It isn’t the real start of the season, that is next weekend. But there are five games being played this weekend in FBS, so might as well get started. Like the short week itself with a lack of interesting games, this preview is mostly dull, too. It will get better next week, honest.
Rivalry of the Week
Hawaii @ UMass, Amherst, MA
These border states (I am standing by it. If you go the correct Northwestish angle from Hawaii, the next state you hit is MA) have played a total of **ONE** time previously, with Hawaii winning 46-40 in 2016. Stubhub has seats starting at $15, so you better get on it.
Tailgate of the Week
Stanford vs Rice, Sydney, AU
Kangaroos, Koalas, Drop Bears, and college football. This location has everything you would expect from an opening weekend. Stanford and Rice kick off their seasons in the land of poisonous beasts and plants. My understanding is that normal college football rules will be used in the 1st and 4th quarters, but Aussie rules will be used in quarter 2 and Rugby League rules in quarter 3.
Rice leads the all-time series 3-2, but Stanford has won the last two, dating back to 1964.
Brewpub: Redoak Boutique Beer Café looks like a good spot to hit before or after the game, but I will let our locals throw in their two cents? pence? pesos? worth.
Booze: The 1778
50ml Gin
10ml Apple Schnapps
30ml Wild Hibiscus and Rosella Syrup
10ml Lime Juice
1 Finger Lime, Muddled
Wattle
Chill a martini glass with ice.
In a mixing glass, muddle finger lime. Fill with ice then add all ingredients and stir until chilled. Discard ice from martini glass. Fine strain the mixture into Martini glass. Garnish with wattle. What the hell is a wattle? The chicken neck thing?
Wattle?
Game of the Week
Oregon St @ Colorado St, Ft Collins, CO
There are only five FBS games this weekend, so this is the best I can do.
Not that anyone cares, but the series is tied at 1-1, with the last game played in 1975.
Preseason Top 25
1. LSU 4.790
2. South Carolina 4.731
3. Georgia Tech 4.722
4. Mississippi St 4.657
5. UCLA 4.646
6. Duke 4.645
7. Auburn 4.626
8. Texas A&M 4.622
9. Clemson 4.617
10. Notre Dame 4.591
11. California 4.570
12. Mississippi 4.568
13. Georgia 4.541
14. Alabama 4.510
15. Purdue 4.502
16. Utah 4.496
17. Michigan 4.489
18. Oregon 4.479
19. Texas 4.478
20. Boston College 4.471
21. Tennessee 4.470
22. Pittsburgh 4.468
23. Nebraska 4.467
24. Texas Tech 4.466
25. Arizona St 4.454
Methodology: The rating is calculated assuming that the team in question (let’s say, LSU, for this example) wins the rest of their games. Which, at this point, means they go undefeated, but the rest of the games go according to projections (the projections are just based on end of 2016 rankings). The rating numbers of these hypothetical undefeated teams are then used to compute the rankings. So, at this point, it is basically a ranking of Strength of Schedule. As the season goes on, future schedules will become less important and results of games actually played will become more important.
Editor’s note: Link included at the request of a founder
Second!
First!
I think I’ll send your T25 to all the idiot CockFans I know (and am related to).
I really dont need a USCe fanbase.
Ugh, sportsball. I want my money back.
think of it as an open thread.
In actuality I’m pretty ambivalent toward sports, except for rugby which is thrilling.
Open thread you say! Today I bought a Ruger American 9mm pistol today at a good price to replace the Sig P220 that was burglarised from my home last year. The gun is already growing on me and I haven’t even shot it yet.
Open? I’ll shoot.
‘Transportation development districts (TDD) can impose a sales tax in increments of 1/8% up to one percent (1%). TDD sales taxes have historically been collected by the district or local authority. House Bill [redacted] amended section 238.235, [redacted] to require the Department of Revenue (Department) to begin collecting sales taxes imposed by TDDs. While the legislation is effective August 28, [redacted] the statute includes a provision that the collection of taxes by the Department are effective on the first day of the second calendar quarter after the Department receives notification from the district. Based on district notifications, the Department will first begin collecting a transportation development district’s tax for tax periods beginning January 1, [redacted].’
As I’ve been led to understand(gross oversimplification here), TDD’s are areas of land that are bought up, declared quasi-townships by the state, then after private developers build whatever it is they wanted to build, said developers impose whatever sort of ‘city’ sales tax they can legally get away with.
Is this a blatant form of corporatism/taxation without real representation? Am I philosophically off the mark? Or am I completely misunderstanding how this works?
Fuck you, cut spending.
Indeed. But what I’m basically asking is: If the land wasn’t owned by the developers it would more than likely fall within the confines of a local municipality. So any ‘city’ sales tax would be pocketed as extra income by the developers. Should I care?
Yes, it’s an extremely disingenuous thing to do by developers. They essentially create ipso facto fiefdoms where their vote is the only one that matters. But if I voluntarily enter your place of business/city to do business with your/city, knowing all the facts ahead of time, and it redirected money away from the state into the hands of a private citizen or small group of private citizens, should I care?
Yes, because if they have this power, they’ll keep trying to expand it.
Open thread! Today I bought a Ruger American pistol in 9mm to replace the Sig P220 that was burglarised from my home last year, and it’s really growing on me so far despite the fact that I haven’t shot it yet.
Open thread! I bought a new Ruger American pistol in 9mm Lugar to replace the Sig P220 that got burglarised from my home last year. Figured I’d try something new and it’s already growing on me even though I haven’t shot it yet.
You gotta take this thread one comment at a time. We’re all just glad to be here and thank Jesus for the opportunity. Let’s get out there and show them what we got. If it were easy everybody would be doing it.
Fuck that! I want to create a pissing match with a moderator and then self-deport ASAP.
How you think that will go.
That’s not how betting works, son.
I’m glad that college football isn’t a business. I am sure the players all had to have bake sales and sell candy bars to fund their trips to Sydney.
We have to make college football a business. That way kids will stay in college instead of going to the NFL as Juniors. This country is going to heck in a hand basket.
Ah, week 1 of college football. The equivalent of beating up your younger brother’s weakest friend.
-1 Appalachian State
Rich Rodriguez is a fat stupid mammal that will always be known for the most epic opening day loss in history.
1981, GT opens the year with a win over Alabama in Birmingham.
GT finishes the year 1-10.
Alabama doesnt lose again until the Cotton Bowl.
Fun fact.
I was eating sushi amd drinking beer woth my brother at a Japanese place in conway arkansas when that game was played. I have no rooting interest in app. st. The game was on in that restaurant while I was there amd my brother and I were casually watching it. The longer the game went on, the more my brother and I got engaged.
Long story short, we and about 50 other people in that bar ended up drunk and cheering on app st all the way til the end of the game. It was a lot of fun. I ended up with about a 150 ticket that was mostly 6 dollar sapporo beer.
BTW, I am open for ludicrously insppropriate rivalry games and/or location specific drink recipes.
14. Alabama 4.510
15. Purdue 4.502
lol, we’re gunning for you Alabama!! (The only thing Purdue is ever going to be ranked 15th in football-wise is ACLs torn)
Another Purdue alumnus? Dear lord, I hope they do better with Brohm. I miss the Tiller years.
Oh noes, not the foozball again. I don’t see how anyone can watch college foozball. There’s no defense. It’s just two teams running up and down the field until the score’s like a basketball game.
In other news, this is interesting:
Zoolander is winning, showing Trump who’s boss!
I don’t see how anyone can watch college foozball. There’s no defense. I
Maybe in the Big 12 or the Pac 12, but other conferences are more defensively focused.
college football national championship game
LSU -3
Alabama – 6
https://goo.gl/images/UhiJBH
You were saying?
That wasn’t good defense just two bad teams all around.
So just like the Eagles/Dolphins game just now. We were just discussing the seeming basketball score. Jay Cutler? Really?
Jay Cutler is still alive? Didn’t he play for Denver in… was it 1962? And he wasn’t any good then.
Wait, so all those liberals claiming they’d move to Canada if Trump got elected actually meant it?
Keep hating on K-State they thrive on being under-rated. Also Texas should be disqualified from preseason top 25 because they lost to KU!
I’d rather the Bruins be under-rated than this over-rated nonsense. It doesn’t turn out well.
USC.
Barf
That wasn’t supposed to be here.
It’s a mighty fine boarding school.
which one? East or West?
The one that’s polluting my town. USC flags everywhere.
True story: they offered me a “scholarship”. 80% ride. Apparently, they do that every year to bump up their average SAT score.
Many years ago – seen on TV UCLA vs USC – “My Maid Went To USC” sign held up in UCLA fan section.
meh, Arkansa has beaten K state in bowl games twice in the past few years, amd arkansas has been sucking balls lately
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Preseason little league sports? Man, you people are desperate.
They’ll be watching the wiffle ball sand lot tourney next.
I could go up to CSU.
As if CU isn’t bad enough.
So I hear there’s mega storm heading for the Gulf coast. Anyone living down there, I have to tell you, the Weather channel is your best friend. Every time they predict a storm of the century, it turns into a total dud. It’s like they’re the CNN of weather.
It’s global warmings fault.
Trump, Calling Journalists ‘Sick People,’ Puts Media on Edge
Trump wants to literally behead journalists.
I think it was the NYT who just put out an article today, something like ‘Trump, we’re journalists, not the enemy!’. Umm, yeah right. The left media spent 100% of their effort in 2016 on defending Hillary and smearing Trump, even colluding with the DNC in the process. No, it doesn’t matter if someone is a Trump fan or not, any reasonably unbiased person could understand, that to this guy, you ARE the fucking enemy.
I see – publishing reports that psychiatrists think the president is mentally insane is good journalism but Trump’s words are despicable, etc.
The Goldwater rule was made before we had an actual Insane Idiot Mastermind Russian Nazi in the White House.
Actually, it was made after the Kennedy presidency.
Look, when far left progs who have been thoroughly embarrassed and defeated by the obviously retarded president who they hate, we have to take that very seriously.
Why do some people get upset when others constantly lie about them?
A post about college football with no mention of the idiocacy at ESPN? Really? Was that already covered while I was working?
All persons named Robert Lee have been deported to Canada.
Pretty harsh, dude. Execution would have been sufficient.
That Ching-a-ling had it coming!
It was covered a couple of days ago.
What a coincidence; I was working a couple days ago, too.
Seriously, don’t you people work?
The entire thing could have been avoided if he had just said, “My last name is pronounced Ree”
Lobelt Ree
Robert E REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE
Brewpub: Redoak Boutique Beer Café looks like a good spot to hit before or after the game, but I will let our locals throw in their two cents? pence? pesos? worth.
On my last trip to Australia, I found out about Redoak on my last day in Sydney, which was a Sunday. The day they are closed. Doh’t!
I stopped in at 4 Pines Beer in Manly. I thought it was good.
“4 Pines Beer in Manly”
You sound like some sort of shitlord.
Fun fact: Australia isn’t really a country! It’s the biggest Disney theme park on the planet!
There was another continent named Sunda and Aussie land was part of Sahul. But most of that sank beneath the ocean and only Australia is left. Which proves global warming. Because the retreat of the last glacial maximum was caused by the Aussies driving giant SUVs. That’s why they have so much white guilt.
Sounds legit.
Off topic, but in the last couple of days, after having bought some new games on Steam and spending some time in discussions over there, it’s derptastic how much time Europeans, Canadians, Aussies, etc have spent on there pissing and moaning about how much more games and other things cost than in the USA. I remained silent while a few people tried to explain to them about how higher taxes, including VATs, factor into that, and watching the Eurotards go all crazy about how it must be some sort of American imperial capitalist plot to destabilize the world and enslave poor people. The world has went completely fucking insane, as if I needed any more reminders of that fact. Europe, Canada, and the Aussies are fucking doomed, only the USA can be saved. Can we begin just sacrificing progs to the volcano Gods now? Yellowstone is overdue.
Hey man, whycome you cnat just beat up on dumb southerners like everyone else?
Mama said I can’t beat up on my cuzins, specially the girls, cause they got boobies and a period?
So Mama *didn’t* say this?
Canadians *can* be retarded when it comes to not understanding the impact of high taxes for public services on income and how supply and demand and price signals are distorted. I also find it amazing how Canadians seem to not understand 85% of our food comes from trade with the USA.
Then again, we don’t have a war on drugs. That’s a plus, no?
Not sure if that’s a uniquely Canadian form of retardation. Pretty sure the rest of the world suffers from it also.
Yes. ’tis true. The second part though stands.
By the way, we put visene in all the beer was ship north.
So it’s good for your eyes?
Europe, Canada, and the Aussies are fucking doomed, only the USA can be saved.
Yep, you keep telling yourself that.
America has to solved their MLB ump problem first!
That was some brawl between the Yanks and Tigers today!
Canadians are bitching? Why?
Steam doesn’t charge the sales tax! Publishers set the price, so some price games at slightly over exchange rate, more or less ($80) and others eat a bit of loss at $70.
I guess maybe Valve might be at fault if the prescribe price bands, and $75 (which is what exchange rate is right now) is not one?
Basically Aussies need to murder all their game retailers so that steam doesn’t have to price the same as they charge.
If Hawaii loses by mere double digits it will be a major accomplishment for the Rainbows. UH football truly is bad on an epic scale. Still the school receives incredible devotion to attend their horrible games because they have the only program in the State. You can tailgate and get epic drunk before a UH game, but having a beer on the beach is illegal. Truly, this state is odd.
Don’t you guys have solo cups? It’s how #Floridaman stays consistently sunburnt and drunk throughout the day
Well beer and bloody marys for breakfast is a long standing tradition. That and skipping beer and just using old water and gatorade bottles for rum, vodka and gin. One nice thing is watch early NFL game at 7am. Go have fun at the end of the game and watch the night game starting at 2pm.
Yep, Sunday brunch at Big City Diner watching the 7 PM EST game. Classy! Kalbi steak and eggs with kimchi fried rice. I really miss that joint.
Fun fact: Hawaii isn’t really a state! It’s all done with trick photography!
UMass is only a 2 pt favorite.
Jesus, that’s no help. I need it points or +/-110 for the line. Damn.
Sorry, you gave me the points quote.
Fancy hotels somehow bend the rules.
I’ve gotten shitfaced on many Hawaiian beaches.
They own the sand above the mean high water line. You are drinking on private property. Or see above.
Sadly, I don’t remember exactly where I was drinking. I know it wasn’t cheap, though.
Why “sadly”? It means you got your money’s worth.
Nah. I get my money’s worth in Vegas.
If I’m on a family vacation and I can’t remember the mean high tide line, I’ve done something wrong.
I do remember spilling a $20 Pina colada on the beach, though. I’ll never forget that.
The 2007 Georgia vs. UH sugar bowl was hilarious. It was known in these parts as the “who wants to sack Colt Brennan game”
And yet your college sports enforcers (can I call them that?) invariably give Notre Dame a gentlemen’s spot in the top 25…
I have them at #10.
Indeed, quite gentlemanly of you
Alabama and FSU open against each other.
The first game of the year may possibly be a rematch in the National Championship
Yet the ‘Noles are noticeably absent from the top 25 list.
We need to end the electoral college voting in the NCAA.
Go Carlisle Indian Industrial School!
Go Concordia Junior College!
Best slide whistle band in North America bitch!
I got my degree in industrial control systems from Vo-Tech. We had no sports teams, but go Vo-Tech!!!
I hope they win: I bet a hundy on ’em.
“industrial control systems”
These euphemisms. They’re on another astral plane now.
Teledildonics
I actually laughed out loud.
My internet is down. Does anyone have the score to the Cal game?
5
That wasn’t the question. The question was if anyone had the score.
The correct answer is yes.
In binary, 5 = yes
More Sassenach math.
in binary 5 = 101
Fake news
SJW binary (Note: Do not watch unless you are a nerd.)
I watched it. I’m a geek, not a nerd. I watched it, then got another beer.
There are 10 types of people in this world, those who understand binary, and those that don’t.
Also, your name is triggering.
What is a J and why do you Sassenach associate it with Denver?
J is my initial, and I associate it with Denver to differentiate myself from Miami J
The newly relocated Smokin’ Jay Cutler, Miami QB?
He looked pretty good today, but he still gets hate from “teh media” because he happens to have Bitchy Resting Face.
Well, that and he’s really not starting QB material. Shoulda gone the Kubiak route: best second string QB every! I mean, he’s way better than me (although I’m at least three times better lover).
Good looking guy if I was gay, i guess. Probly gets laid waaay more than i do. But just not worth what he’s being paid.
Eddie, if you have next weeks’ score, I’d love to go into business with you.
Confound it
Playa just says what we were all thinking, but had the decency not to say.
Well, I’ll have to find a better beard and moustache, plus get a refund on this one – “oh, no, sir, it really disguises your appearance!”
You don’t need a beard, we’re pretty accepting of the homosexuals around here.
Even I know that term is outdated, and I’m a fake medieval Scotsman.
And I would never make Dolly jealous…wait, never mind…
The score is gonna be:
Toxic Masculinity- 1
Rest of the world-0
Of course I shouldn’t have tried to fool you into thinking a True Scotsman would appear.
Sure
OSU 47. Cal 44.
Cal is -11 against North Carolina.
Which is impressive, as UNC lost their entire offense. QB, all running backs, all receivers. They have one returning receiver who played any significant number of plays, and he was like the 5th option. They have converted 2 linebackers to running back to get enough bodies. The O-Line was supposed to be their one solid piece, but they’ve already had a couple of injuries and a couple of transfers out.
But the good news is that most of the defense is back. The really, really not that good defense.
Against a Cal team that beat Texas, Oregon and UCLA. That’s a pretty impressive list. They lost just about everything else though, including their coach. But a pretty potent offense returns, with a decent new coordinator.
I’d take the points, no doubt.
Independent Scotland would need to cut deficit, says Sturgeon
Data shows country spent £13.5bn more than it raised in taxes last year, a gap of 8.3%, compared to UK’s 2.4%
Oh nos!
No problem, they’re just going to take over all the North Sea wells because they’re really in Scottish waters.
Same like Quebec.
Except Quebec thinks they can still share debt and equalization payments if they decided to unilaterally leave.
I mean, I’ve literally zero idea what you’re talking about, and I’ve been drinking and smoking pot. Ok?
But, why couldn’t they? You entered into a contract, situation changes, all parties agree to renegotiate to everybody’s mutual advantage..
But, again, i have no clue what we’re even discussing.
As long as we’re talking sports and odds, the most lopsided sports betting in history is taking place right now on Connor MacGregor.
Something weird is gonna happen
Like introducing a new species into an eco-system weird?
if conner wins, Vegas is gonna have to reprogram their slots to make up for their losses.
It will put MGM Sports and Westgate Sports out of business, as it stands now.
Now that the line has been pushed down, people are going to go heavy for Mayweather right up until the fight.
Consider this: initial estimates had MacGregor at somewhere between 50-100 to 1. Wanna bet on him? The best you’re going to do is 5 to 1. The house ALWAYS wins.
more tham leicester city to win the epl?
I said sports. I have no idea what those things are.
“I won’t survive this culture war, I just hate everybody, who wants to come into a giant bunker with me and we’ll just live off each others’ tears…and pineapple pizza.”
I’m a […………..] and I think [………….] and you’re a […………], so you can’t understand [………..]. ┣▇▇▇═─(ツ)
Mad ribs?
So lacist.
Pineapple on pizza? Count SP out.
Sports Illustrated went out on a limb and put OSU (that’s Oklahoma State University) in the playoffs. Not sure if trolling….
I do enjoy some Mason Rudolph. Hope he drafts well next year.
Remember Glibs…
FUCK YOU SONIC My profile pic is a dumb metajoke that only I get…and Vhyrus, for some weird reason.
Remember Sonic and Knuckels? You could put Sonic 3 INTO THE GAME! OMG! IT WAS A GAME CHANGER!
So what about us folks that take our names from western animation, like myself and Rick C-137?
OT Equine Officers defecate at will.
One of my former home towns had a hilarious incident where some drunk basic bitch from Queen’s University thought it was a smart idea to punch a horse. Good job there.
Police brutality! I don’t think that was a good kick, should have been investigated.
Hey, you’re back up and running. Reason’s site was down at the same time. *Takes chunk off foil cap, starts chewing*
Since the Buckeyes are not in your top 25, I’m assuming those ranking are not for football.