Thoughts on week one of college football
by On the Banks on Sep 5, 2010 11:00 AM EDT
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Print- As disappointing as the RU offense looked on Thursday night, a number of similar results around the country from Saturday provide some measure of reassurance. Florida, Penn State, West Virginia, and USF all struggled to varying degrees against inferior opponents. Oklahoma had to sweat it out against Utah State. Kansas and Ole Miss actually lost to FCS teams, and Temple almost joined them. Only a year ago that Iowa squeaked by Northern Iowa in their opener, en route to a BCS season. It will be very alarming if the offense can't get anything going against FIU, but for now that remains more of a cause for concern than alarm.
- Likewise, it's too early to overreact to any Big East struggles. Every conference has its share of black eyes, and the Big East's stumbles are magnified because it only has eight teams. The Rutgers, USF, and WVU games are mostly meaningless. Syracuse looked relatively good, without much of a basis for comparison. Louisville is about as bad as expected. Pitt/Utah proved that the interior line and secondary are weaknesses for the Panthers, but there's no shame in a close road loss to a good opponent.
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Either Yates made huge improvements off seasons, he had a career day, or LSU has no defense (or the defense let it go). Yates looked really good and his receivers even better.
As to Uconn, I do not think any team would have stopped Mich spread option on Saturday. It was running in all cylinders. Would this offense show up again? Let’s see. As to Uconn, the offense is questionable. I think RU’s offense will continue to improve during the next several weeks and be a notch better by the time we play Uconn. One thing for sure, RU defense will be the best defense Uconn would have thus far played by the time Uconn faces us.
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