NCAA Week 1 Thoughts

Cougs

Well, the Cougars appear to be really bad. I don’t want to overreact to one game or anything, but it just didn’t look like there was much good to say about the offensive side of the football, and the special teams were atrocious. I do think the defense acquitted themselves reasonably well, they kept the team in the game for as long as possible while the special teams were routinely giving up awful field position and the offense was quickly leaving the field to make sure that the defense never got rested…of course they were going to eventually give up some points when put in such a bad spot.

I fully expect a loss to Cal next week. After that, we get one very winnable game at Baylor, followed by a very likely win against Div. I-AA Portland State, so we’ve still got a good chance to be 2-2 after four games, but if they haven’t really seriously figured some things out by the end of that fourth game, it’s going to get ugly after that. My hope for the team is the same as it was at the beginning of the day…show marked improvement over the course of the season, and win the Apple Cup. If they do those things, I’ll be satisfied. I couldn’t very well expect Coach Wulff to pull out an immediate miracle before his own recruits have gotten a chance to make any impact at all.

ACC
The picture wasn’t pretty at all in the ACC.