I for one never liked the Div 8 opponents to start the season, but almost all teams did it. But staring what 10 or 15 years ago TV started these made for TV matchups and yet we never participated nor really wanted to. Going back 30 years,or so UF went to Syracuse, got whipped and SOS said we are not doing that again. We played a Thursday night game at Cowbell, got boat raced, SOS siad we are not playing on Thursday again. I always appreciated the teams who did not run from those made for TV games to open the season while we beat up of a Div. 11 team which in truth does nothing. Finally we opened with MeatChicken one year and got clobbered, but at least we played a real opponent. I am glad we opened the past 2 seasons against a real team and wish for it to continue. Has been way too long for good openers as opening with scrotUM went away far too long ago.