GAME DAY OPEN THREAD: The First Course

Today is the kind of day that college football fans live for. It is going to be fun one. A full gamut of games with Playoff implications. But they all are just leading up to the big one:

Rise. #LSUvsBAMA #RollTide pic.twitter.com/A6Qa4MWfsJ

— Crimson Tide FB (@CrimsonTide_FB) November 6, 2015

Got goosebumps yet? Here is the first course:

#5 Notre Dame at Pitt – 11am/12pm, ABC - Today, we are ALL Pitt Panthers!
Vanderbilt at #10 Florida 11am/12pm, ESPN - The Gators should sink the 'Dores.
Kentucky at Georgia 11am/12pm, SECN- Lose this one and it could get really ugly in Athens, GA.
Duke at North Carolina – 11am/12pm, ESPN2 - No, not hoops. Could be an entertaining opening act.
#11 Stanford at Colorado – 1pm/2pm, Pac12 - A practice game for the Trees.

Everything else 11am/12pm:

Florida Atlantic at Western Kentucky - SportsSouth
UCF at Tulsa - ESPNews
Penn State at #21 Northwestern - ESPNU
Illinois at Purdue - BTN
Texas Tech at West Virginia - FS1
Syracuse at Louisville -  espn3
NC State at Boston College - local stations like CW

ROLL TIDE!