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There is no more beloved Georgia Bulldog football player than Herschel Walker and no more beloved Florida football player than Tim Tebow.

Disagree if you like, but I feel pretty confident in both statements. Sadly, these gridiron warriors are separated by a generation and never will get the chance to play one another in the World's Largest Outdoor Cocktail Party. By the time Tebow arrived at Florida, Walker was only in the news alongside Tebow for acknowledging his multiple personality disorder.

Until now. Saturday, Tebow, who trails the Georgia running back by one rushing touchdown for his career, is likely to break Walker's all-time rushing touchdown total in the SEC.

Or is he?

On Saturday, I didn't see a single snap of a single college football game. Not one. This has never happened before in my life. Instead I was an usher at my friend's wedding in Atlanta. This means that this week's ClayNation Starting 11 is going to be a primer on my day in a fall wedding.

The wedding featured a bride who had graduated from Auburn and a groom who had graduated from Kentucky. Are the alarm bells going off yet? The two teams played Saturday night. Seven of the 11 groomsmen and ushers graduated from Kentucky, all of the bridesmaids went to Auburn. The result was a near riot. But that comes in the future. First, the beginning.

At some point in time, we've all thought, why aren't sorority girls given the opportunity to talk about their college football team's big game. But when have you ever seen them given the opportunity? I'm not one to scream racism from the rooftops, but I know racism when I see it. And this ladies and gents, is racism plain and simple. So I decided to eracism and sit down with sorority girls from the University of Tennessee last Friday.

I conducted an interview with five sorority girls in the majestic setting of a fraternity house trophy room on Tennessee's campus. The girls and I talked about life, love, Layla Kiffin, and the UCLA Bruins. I also asked all of them to make out with me. Since it was such an important event I even wore a suit for the first time since I last appeared in court. (Ed: As a lawyer. We think.) The result is the FanHouse Sorority Roundtable. Enjoy.

Here's the top lesson from Saturday: If you're a major program, never schedule a game you can lose as your season opener. Period. This should be a rule. Why? Because we fans sit around for nine months waiting for the college football season to return, and then, in one sixty minute game, the entire season is ruined. It's just not worth it. You roll out of bed the next morning and effectively the wildest dreams of the offseason, that your team could run the table and contend for a national championship, is over.

Ask Georgia fans what they feel like this morning. Ask Tennessee fans what the last two years prior to this season felt like losing the first game of the season in California. Losing the opening game counts as two losses, it makes you feel like complete crap. And don't even get me started with how good you feel if you win an opening game. You're a liar. You don't feel good, you just feel relieved. Nothing has changed about your season if you win a big opening game. You just get to dream for one week more. On to the ClayNation Starting 11.

Join the College Football FanHouse crew for a mid-day chat as college football's opening week unfolds. We'll have several of our writers and additional interesting Twitter feeds participating in the chat application.

The show gets rolling at 3 PM ET, comfortably nestled at the end of the early slate of games and before headliners like USC, Notre Dame, Illinois, Georgia and Oklahoma State go battle. Chat application after the jump.

There's no other way to put this: Oregon tailback LeGarrette Blount straight lost his mind Thursday night, sucker punching a Boise State player and requiring physical restraint to leave the stadium after the Ducks' embarrassing 19-8 loss. Boise State's Byron Hout appeared to tap Blount on the shoulder during postgame interactions, before turning away, only to take a Blount sucker punch to his jaw that floored him. Broncos coach Chris Petersen rushed in to separate him from further incident.

Blount then hopped away, only to get into another altercation with several Boise State fans seated near the field. At that point several people had to restrain him and forcibly drag him down the tunnel into an unknown but probably dark future. It's not unreasonable to speculate that his college career is over. Blount was particularly atrocious in Thursday's game, netting negative five yards on eight carries including being on the wrong end of a safety.

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The college football season is upon us.

Highlighted by Oregon trying to take down Boise State on the blue turf, the season kicks off with a handful of games Thursday night. Then, the main course arrives Saturday, with some huge season openers around the country. Join the FanHouse team Thursday at 1 PM Eastern, as we talk about the upcoming season, and the interesting slate of games that awaits us this weekend.

In the distant mists of Internet history there was a time when all was just, when the world was free and open and a squirrel could hop from one tree to another all the way from Maine to Key West. It was a time when pink dolphins lay down with beaver pelts, beards were good, and All That and a Bag of Mail came every Friday on CBSSports.com. Well, the past is prologue ladies and gentlemen. On college football eve, the ClayNation mailbag is back. We'll be here every Wednesday to ponder life's mysteries, answer your questions, and award the elusive beaver pelt trader of the week award. Come closer now tiny dancer and enter the mailbag.

As always, the questions are entirely your own. The goal is to be fun, entertaining, and non-cliche. To begin this week, I'd like to take the time to extend the first FanHouse beaver pelt trader of the week award to reader Clint B. whose rename the BCS nominee "antimatter" won the contest. (The beaver pelt trader of the week is given out each week to someone who has done something remarkable as judged by me, or as voted by y'all. The phrase is my attempted substitute for the outdated cliche of calling someone a "riverboat gambler" if they take a risk in a football game.) On to the mailbag.

Florida Atlantic football fans took to burning a giant red letter N this week at a bonfire rally ahead of their matchup with powerful Nebraska. Its notable both for the audacity and the surprising sanction granted the exercise. In a politically correct society like ours this is a downright hostile act, made more provocative by the ceremonial lighting by both the school's president and Captain Kangaroo stand-in, coach Howard Schnellenberger.

I'll step aside and channel my inner Beavis for a moment. Fire! Heh ... heh ... Fire! Fire! Video after the jump.

Usually, you can count on Phil Steele to think outside the proverbial box. When his annual college football preview is released in June, there are interesting picks made, some of which will make you scratch your head. Of course, Steele's ability to buck conventional wisdom and make accurate picks has won him quite the audience, so you don't normally scratch your head for very long.

Recently, the man behind what is unquestionably the biggest and most detailed college preview on the market took time to answer a few questions for FanHouse.