WAKE UP! Special guest edition: Joe Hale discusses the chaos in week one of college football
Good grief! A weekend of college football is almost in the books and there’s analysts popping up on every street
corner. As my granny used to say, “by George, they’re coming out of the woodwork.”
All the haters, hating. My school, Texas, along with Alabama and Notre Dame lost and we may never hear the
end of it. Or, at least until the CFP selection committee makes their selections for the playoffs come December.
Sark’s play-calling has dropped way off, like, the cliff, no, the mountain you say. We already have two named
replacements for Kalen DeBoer at Alabama, and Touchdown Jesus gracious-sakes alive. The Irish lost and
what’s the world coming to?
And, oh yeah … Arch Manning, a sophomore, playing in his first road start as QB1 at Texas on the road at No. 3
Ohio State, last year’s national champion, lost the Heisman.
Take a deep breath and lift your foot off the accelerator just a minute?
I watched those games from the comfort of my easy chair and yeah I’m a little disappointed, but there’s no need to
crucify anybody. Remember, this is September, and there’s a lot of college football to be played.
The Buckeyes, Seminoles and Tigers are not bottom-feeders, If your school won, there’s not anything wrong with being happy, take a bow, for gosh sakes, or a drink or even a celebratory walk around the block where ya’ live. But,
there’s no need to trash your neighborhood while you’re doing it.
Ahhhhh, Jemele Hill, queen of controversy, trashing Texas and Arch. That’s really not news. That’s everyday stuff for her, anything to stay relevant with all her hate.
It wasn’t the start we hoped for, but it’s not the end of the world, either. A learning experience, in my eyes. And, yes, there are issues in the Red Zone and penalties that Sark should address before this week’s game against San
Jose State.
First time to start the season 0-1 in a while. As good as Ohio State is and playing at home where they did dot their
I, they only scored 14 points. Cudos to the Texas defense.
It’s pretty good. Texas was 5-for-14 on third downs. Ohio State wasn’t much better in relevancy, but they did make a couple of plays when it mattered the most and Texas did not.
No. 8 Alabama, in the preseason polls, lost to unranked Florida State 31-17 in a meltdown. And the Alabama message boards are off the charts and Paul Finebaum is doing his Finebaum best to let us know that Kalen DeBoer is on “the hot seat” with his fifth loss in 14 games.
This is the first time Bama has lost a season opener in 23 years. Winning is always better than losing. And, following ‘uncle’ Nick Saban as a head football coach isn’t easy. It’s rather difficult. Finebaum, the authority wink wink, lets us know, the buyout is $70million. You’ll need a calculator to figure it ’cause you don’t have that many fingers.
ULM (1-0) is next, no worries there, but tougher teams than Florida State, loom on the schedule.
Miami won the line of scrimmage on both sides of the football against Notre Dame and kicked a late field goal to
persevere 27-24. Not exactly what Marcus Freeman had in mind going into the season opener. But, not an eliminator to the goals going into the season opener. Texas A&M from the SEC is next on the Irish schedule in
South Bend.
So, with all that said, who you think deserves to be No. Ohio State, Penn State, LSU or …?
