The Eat More Chicken college football kickoff blog

I was lucky enough to still be in America for the start of this college football season. So, I grabbed a spot in a nice recliner in Atlanta and a remote. I’ve got high expectations for this season and hope that you enjoy my posts throughout the year. Once again, I’ll break down the games that I thought were the best, let you in on some upsets, make fun of Mormons and Catholics, we’ll look at who got beat down, I’ll hate on the ACC and I’ll tell you about the matchup I’m sure you missed in our pillow fight of the week. Also, since it was requested by one loyal reader, this year I’ll bring back the biggest loser award for every week.

Disclaimer: I am a Georgia fan. And, I do live outside of the country so I don’t get as much information as I used to. But, I’ll still be sarcastic as hell and try to have some fun with this.

GAMES OF THE WEEK:
#23 Auburn over Utah St. 42-38
Um, Utah St. learn how to cover an onside kick and you’ll win more games. Auburn, that was embarrassing. Queue the Mormon girl!

ESPN told us that #5 Boise St. vs. #19 Georgia and #3 Oregon vs. #4 LSU were the marquee matchups of the week. They were right about one of them. Georgia came into their game losers of 7 of their last 8 games. They’ve now lost 8 of 9. If you look up the stats from the Georgia game you’ll see that the two teams were very even on across the board. On the field it didn’t really play out that way. UGA had one run for 80yds and a TD but had no run game outside of that. The defense was just bad and most of that blame goes to the defensive coordinator. Whatever you want to say about this game is probably true. It was just bad. And those uniforms… dear lord!
The LSU game was a lot better. Not just for the SEC, but for the entertainment value. Oregon, learn how to field a punt. 4 turnovers is not going to get it done Ducks. The 40-27 score in this game makes it look a lot closer than it appeared to be for me. LSU just came out and sowed that they were ready to play and ready to start the year as a top 5 team.

UPSETS OF THE WEEK:
Unranked South Florida over #14 Notre Dame 23-20
Hahahahahahahahahaha!!!! Oh man, this makes up for any wrongs that may have happened today. Notre Dame fans believed that they had a team this year. Skip Holtz’s SF Bulls proved them all wrong. Again. I was also happy to see NBC have to sit through all those delays.

Unranked Baylor over #14 TCU 50-48
TCU’s coach said at halftime (trailing 34-23), “We need to work on our defensive backs and get some stuff figured out back there.” Really? Ya think? In the first half, TCU gave up scoring tosses of 40, 35, 28, and 14 yards. I don’t know if it’s a good sign that they kept getting shorter, or a bad one that Baylor just kept getting closer before scoring. I guess coach’s half-time speech didn’t do much either since in the 3rd Baylor score 14 unanswered on TD passes of 64 and 42 yards as well. All in all Baylor’s QB Robert Griffin III had a line that looked like this: 21/27 359 yds. 5 TDs, 0 INTs. Hey, if your favorite team is playing TCU anytime soon, shoot an email to your head coach with three simple words: Throw The Rock!

PILLOW FIGHT OF THE WEEK:
Florida International over North Texas 41-16
I know it’s early and no “true” candidates have had a chance to establish themselves, so for week one we go back to the ol’ faithful SunBelt Conference. North Texas once again brought a feather pillow to a foam pillow fight and lost… again. I’m sure we’ll hear more from them throughout the year.

BEATDOWN OF THE WEEK:
Cincinnati over Austin Peay 72-10
Ouch. A 62 point difference will get you into this category just about every week. AP had five turnovers to go with Cincinnati’s 561 total yards. Done. Oh, raise your hand if you know Austin Peay’s mascot. Now put your hand down you liar. It’s the Governors.
(Back by popular demand…)

BIGGEST LOSER:
Week one’s biggest loser goes to… Ol’ Miss Head Coach Houston Nutt. Up 13-0 in the 4th Nutt decided to make some bad decisions in the last few minutes that cost his team and gets the Rebels off to an 0-1 start. “Nutt had said that he hoped Saturday's game would be played in stifling heat and humidity since BYU comes from a more arid climate. But with Tropical Storm Lee looming, the weather was relatively pleasant, with highs in the 80s and overcast skies.” So, yeah, the head coach was hoping that the weather would play a factor. Enough said.

I may be late next week due to the move, but I’ll try to get it done for you guys. Hope you enjoy the college football season and of course your comments are welcome as always.