Week of 8/31

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9/5:

  • Homegrown freshman quarterback Grant Wells of Marshall had a near perfect first drive - 3/3 passing for 48 yards and a touchdown.

9/4:

  • Due to coronavirus tests coming back positive for TCU players and staff, the Horned Frogs game on Sept. 11th with SMU has been postponed. I hope that they can find a way to reschedule the 100th game of this special rivalry.

  • Last night, UAB opened the 2nd half with 17 unanswered points, propelling them to their 19th straight home win - a Conference USA record.

  • Also on Thursday, in an upset, South Alabama handled Southern Miss for their first road win since 2017, ending a 15-game road losing streak.

  • While the Big Ten has been put through the ringer regarding postponing their season, the Pac-12 has kept a low profile. Now the conference has announced that they have come to an agreement with a third party that will provide daily testing - which should be available at the end of this month.

  • It looks like there is a plan in place for a Winter/Spring football season for all the divisions. No uniform start day, but once a team starts playing they have thirteen weeks to complete their regular season and the regular season must be finished by April 17th.

  • No surprise that the media picked Clemson and Notre Dame to finish first and second in the ACC this year, but seeing the likes of Miami and Florida State projected to finish in 6th and 7th just confounds me. Seems like the issue is a combination of recruits and middle-of-the-road coaching staffs.

9/3:

  • Tonight we have the return of FBS football! On tap are two games, Central Arkansas at UAB and South Alabama at Southern Miss. A very reduced list of what it could have been tonight, but like any great fan of College Football - I will take it!!!

  • Yesterday I read (and enjoyed - as I have all of her posts) Amy Daughters “Breaking Down Week 1 of the 2020 College Football Season” on fbschedules.com. I don’t want to brag, but I like my “Week 1 Games to Follow” post just a bit better…

9/2:

  • Without ever throwing a pass for the Bulldogs, quarterback Jamie Newman has decided to skip the season. The graduate transfer from Wake Forest will now start working out for the NFL, while Kirby Smart isn’t so dumb afterall when he pursued JT Daniels…

  • Listening to the community, Iowa State has decided to not allow any fans for their home opener against Louisiana. Their original plan was to allow 25,000 people into their stadium, which would have been almost 41% capacity of Jack Trice Stadium.

9/1:

  • OU head coach Lincoln Riley has announced that redshirt freshman quarterback Spencer Rattler will be the starter against Missouri State on September 12th. He will be the Sooners fourth starting quarterback in the last four years.

  • Concerend about the coronavius pandemic, ten UCF players have decided not to play this year. Two of the ten were projected to be starters, but six in total are linemen (either offensive or defensive linemen). That is not good for depth!

8/31:

  • Over the weekend LSU star receiver Ja’Marr Chase has opted out of the season and will prepare for the NFL. Chase, who led the FBS in receiving yards (1,780) and touchdowns (20), is the third Tiger (joining Neil Farrell and Kary Vincent) to pass on this season.

  • And it didn’t take long before a fourth Tiger said no to playing this year. On Monday, DT Tyler Shelvin announced that he was forgoing the year, and like the others before him, Shelvin will begin preparing for the NFL draft.