The Dean's List...

By: Dean List

No Option returns for another season...life is good. Season predictions are realistic (8-4), optimistic (9-3) and variance of other ridiculous outliers.

My predictions of…”FUTURE NO OPTION TWEETS”…based upon the newest technology and a past behavior…is to let you know what some of the No Option fans will be doing Opening Day of the 2009 Nebraska season.


• 06:00am sitting here @ Omaha Starbucks waiting for my coffee…Denise
• 06:15am sitting here by the porcelain god and wishing I didn’t have the last 6 drinks last night…thank god I’m not on call today…should have listened to Allison…Brandon
• 06:30am just completed my morning weight lifting exercises…I have to be quicker and stronger…I don’t want to drop the glass boot this year…Jenna
• 07:00am just arrived in Lincoln …weather is sunny, light south wind and 64 degrees…could be golfing…Tim
•07:15am just finished packing the car and headed to Lincoln…what a romantic evening I had last night at Duggerville Lake…Jerry
• 07:30am searching for any expert advice to complete my weekly “Pick’em” contest…hopefully I won’t finish last again…Jose
• 07:45am looking @ the Memorial Stadium West side…die hard fans are eating, drinking, and soaking up the game day atmosphere…better go use the upscale bathrooms before they are unsafe…Gail
• 08:00am waiting in line for the kegs…can’t believe all the people that beat me here this morning…Jon
• 08:15am looking in my bar cabinet for that Winsor bottle…can’t find it…wonder if Jamie or Logan borrowed it…oh well…at least I have two ‘functional’ legs this year…can’t remember…did I send the surgeon(s) a thank you card?...Dave
• 09:15am with Santo for his morning walk…can’t believe the Cubs lost again yesterday…’shit, forgot the bag, oh well’…Aaron
• 09:30am sitting here reading the Des Moines Register Peach section…can’t believe Nebraska has more pre-game coverage than my Clones…Bill
• 09:45am looking in my closet after lifting weights and mowing my yard this morning…can’t decide what color to wear today…red, black or pink…Steve


You get the routine…please write your ‘FUTURE NO OPTION TWEETS’ for the remainder of OPENING DAY in Lincoln…


• 9:30pm Nebraska: 35 Florida Atlantic: 17…Dean

Score Predictions - FAU

Drop your predictions for Week 1 like they're hot...

For the record...

Give your season prediction buy putting a W or L next to each game. Copy and paste the schedule in the comments section. Good Luck!

FLOR. ATLANTIC
ARKANSAS STATE
@ VIRGINIA TECH
LA.-LAFAYETTE
@ MISSOURI
TEXAS TECH
IOWA STATE
@ BAYLOR
OKLAHOMA
@ KANSAS
KANSAS STATE
@ COLORADO

2008 Year in Review

There is No Place Like Nebraska...

Breaking down the best college football game-day experiences (NBC Sports)...

http://nbcsports.msnbc.com/id/32561906/ns/sports-college_football/page/3/

No. 5: Bryant-Denny Stadium, Alabama (SEC)
Never seen more people tailgating in more places than Alabama. Also, I’ve been inside no louder a stadium or seen fans more passionate. Cover model Southern Belles and overweight, pimple-faced freshman males have something in common — they all don replicas of Bear Bryant’s houndstooth hat. I’ll never forget the SEC opener of the ’07 season with “Sweet Home Alabama” blaring on the sound system and 90,000-plus stomping their feet — and kickoff was still 10 minutes away! And when the video board displays inspirational words from the Bear, oh boy. It’s no wonder they’ll be expanding this stadium to more than 100,000-plus soon.

No. 4: Tiger Stadium, LSU (SEC)
Florida may have “The Swamp,” but Death Valley feels like true hell for opposing teams, as LSU fans scream and shout beyond belief. Prepare to lose your hearing here after you’ve eaten and drank more than you ever have before. The fans have plenty of time to prepare to go bonkers as Tiger Stadium mostly hosts night games, enabling the tailgating to be extended down on the Bayou unlike most other venues.

No. 3: Notre Dame Stadium, Notre Dame (Independent)
A timeless setting where no fancy school logo adorns the grass at midfield or the end zones — and no fancy electronic video board displays “fan cam or kiss cam.” Notre Dame is the Wrigley Field of college football, where the sport is so revered the school doesn’t boast a formal homecoming weekend because every game brings alumni back to this special place with its Golden Dome, Touchdown Jesus mural, and the most notable fight song in college athletics.

No. 2: Memorial Stadium, Nebraska (Big 12)
The most loyal, respectful and knowledgeable fans in all of college football, as evidenced by the longest sellout streak in the sport, dating back to 1962. What’s more, this stadium is more than just a sea of red — it’s the most underrated venue in college football for its historical value. For example, in each of its four corners there are mottos to live by, such as “Courage; Generosity; Fairness; Honor; In these are the true awards of manly sport." Or another, just outside the stadium, “through these gates, pass the greatest fans in college football.” Indeed.

No. 1: The service academies — Army, Navy, Air Force
As great as the other 24 are, in my view there are no better settings where history, tradition and uniqueness meet an atmosphere that results in a tingle up the back of your spine or a tear in your eye then at the service academies on game day.

AP Top 25

1 Florida (58) 0-0 1498
2 Texas (2) 0-0 1424
3 Oklahoma 0-0 1370
4 USC 0-0 1313
5 Alabama 0-0 1156
6 Ohio State 0-0 1113
7 Virginia Tech 0-0 1054
8 Mississippi 0-0 1047
9 Oklahoma State 0-0 989
9 Penn State 0-0 989
11 LSU 0-0 914
12 California 0-0 746
13 Georgia 0-0 714
14 Boise State 0-0 659
15 Georgia Tech 0-0 593
16 Oregon 0-0 587
17 TCU 0-0 521
18 Florida State 0-0 307
19 Utah 0-0 289
20 Brigham Young 0-0 267
21 North Carolina 0-0 261
22 Iowa 0-0 229
23 Notre Dame 0-0 225
24 Nebraska 0-0 207
25 Kansas 0-0 134