Here is SI.com’s always helpful TV schedule for tomorrow’s college football action. Games of particular interest to me, with times converted to Mountain Daylight Time: • North Carolina at UConn, 10am, ESPNU (so, not really televised) • Pittsburgh at Buffalo, 10am, no TV • Notre Dame at Michigan, 1:30pm, ABC • BYU at Tulane, 1:30pm, ESPN2 • UCLA at Tennessee,… Read more »
To my mild surprise, both the AP sportswriters and the USA Today coaches’ poll voters have, in a rare display of good judgment, moved BYU, formerly #20 and #24 in their respective polls, ahead of Oklahoma, formerly #3 in both, as a result of the Cougars’ victory over the Sooners on Saturday. Here’s the AP poll, which isn’t part of… Read more »
Not a bad opening day. 🙂 Up next: Ohio State and Michigan, respectively. BEAT THE BUCKEYES!!! and BEEEEAT SKUNKBEARS!!!
YAY!!! It’s football season!!! The party officially starts at 3:30 PM EDT (when USC and ND kick off), but y’all are welcome to start using the Live Chat window (below right) whenever. As for the Live Blog (below left), I expect the frequency of my updates will vary wildly, as I’ll sometimes be holding a baby or chasing a toddler… Read more »
Beat the Wolf Pack!
Beat the Spartans!
Once upon a time, say five years ago, my ritual on the night before any given Saturday of college football season (at least one with an ND home game) would have been something like this: Go out with friends to Corby’s, have a bunch of drinks, talk football and law nerdery and miscellaneous nonsense, then head to The Backer, have… Read more »
First of all, one final (?) reminder. To join the 1st annual Living Room Times College Football Pick ‘em Contest, click here, then enter Group ID number 16830 and password irishtrojan. Deadline is 11:55 AM EDT tomorrow (Saturday). Secondly, is there anyone who’s going to a game tomorrow — particularly the USC or Notre Dame games — and who would… Read more »
I’m hosting an informal, opening-night-of-football Live Chat (mostly for testing purposes) here. Come on by! Go Boise State!
With the season getting underway in less than seven hours, I’d better publish these now… • Notre Dame will go 9-3. They’ll barely survive a scare from Nevada, then lose one out of the Big Ten trio (Michigan/MSU/Purdue), then beat Washington to come into the USC game at 4-1. There will be much talk of waking up the echoes. It… Read more »