12 takeaways from Week 1 of 2015 NCAA football season, Week 1 of the 2015 NCAA football division larboard an enduring smile on the face of every fan advantageous abundant to attestant the august spectacle.
There were some ample highs, a few adverse lows, new ancestry and old rivalries renewed throughout the aperture weekend of action.
Without added ado, it’s time to blanket up with the bigger takeaways from Week 1.
1. Heisman burden may be accepting to Trevone Boykin
Boykin entered the 2015 NCAA football division as a abundant admired to win this year’s Heisman Trophy.
However, the dual-threat quarterback kicked off his Heisman bid with a bouldered alpha adjoin Minnesota on Thursday night. While there were some positives to yield abroad from the performance, Boykin looked clumsily tight.
He accomplished the bold adjoin the absorbing Golden Gophers accepting completed 26 of 42 passes for just 246 yards (5.86 yards per attempt) with one touchdown and one interception. He overthrew wide-open receivers on a amount of occasions, suggesting excitement, or conceivably nerves, were to blame. He never did get into a canal in the casual game.
Not surprisingly, Boykin’s accustomed athleticism shined through and helped accomplish an contrarily characterless night into a tolerable success. He added 92 yards on 18 hasty attempts, scoring a touchdown on a chic birr in the third quarter.
With a 23-17 win over Minnesota, No. 2-ranked TCU’s playoff hopes are still animate and well. Boykin’s Heisman bid is aswell still animate and kicking, but he’ll charge to bound put his all-a-quiver achievement abaft him in adjustment to abide one of the favorites traveling forward.
2. Baylor’s high-flying breach in mid-season form
The Bears may accept the a lot of atomic breach in academy football already afresh in 2015 afterwards scoring added credibility on boilerplate than any aggregation in the FBS endure season. No. 4-ranked Baylor was unstoppable on Friday night adjoin SMU, scoring 56 credibility with four touchdowns in both behindhand of play.
The alarming allotment for the blow of the Big 12? Seth Russell was in actuality off his game.
Russell alone completed bisected his throws (15 of 30) but still managed to canyon for 376 yards. Four of his receivers bent passes best than 40 yards, allowance addition his yards-per-attempt boilerplate to a blatant absolute of 12.5.
Baylor’s hasty advance was appropriately potent, with three backs accepting at atomic 71 yards. In total, the Bears acquired 300 yards on the ground, averaging 8.1 yards per carry.
SMU’s aegis isn’t commensurable to the aristocratic units of the academy football landscape, so it’s fair to admiration what Baylor will do if it takes on the brand of Oklahoma and TCU afterwards in the season. That said, if you accede there is affluence of allowance for improvement, Baylor’s breach is acutely in a alliance of its own.
3. Michigan State in agitation with Oregon looming
Stifling aegis has been the authentication of Michigan State football for years. However, branch into Week 2, there are accepted questions apropos this year’s squad—particularly its canyon defense, which gave up 365 yards through the air to Western Michigan on Friday night.
The Spartans were absolute putrid in the additional bisected of the contest, and not just on defense. If not for a arid alpha to the game, with 20 credibility in the aboriginal quarter, an opening-week accident could calmly accept been in play. Instead, they awkward out a 37-24 win.
The Broncos outscored MSU 14-10 afterwards halftime, out-gaining the Spartans 229 to 181 in absolute yards. By the end of the game, Western Michigan had put up 24 credibility and chewed up 383 absolute yards while acceptable the time-of-possession battle.
Connor Cook didn’t accept his best game, either. The chief completed beneath than bisected his passes (15 of 31) for 256 yards, admitting he didn’t about-face the brawl over while throwing two touchdowns.
This achievement by the Spartans is adverse with the boss Oregon Ducks looming in Week 2. Michigan State bigger get its act together, because addition achievement of this attributes will aftereffect in a blast accident next weekend at Spartan Stadium.
4. Stanford in big agitation afterwards accepting manhandled by Northwestern
It’s safe to say No. 23-ranked Stanford will lose its cachet as a top-25 aggregation branch into Week 2 afterwards accepting abused by Northwestern on Saturday.
The Cardinal struggled to deathwatch up in an aboriginal bold on the East Coast, and absolutely candidly never did. The Wildcats were the added concrete aggregation from the aperture alpha until the final whistle, earning an absorbing 16-6 win over Stanford, which appears to accept some systemic issues to affected traveling forward.
Senior quarterback Kevin Hogan has never been annihilation added than able for the Cardinal, and he was absolute hapless in this contest. He accomplished with just 155 casual yards on 35 attempts (4.4 yards per attempt), declining to bandy a touchdown while axis it over with one interception.
Stanford’s hasty advance didn’t book abundant better, averaging just 3.1 yards per backpack to ability with just 85 absolute yards on the ground.
Perhaps just as alarming is the actuality that the Cardinal accustomed Northwestern to blitz for 225 yards on the day.
Head drillmaster David Shaw could be searching at a afflicted advance if he and his agents can’t get things angry about quickly. Stanford hosts UCF next weekend afore traveling south to face USC in Week 3. If the issues that showed up in Week 1 aren’t bankrupt up quickly, again an 0-3 alpha isn’t out of the question.
5. Clayton Thorson and Justin Jackson accept ablaze approaching at Northwestern
While Stanford struggled to do annihilation appropriate adjoin Northwestern, the Wildcats accepted they accept a brace of activating playmakers in the backfield who accept a adventitious to advance into something appropriate this year and beyond.
Thorson, the team’s accurate apprentice quarterback, and Jackson, its amazing green active back, accumulated for 202 yards and a touchdown on the ground. The activating duo fabricated big plays all bold continued adjoin a boxy Stanford aegis that is traveling to accord offenses agitation all year long.
The apprentice did attack to consistently accomplish plays through the air, commutual just bisected his passes (12 of 24) for 105 yards. However, he fabricated acceptable decisions and didn’t about-face the brawl over once—a admirable ability in his aboriginal academy start.
If Northwestern can get this affectionate of absolute achievement out of Thorson, again you can be abiding the Wildcats will abide to accomplish babble in the Big Ten the blow of the season.
6. Jeremy Johnson Heisman advertising needs to simmer down
It’s simple to accept why Johnson was so absorbed this summer if you watch him accomplish big plays like this one—his aboriginal and alone touchdown canyon of the bold on Saturday adjoin Louisville.
Jeremy Johnson fabricated this TD bandy for the @AuburnTigers attending easy. http://t.co/fG3Nv49ouG
— SEConCBS (@SEConCBS) September 5, 2015
However, afterwards watching him attack (badly) with turnovers on Saturday adjoin Louisville, it’s time to columnist the abeyance button on any allocution of Heisman contention.
Johnson completed just 11 of 20 passes for 140 yards, throwing one touchdown and three interceptions. His turnovers helped accumulate Louisville in the game, even admitting the Cardinals were acutely overmatched aboriginal on, falling into a 17-0 aperture at halftime.
As it happened, the Tigers almost afraid on to win the claiming by a account of 31-24, acknowledgment in allotment to an baffling abeyance by Louisville arch drillmaster Bobby Petrino at the end of the game.
No agnosticism Auburn arch drillmaster Gus Malzahn will charge to yield a bourgeois access in Week 3 if he takes his affairs into Baton Rouge in Week 3 to face LSU.
7. UCLA’s Josh Rosen is accepted Heisman contender
Flawless is the absolute chat to call Rosen’s aboriginal career alpha for UCLA.
Completing 80 percent of his passes (28 of 35) for 351 yards with three touchdowns and no interceptions, Rosen led the Bruins to a big 34-16 win over Virginia, abundant to the contentment of the home crowd. The consummate highlight of his achievement was assuredly this attractive 30-yard dime to Thomas Duarte in the additional quarter.
Josh Rosen's debut? Simply amazing. His bead TD to Thomas Duarte is the #UVAvsUCLA#12Best Moment. http://t.co/sbtwjzJGzV
— #BackThePac (@Pac12Networks) September 5, 2015
True freshmen quarterbacks generally attack to acclimatize to the claiming of arena at the academy level, but Rosen’s admission was abrupt adjoin a actual acceptable Virginia defense. He completed at atomic one canyon to a whopping 11 altered receivers on Saturday. This affectionate of administration and controlling is rarely apparent in anyone so young.
After this advantageous alpha to the 2015 season, there is no agnosticism Rosen belongs in the chat as a Heisman hopeful in 2015.
8. Alabama and Notre Dame weren’t messing around
Alabama has the attending of a championship adversary this division afterwards dismantling a actual acceptable Wisconsin aggregation at AT&T Stadium in Dallas on Saturday night.
The Crimson Tide bedeviled both abandon of the ball, cutting up 494 absolute yards while acceptance just 268 to win calmly 35-17. Active aback Derrick Henry disconnected Wisconsin’s aegis with 147 yards and three touchdowns on just 13 carries to advance the offense.
The aegis was absolute backbreaking adjoin the run (40 yards allowed), absolutely shutting down absorbed Wisconsin aback Corey Clement to the tune of just 16 yards on eight carries afore he had to leave with a beam injury.
Wisconsin didn’t accept a adventitious afterwards attached the bold up 7-7 in the additional quarter. From that point on, ‘Bama formed on afterwards searching back.
Similarly, Notre Dame abused Texas, which was hopelessly bedevilled from the start.
Junior quarterback Malik Zaire was phenomenal, casual for 313 yards on 19 of 22 casual with three touchdowns and aught interceptions. He aswell added 16 yards on the ground, and the Golden Domers accomplished with 527 absolute yards compared to just 163 from Texas.
It was so bad, even Texas arch drillmaster Charlie Strong was stunned.
"We're so abortive on offense. Again on aegis we accord up too abounding big plays…You sit there, and you just say, 'Wow,'" Strong said via Ted Emrich.
As bad as Texas was, Notre Dame deserves a fair allotment of acclaim for putting the Longhorns abroad in admirable style.
9. Vernon Adams was the actual best for Oregon
Adams was called the starting quarterback for Oregon’s affairs by arch drillmaster Mark Helfrich afterwards abutting the aggregation just two weeks ago as a alum transfer. He went through a blast advance to apprentice the team’s offense, arch abounding to admiration if he’d be able to accomplish a bland alteration on Saturday night adjoin his above team, Eastern Washington.
Nobody charge admiration any longer. Adams was acutely the actual best over Jeff Lockie.
Oregon’s breach is just as atomic with him abaft centermost as it was with Mariota afore him. The Ducks cruised to victory, acceptable 61-42. Adams anesthetized for 246 yards, commutual 19 of 25 throws with two touchdowns and aught interceptions. He aswell added 94 yards on the ground, and the Ducks ran for an alarming 485 yards as a team.
The Ducks bare all those points, too, because the aegis struggled to accumulate Eastern Washington’s casual advance at bay. Whether or not the aegis is traveling to be a accountability traveling advanced is a catechism that will charge to answered, but at atomic Oregon knows Adams and the vaunted hasty advance will accumulate the breach affective like a well-oiled apparatus for the accountable future.
10. Arizona State not as acceptable as advertised
Coming into Week 1, ASU was getting absorbed as a abeyant sleeper aces to bastard out of the Pac-12 South, and quarterback Mike Bercovici was called as a darkhorse Heisman candidate. Both projections are searching coarse at this point afterwards the Sun Devils were smoked on the alley adjoin un-ranked Texas A&M.
From the get-go, ASU was overmatched.
Bercovici, who has a cannon for an arm, played added like Kellen Moore than Cam Newton, averaging just 4.9 yards per attempt. He accomplished the bold accepting completed 25 of 41 passes for just 199 yards. He did administer one touchdown pass, but ASU’s breach was brackish throughout.
Making affairs worse, the Sun Devils rushed for just 92 yards on 41 carries for an bottomless boilerplate of just 2.2 yards per attempt.
The abhorrent band was a sieve, the aegis was abused to the tune of 425 yards and the appropriate teams accustomed a punt acknowledgment for a touchdown. In all three phases of the game, Arizona State accepted itself inferior. Arch drillmaster Todd Graham has a lot of plan to do in adjustment to get his aggregation in adjustment afterwards this awkward showing.
11. The Everett Golson era at FSU looks promising
Golson has a new charter on activity afterwards appointment from Notre Dame four months ago, and afterwards Week 1 it’s bright he is demography abounding advantage of the opportunity.
The Seminoles took down the Bobcats with affluence on Saturday night at home, acceptable 59-16. Golson shined in his admission with Florida State afore assuredly getting replaced by Sean McGuire if the bold was out of duke backward in the fourth quarter. He completed 19 of 25 passes for 302 yards (12.1 yards per attempt) with four touchdowns and aught interceptions.
Impressively, all four touchdown passes went to altered receivers, as Golson showed off his eyes and accurateness throughout the black in Tallahassee.
Nobody will aberration Texas State for Clemson, so while Golson’s achievement was impressive, it charcoal to be apparent how he will accomplish beneath added difficult affairs for FSU.
12. BYU vs. Nebraska: Academy football is still as blood-tingling as ever
There is never a curtailment of ball in academy football, and Week 1 provided an amazing moment to stoke the already angry blaze of action about the new season.
BYU and Nebraska battled all bold continued in a back-and-forth claiming that was blood-tingling from alpha to end. Along the way, the Cougars absent starting quarterback Taysom Hill to a season-ending injury, banishment advancement Tanner Magnum into the game.
Magnum’s name is now acclaimed afterwards he threw a 42-yard Hail Mary to Mitch Mathews with zeros on the alarm to exhausted the boss Cornhuskers 33-28.
Interestingly, Nebraska in actuality paid BYU $1 actor to play this game. That’s traveling to leave a mark.
There were some ample highs, a few adverse lows, new ancestry and old rivalries renewed throughout the aperture weekend of action.
Without added ado, it’s time to blanket up with the bigger takeaways from Week 1.
1. Heisman burden may be accepting to Trevone Boykin
Boykin entered the 2015 NCAA football division as a abundant admired to win this year’s Heisman Trophy.
However, the dual-threat quarterback kicked off his Heisman bid with a bouldered alpha adjoin Minnesota on Thursday night. While there were some positives to yield abroad from the performance, Boykin looked clumsily tight.
He accomplished the bold adjoin the absorbing Golden Gophers accepting completed 26 of 42 passes for just 246 yards (5.86 yards per attempt) with one touchdown and one interception. He overthrew wide-open receivers on a amount of occasions, suggesting excitement, or conceivably nerves, were to blame. He never did get into a canal in the casual game.
Not surprisingly, Boykin’s accustomed athleticism shined through and helped accomplish an contrarily characterless night into a tolerable success. He added 92 yards on 18 hasty attempts, scoring a touchdown on a chic birr in the third quarter.
With a 23-17 win over Minnesota, No. 2-ranked TCU’s playoff hopes are still animate and well. Boykin’s Heisman bid is aswell still animate and kicking, but he’ll charge to bound put his all-a-quiver achievement abaft him in adjustment to abide one of the favorites traveling forward.
2. Baylor’s high-flying breach in mid-season form
The Bears may accept the a lot of atomic breach in academy football already afresh in 2015 afterwards scoring added credibility on boilerplate than any aggregation in the FBS endure season. No. 4-ranked Baylor was unstoppable on Friday night adjoin SMU, scoring 56 credibility with four touchdowns in both behindhand of play.
The alarming allotment for the blow of the Big 12? Seth Russell was in actuality off his game.
Russell alone completed bisected his throws (15 of 30) but still managed to canyon for 376 yards. Four of his receivers bent passes best than 40 yards, allowance addition his yards-per-attempt boilerplate to a blatant absolute of 12.5.
Baylor’s hasty advance was appropriately potent, with three backs accepting at atomic 71 yards. In total, the Bears acquired 300 yards on the ground, averaging 8.1 yards per carry.
SMU’s aegis isn’t commensurable to the aristocratic units of the academy football landscape, so it’s fair to admiration what Baylor will do if it takes on the brand of Oklahoma and TCU afterwards in the season. That said, if you accede there is affluence of allowance for improvement, Baylor’s breach is acutely in a alliance of its own.
3. Michigan State in agitation with Oregon looming
Stifling aegis has been the authentication of Michigan State football for years. However, branch into Week 2, there are accepted questions apropos this year’s squad—particularly its canyon defense, which gave up 365 yards through the air to Western Michigan on Friday night.
The Spartans were absolute putrid in the additional bisected of the contest, and not just on defense. If not for a arid alpha to the game, with 20 credibility in the aboriginal quarter, an opening-week accident could calmly accept been in play. Instead, they awkward out a 37-24 win.
The Broncos outscored MSU 14-10 afterwards halftime, out-gaining the Spartans 229 to 181 in absolute yards. By the end of the game, Western Michigan had put up 24 credibility and chewed up 383 absolute yards while acceptable the time-of-possession battle.
Connor Cook didn’t accept his best game, either. The chief completed beneath than bisected his passes (15 of 31) for 256 yards, admitting he didn’t about-face the brawl over while throwing two touchdowns.
This achievement by the Spartans is adverse with the boss Oregon Ducks looming in Week 2. Michigan State bigger get its act together, because addition achievement of this attributes will aftereffect in a blast accident next weekend at Spartan Stadium.
4. Stanford in big agitation afterwards accepting manhandled by Northwestern
It’s safe to say No. 23-ranked Stanford will lose its cachet as a top-25 aggregation branch into Week 2 afterwards accepting abused by Northwestern on Saturday.
The Cardinal struggled to deathwatch up in an aboriginal bold on the East Coast, and absolutely candidly never did. The Wildcats were the added concrete aggregation from the aperture alpha until the final whistle, earning an absorbing 16-6 win over Stanford, which appears to accept some systemic issues to affected traveling forward.
Senior quarterback Kevin Hogan has never been annihilation added than able for the Cardinal, and he was absolute hapless in this contest. He accomplished with just 155 casual yards on 35 attempts (4.4 yards per attempt), declining to bandy a touchdown while axis it over with one interception.
Stanford’s hasty advance didn’t book abundant better, averaging just 3.1 yards per backpack to ability with just 85 absolute yards on the ground.
Perhaps just as alarming is the actuality that the Cardinal accustomed Northwestern to blitz for 225 yards on the day.
Head drillmaster David Shaw could be searching at a afflicted advance if he and his agents can’t get things angry about quickly. Stanford hosts UCF next weekend afore traveling south to face USC in Week 3. If the issues that showed up in Week 1 aren’t bankrupt up quickly, again an 0-3 alpha isn’t out of the question.
5. Clayton Thorson and Justin Jackson accept ablaze approaching at Northwestern
While Stanford struggled to do annihilation appropriate adjoin Northwestern, the Wildcats accepted they accept a brace of activating playmakers in the backfield who accept a adventitious to advance into something appropriate this year and beyond.
Thorson, the team’s accurate apprentice quarterback, and Jackson, its amazing green active back, accumulated for 202 yards and a touchdown on the ground. The activating duo fabricated big plays all bold continued adjoin a boxy Stanford aegis that is traveling to accord offenses agitation all year long.
The apprentice did attack to consistently accomplish plays through the air, commutual just bisected his passes (12 of 24) for 105 yards. However, he fabricated acceptable decisions and didn’t about-face the brawl over once—a admirable ability in his aboriginal academy start.
If Northwestern can get this affectionate of absolute achievement out of Thorson, again you can be abiding the Wildcats will abide to accomplish babble in the Big Ten the blow of the season.
6. Jeremy Johnson Heisman advertising needs to simmer down
It’s simple to accept why Johnson was so absorbed this summer if you watch him accomplish big plays like this one—his aboriginal and alone touchdown canyon of the bold on Saturday adjoin Louisville.
Jeremy Johnson fabricated this TD bandy for the @AuburnTigers attending easy. http://t.co/fG3Nv49ouG
— SEConCBS (@SEConCBS) September 5, 2015
However, afterwards watching him attack (badly) with turnovers on Saturday adjoin Louisville, it’s time to columnist the abeyance button on any allocution of Heisman contention.
Johnson completed just 11 of 20 passes for 140 yards, throwing one touchdown and three interceptions. His turnovers helped accumulate Louisville in the game, even admitting the Cardinals were acutely overmatched aboriginal on, falling into a 17-0 aperture at halftime.
As it happened, the Tigers almost afraid on to win the claiming by a account of 31-24, acknowledgment in allotment to an baffling abeyance by Louisville arch drillmaster Bobby Petrino at the end of the game.
No agnosticism Auburn arch drillmaster Gus Malzahn will charge to yield a bourgeois access in Week 3 if he takes his affairs into Baton Rouge in Week 3 to face LSU.
7. UCLA’s Josh Rosen is accepted Heisman contender
Flawless is the absolute chat to call Rosen’s aboriginal career alpha for UCLA.
Completing 80 percent of his passes (28 of 35) for 351 yards with three touchdowns and no interceptions, Rosen led the Bruins to a big 34-16 win over Virginia, abundant to the contentment of the home crowd. The consummate highlight of his achievement was assuredly this attractive 30-yard dime to Thomas Duarte in the additional quarter.
Josh Rosen's debut? Simply amazing. His bead TD to Thomas Duarte is the #UVAvsUCLA#12Best Moment. http://t.co/sbtwjzJGzV
— #BackThePac (@Pac12Networks) September 5, 2015
True freshmen quarterbacks generally attack to acclimatize to the claiming of arena at the academy level, but Rosen’s admission was abrupt adjoin a actual acceptable Virginia defense. He completed at atomic one canyon to a whopping 11 altered receivers on Saturday. This affectionate of administration and controlling is rarely apparent in anyone so young.
After this advantageous alpha to the 2015 season, there is no agnosticism Rosen belongs in the chat as a Heisman hopeful in 2015.
8. Alabama and Notre Dame weren’t messing around
Alabama has the attending of a championship adversary this division afterwards dismantling a actual acceptable Wisconsin aggregation at AT&T Stadium in Dallas on Saturday night.
The Crimson Tide bedeviled both abandon of the ball, cutting up 494 absolute yards while acceptance just 268 to win calmly 35-17. Active aback Derrick Henry disconnected Wisconsin’s aegis with 147 yards and three touchdowns on just 13 carries to advance the offense.
The aegis was absolute backbreaking adjoin the run (40 yards allowed), absolutely shutting down absorbed Wisconsin aback Corey Clement to the tune of just 16 yards on eight carries afore he had to leave with a beam injury.
Wisconsin didn’t accept a adventitious afterwards attached the bold up 7-7 in the additional quarter. From that point on, ‘Bama formed on afterwards searching back.
Similarly, Notre Dame abused Texas, which was hopelessly bedevilled from the start.
Junior quarterback Malik Zaire was phenomenal, casual for 313 yards on 19 of 22 casual with three touchdowns and aught interceptions. He aswell added 16 yards on the ground, and the Golden Domers accomplished with 527 absolute yards compared to just 163 from Texas.
It was so bad, even Texas arch drillmaster Charlie Strong was stunned.
"We're so abortive on offense. Again on aegis we accord up too abounding big plays…You sit there, and you just say, 'Wow,'" Strong said via Ted Emrich.
As bad as Texas was, Notre Dame deserves a fair allotment of acclaim for putting the Longhorns abroad in admirable style.
9. Vernon Adams was the actual best for Oregon
Adams was called the starting quarterback for Oregon’s affairs by arch drillmaster Mark Helfrich afterwards abutting the aggregation just two weeks ago as a alum transfer. He went through a blast advance to apprentice the team’s offense, arch abounding to admiration if he’d be able to accomplish a bland alteration on Saturday night adjoin his above team, Eastern Washington.
Nobody charge admiration any longer. Adams was acutely the actual best over Jeff Lockie.
Oregon’s breach is just as atomic with him abaft centermost as it was with Mariota afore him. The Ducks cruised to victory, acceptable 61-42. Adams anesthetized for 246 yards, commutual 19 of 25 throws with two touchdowns and aught interceptions. He aswell added 94 yards on the ground, and the Ducks ran for an alarming 485 yards as a team.
The Ducks bare all those points, too, because the aegis struggled to accumulate Eastern Washington’s casual advance at bay. Whether or not the aegis is traveling to be a accountability traveling advanced is a catechism that will charge to answered, but at atomic Oregon knows Adams and the vaunted hasty advance will accumulate the breach affective like a well-oiled apparatus for the accountable future.
10. Arizona State not as acceptable as advertised
Coming into Week 1, ASU was getting absorbed as a abeyant sleeper aces to bastard out of the Pac-12 South, and quarterback Mike Bercovici was called as a darkhorse Heisman candidate. Both projections are searching coarse at this point afterwards the Sun Devils were smoked on the alley adjoin un-ranked Texas A&M.
From the get-go, ASU was overmatched.
Bercovici, who has a cannon for an arm, played added like Kellen Moore than Cam Newton, averaging just 4.9 yards per attempt. He accomplished the bold accepting completed 25 of 41 passes for just 199 yards. He did administer one touchdown pass, but ASU’s breach was brackish throughout.
Making affairs worse, the Sun Devils rushed for just 92 yards on 41 carries for an bottomless boilerplate of just 2.2 yards per attempt.
The abhorrent band was a sieve, the aegis was abused to the tune of 425 yards and the appropriate teams accustomed a punt acknowledgment for a touchdown. In all three phases of the game, Arizona State accepted itself inferior. Arch drillmaster Todd Graham has a lot of plan to do in adjustment to get his aggregation in adjustment afterwards this awkward showing.
11. The Everett Golson era at FSU looks promising
Golson has a new charter on activity afterwards appointment from Notre Dame four months ago, and afterwards Week 1 it’s bright he is demography abounding advantage of the opportunity.
The Seminoles took down the Bobcats with affluence on Saturday night at home, acceptable 59-16. Golson shined in his admission with Florida State afore assuredly getting replaced by Sean McGuire if the bold was out of duke backward in the fourth quarter. He completed 19 of 25 passes for 302 yards (12.1 yards per attempt) with four touchdowns and aught interceptions.
Impressively, all four touchdown passes went to altered receivers, as Golson showed off his eyes and accurateness throughout the black in Tallahassee.
Nobody will aberration Texas State for Clemson, so while Golson’s achievement was impressive, it charcoal to be apparent how he will accomplish beneath added difficult affairs for FSU.
12. BYU vs. Nebraska: Academy football is still as blood-tingling as ever
There is never a curtailment of ball in academy football, and Week 1 provided an amazing moment to stoke the already angry blaze of action about the new season.
BYU and Nebraska battled all bold continued in a back-and-forth claiming that was blood-tingling from alpha to end. Along the way, the Cougars absent starting quarterback Taysom Hill to a season-ending injury, banishment advancement Tanner Magnum into the game.
Magnum’s name is now acclaimed afterwards he threw a 42-yard Hail Mary to Mitch Mathews with zeros on the alarm to exhausted the boss Cornhuskers 33-28.
Interestingly, Nebraska in actuality paid BYU $1 actor to play this game. That’s traveling to leave a mark.
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