5 things we learned from wild Week 1 of College Football season

The first week of the college football season proved to be worth the wait and here are five things we learned from a weekend filled with upsets. 

After what seemed like forever, the college football season arrived with a bang in its first full week of football in 2021.

Week Zero was a nice appetizer, but this past weekend, well starting last Wednesday, we got tons of football and were even treated to a classic on Sunday night between Notre Dame and Florida State.

With no NFL games yet, Ole Miss and Louisville also played on Monday night, which was boring outside of dynamic Rebels quarterback Matt Corral who was exceptional in the win throwing for 381 yards and a touchdown.

All the extra football was great and here are the five things we learned from College Football’s Week 1:

Big names were overrated

As far as the College Football Playoff is concerned, the most significant upset of College Football Week 1 was the loss by North Carolina to Virginia Tech.

The 10th-ranked Tar Heels were expected to be a contender in the ACC, as well as for a playoff berth, but the Hokies’ defense dominated last Friday and scored a huge win.

North Carolina can turn things around, sure. But a trip to Notre Dame and a potential matchup in the ACC title game against Clemson loom large, plus the Tar Heels now have little room for error in the ACC title race, as division foe Virginia Tech now holds the key head-to-head tiebreaker.

We don’t know how strong the Hokies will be, but it’s safe to say we overrated North Carolina and the impact of star quarterback Sam Howell.

As bad as that was, no loss was worse than the home defeat of 20th-ranked Washington by Montana, an FCS opponent.

Montana is a solid program and has won national titles before in the FCS. But it’s a bad look for a Washington program trying to count itself among college football’s elite.