Red Zone Defender: Twelve lessons we learned
Here are the 12 things that were discovered on this opening weekend of the college football season by Eric the Red Zone Defender.
Lesson No. 1
Five straight days of college football is just so cool.
From Thursday night to through to Monday night, we are in the middle of college football nirvana without any break at all. Nice. Wish all weekends could be like this. Oh and the bonus to it all? There is no NFL stuff in there to mess up all of our scholastic fun.
Can’t wait to see what Sunday (Louisville-Kentucky, Colorado State-Colorado) and Monday (Fresno State-Rutgers, Tennessee-UCLA) have in store for us.
Lesson No. 2
The team of the day was, without a doubt, Alabama.
The 24th-ranked Crimson Tide plastered No. 9 Clemson 34-10. Put it this way: Even with talents like James Davis and C.J. Spiller, the Tigers rushed for an aggregate of zero freakin’ yards against the ‘Bama defense. And freshman phenom Julio Jones caught a couple of passes, including a touchdown.
Best of all, quarterback John Parker Wilson was a very efficient 22-for-30 with two TDs and not a single pick on the night. This was a Crimson-colored beatdown. Nice work, Mr. Multi-Millionaire Coach.
sportsline.com
8/31/08
