College Football reaction and preview

We are coming up on the third weekend with college football and what a glorious start it has been to the season. I truly forget every year how much I miss football, thinking that hockey and baseball will be able to tie my over, but oh how much more fun Saturdays and Sundays become when there is pigskin being tossed around on the television.
I gave my previews in the last post and am here to hit on some quick hits for my loyal readers.

Alabama takes on Texas A&M this weekend in College Station, the first meeting since the Aggies marched into Tuscaloosa and beat the Crimson Tide for their only loss last year. Johnny Manziel has the traveling circus with him, while Alabama brings a business-like approach, as Nick Saban wants it, to this “rematch.” I’ve heard Kyle Field is something special and plan to visit one day, but on September 14th, I’ll be parked in a chair in front of a TV screaming my lungs out and my face off…. Roll Tide.

I’ll move from some current dominant college football teams to some that seem to be falling, fast.

Texas suffered its first loss of the season, falling to BYU on the road, 40-21. But it’s not necessarily that they lost to BYU that’s disturbing, it’s the fact that the Longhorns, who was the last team not from the SEC to win a BCS Championship, gave up 550 rushing yards, the most Texas has given up all time. Bevo’s bunch has seen some special players in its history, Billy Sims, Marcus Dupree and Adrian Peterson, but Taysom Hill is the man that gashed the horns for the Cougars.

Southern California, also known as USC, lost to Washington State for the first time since 2002. This could be something interesting except this is the same Cougars team that lost nine games last season and their opener against Auburn in the first week. But the biggest bother with this is the fact that the Trojans scored only seven points in the 10-7 loss. USC gained only 193 yards of offense, 54 yards through the air. Seven Heisman trophy awards have been awarded to USC players, two of which were quarterbacks.

These two programs faced off in the 2005 National Championship and besides Texas’ trip to the 2009 BCS Championship, they’ve been irrelevant. I think it’s time for Mack Brown to assume a position in the Athletic Department and for Lane Kiffin to pack his things from his “dream job.” Florida is in the hot seat and about to join these programs.
If you’re looking for something to watch before Saturday, Texas Tech and TCU play on ESPN Thursday night, which is primed to be a close game with back and forth scoring. I like TCU to edge the Red Raiders, as long as its defense can slow down the Kliff Kingsbury offense. It’ll be a good game, too bad I’m covering a high school football game in south Dallas.

Expect something soon on the NFL and focusing around fantasy football, which my teams each won in Week 1. Also in the works is a podcast which will post here on the site.

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Wing Man out!