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College football is back for real! Time to lock in. Thursday games: A fun little appetizer slate here North Dakota State @ Colorado (8/7 ESPN) We all know why we're here. Deion might lose to an FCS school and we can all laugh and laugh at the loud asshole. This isn't NDSU's best recent team by any stretch, but Colorado is a mess. North Carolina @ Minnesota (8/7 Fox) Mack rows the boat up to Minneapolis to visit PJ Fleck. Fun coaches, but not particularly exciting teams this year. UNC still might be a player in the ACC by virtue of a layup schedule. Coastal Carolina @ Jacksonville State (8/7 CBSSN) A sneaky-watchable mid major matchup when the other two games are on commercial. RichRod's done surprisingly well at JSU. Friday games: A couple of "hey, it's football" games with passing interest for Texas fans Florida Atlantic @ Michigan State (7/6 Big Ten Network) Who doesn't want to watch Tom Herman have a very bad time in East Lansing? Jonathan Smith makes his head coach debut for Sparty after doing a really excellent job at his alma mater, Oregon State. Temple @ Oklahoma (7/6 ESPN) Hopefully this is competitive, and Sooner fans finally start having the unfamiliar feeling that they've hired a bad football coach. TCU @ Stanford (10:30/9:30 ESPN) Frogs on The Farm. TCU will probably win going away as the Transfer Portal and Stanford admissions are not friends, but it's a suitably random heir to the Pac-12 After Dark heritage. Saturday games: Hell yeah, this is the good stuff. Starting with... Clemson vs. Georgia @ Atlanta (12/11 ABC) Dabo's probably going to get pantsed on live television, but this is an prestige matchup, in a semi-neutral site close to both campuses. Penn State @ West Virginia (12/11 FOX) Backyard Brawl is BACK. If Clemson/Georgia is a prestige drama, this is soap opera football. Drama, hatred, pedophilia, burning couches. Hopefully James Franklin's Charmin-soft side comes out and lets WVU punch Penn State in the face in Morgantown. EDIT: Whoops wrong Pennsylvania Appalachian school for that rivalry, so it's not Backyard Brawl but I'll leave it there to annoy @PittsburghTiger. Virginia Tech @ Vanderbilt (12/11 ESPN) Because you need something to watch when the other two are on a break. VaTech is a popular pick for the ACC title this year. Can they show why in Week One? - Colorado State @ Texas (3:30/2:30 ESPN) Needs no introduction on this board. Jay Norvell seemed like a really good dude despite his Sooner past when he was at UT, and CSU runs a competent Air Raid that should be a nice warmup for the Longhorn secondary. Miami @ Florida (3:30/2:30 ABC) The most likely chaos game of the day. Lots of unevenly distributed talent. Head coaches that have about five brain cells between them. In-state Florida rivalry. Miami wants to prove they can win the ACC. Florida knows that if they lose here it only gets harder with their schedule from hell. If they're both on break, check out Boise State @ Georgia Southern (fun, random G5 matchup on ESPNU) or Miami of Ohio at Northwestern on BTN (NWU will be playing on their practice field on Lake Michigan. Stunning setting, extremely rickety looking bleachers). - UNLV @ Houston (7/6 FS1) Willie Fritz can coach, but Houston's roster is pure dogshit. UNLV is a threat here in what's shaping up to be a very decent year for them under Barry Odom. Fresno State @ Michigan (7:30/6:30 NBC) Much like us, Michigan is starting off with a creditable MWC team. Unlike us, Michigan is in flux and needs this game to settle their roster and coaching in before our matchup. They need to play starters and use their real playbook, we could learn a lot here. Notre Dame @ Texas A&M (7:30/6:30 ESPN) Two extraordinarily similar teams. Wizard DCs as unproven HCs. Mobile, fragile QBs. Bad WRs. Questionable OLs. Ferocious defenses (Aggie LBs and secondary not included). The better team is visiting, take the under. Wyoming @ Arizona State (10:30/9:30 FS1) Finish the day with some Big 12 After Dark action. Sunday/Monday games: Happy holiday weekend! LSU vs. USC @ Las Vegas (7:30/6:30 Sunday ABC) I honestly don't know what to expect out of either of these teams. High delta matchup between big brand schools. Boston College @ Florida State (7:30/6:30 Monday ESPN) A little Monday Night Football action. Can FSU rebound after the heartbreaker in Dublin? Can DJU complete a forward pass? Will it matter when BOB is on the opposing sideline? Let's fucking do this.

Their Space U stuff is usually really cool, but that's too close to the bog-standard blackout uniforms everyone else has.

I mean, we're playing the better version of ND in Michigan. Worse QB, but better OL and an even nastier defense.

Fresno State, ECU, Nevada, and Wyoming is a really fun quadruplet of G5s - I wonder how they picked them.

Murray is the gift that keeps on giving.

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Given that we're (at worst) a top 5 wealthiest program, it's clearly not a poors move.

Good lord

He's really talented, but didn't Brown have a down year last year?

And while we're at it I hate when people just call it "Washington." Washington was a person. Washington DC or Washington state are places.

Projected to win 50-9

Memphis State, wow, that's a throwback. They changed the name 20 years ago!

That's Jones. Sterns was an LSU battle.

Georgia Tech isn't THAT bad, and they needed a last second FG to win. They looked like shit, but probably bowl-eligible shit.

I know he went to Penn and is actually a pretty smart guy, but he has the pure agroid look down cold

Someone realized that if they're going to be in the Big 12 in a few years they need to elevate the program beyond "complete afterthought"

Last year it came out two hours before the first game.

Their defense is filthy and the aggy OL is similarly atrocious. Similar teams, but ND has more depth and top line talent outside of the DL.

There's always the chance of a Filsaime type recruitment happening, but Sanchez and the staff haven't seemed to like each other from day one.

Also a rich kid school. Shockingly good looking alumni base. Lots of cocaine.

They have to be a certain level of athletic and they're wearing tight sports bras. That's what That's what that's going to look like without surgical help.

We just offered a bunch of them, so I'm not exactly sure what you mean.

Not a bad group at all for an ag school in a city famous for smelling like fertilizer