College Football: 5 Reasons to stay on the couch all day on Saturday
College football is back! You probably don’t need any convincing to stay on the couch Saturday, but here are five reasons you shouldn’t miss a minute if you can.
It’s full on college football season and there are storylines brewing already in Week 1. Brian Kelly, Clemson, Mark Richt, Urban Meyer and Saban vs Jimbo Fisher all take on Satuday.
Colorado already ended the Colorado State national title run, Coach Ken and Navy slaughtered the FAU Fighting Kiffins, Christian McCaffrey has been replaced at Stanford, JT Barrett will ruin Ohio State’s season (not Urban Meyer’s insistence he be Drew Brees), and now the Saturday slate. Here are 5 reasons you shouldn’t leave your couch on Saturday.
1. New QB’s Are Always Fun
At noon (and 12:30) we have a slate of new quarterbacks especially in the ACC. Seeing a program break in a new quarterback is always fun between the comparisons to last year’s guy, or someone historical from the program’s tradition. Clemson, UNC, and Miami break in new QB’s with the departures of Deshaun Watson, Mitch Trubisky, and Brad Kaaya. Clemson starts off ranked No. 5 anyway and Miami No. 18 after a strong 2016 finish.
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Clemson will start Kelly Bryant to replace the program’s greatest player of all time. Those are enormous shoes to fill and with Hunter Johnson on his heels Dabo could pull the switch if there’s a rocky first half.
UNC hasn’t announced starters yet and no one is sure who will replace Mitchell Trubisky at QB. LSU grad transfer Brandon Harris was the expected starter but so far there’s radio silence from Larry Fedora. In Miami, Mark Richt went with Malik Rosier over Evan Shirreffs and N’Kosi Perry. Rosier was the QB that beat Duke in the Tecmo Bowl type game in 2015. How does he compare to Kaaya, Dorsey, and Testaverde? I’m sure we’ll hear about it.