Three incoming freshmen at football powerhouse Blue Mountain State University must quickly adapt to college life, juggling football, girls and hazing.
The team throws Craig a promise ring bachelor party, and the next morning he notices his ring is gone.
Thad brags that he doesn't need a girl because he already has an adequate sex toy.
Billy the goat mascot and Sammy are kidnapped by a rival school.
After too much slacking, Alex gets demoted to third string. He is ecstatic at first, but then realizes that the third stringers are a bunch of freaks.
After losing two games in a row, the team participates in a Drug Olympics to exorcise their demons.
Recruitment week starts at BMS, and Alex tries to get the top quarterback recruit, Golden Arm, to commit to BMS so Alex won't ever have to start.
Alex unknowingly breaks a years-long truce between the football and lacrosse teams by hooking up with a lacrosse player's girl, igniting a team war.
Alex, Thad and some other players learn that they are failing and have to pass an upcoming test so they don't lose their eligibility.
Sammy, Alex and Craig participate (along with the rest of the school) in the Marathon Monday tradition of drinking for a full 24 hours.
Alex gets fan mail from a guy who wants Alex to date his daughter.
The team finds out that they have to be drug tested, so they try to stay sober for three days but can't function normally.
When the team heads to Louisiana for their bowl game, Thad warns them about the other team's sabotage tactics, from food poisoning to cheerleaders.
To improve the team, Coach Daniels brings in a new star QB, who drags Alex into increasingly dangerous adventures. Meanwhile, Sammy's sister arrives.
After being sodomized in a fumble pile during practice, Thad determines to learn who violated him, but encounters conflicting versions of the story.
The team's decision to stay celibate to energize their performance on the field backfires when Mary Jo, out of frustration, stirs them into a frenzy.
The team begins accepting increasingly ostentatious gifts from agents, while Daniels fends off pressures to play the annoying son of a local booster.
Alex and Thad each receive messages from a woman saying she is pregnant, but respond very differently. Sammy wonders if he should stay with Mary Jo.
The campus nerds revolt, leaving the jocks unable to function academically and causing an identity crisis in Sammy.
Alex unwittingly sleeps with Daniels' ex-wife and winds up a pawn in their bitter relationship. Sammy struggles to end Mary Jo's latest obsession.
After the campus is vacated, Thad goes on a vision quest to help him decide between staying at BMS next year and going pro.
During rivalry weekend, when Overland's mascot gets loose, Alex and Thad set out to find it so Alex can tailgate and Thad can find his own enjoyment.
Alex becomes backup goalie for the hockey team, thinking it's the perfect way to avoid conditioning, while Mary Jo becomes Thad's private cheerleader.
Confined to the local drunk tank, Alex and his pals must stay until they're sober as Sammy tries to get drunk enough to join them and break them out.
The team is a game away from an undefeated season, but confidence slips when Radon is tackled by Thad. Meanwhile, Coach Daniels has a heart attack.
When a riot breaks out after the team's undefeated season ends, Alex and his teammates must cross the frenzied campus to save Sammy from rabid fans.
While Alex adjusts to becoming the starting quarterback and team captain, Thad awaits word on his future with the team after his drug-related arrest.
Alex and Thad deal with the ramifications of a pornographic photo that Thad sent from Alex's phone after it makes its way around campus.
Alex takes on Thad's persona as he struggles to pull Thad out of a post-suspension slump.
Alex and Sammy have a falling out when Alex plays the best game of his career and accepts it as the peak of his life.
Thad offers to teach Alex what it's like to be a local celebrity, but he has ulterior motives.
A blackout on campus postpones the next day's game against Buckingham. Alex uses it as a chance to get revenge on one of Buckingham's cheerleaders.
When his pre-game rituals start to betray his game-time performance, Harmon looks for new superstitions that will restore his kicking abilities.
As Coach Daniels prepares to be inducted into the College Hall of Fame, Thad comes to terms with some troubling secrets from Daniels's past.
Thad's behavior takes a turn for the worse after he suffers a concussion, making it difficult for Daniels to hide the injury from Gilday and the NCAA.
A documentary television series is filming at BMS, following the team and its coaches both on and off the field.
BMS rejoices when they find out they will be playing Blackwell for the bowl championship.
BMS loses the bowl game to Blackwell when their starters are benched from play due to breaking NCAA rules.
The battle continues as the BMS and Blackwell teams fight it out on the corn field for bragging rights as to who the real champion is.