NASHVILLE — The scene Friday night on Broadway, the main drag through downtown Nashville filled with bars, neon, live music and enough drunk 20-somethings to make any parent nervous, was that of insanity. Sensory overload. Chaos.

Saturday, on the other hand, was as predictably mundane as a random Tuesday in Hoople, North Dakota.

North Dakota State 59, Tennessee State 3.

More telling, the margin was 45-0 at halftime and somehow it didn't seem that close.

Head coach Tim Polasek let the air out of the ball to keep the final score reasonable.

Nashville's NHL team, the Predators, have branded themselves Smashville.

What happened at Nissan Stadium was Murderville.

"It's one thing to get a win, but this is two weeks in a row when we came out ready to play," Polasek said. "Our job is to pla

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