Golden August light, one last time. No season opener will ever beat Season Two's for me, but I can't say I'm not completely elated to be back in the car, driving around Dillon, listening to Slammin' Sammy Meade shoot the shit. Sammy's topic this morning is the Whataburger Football Classic, in which the East Dillon Lions will be playing as major underdogs. Cut over to Vince and Luke running along a road shimmering with Texas August heat. Cut to Julie, getting off the phone with her new college roommate. Tami, lurking in the doorway, wants to get the scoop, but Julie brushes her off with the slightest of info ("Her name is Kim and she's from Corpus"). Tami exposits that since Julie isn't letting her parents drive her to school, the least she could do is serve up a little more dish on this roommate Tami won't get to meet right away. They look at each other across the kitchen table piled high with going-to-college supplies. And those anxious, exasperated looks... well, anyone else now remembering how complicated the relationship with your mom got the summer before college?

Buddy is still working the airwaves to drum up community love for the East Dillon Lions. He's talking about the Big Game coming up and we cut over to the East Dillon locker room, where the assistant coaches are sitting around listening to and grinning at Buddy's on-air antics. Coach comes in and reminds them, sternly, that they've got a game in three days and they need to stop messing around and get their shit together. "I do not like the way this is starting out" Coach declares. Well, sir, we'll have to agree to disagree, since you are wearing your hot dad man shorts which makes me quite happy with the way this season is starting out.

Billy visits Tim in jail, and we all breathe a sigh of relief as Tim's hair is still long and flowing, complimenting his prison garb quite nicely. Billy exposits that Tim has about three months left, and then Billy tries to make small talk about starting to coach football as a volunteer. Billy declares that the way he sees it, he was kind of a coach to Tim, but Tim quickly cuts him off, "Coach was my coach, Billy." Ouch. Billy asks if Tim could be a little more enthusiastic about this plan and Tim is like "I'M IN PRISON, Billy," and we all know he's probably also thinking "Taking the fall for YOU, dumbass." Billy tells Tim that he thinks every day about what Tim did for him and his family, and that he really wants to change. Tim just keeps looking off into the middle distance. Visiting hours are announced as over and Tim tells Billy as he leaves that he doesn't need to come so often, and that he hopes Billy will tell Becky the same thing. Hoo boy, am I itching for Tim Riggins to get out of jail already so I can see where this angry energy can take him. I like this boy riled up.