Week 1. What I Learned.

[BigdaddyQH]

It is tough trying to figure out the Power 5 conferences and where they stand after just one week, but a few things are obvious. The rundown by conference:

ACC: The ACC still can't defeat the SEC. They went 0-2 against the SEC and 0-2 against ranked teams. Florida State and Georgia Tech look like the best teams so far, but that can change quickly.

Big 10: This conference now becomes the Big 2. The West was just terrible. Wisconsin looked terrible. Nebraska loses to a 2nd string QB on the last play of the game. Minnesota played well, but could not defeat a not so strong TCU squad. Michigan loses again to a Pac 12 team. Penn State looked terrible against Temple. Well, the Illinois teams did well. So it is Ohio State and Michigan State for the championship.

Big 12: The two conference favorites both won, but failed to cover and looked terrible in doing so. TCU does not have the offense people thought they had, and Baylor has no defense at all. Oklahoma may be the best team in this mediocre conference. Texas is still the biggest joke in any conference. The Big 12 had better hope that a team like Florida State or Notre Dame does not catch fire, or they will probably be shut out of the playoffs again.

Pac 12: A major disappointment. Oregon has no defense and will give up tons of points. Terrible coaching. The rest of the North saw offenseless Stanford losing to Northwestern, Washington losing to Boise State, and Washington State lose to Portland State, whoever they are. The South saw USC and UCLA do their thing and Arizona take a tough win and possibly lose a key player. It looks like the South, and possibly the CC will be decided in Los Angeles.

SEC: This conference looks to be the best by far. All of the good teams won and all except Auburn won rather easily. 'Bama, Texas A&M, Ole Miss and Arkansas looked very good in the West, and the entire East minus Vandy (the only loser so far) looked good. It should be a great season in the SEC.

 

[CoachCB]

BD, Clemson will probably be among the top 2 or 3 ACC teams also.

Really, really surprised by Washington State. UCLA will improve.....

Michigan lost to a pretty good P12 team. I just want some of those B10 teams to give Ohio State a game. It's like the 1990's ACC was for FSU. It's a joke, outside of Michigan State and Wisconsin.

Vandy is terrible....but their coach is worse. Why the F did they hire that guy?

 

[8ate]

BD, Clemson will probably be among the top 2 or 3 ACC teams also.

Really, really surprised by Washington State. UCLA will improve.....

Michigan lost to a pretty good P12 team. I just want some of those B10 teams to give Ohio State a game. It's like the 1990's ACC was for FSU. It's a joke, outside of Michigan State and Wisconsin.

Vandy is terrible....but their coach is worse. Why the F did they hire that guy?

..politically correct..

 

[MileenaWins]

I learned that, just like last year, Old Dominion can still score 902 points - and allow 901 points. And while it ended up being a shellacking, SMU may have signs of life.

 

[jwhite]

What I learned in week one...YOU'RE an idiot...."acc can't beat sec"?!? You must get your info from espn and not watch any games. Louisville, in a rebuilding year with a freshman qb, was within one score of "powerhouse playoff contender sec west powerhouse" auburn. The cardinals basically ran out of time or else looked like they could have tied them up. And they're picked to finish 3rd or 4th in their division. As far as unc, they thoroughly outplayed usc. If fedora hadn't taken hood out of the game or tried to force williams to be a pocket passer, the tarheels, also a 3rd-5th place division finisher, would have beaten sec east contender by 3 tds. The acc "can't" beat the sec???? Do you know anything about football or you just watch sportscenter? My 12 year old understands football better than you. Your big 12 analysis is embarassing as well. Again, you get your info from looking at final score. Baylor and tcu will be fine. My advice, find another sport to analyze. Your insight is worthless.

 

[jwhite]

Tcu played a very well coached "real" team on the road in their opener. They weren't "terrible."

 

[8728382]

What I learned in week one...YOU'RE an idiot...."acc can't beat sec"?!? You must get your info from espn and not watch any games. Louisville, in a rebuilding year with a freshman qb, was within one score of "powerhouse playoff contender sec west powerhouse" auburn. The cardinals basically ran out of time or else looked like they could have tied them up. And they're picked to finish 3rd or 4th in their division. As far as unc, they thoroughly outplayed usc. If fedora hadn't taken hood out of the game or tried to force williams to be a pocket passer, the tarheels, also a 3rd-5th place division finisher, would have beaten sec east contender by 3 tds. The acc "can't" beat the sec???? Do you know anything about football or you just watch sportscenter? My 12 year old understands football better than you. Your big 12 analysis is embarassing as well. Again, you get your info from looking at final score. Baylor and tcu will be fine. My advice, find another sport to analyze. Your insight is worthless.

Wow seek anger management, he said other than Louisville and he is pretty right, Baylor is not fine at all this year. As far as "should have" on NC....if my aunt had balls then.....she'd be my uncle.

 

[BigdaddyQH]

BYU hosts Boise State this week. No line yet. A Boise State win could set them up for a run at an undefeated season. If that happens, what would the committee do if one or more of the power 5 conference champions have TWO losses?

 

[hogjawl]

On the Vandy hire..... The school's first post hire released statement emphasized "No other SEC program had ever hired back to back minority coaches." ...... That says it all.... first thought..... not football prowess..... not coaching ability..... but rather a conference first back to back minority hire.....

As stated earlier.... politically correct fools.

 

[bigwang]

gotta love the morons who think they have it all figured out after 1 week.

 

[Albatross]

What I learned in week one...YOU'RE an idiot...."acc can't beat sec"?!? You must get your info from espn and not watch any games. Louisville, in a rebuilding year with a freshman qb, was within one score of "powerhouse playoff contender sec west powerhouse" auburn. The cardinals basically ran out of time or else looked like they could have tied them up. And they're picked to finish 3rd or 4th in their division. As far as unc, they thoroughly outplayed usc. If fedora hadn't taken hood out of the game or tried to force williams to be a pocket passer, the tarheels, also a 3rd-5th place division finisher, would have beaten sec east contender by 3 tds. The acc "can't" beat the sec???? Do you know anything about football or you just watch sportscenter? My 12 year old understands football better than you. Your big 12 analysis is embarassing as well. Again, you get your info from looking at final score. Baylor and tcu will be fine. My advice, find another sport to analyze. Your insight is worthless.

Auburn put it on cruise control a little too early. You contradict yourself comparing the too games as well.

 

[sendacash]

BYU hosts Boise State this week. No line yet. A Boise State win could set them up for a run at an undefeated season. If that happens, what would the committee do if one or more of the power 5 conference champions have TWO losses?

I was less than impressed with Boise's performance on Friday, granted it was my lone loser on the week but still not seeing a lot of play makers on offense and Brian Harsin's game management and lack of adjustments at half leave a lot to be desired. Will be curious to see what the line on this game, BOL does not have it on the board right now. Maybe we get an over-reaction to BYU losing their QB that we can take advantage of?

 

[CoachCB]

On the Vandy hire..... The school's first post hire released statement emphasized "No other SEC program had ever hired back to back minority coaches." ...... That says it all.... first thought..... not football prowess..... not coaching ability..... but rather a conference first back to back minority hire.....

As stated earlier.... politically correct fools.

Agree completely. That is the ONLY reason he was hired. One of the reasons I love this site is that you can say something like this and not worry about getting attacked for being "racist" or politically incorrect. It was a stupid hire and set them back years.

 

[CoachCB]

Auburn gave up some serious yards to Louisville. 238 rushing yards? Petrino is known for his passing offense! Remember, Muschamp's D at UF gave up the most yards in school history (vs. Bama last year) and 400+ rushing yards in a loss to 1AA Georgia Southern....and Ga Southern didn't throw the ball once!

 

[jwhite]

How do I contradict myself? And my only point is not that the sec is bad or anything...only that to say the acc can't beat the sec based on those two games was made by someone who either didn't watch the games or just buys into espn/sec propoganda. Is the sec a better conference than the acc? Of course. Is it way way better or can the acc not beat the sec...no way. North carolina was the better team last thursday and louisville, a second tier acc team, hung in with auburn, a supposed sec favorite. If you watched the games, those are inarguable. The sec is a deeper conference but this bs that they are unbeatable is a joke. The first year there was a playoff, the supposed best division ever with 4 of the top 5 poll teams throughout the season got their ass handed to them. I am just tired of people parroting shit that isn't true. Watch the games. The sec doesn't have and hasn't had great qbs in forever. I heard all summer how great johnson was for auburn...seriously!!? Then uvas qb steps into starting role at uga. All I hear about is how great sec defeneses are and all teams do from out of conference is run for 200-400 yds on them like its nothing. Sec is good yes, but unbeatable, please.

 

[CoachCB]

How do I contradict myself? And my only point is not that the sec is bad or anything...only that to say the acc can't beat the sec based on those two games was made by someone who either didn't watch the games or just buys into espn/sec propoganda. Is the sec a better conference than the acc? Of course. Is it way way better or can the acc not beat the sec...no way. North carolina was the better team last thursday and louisville, a second tier acc team, hung in with auburn, a supposed sec favorite. If you watched the games, those are inarguable. The sec is a deeper conference but this bs that they are unbeatable is a joke. The first year there was a playoff, the supposed best division ever with 4 of the top 5 poll teams throughout the season got their ass handed to them. I am just tired of people parroting shit that isn't true. Watch the games. The sec doesn't have and hasn't had great qbs in forever. I heard all summer how great johnson was for auburn...seriously!!? Then uvas qb steps into starting role at uga. All I hear about is how great sec defeneses are and all teams do from out of conference is run for 200-400 yds on them like its nothing. Sec is good yes, but unbeatable, please.

Folks, it looks like we have another butt-hurt anti-SEC fan posting here.......

 

[jwhite]

Nope sorry. What do I have to be "butt hurt" about? Just because clowns like you just automatically say the sec is unbeatable because you hear it on espn doesn't affect me. Like I said, the sec is of course better than the other conferences. But unbeatable? Simply not true. But of course you don't give any reason. When the sec was not handed a spot (or two) in the bogus bcs beauty contest championship, they didn't win. If we had the bcs last year, we would have had crowned bama again. Just because people like you "say" they are the best. Sorry for having an opinion after watching games that differs from simply saying the sec is unbeatable. Heard it all last year as miss st, ole miss, auburn, and bama danced around the top 5 in "the best division ever." Then what happened in the playoff? They got smoked. Maybe you're flag waving SEC SEC SEC ass is "butt hurt."

 

[CoachCB]

Nope sorry. What do I have to be "butt hurt" about? Just because clowns like you just automatically say the sec is unbeatable because you hear it on espn doesn't affect me. Like I said, the sec is of course better than the other conferences. But unbeatable? Simply not true. But of course you don't give any reason. When the sec was not handed a spot (or two) in the bogus bcs beauty contest championship, they didn't win. If we had the bcs last year, we would have had crowned bama again. Just because people like you "say" they are the best. Sorry for having an opinion after watching games that differs from simply saying the sec is unbeatable. Heard it all last year as miss st, ole miss, auburn, and bama danced around the top 5 in "the best division ever." Then what happened in the playoff? They got smoked. Maybe you're flag waving SEC SEC SEC ass is "butt hurt."

Thanks for proving my point......

Hilarious!

 

[BigdaddyQH]

Folks, it looks like we have another butt-hurt anti-SEC fan posting here.......

That ACC homer probably thinks that Syracuse can beat LSU. When Syracuse loses, he will come up with some other stupid excuse. Since when is South Carolina a SEC East contender like he said? The bottom line is that the SEC is simply much better than the ACC and this loser does not want to admit that.

 

[jwhite]

Man you are smart. You make a lot of good points. Where did you graduate from college? An sec school? If you didn't know, they are the best schools in the country.