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College Football Season starts off with a bang
• Defending National Champion Auburn had a pretty good season in 2010, but this year their star QB Cam Newton is gone and they may have a tougher time. Against Utah State, who went 4-8 last season, Auburn gave up 38 points, but came back from a 10 point deficit in the final 2:07 to win 42-38.
• Boise State continued their dominance against elite competition, defeating 19th ranked Georgia 35-21 behind 3 TD passes from Heisman hopeful Kellen Moore. The fact that this team (which has lost approximately 3 games since the Nixon presidency) continues to get overlooked for national championship contention is one of the reasons why, in my opinion, college football is a joke.
• The other small conference team which has dominated for the past few years is TCU, however they look like they may struggle a bit this year after their previously vaunted defense gave up 359 yards and 5 TDs to Baylor QB Robert Griffin III (who is being called a more refined Michael Vick) and a fantastic Baylor offense. The Horned Frogs nearly came back, but fell just short, losing 50-48.
• Skip Holtz returned victoriously to Notre Dame where he starred and his father coached, but this time from the visitor's locker room. His South Florida Bulls came in as a big underdog but defeated the Fighting Irish 23-20 in Holtz's first game as head coach.
• And in the most hyped game of the week, #4 LSU beat a sloppy looking #3 Oregon 40-27, whose 2011 season begins more like their 2009 season (which started with their star RB punching an opposing player) then their 2010 season, in which they were seconds away from OT in the national championship game.
*Our condolences to the family of NFL great Lee Roy Selmon (pictured), who passed away on Sunday following a stroke. The former #1 draft pick and defensive player of the year for the Bucs was 56 years old.
Three losses in 38 years??? Did you get that one correct?
ReplyDeleteYes, but look what has happened to ASU after they tried to think they were something they weren't after the big win against Michigan! Strength of schedule, baby! You can beat a Georgia every once in a while when you have a Weber State and Eastern Idaho School of Mines on the schedule!!!!
Yea but it's one thing for a team like App to beat a Michigan once in a down year... Boise has lost 3 conference games since 2002 (The original comment in the post was hyperbole) including a win over Oklahoma in the 2007 Fiesta Bowl. They've gone undefeated twice in the past 4 years and it would've been 3 if their kicker had made a chippy against Nevada in the last game of 2010.
ReplyDeleteI don't care that they're not playing the same level of competition as SEC teams, they beat Oklahoma, Oregon, Georgia, etc... if they never lose to anyone they should be given a chance to play for a title. Part of this is just an issue with the bowl setup in college football but part of it is an outdated bias of all the NCAA purists who only think the major conferences matter.
If NCAA basketball was set up like football, Duke would have played Kansas and the 12-15 other teams who legitimately had a chance to win March Madness (including Butler and VCU) would have played each other in meaningless exhibition games.
Good points.
ReplyDeleteBTW, the "Eastern Idaho School of Mines" comment was hyperbole also!! ;#)