It's cold. It's rainy. It's windy. It is, without a doubt, football weather.

And it also is, without a doubt, a must-win game for Rutgers. The Scarlet Knights are a 2-point underdog and an unranked team playing on the road against the 16th-ranked team in the country (and the 13th-place team in the BCS standings.)

But if Rutgers wants this to go down as any kind of a successful season, it HAS to beat UConn, no matter how hot the Huskies are.

I'm here rediculously early. There are a couple of scouts here (one from the Steelers, one from the Giants) and only one other reporter. But I'm gonna meet a couple of college buddies and have a hot dog or two in the parking lot when they get here, so I thought I'd settle in to the press box before heading back outside and into the rain.

I'll check back in in a couple of hours with some pregame observations. And before I go, a welcome note to any fans who don't normally follow the game on this blog but are tonight because they don't get ESPNU (Does anyone other than people who live or work on campus at Rutgers get it???)

In the meantime, enjoy Cincinnati-South Florida on ABC.