Thursday Night Football

Some people love Fridays; some love Saturdays and universally Monday and Sunday are despised, but as for me, Thursday is the best day of the week. I have long told anyone who'd listen that the week's fifth day ranks at the top of my list. It's a completion of four grueling workdays with just the one day standing between you and total weekend freedom. The anticipation of what's to come makes Thursday the pinnacle, plus it's the farthest away you can get from Monday. Add to the fact that, knowing I have a 48 hour break coming, I can do almost any job hungover. Finally toss in Thursday night in the fall grants me ESPN Thursday night games, and I can't possibly think of a better day.

So in looking ahead to this fall, we began looking for a comprehensive Thursday Night College Football line-up on-line and realized that no one yet has put one out. Sure there are some sites have have a list of televised games, but no one has the ESPN games by themselves. We looked to cure that problem.

This chart shows ESPN's games for the fall of 2009, complete with a column to let you know whether we'll be heading to the Taco Mac at Lindberg for the festivities. Come early, and you can grab a beer (and a free pint glass) with us.

ESPN's Thursday Night Football

Date	Game	Time	Taco Mac?*
09/03	S.Carolina at N.C. St.	7 p.m.	YES
09/03	Oregon at Boise St.	10:15 p.m.	?
09/10	Clemson at Georgia Tech	7:30 p.m.	?**
09/17	Georgia Tech at Miami	7:30 p.m.	YES
09/24	Ole Miss at S.Carolina	7:30 p.m.	YES
10/01	Colorado at W.Virginia	7:30 p.m.	NO
10/08	Nebraska at Missouri	9 p.m.	YES
10/15	Cincinnati at S.Florida	7:30 p.m.	NO***
10/22	Fla St. at N.Carolina	8 p.m.	YES
10/29	N.Carolina at Va Tech	7:30 p.m.	YES
11/05	Va Tech at E.Carolina	7:30 p.m.	NO
11/12	S.Florida at Rutgers	7:30 p.m.	NO***
11/19	Colorado at Okla St.	7:30 p.m.	YES
11/26	Texas at Texas A&M	8 p.m.	NO
12/03	Oregon St. at Oregon	9 p.m.	YES
* Taco Mac could mean any equivalent restaurant - basically a night out to watch the game is required ** - this might require actually attending the game in ATL *** - not attending, unless I can get a group to taunt USF fans by doing the "Rutgers fight song"