With one week down, Bill Connelly jumps to conclusions, hands out the Heisman and recaps his favorite games.
No. 3 Oregon led Idaho by only three points halfway through the fourth quarter. No. 24 NC State trailed Western Carolina and UCLA trailed Hawaii heading into the fourth. Abilene Christian had a couple of chances to score and win against Texas Tech. Tennessee Tech led Middle Tennessee and Central Arkansas led Arkansas State in the final minute. Old Dominion led South Carolina with seven minutes left. Texas State , Michigan State and Wisconsin couldn't shake heavy underdogs.
There were no growing pains whatsoever. Kotelnicki immediately imbued Allar with both a confidence and an aggression he didn't seem to have last season, Singleton looked like the 2022 version of Singleton again , and Allen's defense held the Mountaineers to a below-average success rate with the same number of takeaways as gains of more than 20 yards allowed.
Mario Cristobal is one of the most extreme examples of this conflict. On one hand, he has been one of the best college football recruiters on the planet for a couple of decades and has signed top-six classes for two straight years at Miami. On the other hand, with natural-born confidence, conservatism and brute-force instincts when it comes to both sales and football, he has often proved to be strategically inflexible on the field.
One game in, it looks like Cristobal's natural strengths have created enough of an advantage to overcome whatever natural weaknesses remain. In a season that has begun with both Florida State and Clemson laying eggs in their season openers, the Canes are suddenly well-positioned to take control of the ACC if they can continuously clear the bar they just set.Now in his 20th season as Oklahoma State's head coach, Mike Gundy coaches like a man who has tenure and knows it.
What we saw Thursday night suggests that from a results perspective, both parties will end up disappointed with what they see in 2024. Most of the obvious preseason G5 contenders looked solid in Week 1. Memphis, App State and Tulane disposed of FCS opponents with little to no difficulty, James Madison scored the final 27 points in a 30-7 win over Charlotte, Boise State and UTSA suffered second-half hiccups but beat Georgia Southern and Kennesaw State, respectively, by double digits, and Fresno State had No. 9 Michigan on the ropes well into the fourth quarter.
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