Mostly a lousy day of college football. Glad that the prime time matchup featuring Notre Dame at Texas A&M featured a lot of drama (if not TDs).
I’ve decided to call a bit of an audible…
*So many of the marquee games turned into blowouts that there’s not much benefit to digging deep into the numbers. Score told the story. And, part of the story this season is that teams who imagine themselves as contenders for the 12- team playoff have (unsurprisingly) given players permission to run up the score vs. cupcakes (style points!).
*I got my second Shingles vaccine Friday. Side effects weren’t supposed to be as intrusive at the first shot (those were a bear!). But, it was basically half-a-bear. Couldn’t devote as much time to logging stats from the full board as I’d prefer. I’ll still do that the next couple days to get caught up.
*Here, I’ll run the numbers from the matchups we discussed in our sharps report. Within the next two days I’ll do deeper digs on any upsets, or games where favorites significantly underachieved their point spread expectations. You typically learn A LOT by doing that in the first week. If a team that was favored by 30 points only scores 21 (Iowa State), that usually means something.
*I haven’t yet done a sharps report for Monday Night’s Boston College/Florida State game. I’ll take care of that Sunday night.
Here we go…
Georgia (-11.5) beat Clemson 34-3, winning yardage 447-188, yards-per-play 7.5 to 3.6, third downs 4/11 to 4/13, rushing 169-48, and TOs 1-0. Demise of Clemson continues as Dabo Swinney refuses to embrace the NIL era. Talking about culture and teaching kids to play “the Clemson way” is great when you’re also recruiting elite talent. Today, the Clemson way was emasculated by a real national power. Squashed.