Big 12 Wrap: Week 1
It's the start of another football season, and I guess I'll continue the blog tradition of posting a pithy review of the week's Big 12 action. Here are the games:
Oklahoma 79, North Texas 10
UNT was overmatched from the start in this one, even though Oklahoma's top two running backs didn't play. New QB Sam Bradford had a nice debut, but the competition stiffens quickly with Miami arriving in Norman next week.
Texas 21, Arkansas State 13
A late ASU score made this one look a little closer than it was, but the Texas faithful can't be excited about that start to the season.
Nebraska 52, Nevada 10
Nebraska rolls after a slow start. Is Nebraska finally ready to rejoin the conference elite?
Texas A&M 38, Montana State 7
Aggies should start 3-0 before facing one of many big road tests.
Auburn 23, Kansas State 13
Ron Prince's crew outplayed Auburn for much of this game, but seemed to run out of gas at the end (and made too many mental mistakes to win this road game).
Texas Tech 49, SMU 3
Different season, same offense for Mike Leach and Texas Tech.
Missouri 40, Illinois 34
One of college football's two perennially underachieving head coaches had to win. Mizzou hangs on to win a wild one.
Georgia 35, Oklahoma State 14
A handful of people (like one of the Chron's Big 12 reporters) actually picked OSU to win the Big 12 South (really). That will be hard to do if they can't perform better than this on the road against good teams (like A&M, Nebraska, and Oklahoma).
Kansas 52, Central Michigan 7
Maybe Michigan should have scheduled Central Michigan this weekend?
Colorado 31, Colorado State 28
I watched a fair amount of this snoozer, and can't really say how Colorado managed to win it.
TCU 27, Baylor 0
Baylor will be hanging out in the Big 12 cellar once again.
Kent State 23, Iowa State 14
Iowa State fans must be delighted they chased off one of the best coaches they've ever had so Gene Chizik could lose his opener to a MAC school.
Posted by Kevin Whited @ 09/03/07 19:35 | Big 12 Football | Technorati
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What, no pithiness on Meechigan losing in the Big House to App. State (HOT!HOT!HOT!)? No matter what happens to my Huskers, seeing that score already made my college football season.
And to think it comes just 25 years after the college basketball season that brought us both Chaminade and Jimmy V.
Posted by Brad S @ 10:41 on 09/04/07
We're coming for ya, Kev!!
(Not really. I think we're about a year away from winning a game like this on the road early in the season).
Posted by Daniel @ 14:17 on 09/04/07
All of a sudden, I'm not nearly as confident as I was a week or so ago. Arkansas State? I was looking forward to the first week of pith so I could lay down a little pre-October smack. Now? Not so much. Now I'm worried about TCU, fer cryin' out loud.
Posted by another precinct chair @ 16:12 on 09/04/07
My father and I were discussing it the other day and we are still nothing short of baffled that Chizik took the ISU job. Considering that his predecessors took jobs at San Jose State and Syracuse, two other awful jobs, I wonder if Mack Brown might be a little too enthusiastically encouraging his assistence to take the first job offer that comes their way. A non-BCS school with a history of being able to win would have been so much better for him if they didn't think they could wrangle a decent BCS school without any HC experience.
Posted by R. Alex @ 09:51 on 09/05/07
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