It’s that time again: break out the scissors, body glitters and paint, the first home game of the season is right around the corner and it’s all about the gear. Turn these top five trends into your go-to game day style.

Elaborate plans are being drawn up in an effort to make the first homecoming in the short but eventful history of the young university a thorough success, and one of the outstanding events of the entire school year. Invitations are being sent to graduates by fraternities and the student association to insure a 100 percent alumni response.

The plot of The Blind Side comes dangerously close to becoming a huge cliché yet somehow never manages to cross that line.

It’s hard to do a movie about sports without falling into all the trappings of the genre. Focusing on a compelling figure – in the case of The Damned United, a wildly egotistical, spiteful manager – makes the task a little easier.

The Canes won ugly, and that is a huge step in the maturation of this young team. A great team is able to win when they’re not at their best, or even close to it. Until now, the Canes were considered a talented team, but not a great one.

As I walk past the University of Miami bookstore, I am continually confronted with uninspired t-shirts, created simply to make a quick buck. I am of course talking about the game shirts that seem to be spewing out of the bookstore every time we beat an opposing team.

Everyone wants to have swag, but the very act of seeking it removes any legitimacy. We were not deemed as a school to have swagger because we went around saying “Hey everybody, we got swag in the bag.” It was because we didn’t care what the hell anyone thought.

The game, aside from a celebratory occasion, also showed us why FSU is our rival.

The rivalry between Florida State University and the University of Miami is historic, with each play and each game going down in the record books. It seems to almost echo the bitter rivalry between The Confederacy and The Union…

With over 40 clubs available for undergrads and grads alike, club sports offer an alternative student-athlete lifestyle than those sports at the intramural and varsity levels.