So... I guess this is my thing now? Vanderbilt football is back, and with it is the Saturday Tailgate, your open thread for non-Vanderbilt football.
College football’s first week has sadly become a festival of neutral-site games, which I guess is an improvement over the old Week 1 of Top 25 teams beating down overmatched opponents. But this year, the people making the matchups for the neutral-site games seem to have misfired. The annual kickoff game at Mercedes-Benz Stadium in Atlanta features a matchup between Alabama, your perennial national title co-favorite, and Duke, a basketball school that finished last year 8-5 and ended its regular season with a 59-7 loss to Wake Forest.