Week One College Football

First thing I will say about the first week of college football is that I am just glad it is here. I was so tired of hearing about all the scandals, investigations, tattoos, prostitutes, etc. that was talked about in the off season. There are a little more than 14,000 football players in Division I. You have less than .1% of those people being talked about 99% in the off season. The media needs to get back to the positives of the other 99.99% of the players in college. That started by actually playing games. Even there though is scandal after scandal off the field. College football coaches and players are providing the best college football product ever right now.

Overall the SEC is still ridiculously good. Who didn’t see that coming?? The LSU defense wowed me on Saturday. Oregon has a good football team, but by the start of the 4th quarter they did not want anything else to do with the Tigers. Bama, Arkansas, Ms State, Florida, etc all rolled as expected.

Most people who read this will be interested in Ole Miss, USM, and/or MSU so I will talk about them. The Ole Miss coaching staff absolutely gave that game away to BYU. BYU did start to move the ball late on the Rebel defense, but I just didn’t see them giving up another TD on defense. The play that led to the fumble was POOR coaching by Lee or Nutt or whoever called the play. I don’t remember the exact distance. I think it was 3rd and 26 or 27. Did Houston Nutt really think they were going to get a first down by throwing the ball? In that situation you cut your losses, run the ball, and punt. The Rebels should still win 5 games, but Nutt is out in Oxford the first week of December.

USM was sloppy, but it was the first game and the conditions were beyond terrible. I would have said this same thing about Ole Miss if they beat BYU… A win is a win. USM should be able to go on the road to Marshall and get a conference win Saturday. Marshall got beat up on by West Virginia in a game that also had bad weather.

Memphis had no chance against Ms State. The bulldogs have too many weapons and could have scored 100 points if they wanted to Thursday. We see what the Bulldogs are made of Saturday with their first conference game. Auburn won a game they shouldn’t have over Utah State. Sometimes that is exactly what a team needs to get it going. Vegas has the Bulldogs favored by 7 on the road. I agree with Vegas on this. The Bulldogs win against Auburn and probably cover. HELLO LSU next Thursday!

Alabama is going to dominate Penn State on Saturday. Take that at -10 with everything.