We have waited all through the offseason and get some answers. Although there are many new questions that come out of this first weekend of NCAA(First Saturday College Football), there are many things that we can now say with some certainty about some of the teams and/or conferences.
To that end, Im going to run down what I came away with from watching the early games on Thursday and Saturday slate of games.
The ACC is horrible. This conference has not won a BCS bowl game since 1999. This year looks to continue that trend. We have been told that Clemson and Virginia Tech were both solid. They both lost. And NC State was shut out to a South Carolina team that looked very average most of the game.
Clemson was overhyped again. Tommy Bowden is like that Senior VP at the Fortune 500 corporation that only has that job because his uncle is the CEO. He is living off of his last name. To think that he did a head fake by interviewing with Arkansas to get a raise when he is already making more money than he deserves is sickening.
There may be talent on that team but it just is not utilized. Their tailback Davis was eligible for the draft last year. He should have gone. As it is, he will toil on a mediocre team while sharing carries and being vulnerable to injury.
Virginia Tech found out that Karma is a b!tch. They have won games on cheap punt blocks and today they lose one. That is both ironic and classic.
Georgia Tech won big over an overmanned school, so its hard to tell if the triple option will work in the BCS leagues, but the start looks promising.
The SEC was 11-1 but not all is well. LSU wallops last years media darling, Florida toyed with Hawaii, and Alabama made the Clemson game look easy.
Florida looks as if they have improved their defense. Their offense appears to be fine with or without Harvin.
Georgia was very workman-like, which is common for them.
LSU has two QBs which means they have no QB, but they didnt need one. Their D is stout.
Bamas recruiting class (especially Ingram and Jones) are as advertised. If they arent competing for the SEC West this year, they definitely will next year.
Ole Miss gave Nutt the very comfortable opening game margin that they havent had in the past few years. Snead was shaky at times but the potential is there.
Arkansas had no business having to come back from 10 down at home to beat a Division I-AA (FCS—I hate that moniker) school. But for the first time in his career, Casey Dick won a game all by himself rather than being bailed out by the second most prolific running back tandem ever of McFadden and Jones, so there is a positive takeaway there.
Miss. State was the SECs lone loser. I have been saying that last year was a fluke for them. They won three games they should not have and their real conference record should have been 1-7 versus 4-4. This year, they go back to being a paycheck game for the big boys in the conference (which is fine as the SEC needs some).
The Big 12 was a mixed bag. Some SEC and ACC teams played other BCS conference schools on opening weekend, but the only team in the Big 12 to do that was Missouri—and they won. The jury is still out on the Big 12.
![\"Click](\"/images/sidebar2-live-chat02.jpg\")