It's two hours before kickoff and there are more people in the press box right now than there were in all of the regular season Fairfield basketball games I covered over the previous four years combined.

Rutgers is expecting somewhere around 200 media members in addition to the 42,000 fans who are currently outside tailgating, but who will be packed into the Stadium once we kick off at 7.

For the record, the first meal of the season in the press box is Buffalo chicken sandwiches, with assorted pasta dishes. I'm waiting for word from the Rutgers sports information staff on whether or not they intentionally served Buffalo chicken when the Scarlet Knights are playing Buffalo.

It's either brilliant planning of a strange coincidence.

The Scarlet Knights are favored by 32 points, but I predicted a 50-10 win in today's paper. We'll see how that prediction holds up.

I'll check in with some observations during the game, which is now less than two hours away.