BLOOMINGTON, Ind. - Welcome to the live blog for Indiana's opening game of the season against Florida International. Kickoff is at 7 p.m. ET.

Game two of the Curt Cignetti features a dreaded FBS vs. FCS contest. Fans of the FBS schools really don't like these games and I don't blame them. The only skin in the game is getting a win towards bowl eligibility.

We'll see what we see from Indiana tonight. I expect a relatively vanilla approach. Cignetti won't want to put too much on film for UCLA to see for the Big Ten opener next Saturday.

Pregame - Indiana injuries today submitted to the Big Ten for the availability report, all players listed as out: WR Donaven McCulley, CB Jah Jah Boyd, WR E.J. Williams Jr. and TE Brody Kosin. Nothing unexpected and it's good that RB Kaelon Black is absent from the list.

* Fashion report. Indiana in its same default red jerseys, white paints with the regular IU helmet. Western Illinois appears to be in all white.

* It's overcast at Memorial Stadium with a steady breeze coming from the north. Temperatures have been dropping all day and it should be cool for the majority of the game.

* The two-hour acid test of driving into the parking lot to gauge the crowd? It's unscientific, but let's just say I parked about as close to the stadium as my Gate 11 pass allowed me to. Tailgaters were around, but thin on the ground. Now, it's a Friday game versus a Saturday game and that makes a huge difference, but I just hope Curt Cignetti has appropriately calibrated his expectations of what the crowd will be. It's just not going to happen in the span of a game or two to change habits that have been ingrained in Indiana football fans for generations.