Not sure if there was already a thread for this.
After all that hype, the Longhorns laid an egg and lost to the Buckeyes, 14-7. Arch Manning had a bad debut.
No. 8 Alabama was also stunned on the road at Florida State. It is truly going the post-Saban NCAA path of the Belichick-less Patriots.
In 14 games at Alabama, Kalen DeBoer has now lost four times as a 14+ point favorite. I don’t think it’s going out on a limb to suggest that he’ll need to get that trend turned around very soon if he wants to keep coaching in Tuscaloosa.
The Rutgers Scarlet Knights are 1-0 and tied with most of the rest of the Big 10 in overall record. Just wanted to get that in here before reality sets in.
LSU won at Clemson 17-10 in a hard-fought game. LSU got totally screwed on a what should have been a touchdown pass but was overturned by replay. Clemson drove to LSU’s 15-yard-line in the last minute but came up short. One heckuva game between two top-10 teams.
In a way, the Huskies got three wins yesterday … not sad to see Sark and DeBoer lose.
Best line about Michigan State’s dominant first half against Western Michigan: Good enough to be optimistic, not good enough to be confident. The second half was a snoozefest and Chiles still hasn’t convinced me that he’s an FBS quarterback.
Best news was Alabama getting beaten. Now they’re just five losses away from not getting their God-ordained right to make the playoff.
It does my heart good to look at the SEC standings and see that the two teams tied for last place are Bama and Texas.
Shocking considering the miracle he pulled off at Washington two seasons ago.
I owe you a beer for that if we ever watch the Huskies together. But I call him Drunkesian.
Yeah but I gotta deal with a Georgia Boy at work.
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You’re welcome!
Nice to see FSU playing like FSU again…
Annnnnd….. Now it’s nearly a Perfect Weekend! (Notre Dame losing)
I love how College Football has Rules-Lawyered catching a football isn’t catching a football. Whatever, Man. I’m over it at this point.
It’s getting better. Bill Belichick’s UNC is getting spanked at home by TCU.
Did anyone expect otherwise? UNC, as far as I can remember, isn’t exactly a football powerhouse. TCU, while not consistently on the level of the big boy neighbors Texas and Oklahoma, is a very solid program.
That said, Iowa State is 2-0 and on pace to win the Big 12. I will hear no contrary arguments, my mind has been made up.
The line was TCU -3.5, so yes they were favored but not like it was supposed to be a total mismatch.
I have to say the UNC fans I know have been a lot less impressed by his hiring than the media seems to have been. The lead in to the game on ESPN looked like a coronation, not the introduction to a second-rate team’s home opener.
He had a lot of backers in New England who thought he’d be a great recruiter and was a defensive mastermind. I have a few “friends” getting skewered on social media now.
I’ve been reading that Chapel Hill Bill doesn’t have a talented roster in his first season. Just wait till those late round draft picks he’s been stockpiling start coming through the pipeline, though! There’s sure to be a Brady in there somewhere.
That was infuriating. Guy catches the ball on the 2 yard line, steps on the 1, reaches the ball over the pylon, hits the pylon with his knee, falls out of bounds with the ball in one hand, rolls over, ball still cradled in arm while shifting to being cradled to chest by both hands. Ball never leaves control or possession.
I think even if the ball rolled under the training bench, it’s still a TD, but under no circumstance on the play that happened is that an incomplete pass. This was almost as bad as Patrick Peterson’s would-be game saving interception against Alabama being waived off as “out of bounds” when instant replay clearly showed he had not just one but BOTH feet in bounds on the catch. I swear, the best conference in college football (or maybe second best this year, lol) consistently has the worst refs. Consistently.
Between that and the Shedeur Sanders coverage at the NFL draft, it’s clear that ESPN doesn’t give a damn about actual sports anymore.
I had turned away from the game last night, but flipped back with about two minutes to go. The game was so boring that Kirk Herbstreit’s dog was miked up in the booth.
ESPN’s agenda is pretty clear and annoying to anyone not particularly vested in the following: Deion Sanders, Bill Belichick, Arch Manning and the SEC in general (but especially Alabama). The network didn’t have a particularly good Week 1.
They are celebrity-driven, not a news gathering entity. I guess the internet killed their original, enjoyable model and they had to transition to Yanks-Sox etc. to keep the attention of the non-diehards.