'Nightcaps' is a daily column that catches you up on the biggest sports, news and culture stories you may have missed while pretending to do work at your desk.
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It runs Monday–Friday on OutKick.com.
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I know all eyes are on the Commonwealth today (sickening, by the way), but let's all just take a step back for a second and enjoy the simpler things in life.
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After Monday, we take a full 48 hours off before the NFL season kicks off on Wednesday.
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She's here, and she's just as beautiful as I imagined.
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Let's roll.
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Welcome to a Friday Nightcaps — the one where Sophie Cunningham supports the vets like a patriot, and then gets us fired up for football season ... again, like a patriot.
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I've got a poor woman getting trucked on the sidelines in Piscataway last night, an absolute UNIT in the high school football ranks, and the Buffaloes were FEELING it after upsetting Georgia Tech.
What a scene!
OK, grab you whatever you'd like on this first Friday of September — dealer's choice today! — and settle in for a Friday 'Cap!
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Not the greatest Week 1 the sport has given us.
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LSU-Clemson is obviously the headliner tomorrow, but there's not a ton of great games before it.
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The 3:30 hour gives us Baylor-Auburn and Boise State-Oregon, for those pining for the old SEC on CBS theme song.
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I don't care, though.
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Unless, of course, it involves Sophie Cunningham!
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She leads us off today.
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"Spicy Sophie tapping in."
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Colorado was FEELING it last night
She just refuses to miss.
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Let's put Sophie in the juror pool up in the Commonwealth and see how things play out!
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We're about to kick some butt this year.
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Sophie gets it.
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She's ready to get this season started.
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Sophie welcomed veterans to Gainbridge Fieldhouse all season?
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OK, let's keep this class moving right along.
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Anyone catch the end of the Colorado-Ga. Tech game last night?
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I'm not talking about the blocked field goal.
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I'm talking about what happened after the blocked field goal:
Opening night chaos, a high school specimen & '80s mail
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Big win, and they let the Georgia Tech student section HAVE it.
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Look at the one player who actually attempts to jump into the stands.
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He got swatted away like a bug.
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I've seen that movie end poorly far too many times.
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Speaking of last night's appetizer, let's rapid-fire this Friday class into our first BIG weekend of the year.
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Let's go ahead and check in with the fans up in New Jersey!
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Do you know how much Rutgers paid for that shellacking?
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The accounts in Piscataway are pulling their hair out today.
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Anyone here stick around for the postgame fireworks?!
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The obvious question is, why not just cancel the show?
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I don't know.
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Can you do that?
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Can you just cancel a fireworks show because the home team lost?
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I assume you can just roll them over to the next home game, right?
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USC comes to town next.
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