Can this Illinois squad execute better than it did against Central Michigan? The Fighting Illini were clearly the better team on Saturday, but they made the job much tougher than necessary by committing far too many penalties. Against Nebraska, that isn’t going to work.
Texas showed it was back last season. Now the Longhorns have to prove that they’re here to stay. There aren’t many better ways to do that than beating the defending national champion on its home turf, and Texas has the pieces needed to do exactly that.
Losing to Nebraska, on its own, is no shame. But it’s how Colorado lost. The Buffaloes were never in the game. And Deion is now 2-9 in his past 11 games at Colorado after losing to a team the Buffaloes beat by 22 last year.
Texas showed it was back last season. Now the Longhorns have to prove that they’re here to stay. There aren’t many better ways to do that than beating the defending national champion on its home turf, and Texas has the pieces needed to do exactly that.
The same Nebraska front seven that shoved the Buffaloes around last year is mostly back and a year better. This Husker team is equipped to win in the trenches and isn’t likely to shoot itself in the foot. This year, there’s a good chance that’s good enough for Nebraska to win.
Over the past 10 meetings, FSU is 9-1, but five of those wins were decided by one score. If the Seminoles haven’t fixed what went wrong in Ireland, this will prove tougher than expected again.
It wasn’t pretty. It wasn’t close. And most indicting of all for Clemson coach Dabo Swinney, it was rather predictable.
Welcome to the Riley Leonard Bowl. A year ago, Leonard and Mike Elko were a quarterback-coach combination looking to make Duke into a top program in the ACC, and they had the Blue Devils ascending until Leonard went down with injury — against Notre Dame, of all teams.
The Wolverines are still very good, but expecting a national championship again would be unfair with just seven starters back. But that’s where new coach Sherrone Moore wants to be judged, and that means he needs to make a statement here, especially with Texas up next.