t has finally arrived. College football is back in the United States. While most of the schools throughout
America have to wait for Labor Day weekend to get their seasons going, there are 20 Football Bowl
Subdivision & Football Championship Subdivision teams who will be able to start their season, today.
A few weeks ago, we mentioned the Death of the Pac-12 Conference as eight teams chose to pack it up and pack it in. This mass exodus of the conference started a trend with other conferences as the ACC is also looking to expand its vast library of teams in the form of Stanford and Cal, who remain with the Pac-12 to this day.
College Football is finally upon us. It’s so close, I can practically smell the aroma of sizzling brats on a grill……taste the warm, flat Keystone Light……hear the cracking of colliding plastic……
Even with the new NFL season on the horizon, there are still plenty of other sports leagues that are garnering for attention. There are even some that are trying their hardest to turn a loss to a win. And then there’s the migraine headache known as Sage Steele.
Tom Herman amassed a 54-22 regular season record (Ironically, a .711 win percentage) which included a Sugar Bowl win as head coach at Texas as well as a 5-1 (.833 win percentage) bowl record with the only loss of his postseason career came in the form of a 34-10 loss to San Diego State in 2016.
To say the least, this ish is truly going to have some nuts in it. After a wild trade deadline in MLB that saw Justin Verlander, Jack Flaherty and Max Scherzer find new homes, the biggest shakeup transpired in the last 48 hours with another round of chaos on the horizon this weekend. But as predicted and known, the best is yet to come.
Yes, we are a week late and a dollar short, but the bonus of us is that we can go ham and any given time and still be damn good at what we do. After spending the week scouring the news and seeing what works and what doesn’t, plus meeting the newest writer of our Bleacher Brothers Family (Earl Jenkins, Jr. II), we get to revisit a few things that made headlines under the radar.
There is a lot of hype surrounding the Nittany Lions this upcoming season. While the team is not looking too far into the future, there are a lot of beat writers and students around Penn State that are thinking that this could be the year that PSU could be aiming higher than recent memory.
The FAU Owls can easily be a 10-win team this season under Herman. I see Thompson utilizing his arms and his legs to help the team get to bowl eligibility. But let’s make this clear: I don’t blow smoke. Depending on how this team does against two main non-conference opponents, that being Clemson and Illinois, will determine how good the team itself can and will be this season.