Genuinely can't tell if this is a matchup of two good teams or two bad teams, like the signs point to both

FSU red zone defense: elite

FSU pass defense: lol

Sark: We gotta play better to beat Alabama.

Me: No duh.

Me drinking burnt-orange kool-aid: Nah, we're gonna be wearing the icy white away unis, we'll be fine

Jesus, Brian Kelly is going to straight up murder his receiving corps after tonight.

I’ve always thought announcers are a little too hard on receivers, possibly because there are so many old QBs in the booth.

There’s a lot of “maybe not a perfect ball but you have to catch that!” when the replay actually shows the ball on his wrong shoulder, or behind him while the route has him sprinting, or the poor kid is completely screened by a closing defender on an underthrown ball. A lot of times it was a miracle the receiver got a hand on it at all, but as soon as he does it becomes his fault.

Penalties are killing FSU, dropped passes are killing LSU

Kelly commited a cardinal sin of football, he forgot to make sure his d wasn't allergic to good tackles

First ranked vs ranked matchup of the year!

I’m excited for this game. I always am so football-starved by the time week 0 hits thay I dive in and end up watching a lot of blowouts since most teams schedule cupcakes for the first week (which is fine, that’s how it works). So I plan to really savor this game. But I’ve probably jinxed it and now it’ll also be a blowout.

Has anyone told LSU that to score points, they have to go towards the end zone?

ngl this game is a mess

I'm still not used to seeing BK wearing LSU gear. But I'm not part of the Tiger fay-muh-lee so I don't see shots of him on the sideline that much

hahaha "No YOU have the ball"

These Ford commercials remind me of 30 Rock having Stacy Keach do commercials for aggressively terrible couches.

LSU is looking hefty early.

They’re acting like that interview was live but you could see refs hanging around on the field behind him lol. And a HC would never not be watching the game

Haha, was that FSU's band playing "Neck" after that awesome catch?

If FSU can patch up their pass defense then they’re a playoff team

I know there's plenty of evidence that these are both really good teams, but I'm getting big "Texas is back" vibes from it. I can't explain why.

That was a legitimately hilarious response from Sark

What's with all these on field interviews? I feel like we've gotten way more of them this season. They feel so tacky

Those may or may not have been iffy calls, possibly

Farmer fred going to make special teams run wind sprints

Looked like an incomplete forward pass to me. Not sure what Bill LeMonnier was on about

That was some backyard football shit

lmao, it's like they didn't learn anything

FSU’s OL showed a lot of improvement last year but they’ve really struggled today. Could be that LSU’s D is just playing really well but I hope Travis isn’t running for his life all year like he used to have to do.

Looks weird not having Allstate logo on the net. I'm not sure I like them having alcohol advertising instead.

Wow, FSU really made something out of nothing on 3rd and long aaaaand as I write that, what a run to the house!

I think that’s the right call, but I was just thinking of a way to make it less subjective. Let me know what you guys think.

What if it was only a pass if it makes it past the line of scrimmage? That would mean that forward screens behind the line that are dropped would be fumbles, but it’d mean that stuff like this that I think most people think feel like fumbles wouldn’t get called passes because the hit caused the QB’s arm to go forward.

Special teams apparently give better that it receives

Well that’s schadenfreude blueballs for this Gator. After Week One, looks like college football has jumped the shark. Give me realignment rumors and NFL, please.

Well at least we know FSU's DBs can tackle (each other)

Do they just not practice special teams? Games are won and lost on special teams. Although as I write that, an interception makes this comment sort of irrelevant

Something tells me that's not how that play was drawn up. Impressive to make something out of nothing

I disagree with that. I couldn’t hear a whistle so I wouldn’t doubt the players didn’t hear it. And they didn’t even tackle him, they were pushing him because they were waiting for the whistle and then he went down.

Obviously the catch and run was cool but what an effort by that defender to save the TD (well delay)

Tackling like FSU's on that last drive would make Alex Grinch proud

Oh that's a peach

Maybe the Wingo ate your baby.

Is it just me or have there been a lot of late hit out of bounds calls this week? Maybe that's normal for week 1 but I don't remember so many in previous years

Man, as a UCF fan, I miss the hell out of Tatum Bethune

Did that make the LOS? I thought that looked like grounding.

Now that's a familiar sight for these tigers

Refs looking the other way on that delay of game.

I don’t get what the announcers are saying, the defender didn’t even start the tackle until Travis was already on the ground. It was absolutely a late hit. If that’s allowed, why would a QB ever slide?

One of my favorite things is fans cheering for routine things that your team can’t get right for some reason lol.

Reminds me of last year when fans were counting down the play clock for the Denver Broncos because they kept getting so many delay of game penalties.