NCAA Foootball 2017

[Eddie Teach]

And what about the team you're being paid to root for?

[Berkut]

Arizona opens up against Northern Arizona.

What a waste of a perfectly good football game.

[CountDeMoney]

Maryland's schedule is just used to mark off the weeks until basketball season begins.

[Barrister]

I don't follow Canadian university football much, although when I do I have a rooting interest in my alma mater, the U of Manitoba Bisons.

But I went to look up their schedule, and saw that they actually open their season up tonight.  The game will not be televised.

But what caught my eye (and in my throat) is that the Canadian equivalent to the NCAA has rebranded itself again.  For many years it was the CIAU - Canadian Inter-university Athletics Union.  That not exactly rolling off the tongue, they renamed it as the CIS - Canadian Interuniversity Sport.

Now, for 2017 it's changed again - to "U Sports".

[derspiess]

Well you will always have Towson.

Seedy and I have to wait til late October to start trash talking about Delaware-Towson, the ultimate CAA grudge match.

Did Delaware offer you in-state rates?

Yes.  My parents had lived there for a couple years before I transferred.

[derspiess]

Delaware posts a video stream of their games now on the university athletic department website.  They combine that with audio from the radio broadcast and it works out pretty well, considering.  I got to watch most of the riveting Delaware - Delaware State game last night. 

[grumbler]

A pretty good (Michigan) hype video:
https://twitter.com/umichfootball/status/903816149250457601

[Berkut]

Arizona football hype video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U00m6LeKJWs

[alfred russel]

Arizona football hype video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U00m6LeKJWs

Probably should feature more Rich Rod being cursed in Morgantown and Ann Arbor. Then end with "Maybe (eventually) third time will be the charm???"

[grumbler]

Maryland's schedule is just used to mark off the weeks until basketball season begins.

They are not looking bad (except for the offensive line) against Texas).  They've got some running backs.

[Valmy]

Well Charlie Strong would usually make us wait until week 2 or 3 before showing us he had a truly wretched team. Tom Herman did it in the first quarter of the first game. Progress!

[CountDeMoney]

Poor Texas.  When it rains, it pours.

[CountDeMoney]

This will probably wash Texas out of the top 25.

[dps]

This will probably wash Texas out of the top 25.

.

One would hope so, anyway.  They shouldn't have been in the top 25 to start with.  They were 5-7 last year, and while the expectation is certainly that they'll be better under Herman than under Strong, I think they should have had to actually show that improvement before being ranked.

[CountDeMoney]

Sigh.