This game represents an excellent Week 2 match-up in college football. Over the past couple seasons under head coach Bo Pelini, Nebraska has been a very good football program that hasn’t quite been able to get over the hump.
The FCS team from Louisiana’s African-American institution will travel west to the Dallas-Fort Worth area to fight the heat; not only from the blistering sun this time of year but from an upstart ranked team looking to prove to everyone they belong in the Big 12.
It is sort of amusing to call the Hogs playing in Little Rock a “neutral site”, though it’s technically correct. Arkansas leaves the familiar confines of Razorback Stadium in Fayetteville to travel down the I40 to the state capital.
Oklahoma looked rather unimpressive in a 24-7 victory over UTEP last week; the Sooners get a chance to re-focus and crush an FCS opponent in Florida A&M in Week 2.
They like their team sports in Seattle, and Husky Stadium can be a spirited place to play, but UW is in for a treat when it travels to Death Valley to take on one of the nation’s premier college football teams.
Fresno State rookie head coach Tim DeRuyter gets the first serious test of his head coaching career in Week 2, in this afternoon game on the Left Coast.
Duke really impressed me last week with their throttling of Florida International last week. I really liked FIU as an upset candidate but they beat the Golden Panthers by 20 points in a game that might not have even been that close.
Denard Robinson really struggled last week, as Michigan was blown out by Alabama and they fell 11 spots in the polls because of it. They have a good chance to regroup facing an Air Force team that was 0-2 facing ranked teams last season.
Both Michigan State and Central Michigan won their season openers and the Spartans got off to a good start beating a ranked team. Even though the Chippewas are 3-9 in each of their last 2 seasons the Spartans cannot over look them.
Florida won their season opener and as the game was an audition for the starting QB position Jeff Driskel will get the start under center.
Notre Dame had a solid start to the season easily winning by 50 points, but they may have a tough time from a Purdue team from the Big 10, who easily won their season opener. Both teams are getting QB’s back from suspensions for this big game.
Going back to last season Syracuse has lost 5 straight games and to avoid making it 6 in a row they will have to come up with a huge upset over USC.
You have to love a team called the Governors right? But what you can’t love is that this team was just spanked by Western Kentucky – a team that is not even expected to compete in the Sun Belt this season.
Except for the whole scandal thing coach Butch Davis did a fantastic job at UNC. Under his watch the Tar Heels cranked out NFL talent and there is still plenty left on the roster a couple of years later.
When Central Florida and Ohio State meet this Saturday, it will be a unique matchup between two teams who are both ineligible for the postseason this year. The Knights are a team that many have their eye on as being a team to watch in 2012.
Auburn lost a tough one against Clemson in week one, while Mississippi State beat up on Jacksonville State 56-9. In week two, these teams jump right into the SEC action. It’s the toughest conference in the nation, and there won’t be any weeks off in the SEC.
