Game 2: Vanderbilt Commodores at Colorado State Rams — Open Game Thread

Pregame Reading

• Loveland Reporter-Herald: CSU football hopes to ‘come out swinging’ against Vandy after season-opening loss
• Denver Post: CSU Rams vs. Vanderbilt football: 4 things to know, key matchups and predictions
• Vanderbilt Hustler: Three Matchups to Watch: Vanderbilt vs. Colorado State
• The Rocky Mountain Collegian: Week 2: CSU football looks to recover against Vanderbilt
• Game Notes: Colorado State | Vanderbilt

Well, it’s been a long wait for this one.

We can only hope that Clark Lea’s second game goes better than his first. Coming off a 23-3 loss to ETSU in the season opener, the anticipation for tonight’s matchup at Colorado State is lessened. One awful performance has the Vanderbilt fan base on edge; a second straight awful performance, and, well... I wouldn’t want to be Clark Lea on Sunday.

This is quite likely the latest scheduled kickoff ever for a Vanderbilt game. The Commodores have played a grand total of three games in their entire history in the Mountain and Pacific time zones, and those games — a pair of games at Air Force in 1977 and 1979, and a 1961 trip to UCLA — were long before television dictated so many kickoff times. This one’s kicking off at 8 PM Mountain Time, the kind of thing nobody would ever do but for television.

In other news, Colorado State has chosen violence. It’s Ag Day, and as part of that celebration, Colorado State goes back to the old colors of the Colorado A&M Aggies, their name in a former life (and what I believe that logo in the header represents) — and as part of that, they’re wearing orange, and they’ve declared this game an Orange Out. Yes, that’s right: Colorado State has chosen to become Tennessee for this game.

So, who’s ready for some more football? Have fun, expect to win.