The biggest problem with the conclusion of the first “official” week of college football is that there were no upsets. Wow! Shocking! But in all seriousness the most fun thing about Week 1 is that there is one, normally ranked, team that gets beaten and then is on the hot seat the remainder of the season. I want to see some March Madness type shit, when a completely un-ranked team like Vanderbilt pull-out a last minute hallmark TD pass to beat third ranked Georgia. Simply put: college football needs upsets to keep people interested.
Promising Season Starts
Every ranked team, as well as a few lurking outside the top 25, won their games this past weekend. Which is just a HUGE bummer. Yes, almost every ranked team was playing some scrub team outside their division (with a few MASSIVE exceptions), but I wanted to see a nail-biter. A last-second field goal BS that has a championship bound team slip and fall flat on their faces’ week one. Where are my upsets?! If this season is filled with only the higher ranked team winning, then I will tune out right now and give Clemson the championship. It is not to say that the teams won, but they won by landslide wins. Penn State defeated Idaho 79-7, Texas A&M beat Texas State 41-7, and Maryland crushed Howard 79 – 0.
Possible Despair
Is it too early in the season to be making these ridiculous assumptions? Probably. Is it boring/annoying when people sitting behind a computer screen typing some BS like this state their opinions? Yep. Am I going to stop absurd guesses and what the rest of the 15 weeks might look like? No.
That One MASSIVE Exception
This exception is one that I think we can all agree on. Auburn verse Oregon was going to be a blood bath. The only ranked game of the weekend did not disappoint. I thought Oregon had it. Coming out after half time and scoring another TD in the 3rd quarter, Oregon looked dominant. I’m not sure what happened, but some fire must have been lit in Auburn because they proceeded to score 14 unanswered points in the 4th, with the final touchdown coming in the last few seconds of the game. While this isn’t necessarily an upset….. BOOM this is what I’m talking about! Dominant performance all game and then utter demoralizing last quarter/seconds of the game. I can only imagine Bo Nix remembered that he was there when Auburn beat Oregon for the 2011 National Title and that was the turning point.
