College Football week 1 recap.

Good evening GOAT faithful! Wow, what an opening weekend for college football this season! The week began with "SMASH MOUTH" football literally, thanks to Lagarrett Blount and the Oregon Ducks, and ended with a "PUNCH IN THE GUT" for the Da GOAT when my beloved Seminoles lost at the wire! Let's recap the weekend, shall we? (In no particular order)

1. NCSU, who was HYPED all off season, about how good "Russell Wilson" was gonna be and how good they we're gonna be, mustarded about as much offense as Da GOAT did this weekend, and got handled by South Carolina.
(Da GOAT'S Thursday Night ATS pick---SC +5.5--Cashed)

2. Oregon went to Smurfville, and got punished before and after the game, which begs the question...Is Chip Kelly ready for the big spot light as a head coach? What an "Oil Rig" fire Oregon was in this one.

3. "IF THE COUCH IS ON FIRE, LET THE MF'R BURN"!!!! This is the chant that can be heard from Thursday night until probably this Saturday in Denton, TX. The North Texas "Green Machine", after going 0'fer for what feels like forever, they go to Ball St. and get a big win! "Little Tommy Jefferson" and his crew of snotty nosed fart lighter's can't wait for there game against ALABAMA...Look out everybody, we might have awoken a "Sleeping Giant", or they will be pissing one off in Tuscaloosa, AL. Either way it should be good fun! (Da GOAT still feels that the N. Texas/Bama game will be a "Texas size ass whoopin" but we'll get to that later on)

3. Is there anything Greg Powlous(sp?) can't do? OK, well there is one thing, and that's NOT turn it over when the game is on the line....He looked good in their opener vs. Minnesota, until ultimately making a "Freshman" mistake by rushing a pass in OT and leading to the Gophers escaping with a win. Watch out though, might have a "Diamond in the Rough" here...

4. THE Ohio State University of Higher Learning showed what we all believed from day one....THEY ARE A FRAUD..... and will get exposed this coming Saturday against USC. Lay the points and get me a box of popcorn, because Da GOAT'S gonna enjoy this one! If Navy can do what they did to the OSU defense, then the USC game might get ugly...SPEED KILLS..stay tuned

5. Urban Meyer and "Everyones Favorite Virgin" finally found something they couldn't do...cover a 73 point spread and get laid by drunk naked sorority chicks in the same day.

6. Matt Barkley hardly looked like it was his first game ever in college football going 15-19, for 233 yards, and a TD. 8!?!?!....8 dang RB's for USC got touches, 4 or them scoring TD's against SJSU in a 56-3 smashing at the Coliseum.

7. "TOUCHDOWN JESUS" has risen in South Bend, Indiana! The scary part is that the defense actually looked good..and.....Clausen for Heisman!

8. Sam Bradford is broken, and so is the hopes and dreams of the Oklahoma faithful. Their NC hopes are in serious trouble after getting beat by BYU in their opener. Eli Manning even called to cheer up Bradford by telling him "Don't sweat it kid, you'll get $100 million from an NFL team anyway". As a result, the "Red River Shootout" looks to be a potential BLOW OUT...

9. Check the prior posts by Da GOAT, I never bought into the hype of VT, and as a result...CASH on this one laying -6.5! The "CRIMSON TIDE" rolled on Saturday night! The games score did not accurately reflect the actual game. Bama controlled all aspects of this game. They beat up Bud Foster's defense, stealing there "Lunch Box" and "Lunch Money", in what looked like a good old fashion school yard beating. Bama's offense rolled up nearly 500 yards and made it look easy at times. The special teams was the only thing that looked suspect, but I think Saban gets that corrected in a hurry...OR ELSE

10. Greg Shiano should have gotten out when he had the chance. However, he chose to stay at Rutger's and now, unless he gets a miracle, his career will end in Piscataway. As Da GOAT said all along, the best team in the Big East is clearly Cincinnati, and it's only a matter of time until Da GOAT cashes his OVER 6.5 wins for Cincy that was placed prior to the season starting. Cincy dominated this game from start to finish and Tony Pike was money as I thought he would be. Let's see if Cincy can keep it up, and Rutger's can keep from getting too far down.

11. Ron Zook is a "Dumpster Fire".....How in the hell, with all that talent, do you get BLOWN OUT by Mizzou in your opener?!?! Hope your planning your early retirement, because I can't see you roaming the sidelines much longer if you keep this up...

12. Willam & Mary & Richmond < Virginia & DUKE....Basketball is right around the corner!

13. Gene Chezik is 1-0 at Auburn....It won't last, this guy sucks....It's only a matter of time

14. 63-7, huh Mr. Lane Kiffon? Was it fun? Did you have a good time? Do you feel better about yourself? Well, get a good look at that scoreboard because when you go to the Swamp, it gonna be your ass on the receiving end of this one....and i can't wait!

15. Wide Left, Wide right, Wide Load, Wide Eyed, WIDE ASS OPEN! The rivalry that is FSU/Miami. Instant Classic as dubbed by ESPN, and it was! When the dust settled, Christian Ponder looked like a surgeon, Jacoby Harris looked like Vince Young, Mickey Andrews looked like a "LIAR" and Jimbo Fisher looked like a druken dumbass. My beloved Noles played a great game, but in the end, a dropped pass by a true freshman on the big stage with no time on the clock was our ultimate demise. Our D-line is the worst I have ever seen, which makes the secondary looked twice as bad. If we play like this against BYU, Max Hall will carve us up like Christmas turkeys. Gonna be a long year, and Ponder may be the only reason worth the watching this year!


Da GOAT'S "Prime Time" players of the weekend:

1. Tony Pike
2 . Christian Ponder
3. Jacory Harris
4. Javhid Best
5. Colt McCoy
6. Kellen Moore
7. Matt Barkley
8. The GEORGIA DB's
9. Mark Ingram
10. NORTH TEXAS
11. Jimmy Clausen
12 Robert Griffin III

Da GOAT "No So Prime Time" players
1. Lagarrette Blount
2. Oklahoma after Sam Bradford got hurt
3. North Carolina State
4. FSU Defense
5. Tyrod Taylor
6. VA TECH Defense
7. Greg Powlous in "The clutch"
8. Mickey Andrews
9. Lou Holtz


How we look on Posted Plays (YTD):

3-1 (ATS) (1-0 on Thursday night) (1-0 in "Big Game Picks")

0-1 (Flyer's)

4-4 (Teasers overall)

1-0 (Parlay)



Until Next time,

Da GOAT