This is what college football is supposed to feel like: warm (not hot) and sunny, with plenty of daylight left for today's game between the 13th ranked Scarlet Knights and Norfolk State.

Of course, that doesn't mean that what we're going to watch at 3:30 is going to look like what college football is supposed to look like. My prediction in today's paper is a 58-0 Rutgers win. The Scarlet Knights' status as a big-time program is pretty well documented, and the Spartans, who beat archrival Virginia State 33-7 in their opener last week, are a Championship Subdivision (Division I-AA) team that has never played a Bowl Subdivision team and hasn't had a winning season in 10 years of I-AA play.

This is one of those games that gives the little guy a big pay day and the big guy a nice little tune-up for conference play and an all-but guarenteed win.

And I don't want to hear about Appalachian State. In fact, neither did Norfolk State coach Pete Adrian during his conference call with reporters on Monday. He poined out that Appalachian State has won the last two Championship Subdivision national championships, while the Spartans have been consistently in the lower half of the Subdivision.

One other point of reference for what to expect is that Rutgers played Howard -- who, like NSU, plays in the MEAC -- last year, and won 56-7.

We're a little less than two hours away from kickoff, and I'll check in right before the game with some last-minute pregame observations and possible interesting changes to the starting lineup.

Enjoy all the college football on TV and if you're a reader from New England, say a prayer for Josh Beckett and the Red Sox, who have a big game against the Yankees at 3:55.