1-Man’s Opinion on Sports-Wednesday. “MY COLLEGE FOOTBALL NOTEBOOK “
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‘NOTEBOOK FULL OF COLLEGE TIDBITS’
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UCLA..Too early to panic? Not so, at least in Westwood. The Bruins are not competitive and the howls over the hiring of Deshaun Foster grow. Eric Bienemey, brought in to recruit and coach them up, cannot coach a too young team or a no talent team. Next up Bruins-at-LSU. As Keith Jackson would yell ‘O-Nellie’.
TROJANS..Quick start, smart QB in Miller Moss, bunch of transfers who can play. And they go to Ann Arbor to face a troubled Michigan team with quarterback problems (2TD-6Int) in two weeks already.
OREGON..Dan Lanning doesn’t care about the Civil War, rivalry games. Leaving his starters in to run up the score on Oregon State. Wanting big wins. Wanting to build QB-Dillon Gabriel’s Heisman Stats, and wanting to make sure no blue chipper would consider signing with the Beavers.
AZTECS..Bye week at the right time. Hard to believe OL has 20-of-teams 39-penalties. Going to take time, but by the time they get to Mountain West schedule in 2-weeks, think the offense will kick into gear, and they won’t be playing Pac 12-teams for a while.
UNLV..Wow (3-0) start with wins at Houston, at Kansas, doing it without last year star QB whoe transferred into USC to ride the bench.
BOISE STATE..RB-Ashton Jenty amazing start-true Heisman running back in a QB-world.
FRESNO STATE..Lost in all the merger and conference expansion hype is a pretty good throwing QB in the Bulldogs’ Mikey Keane.
LOBOS..May be (0-3) but Bronco Mendenhall’s New Mexico team is going up and down the field with a transfer laden offensive unit, and should be watched when league play kicks in.
AIR FORCE..Cannot move the ball, cannot run the ball, cannot throw the ball. Tough season ahead after Falcons graduated all their skill guys at the Academy.
COLORADO..Week by week controversy. QB-Shedeur Sanders refuses to shake the hand of Colorado State QB-Brandon Nicolosi after angry words exchanged. All things with Coach Prime’s team seem shady.
BUFFALOES…WR-CB-Travis Hunter, the next coming of what we saw Neon Deion become in the NFL? Exceptional talent.
NOTRE DAME…Crazy talk that Marcus Ferguson is on thin ice in South Bend, but he lost at home to Northern Illinois, Marshall and a then (3-9) Stanford team.
PAC 12..Pushing expansion timetable-appears next one they will offer will be Memphis State-makes no sense to me. Wish they would look harder at Air Force. Still like my idea of offering basketball only slot to Gonzaga-St Marys-USF. Add on to national brand of Pac 12.
MOUNTAIN WEST..Looking at expansion and looking at Big Sky powers Montana-Montana State..but big financial issue..can Bobcats-Grizzlies afford move up from 65-scholarships (1AA) to 90-grants (Division 1)? That plus the need for NIL money increases?
ON MY TV..Saturday prime time, every station has games on TV, but on my TV-West Coast time, I had Colorado State..San Jose State..Wake Forest..Air Force..UTSA…New Mexico all in the prime time window in the Pacific Time Zone. Yeah you may have 500-channels on your TV-does not guarantee good programming…Awful.
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