2013 Week 1 CFB Open Thread

[SEREbuckeye]

I'd say there were more SEC teams playing respectable opponents this week than any other conference had.

Alabama - VT
LSU - TCU
Georgia - Clemson
Mississippi State - Oklahoma State

I won't include SC/UNC or Auburn/Wazzu in that group, but some might argue that even those games showed a little more scheduling ambition in the first week than most other teams had just based on brand names.

I'm also not arguing that the SEC plays tough non-conference schedules as a whole. They do a good job of getting people to overlook their cupcakes because they usually hide them in the early weeks of October when the newness of the season has worn off but the spotlight of the title race hasn't heated up yet. There were certainly plenty of SEC teams that played tomato cans this week, but you won't find another conference that lined up four games like that for the opening week.

I was looking at the games of:

Rice - A&M (Allowed Rice to put up 31 points)
UNC - SC (Clowney was a no show)
Toledo - Florida (held to only 24 points)
Alabama - Va Tech (Only 2 offensive TDs for Bama)
Wash St - Auburn (7 point margin of victory)

These top-tier SEC teams allowed their opponents to hang in way too long. Much longer than they should have. Again, Im not saying the B1G didn't, but were not the highly touted all-world conference like the SEC.

 

[AuTX Buckeye]

Cue up a TCU nearly giving up a kick return

 

[SEREbuckeye]

Wildcats take the opening drive of the second half and get 3.

20-10 NW

 

[SEREbuckeye]

A strong 10 point lead turns into a 4 point deficit within 4 short minutes.

Cal on top 24-20.

 

[Dee-Liem]

DB's better be alert on deep post routes against Cal.

 

[Nutriaitch]

LSU might have a competent offense this year.

 

[jlb1705]

Run big fella!

 

[Dee-Liem]

Evanston/Big Ten speed.

 

[jlb1705]

The thing I'm taking away so far... both of these teams are capable of making you pay for mistakes. They've been doing it to each other all night, and either one can do it to Ohio State if they don't tighten things up in the next couple weeks.

This second half from Cal looks a lot like their second half in Columbus last year.

 

[jlb1705]

Huge sack by Northwestern to end the 3rd quarter.

 

[Dee-Liem]

Saw Bobby Petrino's team (WKU) beat Kentucky Saturday. He'll be at Western Kentucky for two seasons, unless he takes another motorcycle ride.

An ACC or SEC school will hire Petrino.

 

[jlb1705]

27-27. Setting up for a good finish.

 

[scarletngray]

Cal is a lot better this year than what I anticipated. We are going to have our hands full with these guys.

 

[OhioState001]

That kid shouldn't be ejected....

 

[SEREbuckeye]

WOW! Cal player just got a 15-yard penalty for roughing the passer and ejected from the game.

Looked very good IMO. He didn't launch, just was standing up when he tackled the QB. The kid didn't seem to launch or target any certain part of the QB's body. He wrapped up and took him down.

Horrible call.