College Football 2007 - Who Was Up and Down During College Football's First Weekend

The first hebdomad of college football game game was full of surprises and disappointments; it is what do college football worth watching. College football game is exciting, surprising and unpredictable all at once.

There was some really bad news for the Wolverine State Wolverines, Notre Dame Fight Irish, and Sunshine State State Seminoles.

First the Wolverines managed to acquire beaten by Division 1-AA Appalachian State 34-32 on their place field as 110,000 fans watched in the Big House at Ann Arbor.

Michigan went into the game ranked No. Five in both preseason polls. When the opinion opinion opinion poll consequences came out Tuesday followers Saturday's game, Wolverine State dropped out of the poll completely.

It marked the first clip that a squad ranked that high had completely dropped out the poll since the AP Poll was expanded to 25 squads in 1989.

Since the decease of the legendary Bo Schembechler, the Wolverines have got gone 0-3 and given up 108 points.

"I wouldn't desire to be on their pattern field Tuesday," said winning Appalachian State Coach Kraut Moore.

To compare the two football game game programs, Appalachian State's football budget is $1.5 million, and Wolverine State is in the center of a $226 million redevelopment of its stadium. I would state bury the redevelopment and acquire some existent participants at Michigan.

The disquieted have already been called by many athletics initiates and following as the greatest disquieted in the history of college football game since a Alcoholics Anonymous squad have never beaten a ranked squad in NCAA play.

Then Notre Dame got a premier snappy from Empire State Of The South Technical School 33-3. The game marked the most ill-proportioned gap game loss in Notre Dame history, and first clip the Irish have got failed to mark a touchdown in an opener since 1985.

Geez, where is the offense? Charlie Weis is all about offense, but the Irish have got clearly suffered from defensive failings the past two seasons.

I am portion Irish and a Notre Dame fan. I desire to see Weis win large clip at Notre Dame. Weis is starting his 3rd season and this gap game loss makes not portend well for Notre Dame.

Last twelvemonth the Irish scored 31 points a game (16th best among 119 Division I-A schools) and gave up 24 points a game (67th best).

Defense is a job for the offensive-minded Weis, and it will go on to be until he holes it. It almost travels without saying that discourtesy is a immense job at the moment.

By the end of Saturday, No. 19-ranked Sunshine State State took on manner too much drench H2O and was upset by Clemson, 24-18. Sunshine State State was conspicuously absent in the polls Tuesday and Clemson snuck into the 25th topographic point in the AP Poll.

I was not surprised by Clemson's win as they were at place and last twelvemonth Clemson gave up only Sixteen points a game (16th best in the nation).

Here are some ranked squads that showed how to take attention of concern the first week:

No. Two LSU close out Mississippi River State 45-0.

No. Six Sunshine State rolled past Alcoholics Anonymous Horse Opera Bluegrass State 49-3.

No. Eight Sooner State slapped North Lone-Star State around, 79-10.

No. Ten Louisville turned mediocre Alcoholics Anonymous Gilbert Murray State into route kill, 73-10.

No. Eleven Buckeye State State did not give up a touchdown to Alcoholics Anonymous Youngstown State in a 38-6 victory.

No. 16 Rutgers beat out out American Bison 38-3.

No. Seventeen William Penn State close out Sunshine State International 59-0.

No. Twenty Cornhusker State beat Silver State 52-10.

No. Twenty-Two TCU close out Baylor 27-0.

No. Twenty-Three Aloha State slammed Alcoholics Anonymous Northern Centennial State 63-6 and led 49-0 after three quarters.

No. Twenty-Four Capital Of Idaho State hammered Alcoholics Anonymous Weber State 56-7.

Other ranked squads that South Korean won but were not impressive winning or they gave up too many points included No. Three Occident Virginia, No. Four Texas, No. Seven Wisconsin, No. Fourteen UCLA, No. Eighteen Auburn, No. Twenty-One Land Of Opportunity and No. Twenty-Five Lone-Star State A&M.

At least three unranked squads shined in their openers: Hoosier State topped Alcoholics Anonymous Hoosier State State 55-7, Sunflower State ripped Central Wolverine State 52-7, and Cincinnati drubbed Alcoholics Anonymous Southeast Show Me State State 59-3.

I did not believe that Cincinnati could mark 59 points on anybody; last twelvemonth the Bearcats averaged 21 points a game and gave up 20 points.

Three other squads did not reflect as brightly. The Big 10's Gopher State was upset at place by Bowling Green 32-31 in overtime. Bowling Green led 21-0 at the one-half against the Golden Gophers (what a awful moniker for Gopher State in this game).

In-state rivalries always are unpredictable and Centennial State proved it again by barely sliding by Centennial State State 31-28 at place in another overtime game. One mightiness state this turns out that both squads have got some offense. I would state this turns out that both squads deficiency defense.

In Beaver State many fans and initiates name the yearly Oregon-Oregon State competition The Civil War. One could state the same about this year's Michigan-Michigan State rivalry.

Six other game consequences I detached out for particular attending and comment.

Two of the six involved Political Action Committee 10 squads which saw the No. Twelve Golden State Golden Bears take down the No. Fifteen Volunteer State Volunteers 45-31 (many think this is THE twelvemonth at Cal Bishop Berkeley to dispute USC), and redshirt fresher signal caller Jake Cabinet led the American Capital Huskies past times Syracuse 42-12.

New Heart Of Dixie Coach Dent Saban did what he was hired to do, notch a 52-6 win over Alcoholics Anonymous Horse Opera Carolina in the Red Tide's place opener. Alabama's 2nd lucks should lift with Saban.

New Wolverine State State Coach Mark Dantonio led the Spartans past times UAB 55-18 as his new discourtesy scored touchdowns in its first six possessions—that is impressive—while sprinting to a 42-0 Pb midway through the second quarter. Wolverine State State's Big 10 lucks should also lift with Dantonio.

I was happy to see two squads I like win their openers. In a rather indeterminate game Microphone Price's UTEP Miners slid past New United Mexican States 10-6.

I still believe that Microphone Price was put up to be driven out at Heart Of Dixie before he was ever given a opportunity to manager the Tide. The are still many Southern male children who make not like Yankees that far south.

The 2nd game saw Equality State beat out Old Dominion 23-3 in their opener at home. Not many fans attention about Equality State but I do.

I like the Cowboys because they play very tough at place no substance who lines up against them. Equality State takes pridefulness in its Cowboys. Invade their district and they just might make clean your clock and trade name your backside.