Finishing touches

 

Ahhh!  It’s Thursday, August 30th and the college football season starts tonight! Look at this menu of appetizers to tantalize your taste buds:  (all times Central)

6:00 p.m. No. 9 South Carolina at Vanderbilt   (Gamecocks are solid!)
6:00 p.m. UCF at Akron         (George O’Leary takes his Knights on the road)
6:00 p.m. Eastern Michigan at Ball State      (MAC Battle)
6:00 p.m. SE Missouri State at Central Michigan   (compass point schools battle it out)
6:00 p.m. Towson at Kent State    (name those teams’ conferences)
6:15 p.m. Northern Colorado at Utah     (Utes padding their record)
6:30 p.m. Massachusetts at Connecticut   (Huskies too much)
6:30 p.m. UCLA at Rice       (Watch out for the feisty night birds!)
6:30 p.m. McNeese State at Middle Tennessee     (The battle of the M-Schools)
7:00 p.m. Sacramento State at New Mexico State    (On TV?  Really?)
7:00 p.m. Southern Utah at Utah State     (Utah State is better than people think)
8:00 p.m. Eastern Washington at Idaho    (Vandals tough at home)
9:15 p.m. Washington State at Brigham Young    (Mike Leach involved?  I will be watching)
9:30 p.m. Northern Arizona at Arizona State    (hmmmm)
10:00 p.m. Minnesota at UNLV   (Late night snack)

And don’t forget Boise State at Michigan State on Friday night in a match of two Top-25ers.


And Down the Stretch They Come
Take a look at the shot above of Amon G. Carter Stadium’s west side, taken this morning.  The crews are working hard to get the finishing touches put on the Frogs new $164 million stadium.   This time next week, the stadium will be dedicated and tours will commence at 1 p.m. on Thursday, September 6th.

Thoughts on New Orleans
I can’t help but think that there’s a hurricane magnet buried somewhere in the French Quarter.  New Orleans can’t catch a break and to think that the storm hit on the 7th anniversary of Hurricane Katrina.   My other thought as I watched stranded folks say they didn’t know it was going to be that bad is:  If the National Weather Service tells you a hurricane is coming and you have 36 hours to get out of town…..GET OUT!   As the lady on the Chiffon Margarine commercials back in the 1970s used to say, “It’s not nice to fool with Mother Nature!”