Official 2011 College Football Thread

Are the Terps' new helmets too much like to those by Charm City Roller Girls? - baltimoresun.com (http://www.baltimoresun.com/entertainment/music/midnight-sun-blog/bal-are-the-terps-new-helmets-too-much-like-to-those-by-charm-city-roller-girls-20110906,0,2734737.story)

God help them if they have a throwback uni...........

Texas A&M Aggies accepted into SEC, but legal threat delays move - ESPN (http://espn.go.com/college-sports/story/_/id/6939017/texas-aggies-accepted-sec-legal-threat-delays-move)

Congrats to some of the key local teams this last week. UMD, VT and UVA getting the job done.

I was there last night and when they came out in those (they warmed up in the all white unis that were introduced a few weeks ago) the crowd, especially the student section, when nuts. The players have said they liked them a lot, both the look and the way they actually felt which is great because the weather was miserable.

So if the student section loved them, the players were proud of them, and a good portion of the country is talking about them, I think they were a big win.

Exactly right. Every sports media outlet spent time talking about the University of Maryland yesterday. That hasn't really happened since the basketball team won it all in 2002. UnderArmour is getting bigger and bigger, and this partnership is going to really boost that program. I think Edsall is a great coach, too. Big name recruits are going to start noticing this program soon if they haven't already. I'm a Florida Gator till the day I die, but I like seeing local teams do well.

Frikkin' awesome games today.

I flipped back and forth between Auburn-MS State and Iowa-Iowa State. The Auburn game came up a yard short of overtime. The Iowa State game was won in triple OT.

Then I watched Virginia-Indiana. Indiana came back from 20 points down just to see Virginia score 11 points in the last minute for the win. Awesome.

Then Michigan and Notre Dame scored three TD's in the last 1:12. Unbelievable.

I know that there were other good games. These are just a sampling from my tv.

Football is an amazing sport. Thank God it's autumn!

The Mich/ND game was craziness.

I was at concert and missed the entire game. After it was over I'm in the parking lot checking the ND/Mich score and it was 24-7 late in the game. By the time we hit the Beltway Michigan was within 3 and then Denard Robinson threw an int with like 2 minutes left. I just knew that was it and the game was over so I stopped checking the score. Five minutes later, still on the road, I'm browsing the web and was ****ing stunned that Michigan had pulled it out and there were 3 TDs in less than a minute!

Whoever the defensive coordinator for ND should be fired immediately. He's had two very bad weeks.

That was such a fantastic game to watch. My wife is a U of M alum, and I usually put on a brave "I'm rooting for Michigan" face when we watch them, but I generally just hope for a good game when we tune in (I suppose she's telling others the same thing about Redskins games we watch together). Three touchdowns in the last 90 seconds of play certainly did the trick. I would have been satisfied about the level of entertainment if the scoring had ended with Michigan's go-ahead 28-24 TD, but, wow, two more touchdowns after that put this one off the charts. Helluva game.

You're not gonna find a better one-two punch out of the backfield than my boys Demps (fastest man in college football) and Rainey. Those guys are electric. Don't sleep on my Gators.