

I can't take anymore of the T. Pryor lovefest.

12:44 left in the 3rd quarter

MTSU 17-14 Minnesota

Got to admit, pulling for the upset here

Middle Tenn State goes up 17-14 on Minny.  Speechless. 

Pitt has some slow safeties.

I'm watching this Miami and Florida A&M game.  Jacory Harris looks scary good: 13-16, 3tds.  Miami's receiving core is filthy.  They really could beat TUOS next weekend.

Tyler Moeller fulfills the proud OSU tradition of "Guy who did nothing for four years and then morphs into a manbearfreak as a 5th-year senior."

apparently Marshall has a guy who caught Jackrabbits with Odoms in Pahokee. How did we miss recruting this potential slot ninja!?!?

In more somber news, the Microsoft SCCM thread has died a sad, bitter death.

Minnesota had two guys in prime position to pin a punt on the one-yard line, and they both whiffed. 

this pitt- utah game is pretty good. Eventually the Pitt coach is going to realize that Jonathan Baldwin exists and they should get the ball to him.

Utah throws an interception in the end-zone, game has been full of turnovers so far. Still 7-14

Anyone else a masochist and watching the Minn/MTSU game?  If Minn's coach would let his QB call audibles they'd probably have 6 TD's by now but they keep running into 8 and 9 man fronts.  Reminds me a bit of pre-RR Michigan.

Did anyone just catch the opening of Versus half time show?

Seems like the telepromter was moving a little to slow, as the host stared at the camera and left a 2 second pause between each word.  

"Welcome to.....the versus......halftime......report......we are......enjoying....."

Just a second.  How the shit is a Big 10 team--I'm counting Minnesota here--playing an away game against Middle Tennessee State?  Don't they have a new stadium?

I think my favorite game tonight is Indiana...granted they're playing Townson but I really didn't think Indiana could put up 48 on anyone, much less half way through the third.  One year to go sparty, and the hoosiers are learning how to play...

Look out, Minnesota is driving!  I wish they were on Michigan's schedule.

Edit: Minn 24 - MTSU 17

Starting to take over.  It looks like MTS is wearing down.