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NCAA Football: What I Learned From Week One

 
Week One in the college football season is sort of like an episode of Saturday Night Live, there will be a few entertaining "skits", but the majority of them will be flops. Well the first week of the college football season is almost over, with some Sunday and Labor Day games to be completed, the biggest ones being UCLA-Tennessee on Monday, and Kentucky- Louisville this afternoon. We learned a lot about the contenders and the pretenders, so without further endue here is what we learned about the NCAA for Week One of the 2008 season: The ACC Looks Like it is the Worst BCS Conference This Year: This week Virginia got walloped by USC, Maryland had problems against Delaware, Clemson couldn't get past the Crimson Tide, and Virginia Tech got upset by Western Carolina. People were expecting big things from both Virginia Tech and Clemson this year and those people were likely disappointed as both of them failed to win games that they were expected to win. Especially Virginia Tech who ... (link)

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