As we get set to kick off this 113th season of Big Ten football, we're conscious that the conference is currently rolling with a negative street cred balance. Because of that perception, we find ourselves a fan of every other team in the Big Ten during these first few weekends of the year. Even you dorks up North.
The Illini (Missouri), Spartans (Cal) and Wolverines (Utah) have the heavies this weekend and we're counting on 70-0 blowouts across the board.
A mere hours away from kickoff, we turn to former Hoosier coach Bill Mallory for inspiration:
Clutch. Your Saturday open thread lives here.
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I couldn't hardly sleep all night. IT'S GAMEDAY!!!!
Good God...the wait is over. Today is the day that our beloved sport kicks into full gear. The day that our team runs out of the tunnel and kicks it off for real. Our residence on the dark side of the moon is coming into glorious sunshine...it is GAMEDAY, bitches!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Youtube hype sequence...
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Via edsbs...
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turn your speakers up for the last one...
Corey- nice job on the "ritarod- safari gear"...! LOL!
O - H ..............
I-O!!!!
The DBs are laying the wood early. And I think I have a man-crush on Marcus Freeman.
Needed that late TD and hopefully Robo's injury isn't one of those that lingers all season or one of the young pups (or the Ghost) is going to have to step up.
NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!
Oh no.
This is the last thing any of us imagined. I feel so sick to my stomach right now.
Was it the achilles?
Beanie just fucked his ankle, what the hell? It's like he just went down, wasn't rolled on or anything???
It looked like the inside of his foot was what he was grabbing at.
Can we get him a new foot?
bloody hell. He can have one of my feet...
what the hell did he do? Break the foot? Achilles? The foot he hurt didn't even seem to touch the ground. It musta hurt like hell bc he just straight dropped the ball on the way to the ground.
HE CAN WALK!!!!!
Definitely feeling a little better. Also an update, the open thread here has moved to the new critical-oh-shit-injury open thread:
http://www.elevenwarriors.com/...
Well, my day is ruined. We've all been looking forward to this day for so long and now...
I say we put Pryor in at tailback vs USC.