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Saturday’s time for college football and someway, somehow, one of my roommates has overtaken the downstairs TV and we’re watching commie kickball — soccer.

Northwestern and Minnesota are knotted at halftime, but the knot of the day comes in the very first dual meet of the year between Division I teams at the Fighting Scot Duals up in Edinboro, Pa.

I think you can ice fish in Edinboro 13 months out of the year, but they do know how to wrestle up there. Edinboro blanked Division II Findlay 38-0, but in the first all-D1 dual, Mike Sprigg’s late takedown lifted Army into a 19-19 tie with #17 Maryland.

Obviously the outcome was impacted with two-time NCAA qualifier Mike Letts not appearing for the Terps. But you can’t base results on who wasn’t there.

Big match of the dual was at 149 pounds where All-American Matt Kyler rallied from an early 5-0 defecit to pin Maryland sophomore Eric Medina. The only other fall registered in the dual was by the only other All-American in the line-up, Maryland’s Hudson Taylor. Richard Starks struck first, taking down Taylor, but the former Blair Academy stud turned the tables and pinned Starks later in the first.

For a live-time update of what’s going on, my former gig, InterMat, is trotting out the new live coverage system developed and given to college teams for free. The NWCA Scorebook is in action. Check out the rest of the day’s events here. Click “COL LIVE CVG MEETS” and then click the date to see duals in progress and other results.