Up Ahead

While Eastern Washington and Sam Houston did indeed play the college football season opener Saturday afternoon on EWU's sacrilegious red rug, the games begins in earnest Wednesday evening when Abilene Christian and Georgia State play.

Rah rah...

I'll watch a little of that just to get a feel for things, but I'm more looking forward to Thursday when a few of the week's more enticing games begin.

There are three spread out over the afternoon and evening that have my interest. Texas A&M plays at South Carolina in the first match up of nationally-ranked opponents.  That'll be interesting.  See how far A&M drops with no Johnny Football.  I suspect the impact will be bigger than SC's loss of Jadeveon Clowney, the overall number one pick in the NFL draft this year.

A couple of hours later, Boise State gets a crack at #18 Ole Miss, a team I know is coming on after a couple of good recruiting years.  Be interesting to see Boise after the loss of Chris Petersen to Washington as well.

The nightcap features Rutgers and Washington State and Mike Leach's 100 percent passing attack.  The game starts at 7 p.m. and ought to be over around midnight.

I'll be back later in the week to tell you what to tune in on Saturday, in case you don't know.


TS