The discomfort of Week 1 in college football isn’t really an annoyance – if you ask the SEC fans. Bill Napier, in his first game as Florida head coach, knocked out defending champion Pac-12/No.7 Utah in a fitness contest with six change of lead. head and a draw.
After Gator QB Anthony Richardson punched it in from the 1-yard line with 1:25 left, Cam Rising led Utes all the way to Florida 6 before Amari Burney picked him at the endzone to seal the game and send the residents of Gainesville into a frenzy Happy touches for the rest of the weekend.
But Florida supporters aren’t the only SEC fans celebrating this week because every school — save for LSU, which plays in Florida State today — has won. While there are plenty of early gimmes, number 11 Oregon, number 23 Cincinnati and Utah aren’t supposed to be them.
No. 3 Georgia has weathered last year’s momentum so far this season with a 49-3 loss to the Ducks that left nothing but a pile of feathers. Auburn-transfer and new Oregon quarterback Bo Nix left the conference for exactly this reason. He threw 173 yards with two picks, and another 37 yards on the ground. If you want to know how bad things are for Oregon, Nix’s 37-yard rush led the team. Stetson Bennett didn’t even make it to fourth place and still finished with 368 in the air and three totals – two by air and one and a half by road. (If you’re going to use your foot like this, you’ll get a credit for half a point rushing.)
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Like Dawgs, the Arkansas No 19 also brought last year’s momentum and quarterback for the 2022 season as KJ Jefferson played near-perfect football, leading the Razorbacks past the Bearcats for a total of four touchdowns. His only hiccup was snooping in the third quarter.
I won’t say much about Alabama because they went up against Wyoming, winning 55-0. The only thing I would note Defending Heisman champion, Bryce Young, started his next season by beating Tua Tagovailoa’s school record for most touchdowns in a game (six).
It’s funny how Brian Kelly messes with the perfect opening week of the SEC, the game is in the Super Dome, and the Seminoles are trying to dig out of a hole deeper than the Bayou Bengals. Take LSU -3.5 while the season is young and Vegas doesn’t know any better.
If you’re looking for other non-conference SEC games to bet on, Bama is playing Texas next week and the sharks can’t make that line high enough; No. 17 Pitt escaped the Backyard Brawl, and now must sprint across the court against Hendon Hooker and Tennessee in Week 2; and rising No. 16 Miami try to return to the 18th consecutive season against sixth place Texas A&M in Week 3.
Well, that’s quick
With Oregon and Utah losing out, the highest-ranked program in the Pac-12 is most likely USC number 14, who routed Rice 66-14 on Saturday. I don’t know if I’m prepared for this. Maybe it’s because I recently saw an elite USC team over other schools who are constantly trying to return their football programs to their former glory, but they already look like a giant. their old.
It also doesn’t help when you give Lincoln Riley and Caleb Williams 18 points in three six-point picks.
