College Football Thursday Night Open Thread: Week One

As with everything that is good, television usually gets involved in order to make money. Saturday has turned into Thursday through Monday for the opening week of college football. Honestly, I'm ok with it I think.

We'll kick things off with South Carolina v Vanderbilt, but there are actually quite a few games on the docket for this evenings soft opening.

#9 South Carolina at Vanderbilt, 7:00 p.m., ESPN

UCF at Akron, 7:00 p.m., ESPN3

Eastern Michigan at Ball State, 7:00 p.m., ESPN3

Southeast Missouri State at Central Michigan, 7:00 p.m., ESPN3

Towson at Kent State, 7:00 p.m., ESPN3

Northern Colorado at Utah, 7:15 p.m., Pac-12 Network

UTSA at South Alabama, 7:30 p.m., ESPN3

Massachusetts at Connecticut, 7:30 p.m., ESPN3

UCLA at Rice, 7:30 p.m.

Texas A&M at Louisiana Tech, 7:30 p.m., ESPNU

McNeese State at Middle Tennessee, 7:30 p.m., ESPN 3

Sacramento State at New Mexico State, 8:00 p.m., ESPN3

Southern Utah at Utah State, 8:00 p.m., ESPN3

Eastern Washington at Idaho, 9:00 p.m., ESPN3

Washington State at Brigham Young, 10:15 p.m., ESPN

Northern Arizona at Arizona State, 10:30 p.m., Pac-12 Network

Minnesota at UNLV, 11:00 p.m.