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“READY-SET-GO …COLLEGE FOOTBALL”
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It kicks into gear on Thursday night, rolls into Friday evening, then the tidal wave of games on Saturday, and a Holiday game of importance on Sunday.

College football is front and center.

Comments on key teams, big storylines, and rumors.

COLORADO…Deion Sanders takes time out from feuding with the media to have his team play Division 1AA power North Dakota in Boulder, infront of a stadium full of Coach Prime fans.  The real test will be in the newly expanded Big 12-where there are still alot of coaches stilly carrying grudges from his use of the Transfer Portal.  And the media war seems to be growing into a national fanfare that reporters have a right to ask tough questions and that Sanders might not survive another bad Buffaloes season.

USC..Lincoln Riley sends a very different team onto the field to open against Brian Kelly and LSU in a Sunday game in Las Vegas.  No Caleb Williams for the Trojans.  No Jayden Daniels doing everything at quarterback for LSU.  This will be a fun game.  A big hire in UCLA defensive coordinator D’Anton Lynn

ALABAMA…What does life after Nick Saban look like in Tuscaloosa.  Good coach in Kalen DeBoer.  A very good quarterback in Jalen Milroe.  It’s Crimson Tide football and it should continue to roll.

UCLA..I don’t like anything I see, read, feel about the Bruins despite what everyone feels about the hire of Deshaun Foster, with no experience, as head coach.  They lost talent, lost defensive coordinator D’Anton Lynn, got rid of Chip Kelly as coach.  The hiring of longtime NFL coordinator Eric Bienemy is not enough.  But they are moving to the Big 10, and were picked to finish 15th in an 18-team league.  Tell me at the end of the season if they regret leaving the Pac 12.

SEC…Lost in all the conversation about college football is the arrival of the Texas Longhorns and Oklahoma in the SEC.  Move over Alabama, Georgia.  The Sooners don’t have their star QB-Dillon Gabriel, Texas has two quarterbacks.  And Steve Sarkisian, a refugee from the Pac 12, has done a masterful job putting the Longhorns back on the national map.

BIG 10..Oregon kicks off the season ranked 3rd in the country, right behind Ohio State and ahead of Michigan.  The Ducks are led by the transfer thrower, Dillon Gabriel, who has 125-TDs in his career and he arrives in Eugene.  USC brings big time credentials and a big time coach and Riley continues to import talent from the transfer portal.  Ohio State has a stud transfer informer Kansas State QB-Will Howard, who set all types of passing records in Manhatten.  Michigan returns loads of talent, but loses alot, in addition to Jim Harbaugh.  And now the cloud cover of this Sign Stealing Spy Gate case is right infront of everyone with the NCAA releasing the Notice of Allegations.

BIG 12..Utah, yes the Utes, coming in from the Pac 12-rubble, might be the team to beat.  Iowa State is pretty good.  Oklahoma State has Cale Gundy and his flamboyant style, but the arrival of Arizona State-Arizona-Colorado probably won’t make much of an impact.  This conference is not what the other power conferences are, yet.

ACC..This is ugly, what’s happening around Clemson.  The rest of the conference is falling apart and you have the Tigers and Florida State trying to get out of their long term TV deals to leave the conference.  The league may be part of the Group of 4..but no one is happy at what is transpiring.  And now you drag in Cal and Stanford with losing traditions and jet lag to be a conference member.

COLLEGE FOOTBALL PLAYOFFS…They go to 12-teams this year, with the 4-power conference champions getting byes.  The 5th slot goes to whomever is the best from places like the Mountain West, Mid American, American Athletic and the like.  Sorry, don’t confuse Boise State or Toledo or Houston with the upper echelon of football when playoff times roll around.  And then comes the arguments, if the CFB will load the playoffs with SEC-and-Big 10 teams more than anywhere else.  A good idea that might go bad, and will definitely be controversial.

Enjoy the start of the season, because this may be the strangest most upside down season we have ever seen.

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