And we're off!

Italy fly-half Tommaso Allan gets the first game of the day under way in Rome.

A grey day in Rome, but it's been lit up by a fabulous Italian national anthem.

Let's get this day started!

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Colin Gregor
Former Scotland sevens captain on Radio 5 live sports extra

Scotland need to win today and win convincingly. They need to turn up and put Italy away comfortably. If they start well, they've also got a lot of talent on the bench who can make an impact.

Italy have had glimpses of promise and they’ve challenged every team they’ve played. They target the Scotland game as the one they can win. But they have not been able to keep it going for any length of time and have only been ahead for 19 minutes in the Six Nations.

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Italy

• Italy have lost their past 16 Six Nations games - only France have endured a longer losing run.
• Italy are hoping to avoid fourth whitewash in five years.
• Sergio Parisse could also become the first player to lose 100 Tests.

Scotland

• Scotland are aiming to win three games in a single Six Nations for only the third time.
• They have lost nine of their past 10 away games in the Six Nations and 41 of 47 away matches in Six Nations history.
• But they have won eight of their past nine games against Italy.

An eclectic mix there. Can you beat this? Keep your pictures coming.

Five minutes to go before the first kick-off of the day.

Scotland are targeting a top-half finish. But can they get over the line?

Where are you watching from? Sunny Rome? Snowy England? Tweet me pictures on #bbcsixnations or text 81111.

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Scotland have made five changes for their final Six Nations outing this year.

Centre Nick Grigg makes his first start in the tournament, while winger Tommy Seymour returns from a back problem.

Hooker Fraser Brown is joined in the front row by WP Nel and lock Tim Swinson comes in.

Peter Horne, Blair Kinghorn and Stuart McInally drop to the bench, with Simon Berghan and Grant Gilchrist out of the squad after last weekend's loss in Dublin.

Scotland: Hogg, Seymour H Jones, Grigg, Maitland, Russell, Laidlaw, Reid, Brown, Nel, J Gray, Swinson, Barclay (capt) Watson, Wilson.

Replacements: McInally, Bhatti, Fagerson, R. Gray, Denton, Price, Horne, Kinghorn.

The teams are in the tunnel in Rome, for our first match of the day.

Here's your all-important team news.

The Doddie Weir charity march has taken place ahead of the Italy-Scotland clash in Rome at 12.30pm.

Ex-Scotland forward Weir announced his diagnosis of motor neurone disease in June last year and has set about raising money for others who have the condition.

Fiona Lowrie was one of those to take part in the march and said on Twitter; 'The atmosphere was just incredible! Scots really do it best.'

Richard Taylor also paid tribute to the Scottish fans on social media saying the march 'brought Rome traffic to a standstill amid a cacophony of horns drowned out by a mass of people singing Flower of Scotland'

Sounds like a good event.

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Scotland coach Gregor Townsend on the Doddie Weir charity walk: “It was amazing. We timed our bus journey right when we were in the middle of the walk. I saw Doddie was just at the traffic lights as we stopped and I don’t know how many Scots were there, but it looked between 5-10,000 and you feel very proud that you’re associated with that.

“As a team we’re representing that today and it’s great to see everybody getting behind Doddie and the team this afternoon.”

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The title might be gone, but Scotland captain John Barclay knows there's still a huge amount to play for.

His side have a chance of finishing third in this year's Six Nations.

And it would be just the third time in their Six Nations history (after 2001 and 2006) that they've been in the top three at the end.

Have a read of Barclay's weekly BBC column here.

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Scotland coach Gregor Townsend:

“We're starting Nick Grigg at centre largely due to the way Italy defend. They’re very wide-spaced and there might be times where we find it difficult to get outside them. Nick's a very good ball-carrier and we want to get him as much ball as possible.

“We know if we allow Italy to play - they want to and are playing really expansive rugby. At home, they always play with passion, and we’ve come here before and lost so we know this is going to be a very tough game for us.”

Small Man Peaky: Stuck in the uni library writing an essay. Will have to be content with following the day’s play on live text. Friend handed in his dissertation yesterday and is in Rome for the Scotland game today. I’m not jealous at all...

Good job it's such a vibrant live text eh?

Ash Green: I’ll be watching Super Saturday from Heathrow Terminal 2, with the impending fear that the snow might render me stuck there forever more.

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And here are your answers:

80 mins: France awarded a scrum. (France 13-18 Wales)

83 mins: Scrum reset for a third time. (France 13-18 Wales)

84 mins: France pop Uini Antonio goes off for a head-injury assessment, to be replaced by Rabah Slimani. (France 13-18 Wales)

85 mins: Samson Lee sent to the sin-bin, Wales down to 14 men. (France 13-18 Wales)

85-93 mins: More scrums and penalties to France. (France 13-18 Wales)

93 mins: George North claims to have been bitten, reviewed by officials and deemed inconclusive despite a mark on his arm. (France 13-18 Wales)

93 - 100 mins: Yet more scrums. Lots of whistles. And Samson Lee returns to the field. (France 18-18 Wales)

99:55 mins: Camille Chat drives over the line. Or was it Damian Chouly? Hard to tell. (France 18-18 Wales)

100 mins: Camille Lopez conversion wins the game for France. (France 20-18 Wales)

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Italy head coach Conor O'Shea has been speaking to our BBC reporter Andy Burke ahead of his side's match against Scotland.

Italy are bottom of the table and have already collected this year's wooden spoon.

"We’re showing that we’re growing as a team," he said. "We have a war, but you need to win a battle as well and today is the next step in that.

"We’ve been a lot more competitive this year than previously, but we want to win. We don’t want to be getting the wooden spoon. It’s a tough test, but every year we’re going to get nearer that level."

While I wait for your answers to the quiz, three minutes to go on that one, let's hear from Italy coach Conor O'Shea.

BBC Radio 5 live presenter Mark Chapman feeling the pinch at Twickenham.

Answers to #bbcsixnations or text 81111 please. Clock stops dead on this one in five minutes time.

1. Who was shown a yellow card with the match clock in the red and still came back on to complete the match?
2. Which replacement prop was replaced in added time after going off for an HIA?
3. Which Wales player claimed to have been bitten on the arm?
4. Who drove over the line to score the try that Camille Lopez converted to give France a 20-18 win?
5. And what was the time (exactly) on the match clock?

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Last year's fixture between these two sides was the day rugby lost its head - and I had the pleasure of reporting on the chaos.

But before we relive that 100-minute match, let's see how much you remember...