9/2/13

NCAA week 1 CFB results

I figured I would (officially) start this blog of mine with the typical "welcome"/"my life" post, but instead of doing that, I'll let those of you who've already met me either in person or online find out some more about myself over the upcoming days, weeks, months, & (hopefully) years, & I might as well allow a few new people on board here to allow me to turn this into my "personal part of the Internet"!  For this 1st post, as you can tell by the title, I've decided to start something that I hope to turn into a (hopefully) weekly feature from now until the weekend after Thanksgiving, & that would be college football results..... Now that I've established that, I might as well establish something else: This will be top 25 results & opinions only, at least throughout the regular season..... srry, FCS school supporters! On that note, without further ado, here are the top 25 teams' results from the 4 days spanning 8/29-9/2!

(1) ALA 35, VT 10 (http://sports.yahoo.com/news/christion-jones-leads-no-1-005415489--ncaaf.html)

(2) OSU 40, BUF 20 (http://sports.yahoo.com/news/buckeyes-roll-early-hang-beat-192525442--ncaaf.html)

(3) ORE 66, NICH 3 (http://sports.yahoo.com/news/no-3-oregon-handles-nicholls-235606626--ncaaf.html)

(4) STAN - off

(8) CLEM 38, (5) UGA 35 (http://sports.yahoo.com/news/boyds-5-tds-lead-no-040059462--ncaaf.html)

(6) SC 27, UNC 10 (http://sports.yahoo.com/news/clowney-6th-ranked-gamecocks-win-030436655--ncaaf.html)

(7) A&M 52, RICE 31 (http://sports.yahoo.com/news/manziel-throws-3-tds-lead-204520742--ncaaf.html)

(9) L'VILLE 49, OHIO 7 (http://sports.yahoo.com/news/no-9-louisville-dominates-ohio-225738827--ncaaf.html)

(10) UF 24, TOL 6 (http://sports.yahoo.com/news/no-10-florida-beats-toledo-193910737--ncaaf.html)

(11) FSU 41, PITT 13 (http://sports.yahoo.com/ncaaf/florida-state-seminoles-pittsburgh-panthers-201309020012/)

(12) LSU 37, (20) TCU 27 (http://sports.yahoo.com/news/no-12-lsu-opens-37-045153274--ncaaf.html)

(13) OK.ST 21, MSU 3 (http://sports.yahoo.com/news/walsh-helps-no-13-oklahoma-230722588--ncaaf.html)

(14) ND 28, TEM 6 (http://sports.yahoo.com/news/rees-leads-no-14-irish-230204817--ncaaf.html)

(15) UT 56, NMSU 7 (http://sports.yahoo.com/news/big-plays-spark-texas-over-033243376--ncaaf.html)

(16) OU 34, ULM 0 (http://sports.yahoo.com/news/knight-runs-no-16-oklahoma-023754672--ncaaf.html)

(17) MICH 59, CMU 9 (http://sports.yahoo.com/news/no-17-michigan-routs-c-231018223--ncaaf.html)

(18) NEB 37, WYO 34 (http://sports.yahoo.com/news/no-18-nebraska-holds-off-034012643--ncaaf.html)

UW 38, (19) BSU 6 (http://sports.yahoo.com/news/washington-routs-no-19-boise-051633395--ncaaf.html)

(21) UCLA 58, NEV 20 (http://sports.yahoo.com/news/brett-hundley-leads-no-21-053544377--ncaaf.html)

(22) NW 44, CAL 30 (http://sports.yahoo.com/news/no-22-northwestern-beats-cal-063306239--ncaaf.html)

(23) WISC 45, UMASS 0 (http://sports.yahoo.com/news/no-23-wisconsin-stifles-umass-190824154--ncaaf.html)

(24) USC 30, HAW 13 (http://sports.yahoo.com/news/no-24-usc-opens-30-065822563--ncaaf.html)

(FCS) (3) EWU 49, (25) OR.ST 46 (http://sports.yahoo.com/news/e-washington-upsets-no-25-022053515--ncaaf.html)

Now that I've gotten the results out of the way, I might as well tell all of you people upfront: I do not, have never, & will most likely never, support any college sports school over any other, especially since I'm stuck over here in NJ, which is full of division 3 & minor conference FBS schools (outside of Rutgers)! Since I am, however, looking to keep this going from now through November, I might as well provide some opinions of my own, so here goes:

CHAMPIONSHIP HANGOVER? Alabama routed Notre Dame by 28 last January, but they couldn't quite replicate that success in their season-opening game, defeating Va. Tech by 25 instead of 28+..... I'm not saying that Alabama won't turn this win into another championship run to (mercifully) close out the BCS era, but.....

BACK ON TOP, & THEN SOME? ..... Notre Dame scored twice in the 1st 4 minutes against a Temple team making its 1st-ever trip to ND's hallowed grounds, but after that (& I guess I can say this, considering I stayed on NBC all afternoon on Saturday instead of "channel surfing" to some of the other games ongoing at that time!), both teams seemed to stall almost entirely, especially N.D., which decided to complete its whacking of Temple midway through the 3rd quarter, then just stall from there! On a side note..... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V8jReR9qfu0&sns=fb http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FzzC2k_jZEw are that university's 2 most recent commercials, & while I believe they each provide their own unique messages, I believe they're both unique in their own ways; I recognize that some of you might consider this "homer-ism" on my part, but I just find those 2 commercials to both be brilliant! On a totally unrelated note:

FCS UPRISING: 8 FCS schools won games against FBS opponents over the long weekend, breaking the previous record of 6 in both 1985 & the following year; while that might not impact the affected FBS teams in future seasons, it will affect their 2013 seasons, considering aforementioned Notre Dame went undefeated last regular season, thus disproving (at least temporarily) that "1 loss is the new undefeated"..... If ND could pull off what they did last season again this season (& I'm not saying they will!), then I believe that'll disprove that notion even more than it did last November!

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