Florida falls flat, Miami makes a statement: Winners and losers from Week 1 of the college football season
Week 1 of the college football season is (almost) in the books, and while most of the marquee matchups from the opening week proved to be fairly lopsided, it still feels like we learned quite a lot — some of it good, some of it bad.
A pair of somewhat surprising beatdowns headlined the daytime blocks on Saturday as Clemson had no answers in a 34-3 loss to Georgia while Florida was embarrassed by rival Miami in the Swamp to the tune of 41-17, putting embattled coach Billy Napier’s future in Gainesville in serious jeopardy.
In prime time on Saturday, we saw Marcus Freeman and Notre Dame spoil new Texas A&M coach Mike Elko’s debut in College Station, and Sunday night saw USC outlast LSU in what may have been the best game of the weekend.
That only scratches the surface of the action we saw in Week 1, though. College football is back in full swing, and with that in mind, here are the winners and losers from around the country in the opening week.