College Football Season Kickoff: Week One Recap & Analysis

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00:00Some ranked teams in action on both Thursday and Friday night

00:06to fully kick off week number one of this college football

00:10season and what is in store week number two. Oklahoma

00:14dismantling Temple in Norman Jackson Arnold making his first

00:18start for the Sooners in his home stadium. Temple's really

00:22bad. Sorry to our executive producer and proud Temple alum

00:26Chris Kosky, but oh boy, it's going to be tough for the Owls

00:30OU covering as a 42 and a half point home favorite. Kansas

00:34ranked in the preseason poll for the first time since 09

00:38easily dispatching Lindenwood 48 to three NC State struggled

00:44against Western Carolina. They were trailing early in the

00:48fourth quarter before the Wolfpack storm back to win by

00:51seventeen but came nowhere close to covering as a 32 and a

00:54half point favorite. So we start with you as we were

00:58talking throughout the week on football full circle. You said

01:00I love Western Carolina tonight covering 32 and a half. How

01:04come and what did you see? Well, we talked about it on the

01:06air. The fact that Grayson McCall was a little bit

01:09inconsistent last year at Coastal Carolina Carolina. He

01:12dealt with injuries missed the back end of the season. I

01:15thought that that could be a cause of concern going into a

01:18new offense with Dave Doran. They were a methodical offense

01:21last year. They had two quarterbacks Kevin MJ Morris

01:25and last year with Brennan Armstrong that transferred in

01:28from Virginia as well. Armstrong took a while to get

01:30used to the system and I think that was a cause of concern

01:34laying a 32 and a half point number. So it opened at 32 and

01:37a half before ticket got down to 31 and a half. They brought

01:40in Jordan Waters from Duke. They wanted to run the football

01:43consistently. I just didn't see it. You know North Carolina

01:47State's a very good team. I don't think they're an elite

01:49team and I think the offensive defensive lines struggled

01:52against a more physical FCS front. I mean, if you watch

01:55that game, even though NC State won, they won it in the

01:59last 8 minutes of the matchup. I mean, Western Carolina had a

02:0221 to 17 lead heading into the fourth quarter. They play like

02:06that against Tennessee Kev. They're going to get boat

02:08raced. It was it was terrible, but they are a bad look ahead

02:13team. So in some capacity for Tennessee, it sounds silly, but

02:18it's not like ah see perfect like we're it's a little more

02:21concern. It's like ah they're that focused on us that

02:24Western Carolina gave them a game. If these teams play 100

02:27times 99 NC State wins. I don't know how many are within this

02:31range, but good for the catamounts to cover Cole

02:34Gonzalez is going to be a real threat at the FCS level. I'll

02:37give him that. I thought the Friday performance from

02:40Oklahoma was interesting. Yeah, we know Temple's bad. We know

02:45Oklahoma's a big favorite. I don't know what I was looking

02:48for from Jackson Arnold. I don't think it was 141 yards. I

02:52know you don't need more than that, but it's just we've talked

02:56you know strength of schedule is a big talking point this time

02:59of year and OU is one of the main ones with the schedule

03:03that they landed on in the SEC versus what Texas landed on in

03:07the SEC. Obviously the two teams don't have the same

03:09expectations, but for Oklahoma, I just I don't know. I don't

03:14know 151 to three. It didn't it didn't inspire a world of

03:17confidence that maybe I'm not giving them enough credit. The

03:20Sooners at home this week against Houston now a

03:23non-conference matchup against the Cougs who lost big

03:27yesterday to start their season and the debut of Willie Fritz,

03:30the former Tulane head coach to UNLV. They got roasted by the

03:35Rebs of Las Vegas, Oklahoma for touchdown favorite laying 27

03:40and a half a bunch of the ranked teams that we saw on

03:43Thursday and Friday compelling week two games that weren't so

03:46much in week number one. We mentioned Oklahoma. It's our

03:50second of two top twenty-five tilts next week. It's Tennessee

03:54and NC State game in Charlotte at Bank of America Stadium where

03:58the Panthers play so technically neutral site, but

04:01not all that far away from Raleigh where NC State is the

04:05Vols open up as an early about touchdown favorite laying six

04:08and a half. You were optimistic about Tennessee's offensive

04:11output. Put it on display against Chattanooga Nico.

04:15Gets another start here against the pack. What do you

04:18expect? I think it's a it's a really really important game

04:21because I have Tennessee getting one of those at large

04:23response. I think it is going to be interesting next week

04:27because we all have our overreactions of trying to fade

04:30all these underwhelming ACC teams. That's I know we've kind

04:34of made the point, but just forget Miami for a second. NC

04:38State was embarrassing. Clemson was embarrassing. Florida

04:42State was embarrassing and you should at some point mention

04:46how good the Vanderbilt pick was, but also how embarrassing

04:49that was for Vatech. Yeah, Vatech right. 80% of the

04:53productivity coming back that defense a secondary only gave

04:56up a buck 68 in the back end. They got abused by and

05:01Vanderbilt. So we'll say again not going to be easy in

05:04Charlotte because that's a difficult place to play.

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