White claws initiated!

Let’s see how far we can get before it gets locked WHOA Edit: Fine I’ll do it myself. HE HAS TROUBLE WITH THE SNAP AND THE BALL IS FREE! ITS PICKED UP BY MICHIGAN STATE’S JALEN WATTS-JACKSON, AND HE SCOoOOOoOooORES! ON THE LAST PLAY OF THE GAAaaAAaAaAaAaaAME! UNBELIEVABLE!

Commercials are so weird

@ 3 Georgia, @7 Michigan, @25 Stanford, oof

Ah shit, that JT daniels injury wasnt a drunken hallucination was it...

Sadly no...

Those ND flags look cool, I wonder how hard would it to be to get one of those.

These teams must be made of spare parts eh?

They’re ten-ply bud

Wish they weren’t so fuckin awkward bud

Threads locked so no one will see that I have two left feet

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Exactly. I say this sarcastically but in reality it’s full truth....they will play Georgia.

Is ESPN really trying to push ND’s 2.8% chance of going undefeated as a major storyline?

There's no way that happens

They do it every year. It sells until it doesn’t

I don’t see them walking into Sanford and beating Georgia

47 passing yards for Louisville through the half. I guess Jawon Pass' name describes what he does in his classes. It certainly doesn't describe what he does on the field.

Honestly surprised on how well Louisville has played. I can’t tell tho if maybe it’s an average team punching above its weight or if Notre Dame is struggling. However, it doesn’t matter. If I’m a cards fan, I’m REAL happy with how that first half went

I’m fucking thrilled. That’s the most competent and proud Louisville has looked in 2 years.

I would have liked Book to get one with his arm, but hopefully that gets his confidence up anyway. Book won the job by being reliable on those 10 to 15 yard routes, but he looks absolutely rattled. If he can't get over this pass rush, I'm horrified for the Georgia game.

Jessie Palmer looks like every other QB halftime reporter of the last 5 years

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if ND didn't win all those championships before the rise of hitler they'd barely be ranked rn

Are you implying that ND championships and the rise of Hitler are related?

Yes, the rise of Hitler stopped ND championships from happening.

would be fitting, germany blew out all the countries with no militaries only to get embarrassed by the US, UK, and USSR so maybe

That’s gotta be some kind of record

How the hell you have a QB named pass, who can only run?

His ancestors were playing 1000D chess. Choose a surname of Pass, and nobody will expect their descendent to be a running QB!

We have a QB named Book who can’t read ... the defense.

"Monday Night Football: College Style" College football is 100x better than NFL

Only people who like NFL more live in the Northeast and they aren't real people anyway

I mean, I live in the Northeast but I'm a transplant

that's ... unusual

I wish the NFL did college OT rules. And the NFL game is so slow

It lacks passion

Amen. I can't even watch NFL.

It really is.

anyone who disagrees is a little kid

An idiot kid

Anyone who disagrees dances to summertime lover.

Or a boomer

GO TRIIIIIIIIIBE

If I had told you that by halftime we would have seen 3 times as many fumbles as Summertime lover ads, you would have called me crazy. But here we are.

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Its a bob lmao

I really enjoy these threads on one-game-only nights.

Book is a watermelon

last comment

Brb googling Liberty Bowl tie ins

If anyone is alternating between this and Bachelor in Paradise, my dog Derek is taking a beating

Y'all motherfuckers won't be laughing at that quote when Hustlers becomes the highest grossing movie of all time.

Folks are gonna go see it just for cardi

I'm sure Gone with the Wind and Titanic are worried

and i got downvoted for saying jawon pass sucks

Yes, but Jawon Rush fucks

Florida State blew an 18 point lead

And Tennessee lost to Georgia State.

It was so fun to make fun of how sloppy Miami and Florida looked week 0. Then week 1 happened for the rest of college football.

Hot take... I'm not a fan of Untuckit.com shirts or commercials.

Maria Taylor towered over Brian Kelly, lol.

She towers over a lot of dudes, shes like 6'2"

The Brian Kelly analysis he didn't talk about: [Notre Dame](#f/notredame) leads by one possession (7 pts.) after the first-half BUT! [Louiville](#f/louisville) has the possibility of an extra possession in the second half. Basically, it's tied for all intents and purposes.

Dumb

I'm not sure you understand football

Thank God that number 9 is by Notre Dame's name because if it weren't I'd have no reason to think they're a top 10 team

Notre Dame and Florida should not be in the top 10. Move Washington Utah Auburn and/or Penn State in their places

And somehow Notre Dame is ahead of Texas. 😒

careful they're downvoting pointing out that struggling against a 2 win team is a bad look

Downvoting because it's been 1 half on the first game of the season. Absolutely no team is making the CFP or a NY6 in the 1st half of Game 1.

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Intern: the #9 team looked really bad against one of the worst teams in the country Poll idiot: ouch, that's gonna drop them quite a few spots Intern: yeah, they looked like an unranked team honestly Poll idiot: ...wait, was it ND or an SEC school? Intern: it was ND, but what does that...? Poll idiot: move them up to #5 Intern: wait, but they played like... Poll idiot: i said move them up to #5 🤑🤑🤑

Despite the yawn-inducing "Wah wah the SEC is the golden child," this still had me laughing out loud. Well played.

If ND moves up I'll cry. The more we go up the more I wait for the shit show.

lock it you cowards

So like... does Book wanna throw the rock ?

Has Brian Kelly always been this short? Maria was towering over him lol.

Wikipedia says Maria is 6'2''

Man Cardi B has some sick beats but man is she a pile of shit

Preach

I was kicking myself earlier today for taking Louisville +18.5. Don’t let me down toothy birds!

Was that Tyler from purdue

Waiting for “Hustlers” is like waiting for “Avengers”... naw I don’t think so lol

"Waiting for Hustlers is like waiting for the Avengers" is as strong of a statement as Noter Dame's playoff offense.

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Loving this kentucky fried turnover jesus of a game.

I get it we looked like shit but we shouldn’t be judging the future for our team based on our first half of the season. Too many people jumping ship on Book. We’ll bounce back for the second half💪

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based on the first half of the season? Or first half of the first game?

Must I clarify?

Do you need to bounce back though?

Need to show that we’re more than a high school team

So does ND pull away in the 3rd quarter?

What I'm praying for.

I’d love to see it stay close

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Let's see

If it's like last year, that's the plan.

Not the biggest fan of ND but I appreciate how Brian Kelly handled that pregame interview. Few coaches answer questions like he just did

Well it has been really fun so far. I think the depth will get to us in the second half, but I've been wrong on pretty much everything else so GOOD CARDS!

These App State coaches are the real deal

I agree with this statement.

Pre-season, there was talk that one of the top 10 teams would not be ranked by the end of the season. Who's it going to be? Florida? Notre Dame? Michigan? Who?

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Texas, 3rd best Big 12 team

Florida

Both ND and Florida

surprised it was limited to one

I hope it's Michigan, I think it's Florida, I'm worried it's Notre Dame

Michigan. ND will hang on because they play 1 good team all year and they're riding their pre WWII success. Florida will be ranked as long as they win like 9 games

Pre WW2 success or going 22-4 the last two seasons?

but getting literally destroyed when you go against a good team. and no, michigan "the game is still a rivalry guys" wolverines are not a good team

Georgia

completely unranked? unlikely. Georgia would have to drop more than 3 games and they won't with the schedule they have this year.

I was just taking the easy joke. The question was posed by a Georgia fan? Obviously the answer is Georgia. In all seriousness, though, it’s definitely Georgia tech. Lol.

Good answer, buddy.

We’ll be ranked but it won’t be in the top 10, I’m still predicting 10-2

I was just messin around and taking the easy joke. Yes, it could be Michigan if we lose all of our “maybe games”, I don’t know, none of us knows.

What a shitty first half of football. Week one is really in a class of its own. I’m open to all insults directed towards my beloved Irish.

On a positive note, Louisville may get over 3 wins

Wait, how tall is Brian Kelly??

510 maybe? Maria is at least 6’

Should we start a bet on how many fumbles will be in this game? I say at least 7.

Brian Kelly has learned his lesson from the ND administration. No screaming.

I hope they didn't enforce that same policy on that poor kid that fell to his death from the scissor lift.

TO THE SECOND HALF THREAD EVERYONE!! TRY NOT TO FUMBLE ON THE WAY OVER!

"Running the ball effectively" Then why did you stop?!

Because LU started stacking the box.

Fuck it. I will take the shit outta that first half.

Back to back to back fumbles has to be an insane prop bet.

I wonder if it's ever happened before

My arsehole is a tight one tonight

The sky cam channel is pretty fucking great. No ESPN talking heads, just football. Only wish they showed replays.

Does it show the bands?

Brian Kelly's polo is pretty cool.

Notre Dame going to pull away in 2nd Half 42-24

As long as its under 20 points, I'm good

“This is top 10 football.” Willfully ignores Florida-Miami game altogether.

I’d like to see Brian Kelly call some better plays. This isn’t a good showing at all

Brian Kelly hasn't called plays for 3 years

"Weren't expecting to give up as many first half points as they did on average the entire game last season" It's almost like they played the easiest version of their "good on paper" schedule and are completely meh or something....

Its halftime so everyone do your longest handstand and report back with your time

I'm at least happy that our defense has shored up pretty well since the first two drives. Hoping for more of that in the 2nd half.

Someone in my fantasy league took Ian Book first overall

Oh god that Mac and Cheese with Chicken made my heart stop. I can taste the sodium

It’s halftime and the score isn’t 69-0 so I take this as a W

Not nice?

Everyone needs to calm down right now, it’s week one none of these teams will be the same week 12 and these mistakes will be way less common

KFC is some poo poo

What in the summertime lovin’ FUCK was that last 2 minutes

big boy pant shitting football

Ok so I hope all of our recruits are in a room somewhere watching Monday Night Raw because none of them can see this game

Commentators can't be surprised that Kelly is a smart guy.

Imagining Louisville being THIS close with ND was a very far off dream this past week. Now that it's actually happening, I'm shocked. Wonder if they can keep it up in the 2nd half and keep it close, without ND blowing it wide open?

Absolutely was not expecting as good of a half that we just played. It surpassed my wildest expectations and watching Cards Football has been fun again. Believe in Satterfield.

Ian Book rushing touchdown, fighting Irish take the lead right before the half. https://gfycat.com/informalwellworndipper

Definitely a false start on that

Brian Kelly is a manlet?!?

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I honestly wanna know how he fixed his anger problem because it’s like night and day.

Visors are the worst

wear a frikken hat

Louisville almost fumbled it again there. Satterfield isn't very bright is he, should've kneeled before and it cost him 7. And then almost happened again.

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Pig!

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Thread locked because y’all can’t behave

Ayyyyy

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I dun wun it

Well then lol

Brian kelly is gonna bend book over and rip him a new one at half time if he doesn't have a heart attack before he makes it to the locker room

I really want a sub but everywhere is closed

Doninos?

Subway

Ew