Week 1 Games

Dan · Aug 26, 2016

Week 1 college football news & games thread! Feel free to add and discuss any other CFB games/news/items of interest :thumb:

Friday, August 26

Cal vs Hawaii (ANZ Stadium, Sydney, Australia)
9:00pm CT - ESPN

Thursday, September 1

Indiana at FIU
6:30pm CT - ESPNU

Oregon State at Minnesota
8:00pm CT - BTN

Friday, September 2

Furman at Michigan State
6:00pm CT - BTN

Saturday, September 3

Bowling Green at Ohio State
11:00am CT - BTN

Western Michigan at Northwestern
11:00am CT - ESPNU

Hawaii at Michigan
11:00am CT - ESPN

Howard at Maryland
11:00am CT - BTN

Eastern Kentucky at Purdue
11:00am CT - ESPNews

Oklahoma vs Houston (NRG Stadium, Houston, TX)
11:00am CT - ABC

Rutgers at Washington
1:00pm CT - PAC12

LSU vs Wisconsin (Lambeau Field, Green Bay, WI)
2:30pm CT - ABC

Kent State at Penn State
2:30pm CT - BTN

Miami OH at Iowa
2:30pm CT - ESPNU

North Carolina vs Georgia (Georgia Dome, Atlanta, GA)
4:30pm CT - ESPN

Alabama vs USC (AT&T Stadium, Arlington, TX)
7:00pm CT - ABC

Fresno State at Nebraska
7:00pm CT - BTN

Clemson at Auburn
8:00pm CT - ESPN

Sunday, September 4

Notre Dame at Texas
6:30pm CT - ABC

Monday, September 5

FSU vs Ole Miss (Florida Citrus Bowl, Orlando, FL)
7:00pm CT - ESPN

Second and Chalmers · Aug 26, 2016

GUYS THERE'S COLLEGE FOOTBALL TONIGHT :whoo:

Illwinsagain · Aug 26, 2016

Dan said:
Week 1 college football news & games thread! Feel free to add and discuss any other CFB games/news/items of interest :thumb:

Friday, August 26

Cal vs Hawaii (ANZ Stadium, Sydney, Australia)
9:00pm CT - ESPN

Thursday, September 1

Indiana at FIU
6:30pm CT - ESPNU

Oregon State at Minnesota
8:00pm CT - BTN

Friday, September 2

Furman at Michigan State
6:00pm CT - BTN

Saturday, September 3

Bowling Green at Ohio State
11:00am CT - BTN

Western Michigan at Northwestern
11:00am CT - ESPNU

Hawaii at Michigan
11:00am CT - ESPN

Howard at Maryland
11:00am CT - BTN

Eastern Kentucky at Purdue
11:00am CT - ESPNews

Oklahoma vs Houston (NRG Stadium, Houston, TX)
11:00am CT - ABC

Rutgers at Washington
1:00pm CT - PAC12

LSU vs Wisconsin (Lambeau Field, Green Bay, WI)
2:30pm CT - ABC

Kent State at Penn State
2:30pm CT - BTN

Miami OH at Iowa
2:30pm CT - ESPNU

North Carolina vs Georgia (Georgia Dome, Atlanta, GA)
4:30pm CT - ESPN

Alabama vs USC (AT&T Stadium, Arlington, TX)
7:00pm CT - ABC

Fresno State at Nebraska
7:00pm CT - BTN

Clemson at Auburn
8:00pm CT - ESPN

Sunday, September 4

Notre Dame at Texas
6:30pm CT - ABC

Monday, September 5

FSU vs Ole Miss (Florida Citrus Bowl, Orlando, FL)
7:00pm CT - ESPN

Wow! Hawaii tonight in AUS and going to Ann Arbor next Saturday.

jeremyninnes · Aug 26, 2016

I will be at the Cal/Hawaii game today!

PerennIaLL · Aug 26, 2016

Second and Chalmers said:
GUYS THERE'S COLLEGE FOOTBALL TONIGHT :whoo:

Best time of the year! Even better when the Illini are competitive. Hopefully many of those days lie ahead.

dsg · Aug 26, 2016

Hawaii starts the season off with an onside kick?

Rather anti climatic.

IlliniFaninHoosierLand · Aug 27, 2016

Your reigning defending FCS champions North Dakota State host Charleston Southern tonight at 6:30 PM CT on ESPN. The Bison are preseason #1 and Charleston Southern is preseason #6.

CARPET · Aug 27, 2016

Games that jump off the floor.

Bama is a 10.5 chalk vs USC in Arlington Texas.

Bama brings the best Defense in the nation vs a fast and loose young team.

Bama should cover this spread easily and win by 20.

AaronB28 · Aug 28, 2016

CARPET said:
Games that jump off the floor.

Bama is a 10.5 chalk vs USC in Arlington Texas.

Bama brings the best Defense in the nation vs a fast and loose young team.

Bama should cover this spread easily and win by 20.

I also see LSU destroying Wisconsin and auburn getting the upset on clemson

cmore · Aug 28, 2016

AaronB28 said:
I also see LSU destroying Wisconsin and auburn getting the upset on clemson

Yup, I put 500 on LSU.

HuskerIllini · Aug 28, 2016

cmore said:
Yup, I put 500 on LSU.

Yeah, I love LSU in that game. I don't see it being a crazy blowout but I see it being something like:

LSU 31
Wisky: 13

I think that Clemson covers the -7 with ease

HuskerIllini · Aug 28, 2016

I think that unders in the NW game (52) look interesting.

CARPET · Aug 28, 2016

HuskerIllini said:
Yeah, I love LSU in that game. I don't see it being a crazy blowout but I see it being something like:

LSU 31
Wisky: 13

I think that Clemson covers the -7 with ease

LSU is a 10 point chalk in this game.

I have looked at both teams in depth and at ground level.

LSU is clearly head and shoulders above Wisky at this time.

LSU by 17 (maybe more).

StateFarmCenter · Aug 28, 2016

Lsu will not cover you fools.

CARPET · Aug 28, 2016

StateFarmCenter said:
Lsu will not cover you fools.

Well I guess that answers that- Thanks for such a insightful post.

CARPET · Aug 28, 2016

HuskerIllini said:
I think that unders in the NW game (52) look interesting.

It does look interesting the O/U is 52 points. NW is favored by 5.

The Cats should easily cover the spread of 5. I do not see a shootout to get to 52 points for the game. Defense will be a major factor.

Good test for the Kitty Cats first game.

TheBucket · Sep 1, 2016

Garrick McGee's recruit over at Louisville, Lamar Jackson is going HAM.

7/10 passing for 130 yards and 3 passing TDs.
9 rushes for 104 yards and 2 rushing TDs.

Oh and it's early in the second quarter.

Folks - McGee left that offense to come be the OC at U of I.

IlliniFaninHoosierLand · Sep 1, 2016

Final score tonight in Charleston: WIU 38 EIU 21

WIU is a good team though EIU made some mistakes, including three turnovers, which ended up costing them in this game. EIU did play a lot better in this game than they did in Macomb last season. 10 point swing in Western's favor late in the 1st half really swung this game in the Leathernecks' favor.

EIU travels to Miami (OH) next weekend.

Greensboro · Sep 2, 2016

Anyone see App State took Tennessee to overtime & missed extra point & field goal in regulation + were driving down to 30 yd line or so when time in regulation ran out. Would have been almost as big a Win as beating Michigan back when they were FBS/1-AA. Up 13 -3 at half, they couldn't finish.

Illiniinia · Sep 2, 2016

IlliniFaninHoosierLand said:
Final score tonight in Charleston: WIU 38 EIU 21

WIU is a good team though EIU made some mistakes, including three turnovers, which ended up costing them in this game. EIU did play a lot better in this game than they did in Macomb last season. 10 point swing in Western's favor late in the 1st half really swung this game in the Leathernecks' favor.

EIU travels to Miami (OH) next weekend.

McShane for WIU looked pretty good. Led team in rushing and receiving. Only a sophomore.

SampsonRelpenk · Sep 2, 2016

Greensboro said:
Anyone see App State took Tennessee to overtime & missed extra point & field goal in regulation + were driving down to 30 yd line or so when time in regulation ran out. Would have been almost as big a Win as beating Michigan back when they were FBS/1-AA. Up 13 -3 at half, they couldn't finish.

Very Zook-ish clock management by App State at the end of regulation. Why they didn't use their last time out is a mystery.

Greensboro · Sep 2, 2016

SampsonRelpenk said:
Very Zook-ish clock management by App State at the end of regulation. Why they didn't use their last time out is a mystery.

Heard that from someone, but game was SEC network so didn't see any of the game. Just tried to find the highlight & now I see that TN touchdown in OT was after APP caused the QB to fumble on 4th down & TN was able to recover in the end zone. App missed fg was also late in 4th Qtr... TN got lucky to survive that one. Miami is playing in Boone in a couple of weeks, will be interesting to see if APP can play that well against Miami. When we talk about stupid scheduling, why would Miami want or need to play APP in Boone?

Second and Chalmers · Sep 2, 2016

SampsonRelpenk said:
Very Zook-ish clock management by App State at the end of regulation. Why they didn't use their last time out is a mystery.

I get what they were trying to do, save the timeout so they didn't have to rush the field goal team on, but it all just blew up in their faces when they had a screen pass get blown up on an excellent play by a DB at the worst possible time. Should have used the last timeout there in retrospect, but they just got caught in-between. You never think 26-27 seconds is going to tick down as fast as it does.

They also lost a bunch of time earlier in the drive when a WR inexplicably stayed inbounds trying to pick up a first down he was never going to get to.

Week 1 college football man, life comes at you fast.

IlliniRocketFan · Sep 2, 2016

Did anyone else watch the Minnesota game with their three targeting ejections. It seems like they are getting very serious about helmet-to-helmet contact on defenseless players with the new rules. I think if these rules were in place last year, that hit Iowa did to Allison on the sidelines would have resulted in an ejection.

Deadpool · Sep 3, 2016

Houston is embarrassing OU. Hugely important game for the CFP.

Week 1 Games

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