College Football Week 1 Thread

[Agent Kev]

The most interesting games to me are in bold. USC/Arkansas would be alot more interesting if McFadden wasn't out with a broken toe. I would like to see Tennessee smack Cal in the face. Not because I like Tennessee but the Pac-10 deserves to get it's sh*t handed to them. Notre Dame/GT should be interesting. There is a lot of local hype for thispitting John Tenuta's defense against one of the most prolific offenses in college football and Charlie Weiss and also Calvin Johnson vs the poor Notre Dame seconday.

For me it will be interesting to see how the UGA defense plays in losing a lot of their DBs (UGA had 8 guys drafted last year- 3 of them starting DBs). We look solid at DL and LB. The question marks on the offense are to see how JoeTIII does in his new starting role and to see how much action Joe Cox sees off the bench. Also, need some WRs to step up besides Masaaquoi (since Bailey is out for the year- medical redshirt) and the OL needs some time to jell especially with one of the starters out for the first couple of games. Not too many questions will be answered today due to the opponent but we just need to get as much experience for the young guys as possible and game day feel.

#25 Texas Tech vs. SMU
#24 Arizona State vs. Northern Arizona
#23 Tennessee vs. #9 Cal
#22 TCU vs. Baylor
#21 Oregon vs. Stanford
#20 Nebraska vs. La Tech
#19 Penn State vs. Akron
#18 Clemson vs. Florida Atlantic
#17 Virginia Tech vs. Northeastern
#16 Iowa vs. Montana
#15 Georgia vs. Western Kentucky
#14 Michigan vs. Vanderbilt
#13 Louisville vs. Kentucky
#12 Miami vs. #11 Florida State
#10 Oklahoma vs. UAB
#8 LSU vs. Lousiana Lafayette
#7 Florida vs. Southern Miss
#6 USC vs. Arkansas
#5 West Virginia vs. Marshall
#4 Auburn vs. Washington State
#3 Texas vs. North Texas
#2 Notre Dame vs. Georgia Tech
#1 Ohio State vs. Northern Illinois

[Agent Kev]

UGA 48 Western Kentucky 12

Pretty expected result here. Georgia dominated field position all day long and the defense and special teams looked really good. Mikey Henderson took the first punt back about 60 yards but fumbled it as he got to the goaline and it ended up being a touchback. So he took the next punt back for a touchdown.

The running backs looked solid (Brown, Lumpkin and Ware) but were used pretty sparingly as it looked like Richt was trying to get his QBs more familiar with the offense and get them more passing reps. Although the color commentator was annoying as hell saying "Just run it down their throats!" over and over. Yes, that would have been the thing to do if this was a competitive game but Georgia needed to do more than that with Darth Visor looming next week. JoeTIII look decent, Joe Cox looked great in his first series and then in his second series lofted a long interception, Matthew Stafford looked phenomenal in his second series. A couple of dropped balls look to be cause for concern but the QBs overall played a decent game and didn't "lose" the game. I think Stafford might move up on the depth chart as the season goes on as it is obvious he has a lot more skill than JoeTIII, he just needs to get use to the college game.

[IWSfan4life]

Tennessee is pretty darn impressive thus far, and V-Tech's nice string of RB's continues at Brandon Ore. Nice win for them as well. USC-Ark was impressive only for the 5 RB's that USC played and the beginning of the awesome Mitch Mustain era in Ark.

Make sure you guys watch Pitt next week as two of my friends will be starting, and will be the first two guys in this area (minus Batch and Logan) to start at a major university early in their careers. They are Shane Brooks (at running back) and Scoot (playing at safety and special teams)

-Jason

[brad512]

Too bad. The 2 picks I missed this past week were the games I was doing more hoping than predicting. Figure I would have a better clue about 2 teams in my home state (Vandy and UT).

[Agent Kev]

brad512 said:

Too bad. The 2 picks I missed this past week were the games I was doing more hoping than predicting. Figure I would have a better clue about 2 teams in my home state (Vandy and UT).

Or a clue about how much the Pac-10 sucks (except USC).