Now that week one is over, we can sit back and reflect on everything that happened this past weekend. Heisman Trophy winner Caleb Williams led USC past San Jose St, and Nevada with a combined score of 122 – 42. Williams threw for 597 yards and 9TDs on 36 attempts with an 89.5 QBR, in the first official week of CFB. Georgia rolled past UT Martin in hunt of their third straight national championship. Deion and his sons walked in Amon G. Stadium in Fort Worth, Texas and put the FBS world on notice by going tit for tat with last year's Nation Championship Runner-up's. LSU vs Florida St. the only ranked vs ranked game did not live up to the hype, but FSU did? Upsets, upsets, and upsets. Here’s the takeaways that were most important to us after week 1 dust had settled.
Back-to-Back Heisman's for Williams
Caleb Williams was impressive in his first two games this season. 18/25 278 yards and 4TDs vs San Jose St, and 18/24 319 yards and 5TDs. Super strong start for the reigning Heisman winner. Next up on the list is Stanford.
No. 1 Georgia Bulldogs Looking to Three-Peat
The transition into the Carson Beck era was very smooth for the defending National Champs. Beck played solid verse UTM, throwing for 298 yards and 1TD while running for another. Brock Bowers looked like a man playing against children like he will most of the time this season. Georgia rolled with a 48-7 victory on UT Martin.
Deion Sanders is College Football!
Deion Sanders, his two sons, Shedeur and Shilo, as well as Travis Hunter and some others transferred to Colorado over the offseason. Deion, Shedeur and Hunter all three kept hearing the “haters”, listening to the doubter's doubt. But they never gave into the doubt and believed in the process and themselves. Well after Saturday's game against No. 17 TCU, I’m sure they know that we are all believers too now. Shedeur threw for 510 yards 4TDs, on 38/47 passing. Four different WR had over a hundred yards receiving. Most impressive was Travis Hunter. He played on both sides of the ball, playing 80 snaps on defense, getting an INT and 3TOT. He also played 64 snaps on offense and caught 11 passes for 119 yards. Notable mentions, Shilo Sanders, Deion’s oldest son led the team in tackles, having nothing short of a standout game himself. And on the Offensive side of the ball Dylan Edwards had 100+ receiving yards, 25 rushing yards and 4 total TDs.
6 LSU vs 8 Florida St!
Week one’s most anticipated matchup was No.6 LSU vs No. 8 Florida St. Jordan Travis vs JT Danials. Mike Norvell vs Brian Kelly. The game was close until midway through the 3rd quarter. Jordan and Jaheim Bell took over and never looked back. Jordan showed why he is a Heisman front runner, and why Florida St is going to be so dangerous this season. Throwing for 23/31 342 yards 4TDS with a 94 QBR and rushing 7 times for 38 yards and 1TD.
Upsets, Upsets, Upsets...
We all know about Colorado beating 17th TCU, Florida St beating LSU, but late last night for the first time in 33 years, the Duke Blue Devils beat a top 10 ranked team. They took out No. 9 Clemson. Which is also their first win over Clemson since 2004. Riley Leonard threw for 175 yards, no TDs and no INTs. He had a team leading 98 rushing yards on 8 attempts. He scored the go-ahead touchdown late in the 4th quarter.
Looking ahead to week two a couple teams that are upset alert
No. 13 Notre Dame vs NC State – Wolfpack to win.
No. 22 Ole Miss vs No. 24 Tulane – Tulane can win this game
No. 23 Texas A&M vs Miami – Miami will compete for the ACC
Appalachian St. Vs No. 21 UNC – App. St has been known to do it a time or two.
No. 4 Alabama vs No. 11 Texas – Texas looked very strong while AL struggled at first.
A lot of ups and downs, bumps and bruises after week 1. Week two should be just as dramatic. Below I’ll put a list of my dynasty top 5 fantasy football prospects by position and their stats from week 1.
Quarterbacks:
QB Caleb Williams USC - 18-25 278 4TDs 85.2 QBR
QB Drake Maye UNC - 24/32 269 2TDs 2 INTs 87 QBR
QB Quinn Ewers UT - 19/30 260 yards 3TDs 56.9 QBR
QB Michael Penix Jr. Wash. - 29/40 450 yards 5TDs 91.7 QBR
QB No Nix Or - 23/27 287 yards 3TDs 88.9 QBR
HM: Shedeur Sanders CO. And Riley Leonard, Duke, Jordan Travis FSU
Running Backings:
OSU RB TreVeyon Henderson 12 - 47 yards
Mich. RB Blake Corum 10 - 73 yards 1TD
Ark. RB Raheim Sanders 15 - 42 yards 2TDs
FSU RB Trey Benson 12-47 yards
Wisc. RB Braelon Allen 17 – 141 Yards 2TDs
HM: Dylan Edwards Co. And Will Shipley Clemson.
Wide Receivers:
OSU WR Marvin Harrison Jr. - 2-18 yard
OSU WR Emeka Egbuka 3-18 yards
LSU WR Malik Nabers 6 – 67 yards
Wash. WR Rome Odunze 7 - 132 1TDs
Texas WR Xavier Worthy 7 - 90 yards.
HM: Troy Franklin, WR, Oregon and Malachi Corley, WR, Western Kentucky
Tight Ends:
UGA TE Brock Bowers 5 -77 yards and 1 Rushing TD
Texas TE Ja’Tavion Sanders 2 - 44 yards 1TD
Ole Miss TE Michael Triggs 3 – 44 yards
FSU TE Ja’heim Bell 2 – 49 yards 1TD and 1 rushing TD.
Syr. TE Oronde Gadsden II 6- 57 yards 1TDs.
HM: Cade Stover, OSU and Brevyn Spann-Ford Minn.