College Football Week 1 Thread

By: MaroonX2
FIRE WHIT.
on September 5, 2020, 11:59 AM | 50 comments

Saturday, Sept. 5

Eastern Kentucky at Marshall (-23.5) | 1 p.m. | ESPN
Middle Tennessee at Army (-4) | 1:30 p.m. | CBSSN
SMU (-20.5) at Texas State | 4:30 p.m. | ESPN
Houston Baptist at North Texas (-28.5) | 7:30 p.m. | ESPN3
Arkansas State at Memphis (-15.5) | 8 p.m. | ESPN
Stephen F. Austin at UTEP (-9) | 9 p.m. | ESPN3

Monday, Sept. 7

BYU (-2) at Navy | 8 p.m. | ESPN

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wasknick's picture wasknick | 5 years 10 months #

Y'all trying to party?

I love a good nap. Sometimes that's all that's getting me out of bed in the morning.

NerdMagic's picture NerdMagic | 5 years 10 months # ^

What ya got on tap brother?

Outspoken team cake advocate. Hates terrapins. Resident Macho Man Gif Poster. Distant cousin to Dork Magic. Frequently misspells words.

APrimusHokie's picture APrimusHokie | 5 years 10 months # ^

Sweet tea and coke

The taste is so divine
A chemical come alive
Welcome to your vice
Good luck with life
'Cause you can't
You can't
You can't kill me that easily

reesejenks520's picture reesejenks520 | 5 years 10 months # ^

Am I about to get offered coke for the first time?

NerdMagic's picture NerdMagic | 5 years 10 months #

Damn, season snuck up on me. Had my mom text me asking what I thought of GameDay.

Outspoken team cake advocate. Hates terrapins. Resident Macho Man Gif Poster. Distant cousin to Dork Magic. Frequently misspells words.

LancerHokie's picture LancerHokie | 5 years 10 months #

FOOTBALL!! FOOTBALL!! FOOTBALL!!!

* Does Happy Dance

2 time Longwood grad married to a Hokie.

Joe Lanza's picture Joe Lanza
PUBLISHER
| 5 years 10 months #

That BYU-Navy game has plenty of intrigue.

vtnerf's picture vtnerf
🏌️‍♂️⛳🍀🍺
| 5 years 10 months # ^

Ooof, talk about a huge let down on Monday night....

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The torch; be yours to hold it high.
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Joe Lanza's picture Joe Lanza
PUBLISHER
| 5 years 10 months # ^

Yeah that sucked. BYU straight owned them in the trenches. That Jeff Grimes-led offense looked tough.

dave's picture dave
WHERE’S DAVE?
| 5 years 10 months # ^

One interesting thing I saw watching the game last night is that BYU seemed to do most of their damage on stretch plays, something that VT didn't run when Grimes with OL coach with Lefty.

Hokie Fireman's picture Hokie Fireman
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| 5 years 10 months #

I'm curios why ESPN would but any games on ESPN3 what other live sports content are the showing instead?

Wet stuff on the red stuff.

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HightyTighty's picture HightyTighty
| 5 years 10 months # ^

Starting next week, they better be showing the fucking Bundesliga.

bluehokie2006's picture bluehokie2006 | 5 years 10 months # ^

US Open is taking up a lot of space on the schedule grid and then they still have to squeeze some NBA playoff games in there.

ThunderingHokie's picture ThunderingHokie | 5 years 10 months #

Tavante Beckett is a Marshall team captain today and is expected to have an all conference year. I imagine there would have been some attrition in the linebacker room had he not gotten in trouble.

Marshall University graduate.
Virginia Tech fanatic.
Formerly known as JWillHokieAlum.

gjpvt09's picture gjpvt09 | 5 years 10 months #

Marshall has fans at it's game 😫😢

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BSME 2009

ThunderingHokie's picture ThunderingHokie | 5 years 10 months # ^

The athletic department needs that $$$.

Marshall University graduate.
Virginia Tech fanatic.
Formerly known as JWillHokieAlum.

MaroonX2's picture MaroonX2
FIRE WHIT.
| 5 years 10 months #

Tavante is receiving quite a bit of praise. He is having a great game thus far.

Fire Whit.

Chris's picture Chris
TEEMING WITH INTEL
| 5 years 10 months #

Tyrell Robinson for Army has been today's "fun to watch" player so far.

reesejenks520's picture reesejenks520 | 5 years 10 months #

I anticipated not having a season, so we never bothered getting cable.

... Not gonna lie, hurting right now.

Some blessed soul did stream gameday on YouTube, though. So, I was able to watch that live.

Bragghokie's picture Bragghokie
| 5 years 10 months # ^

You know they have streaming services right??? It takes 5 min to sign up for YouTubeTV.

If you don't want to recruit clowns, don't run a clown show.

"I want to punch people from UVA right in the neck." - Colin Cowherd

Nate23VT's picture Nate23VT
| 5 years 10 months # ^

Best of all you could get through about half the season just doing the 7 day free trials.

Chris's picture Chris
TEEMING WITH INTEL
| 5 years 10 months # ^

Even with the price increase, YoutubeTV is well worth it if you want a flexible option that you can sign up for and cancel quickly for just football season.

reesejenks520's picture reesejenks520 | 5 years 10 months # ^

When I said cable, I definitely meant streaming services in general. My bad.

I'm not sure if we will bother this year, to be honest.

french60wasp's picture french60wasp
| 5 years 10 months #

Go Fighting Armadillos!

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AssPocketFullOWhiskey's picture AssPocketFullOWhiskey
DON'TNEEDNOSTINKING⭐
| 5 years 10 months # ^

This needs much more leg...

If you play it, they will win.

"How the ass pocket will be used, I do not know. Alls I know is, the ass pocket will be used." -The BoD

Vtkey's picture Vtkey
| 5 years 10 months # ^

TIHokie's picture TIHokie
| 5 years 10 months #

I know the family of one of the starting DEs for North Texas. Unfortunately I have no way of watching the game...

Is coronavirus over yet?

Jander75's picture Jander75 | 5 years 10 months #

Took the kids on a long hike this morning in wine country mountains and football this afternoon. Fall is in the air, best season of all!

I can imagine no more rewarding a career. And any man who may be asked in this century what he did to make his life worthwhile, I think can respond with a good deal of pride and satisfaction:
“I served in the United States Navy"

Rayo's picture Rayo
| 5 years 10 months #

Blake Anderson's 7th year at Arkansas State, he's built them up pretty well. Winner between them and App probably gets an NY6 spot with the smaller field

Chris's picture Chris
TEEMING WITH INTEL
| 5 years 10 months # ^

Layne Hatcher was a late flip from Ark State to Bama after they missed on someone else. He made his way back there via the transfer portal so ultimately it worked out well for both.

Chris's picture Chris
TEEMING WITH INTEL
| 5 years 10 months #

Memphis the last couple years has been one of my favorite G5 teams to watch. I thought Brady White grad transferring to FSU was on the table with Norvell's appointment, but it's cool that he stuck around at Memphis. He would have been an upgrade for FSU too.

RocketHokie13's picture RocketHokie13
🚀🛡️
| 5 years 10 months #

BYU playing right now. Navy...well they may eventually show up.

There's always a lighthouse. There's always a man. There's always a city.

Rayo's picture Rayo
| 5 years 10 months # ^

Future ACC team Navy /s

HokieEnginerd's picture HokieEnginerd | 5 years 10 months # ^

Or not.

rottingmind13's picture rottingmind13
| 5 years 10 months # ^

This is the first game I got to see this weekend. What a letdown.

VTJ12's picture VTJ12
| 5 years 10 months # ^

I don't think I've ever seen Navy just completely unprepared and getting steamrolled like this before. Ugly.

lepakkkkk's picture lepakkkkk | 5 years 10 months # ^

Not practicing live tackle football before a game will really get after ya.

No really, Navy's coach decided to not have live practices to help maintain distancing.

H_ighlander_okie's picture H_ighlander_okie | 5 years 10 months # ^

He sunk his own battleship!

Amateur superstar and idiot extraordinaire.

Ryan2192's picture Ryan2192 | 5 years 10 months #

Hopefully this weekend's games won't be as lopsided

Fire guy

Chris's picture Chris
TEEMING WITH INTEL
| 5 years 10 months # ^

I'm sure that Gameday game between Clemson and Wake Forest will be super close.

HokieRif's picture HokieRif
| 5 years 10 months # ^

I just hope there is something decent to watch. I think I spent a combined 30 minutes this weekend watching college football, and even then it was distracted viewing. With no VT game this weekend I expect I'll be watching way more baseball that college football.

Chris's picture Chris
TEEMING WITH INTEL
| 5 years 10 months # ^

I quite enjoyed the bits of the SMU-Ark State game that I was able to catch, but that was about it. The rest of the games weren't very competitive.

hokienator's picture hokienator | 5 years 10 months # ^

The SMU game was legitimately the only game worth watching this weekend it was chippy and entertaining with some decent stuff on view. The rest of the games were all tough watches and nothing but.

Directions from Blacksburg to whoville, go north till you smell it then go east until you step in it

Rayo's picture Rayo
| 5 years 10 months # ^

Memphis-Arkansas State was pretty close for a while. Didn't see any of the SMU Texas State, but I do think coach Spav will succeed there

Chris's picture Chris
TEEMING WITH INTEL
| 5 years 10 months # ^

Yeah I clearly mixed up the teams in those two games in my above comment. But I felt the same way.

KopHokie's picture KopHokie | 5 years 10 months #

Southern Miss head coach Jay Hopson resigned after their opening game loss to South Alabama 32-21. That escalated rather quickly.

HokieRif's picture HokieRif
| 5 years 10 months # ^

Nneckhokie84's picture Nneckhokie84
| 5 years 10 months #

BYU looked like a well oiled machine- Or, Navy was hot garbage.

KopHokie's picture KopHokie | 5 years 10 months # ^

Navy looked like they ran aground shortly after kickoff

HT SF's picture HT SF
| 5 years 10 months # ^

Is it too soon for a Seventh Fleet joke?