(08-30-2014 09:42 PM)ClairtonPanther Wrote: And people thought I was crazy when I predicted 0 SEC schools to reach the four team playoff.
Then again, we can't judge a league after one week of action.
You shouldn't judge them by halftime either. Auburn's Defense which was non existent last year, shut Arkansas out in the second half. Georgia's defense also stepped it up in the second half. In the first game of a season guys that is called making adjustments since every school changes approaches in the off season.
Alabama looked lethargic throughout and on both sides of the ball. L.S.U. so for is horrid. There's your legitimate beef.
As far as the rest goes Missouri and Kentucky beat lesser opponents. Ole Miss woke up in the second half. A&M was much better than anyone thought they could be after their personnel losses from last year and South Carolina missed Conner Shaw and Clowney much more than they knew.
Florida and Tennessee we don't know about yet. Mississippi State did just fine against an in state rival and Vanderbilt wreaked as we all know.
But let's talk about some of the other P5 conferences shall we.
The ACC has two standard bearers. The Noles didn't look like a national champion against a game Cowboys squad and Clemson laid an egg as far as title hopes go. Who besides Clemson and F.S.U. had the guts to take on a decent school in week #1? Virginia and they lost a close one to U.C.L.A. It sure wasn't U.N.C. vs Liberty! N.C. State vs Georgia Southern? That whopping big victory for Syracuse? Wake losing to U.L.M.? If there was a big loser in prestige in week #1 it was the ACC. But to even say that is a gross overstatement. I'm sure F.S.U. will improve just like Ohio State and Alabama.
The Big 12 rolled at the top and stumbled at the bottom and played competitively in the middle.
The Big 10 had Whisky and Sparty looking strong and Ohio State really playing poorly. Everyone else played well below their strength except for Rutgers which did well with a school of relatively equal standing from the PAC.
I haven't seen enough of the PAC to make a call. U.C.L.A.'s win could be great, or weak. We won't know until we know what Virginia has. Washington was struggling with Hawaii. The Arizonas beat up on less viable squads and U.S.C. devastated Fresno so it's hard to say.
What I have seen so far this season is typical first game stuff. We really won't know who is good or not for a few weeks. No conference looked dominant and each conference had some good wins and in each conference we have some new faces making early noise. But if the standard bearers of the SEC are Alabama and Auburn well both won. If was South Carolina and Georgia in the East then the Gamecocks lost only to a conference school and Georgia looked good. If for the Big 10 it was the usual suspects then Ohio State, Penn State, Michigan, Michigan State, and Nebraska all won and at the time of this writing Wisconsin holds a 13 point lead on L.S.U.. So the Big 10 is fine. The Big 12 had Oklahoma and Texas winning big and Oklahoma State giving #1 all they wanted. So no surprises there either. Oregon, U.S.C. and U.C.L.A. all won and I bet Washington pulls it out. So the PAC is intact.
Only the ACC lost one of its standard bearers in an OOC game while also having their top school look very beatable in week one (however last year it was the SEC in this position due to Clemson's win and yet the SEC still put a school in the finals), but then it is week one. So cut the crap and the trolling and wait until we are in about week #5 to make your declarations of doom and gloom and thump your chests with "I told you so's". This was a very typical first week for both the P5 and G5.
Well L.S.U. 28 Wisconsin 24. That's L.S.U. for you. They are the most unpredictable and bizarre football team in the SEC. Wisconsin still looked good. I just hope for the Badger's that their injuries aren't too serious.
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Top of SEC looks weak!
