Finally College Football :)

Well, the long awaited start of college football finally arrived!

Ohio State imposed their will on Va Tech last night to wrap up the action. Once Brewer got his collar bone busted, it was over. To be fair, it was over before then, but at least they had the chance to score with him tossing the ball. The half time locker room snippet where he said “it will take more than that to put me out” was creepy foreshadowing. Before I move on, it was a BRUTAL start for QB injuries (not just QB). Kid from BYU done for the season again! KState’s QB done as well. A few key RB’s also went down for the season, including the #1 at Notre Dame and Pitt. Kid from Clemson suffered broken vertebra…not good. South Carolina got things rolling on Thursday night, while I was at the Titan’s preseason game. They snuck by the Tarheels, who have a QB that threw it to USC 3 times… TCU beat the Gophers, but it was close and I thought it would be. TCU is good, but maybe a bit over rated. Gophers are very scrappy and well coached. Baylor won, but SMU didn’t make it easy for them. BYU beat Nebraska in Lincoln on a last play hail mary by their sub QB. Vandy lost to Western Kentucky in a surprising low scoring game. Vandy has a quality defense but nowhere close to an SEC offence or QB play. They will not likely win a conference game, unless it is Kentucky. Speaking of the hoops powerhouse, they nipped Louisiana Lafayette, and that is not a good sign for Stoops gang. The rest of the SEC won and mostly in a big way. How about the upsets? Washington State and Mike Leach fell to Portland…Penn State and James Franklin lost to Temple for the first time in 74 years! Kansas lost to one of the lower league Dakota’s, but that really isn’t an upset. KU is awful. Northwestern took down Stanford 

Louisville gave Auburn a good game and the J2 kid looked less than stellar in his debut. LSU got rained out, and the Tennessee game was delayed for 80 minutes because it looked like bad weather might come! That was seriously annoying. We left Nissan Stadium after about 45 minutes and still got home before play resumed. Vols offense was even better than I expected, but Bowling Green was able to complete a bunch of down field passes on the UT secondary. Oklahoma invades Neyland this week with probably a better passer and receivers… A&M probably had the best win of SEC teams. Taking down Arizona State was impressive, just remember they starter out last season by crushing South Carolina, before their defense was exposed in the subsequent weeks. Bama beat Wisconsin, but it wasn’t all that exciting. They are Alabama after all. FSU beat Texas State, but whoop. Guess it is good to open with a cupcake, but boring and really nothing to beat the chest about.

Gators spanked New Mexico something (another cupcake), but after 4 years of absolutely horrible offense, they looked GOOD! Both QB’s, Harris and Grier looked very SEC capable (again, against inferior foe). Another layup against East Carolina before SEC play against Kentucky and Tennessee… Josh Rosen the true freshman QB at UCLA looked good, but it was Virginia. ACC just isn’t deep. Some really good teams, but some weak ones as well (like say 6 Vandy’s). Notre Dame beat Texas, dang it. Gonna be a long season hearing all the Ohio State and Notre Dame crud… OK, what is on the docket for week 2? I’ll be in Knoxville for my first real game at Neyland, as Oklahoma comes to town! Oregon and Michigan State will host College Game Day and my pick is Sparty. It is a weak 2nd week  Kentucky and Gamecocks open SEC play as does LSU and Miss State (a good one!). Boise St and BYU is the only other quality tilt in my not so humble opinion.