MURFREESBORO, Tenn. – The tailgate food is cooking. The pigskins are spiraling. You can almost smell it in the air: college football season is here.
Middle Tennessee enters the 2018 campaign both with some optimism and question marks. The Blue Raiders hope some of those answers come in Week 1 when they make the short trip to Nashville on Saturday to take on Vanderbilt at 6:30 p.m.
"It's a fired-up time," head coach Rick Stockstill said at his weekly Monday press conference. "It's been a great four weeks, and we're ready to roll.