11.   Before most teams have run under an opening kickoff, suspensions and injuries have forced significant changes in plans.

12.   A few minutes before his team charged onto the Rose Bowl field for the opening kickoff against Arizona, UCLA coach Bob Toledo drew a line in the sand.

13.   A minute before the opening kickoff the coaches told Billy Joe Hobert, the backup quarterback who punted some in college, that he was the new punter.

14.   After an awful first half, the Patriots took the opening kickoff in the second half, and moved the ball well.

15.   After the opening kickoff of the second half, he proceeded to administer what loomed as a slow, inevitable death to the Patriots.

16.   After the opening kickoff, Headrick always called timeout to rest.

17.   All in all, it seemed a long time from the opening kickoff.

18.   Almost from the opening kickoff Sunday, Ryan received an indoctrination into the enormity of the job that lies ahead of him.

19.   But from the opening kickoff, the Gophers pushed around the uninspired Nittany Lions.

20.   Dallas set the tone on the opening kickoff.