Lots of surprises!

- Wisconsin (who I think is a fine team) beat LSU.
- Auburn scaring Clemson (who I think is over-rated) and holding them to a very tight score.
- Alabama squeaking by USC. Hahahahahahaha, ROLL TIDE ROLL. Didn't see the total blowout coming, but USC's defense spent alost the entire game on the field.

Gonna be a great season!

Best thing about LSU football is when it's somewhere else, not clogging up the interstate and streets on a Friday evening before a Saturday game (early partiers and tailgaters) while I'm trying to get to my concerts on and around campus. Never fails, always a freggin' home game when I need to drive through there (this Friday night will be no exception).

THE best sport! A great opening weekend.

Go Bucks!

Is it terrible that I dislike Mississippi State solely because of their damned cowbells?

Or that I like A&M for the Corps of Cadets in Cav uniforms?

Auburn is always a contender as a spoiler team; they seem to raise to the level of their competition. As a citizen of the Adventure State, I like to see them do well in all but one game, where it's okay to shout RTR. This year the Iron Bowl is at Alabama, so the field won't be seeded with rye grass and watered to the point of making it an ice rink.

We'll be keeping an eye on Georgia this year, as it'll be interesting to see how Kirby Smart (Alabama's defensive coach last year) can build and improve their program.

I couldn't be a PAC-12 fan. I'm all about the 1980's, but can we put the day glow colored uniforms into a museum somewhere? Do they really think they're eventually going to install black lights in stadiums (I'm looking at you, Oregon)?

Did you see the USC guy do the nut step on the Bama guy? Don't these guys know the camera sees everything today. You can't get away with that anymore.

My Spartans look mediocre. I have a feeling we will have to listen to the local media around here talk about how Michigan's Jim Harbough can walk on water now each week.

I still wish they could come up with a better way to do overtime.

All bad for the USC offense to stomp on Fitzpatrick's nuts - nothing to fire up a defense quite like a personal foul like that.

Worse is that we had one USC player showing great sportsmanship with an offered hand to help him off the ground only to be ruined by a mule kick to the family jewels by another.



The cup met the stress test, though, so no injury.

USC player was ejected and now faces suspension.

Imagine if that happened in soccer! They'd of had to call a LifeFlight helicopter to rescue him!

And speaking of cheap shots.. LSU vs Wisconsin, final minute of game.



Yep, Les is less..

Looks to me like he got a big push in the back from the dickhead Bama player.

Peally, you're the only one who believes that.

Actually, and I had not noticed that before, he may have a point. The USC players foot seemed to be moving in an arch to land on the ground and as soon as the AL player puts his hand on his back that foot then immediately changes trajectory and goes straight down.


And I'm an Alabama fan.

They treated it like targeting - player is out for the first half of next game, which seems fair.

I know they set schedules years in advance, but Clemson's is a joke.

That Texas vs. Notre Dame game was sure entertaining. Either ND is over rated (imagine that ) or Texas is under rated. Texas running game looks tough. Got some big bruisers there.

A&M vs UCLA was a great game, too.

Lol, not if you were a UCLA fan. Poor guy I know just lives and dies with that team.


Wheels

OMG, FSU vs. Ole Miss....we watched the game to see what we were facing in two weeks and were shocked at the second half.

Clemson is in big trouble with Florida State, considering they barely squeaked by Auburn.

Not to say the Tide won't have their hands full with Ole Miss - they'll take all the lessons learned to heart after that defeat, just like we did last year when they beat us!

While I have no interest in college sport (or in spectator sport in general), one thing does pique my curiosity. How does one determine what college team to support? Does one tend to support the college one went to (or one attended by other family members etc.)? Does one tend to support colleges in one's home city or state? Are some teams just so storied that they attract supporters from outside of the state? What if one never attended college? What would spark the interest of someone with no college background? Conversely, what causes people to despise certain teams?

Please be aware that I ask with a genuine curiosity, and notwithstanding my own disinterest in the sport, I am in no way looking down on people who have this interest. � chacun son go�t! To an outsider, the reasons people support given college teams do look more complex than the (more generally) geographically determination for fan bases of most pro sporting teams.

Call it like I see it. Looks like he got pushed into the guy and now it sounds like he's getting the 3rd degree for it. Meanwhile animals like Suh (in the NFL) are very intentionally stomping on players and somehow not getting charged with assault. It's all a bit of a joke to me

As a general rule, the number one factor by far is the college attended by the person or by a close family member.

For people who never attended college, I'd say the main factor is whether or not a particular college is in their home city or State.

James McKenzie-Smith, I'm with you when it comes to having "no interest in college sport (or in spectator sport in general)." I do love LSU (Louisiana State University) for everything else, it just feels good being on and around campus. Lots of things to do, lots of good memories too (wife is an alumni, graduated '89).

Even went to my first game last year...
http://simhq.com/forum/ubbthreads.php/topics/4178235/1

...and I'm thinking about going on Saturday, tickets should be dirt cheap.

Why? Mainly for the exercise, you can get allot of walking in on gameday, climbing too if you're in the nosebleed sections. Surrounded by a bunch of drunks getting fatter on beer, hotdogs and nachos, screaming at thugs on a field. Meh. The cheerleaders however are awesome cute!

I don't know how it works everywhere else, but here it's like this:

1) The college one went to. Unless it's outside the SouthEastern Conference (SEC), in which case one must have a backup to cheer for.
2) The college in the state. Here in Alabama, there's a line that runs through the middle of the state - north of it think Roll Tide Roll and Alabama, south of it War Eagle Auburn. There's some mix and matches, naturally, but that's kind of how it works.
3). The SEC college that's moving ahead IF one lives in the SEC's footprint. We are the only people who go beyond our team and celebrate the conference as a whole.

One will never hear a chant of "Big Ten, Big Ten, Big Ten" during an Ohio game, for example.