I didn't come up with the idea of week zero or the schedule so idk what to tell you. These games will get better ratings than whatever other programming would have been on and that's why they're doing it.
Week 0 is perfect. It's the NASA test run. I'm like: "Alright, let me get all my Apple TVs, HDMI splitters, 100 foot HDMI cables out make sure my shit is right and tight."
I absolutely love it, I’m not going to the games at that time. For college my team plays a “good” game in the morning 2 or so times a year. I can’t imagine having to wait until 1 o’clock to watch an NFL game. You have to stay up until midnight to catch the end of a MNF game. I’ve lived in the central and eastern time zones and I will take pacific time 9.5/10. I will give a shout-out to being in college or your early/mid 20’s and having a pac(or super late night Hawaii)game on super late night at the bar.
You're wrong about 10am football. It's perfect. I have enough time to where I don't have to get up super early and I can still get a few things done while watching the pre-game shows and start knocking out a couple of these bad boys...
Also TNF/SNF/MNF ending at 9:30pm is perfect. I still have time to watch whatever show I'm watching before bed.
lol yeah CFB all day really sucks. This is the dumbest worst post in the history of the internet. Wake up go for a run and be home in time for breakfast and a game at 9. How is that a bad thing.
It’s called week zero because the official start or football is next Thursday per the ncaa bylaws. Teams are granted waivers if they play hawaii or I guess some byllshit game in Ireland. Week zero is the perfect name and people bitching about are stupid. also vandy is gonna wreck hawaii. Hawaii and Nevada are going to be terrible this year. Might play each other for their only win
I’m not sure if this is still the case, but the NCAA used to grant a waiver for these games allowing schools to start practice one week earlier than everyone else. During later bye weeks, you didn’t have to give up a week. That’s the only real upside if that’s still the case. You get a jump on everyone if you’re breaking in a new QB or something.
and supposed blue blood Nebraska this season like I said its for desperate P5 teams at best and a chance for G5 programs to get on national TV
That's hilarious. I thought everyone knew how to pronounce Duquesne, but you should probably post the phonetic spelling for the people in this thread who don't.
My dad went to Duquesne for his masters. They suck and are super small. FSU better win by 5 TDs or they probably suck again.
THE POWER FIVE IN WRASSLIN' Spoiler ACC Boston College: Drew Gulak. A literate jobber who takes respectable losses well. Clemson: Shawn Michaels. Legit championship status qualifies them here, but also the bit in the ‘90s where Vince McMahon would torment him and ask WHERE IS YOUR GOD NOW? Dabo would totally say “I love you, I’m sorry,” before kicking you in the head. Duke: Brad Maddox. The guy who, after being named General Manager of RAW, got beaten down on a weekly basis for the privilege of a white-collar job title. Duke in so many ways, really. Georgia Tech: Chad Gable. A technically gifted and undersized wrestler whose gimmick is, like, just not working at all right now. Might be better off in another promotion. Louisville: Edge. Solid performer undermined by questionable management decisions and injuries. Virginia: Elias. Would rather play covers on an acoustic guitar, frankly, than wrestle. Virginia Tech: The Ultimate Warrior. The entrance is flawless, and then [FILE NOT FOUND]. NC State: Dolph Ziggler. Losses, just persistent, charming losses in every direction. North Carolina: The Big Show. Shocking tally of losses for a school as big as they are. Should be playing basketball instead of doing this. Generally amiable and fond of expensive bikes. Miami: Scott Hall. There’s not really another choice here. Miami is the original bad guy of college football, and we are indeed saying hi to him. Also when you pretend to be Hispanic as a bit and are so charismatic that Spanish-speaking wrestling fans basically adopt you as their own, well, you’re Miami’s choice. Razor Ramon for LIFE. Pitt: Santino Morella. Every major Pitt win does sort of feel like watching someone win with a Cobra Strike. Wake Forest: Danhausen. Gimmick described as “Conan O’Brien possessed by a demon,” and if that doesn’t sum up a century of Wake Forest football. Notre Dame: The Miz. Noted as much for his mic skills, promotional apparatus, and general all-around presence as much as anything else. There’s a bulletproof brand there, and there’s also a pretty good wrestler somewhere under there, too. Is second program on the list of “teams that would take a season off to go on Dancing With The Stars.” (The first is Northwestern.) Syracuse: King Kong Bundy. Because he’s dead. Florida State: Chris Jericho. A legendary performer known as much for their band as their skill in the ring. Trying a new gimmick. If that one doesn’t work, then trying another immediately. Really does have a claim to being one of the best ever, even if they’re capable of being instantly embarrassing when things don’t quite work. BIG TEN Michigan: Mick Foley/Mankind. Huge, weird, immense pain tolerance combined with a big heart and aspirations beyond the ring. Would love to talk about all of its outside interests — they’ve got too many books on their nightstand, buddy! — but first they’ve got to be thrown off this twenty-foot cage and onto a table loaded with barbed wire and thumbtacks. The split personality is a feature, not a bug. Sort of in second or third place at any given time, and is quietly fine with that. Michigan State: Baron Corbin. Very big, very loud, and apt to find disrespect at every turn and create crowns for themselves when no one awards them one. In particular, Michigan State football is this Baron Corbin, and in this exact sequence: Ohio State: Brock Lesnar. An undoubtedly excellent and machine-like competitor with a baffling lack of translatable appeal to anyone outside of Ohio. Not great on the mic, super into MMA. To be clear: Very, very good, often great, and consistently one of the most terrifying competitors around. Most likely fascist. Penn State: Ted Dibiase. Problematic, used to stuff hundred dollar bills in people’s mouths. Maybe embezzled some state money? Okay, definitely embezzled some state money. Often asked for the spotlight, got it, and then immediately face planted or dodged their way out of a title match. Excellent GIFs, tho. (HT: @Treblaw) Wisconsin: Otis. Big, generally amiable, successful without being too much of a threat to the neighborhood. Definitely most comfortable at a cool forty-five degrees at all times. Beers. Oh lord, all the beers. Iowa: Haku. Inhumanly strong, somehow beatable by elite competition, low on offense and high on “refusing to get knocked out by hammers or cinder blocks broken directly over skull.” Great at fighting the cops. Pepper spray does not work on them. Northwestern: Bob Backlund. You goddamn nerds. Nebraska: Kurt Angle. Good for an incredible streak of All-American glory, and also might have had to lean on the wonders of organic chemistry a bit too much to keep it all going. Big singlet energy. Will never be champion again. Rutgers: Ric Flair. May have invented wrestling? Will be in debt forever. Maryland: Virgil. Sidekick supreme, somehow stays around the money and sometimes snatches occasional moments of glory. Purdue: Cesaro. Sometimes an otherwise second-tier wrestler just grabs someone and spin them around until they puke. This describes Purdue’s current incarnation perfectly, right down to Cesaro’s reputation as a scholarly man of ring science. Indiana: The Brooklyn Brawler. No one has lost harder, or with more reliability. Minnesota: Seamus. Big, from way up north, and probably better than people know, but also still firmly at respectable-tier consideration. Needs sunscreen. NOW. Illinois: That time Jeremy Piven showed up on RAW. BIG 12 Oklahoma: Randy Orton. Endless moves, superb offense and technical prowess. After decades of success, still doesn’t really have a mascot or a brand, exactly — wagons? furry grinning horse? guys with fake shotguns on wagon? — but whatever. Explosive, and also prone to suffering embarrassing defeats in high-stakes situations. Kind of resembles Barry Switzer’s unclaimed love child, if that helps you buy into the comparison a bit. Texas: Bobby Lashley. Both Texas and Bobby should both work a lot better than they do given their overwhelming talents and resources. And yet! Oklahoma State: Adam “Hangman” Page.Nervous millennial cowboys with excellent gear and promo material. West Virginia. Jon Moxley. Undoubtedly tough with hints of weirdness, and struggling to find their place in new conference/alignment. Beards and football references all around here. Baylor: Bray Wyatt. A split personality gimmick prone to long disappearances, references to God, and feeling unusually comfortable in Waco, Texas. Cult-y, definitely a little cult-y at all times. Would not surprise you to learn if they still had a pet bear, or that they fed it Dr. Pepper daily. Iowa State: Kofi Kingston. WE BELIEVE IN THE DREAM, IOWA STATE. WE BELIEVE. TCU: John Morrison. An underrated wrestler who really might have done their best work (Lucha Underground/TCU’s long climb up to the Big 12 through multiple conferences) outside of a major circuit. Kansas: Omos. Another dude who should be playing basketball instead of doing this. (Also: Beat Texas/Bobby Lashley.) Kansas State: Martin “Farmer” Burns. One of wrestling’s great nineteenth century pioneers, and also the man who popularized this move: This visual sums up every successful Kansas State football game ever. Also, there’s an outside shot Bill Snyder might not only have met Farmer Burns in person, but also wrestled him to a draw on one frigid and memorable night outside Topeka. Texas Tech: Rey Mysterio! Colorful, acrobatic, sometimes gets thrown clean out of the ring. Big in 2008. Always masked. PAC-12 USC: The Rock. Mostly makes money and movies now, not football. Definitely more concerned about playing to Middle America now. UCLA: Jinder Mahal. A thing that just keeps not happening, at all. Oregon: Randy “Macho Man” Savage. Weird, muscular animal known for big entrances. Oregon State: Bo Dallas. Listen, we’re all just trying to stay relevant and on the roster, man. Washington: Drew McIntyre. Grunge hair and fair complexion give off big Seattle vibes anyway. Comparison only strengthens when U-Dub’s mixed results with endless potential come into play. Washington State: Darby Allin. The guy who likes being thrown into a coffin and set on fire, only to reemerge grinning and beating people up with a skateboard. Might have some dangerous political and public health opinions if you ask, which you definitely shouldn’t. Arizona: The Boogeyman. A hard pull, but helps because he a.) is from Arizona, and b.) like Arizona football, is currently retired. Arizona State: Val Venis. Adult star turned wrestler as gimmick. Our hand was forced here. Colorado: R-Truth. Very likable. Largely used as comic relief in recent years. Has indeed smoked weed out of an apple. Utah: SAMOA FUCKIN’ JOE. Mean, and like TCU probably did his best and most legendary work in another circuit before hitting the big time. A god even in his losses. Cal: Sami Zayn. As likely to begin citing Chomsky mid-match as he is to fight. Takes huge bumps straight through folding tables often, and always with a professional’s touch. Stanford: Rusev. Brawny dude who’d rather be kicking than doing anything else. SEC Alabama: The Undertaker. Long, vaunted win streaks, titles a-plenty, perpetually scowling demeanor coupled with deeply serious entrances and theater. Has a legit cult built around them, and paces themselves generously between ponderous title match performances. Every win is predictable, and every loss a massive story. Fond of hats. Auburn: Kane. Rival to the Undertaker with an erratic professional record. Prone to wild finishes and insane comebacks. Associated with great fires. As known for his losses as he is for his victories. Anarcho-capitalist before it was even a thing, if buying recruits in the 90s counts as anarcho-capitalism. Arkansas: Nick Comoroto. He’s from Jersey, which works against him. He looks like this, though, and that’s all I need to know to give him to Arkansas. South Carolina: New Jack. They’re a.) insane and b.) bleed every single time. Might have stabbed someone? Okay, definitely stabbed someone once? LSU: Dusty Rhodes. The best mic work in the business. Bloated genius. At their peak, better than anyone working even if their hiney is just a little too big. At their worst, falling out of the ring and bleeding all over everyone indiscriminately. Owns a silk jacket despite it never, ever being silk jacket weather where they live. Missouri: Jack Swagger. Try to describe Jack Swagger’s whole thing. Now, try to do the same for Missouri, the state, and experience the same dead end of effort and inability to articulate one interesting thing about them. Georgia: AJ Styles. Technically brilliant. Terrified of going “into town” for reasons they won’t go into, but leaves their car unlocked at the Mall of Georgia. Definitely the type to work in Japan for a decade, but only learn twenty words of the language the whole time. Irons their jeans. Is deeply into Christian rap, and does not appreciate how you laughed just now when you read that. Kentucky: Kevin Owens. Opening move is “headbutt” at all times, even when socializing. Has not worn sleeves since dropping out of high school. Believes cardio is a form of anorexia. Attitude at all times is “you might win, son … but you’ll bleed.” Vanderbilt: Shane McMahon. Here because of their dad. Takes horrendous falls for money. Texas A&M: Roman Reigns. A heavily pushed and amply bankrolled entity that will simply keep not catching on at all. No wrestler, despite titles, feels more 8-4 than Roman Reigns. Wears a flak jacket, so like Texas A&M is officially A TROOP. Is perfectly likable outside of the expectations and packaging, and way, way smarter than you realize. Mississippi: Jeff Hardy. Weird, erratic, and blessed with the one thing necessary to survive being an Ole Miss fan: An ungodly pain tolerance. Had a whole match in his backyard where he tried to kill his brother, sparked in part by an attempt to destroy his lawn. Mississippi State: Matt Hardy. Weirder, and even more erratic brother of Jeff Hardy blessed with an even greater pain tolerance. Also participated in a backyard fight involving the destruction of a prized lawn. Like a lot of Mississippi State construction managers and engineers, goes to work with and around a lot of ladders. Tennessee: Ricochet. We’re talking about Tennessee right now, mostly, and that means finding a match for a team throwing bombs down field relentlessly and offering up zero defense in return. That’s Ricochet, who like Tennessee does a lot of spectacular flippy things in the ring before being chokeslammed into the core of the earth by the usual brutes. Florida: John Cena. Hasn’t really done much in the ring in over a decade, and their best work in that department consisted of starring in a surreal nightmare that was more pure theater production than wrestling match. A rumored comeback is always just around the corner. Jorts.
I know many college football teams were thinking about it . The overwhelming consensus was that nobody wanted to upset Canes by having a week 0 game on a Thursday.
Even if you don’t like soccer like the many losers on this board, can’t see why all good football ending at 9 at the latest is a good thing I personally love waking up at 7:30 for soccer and being greatly entertained till midnight Nobody cares about PAC after dark
was with him until that last part, seems like a couple times a year gunny gets overly emotional randomly working soccer into some other sports conversation here