College football’s top rung is currently held down by Alabama and will be until they lose outright, rather than just look sluggish. That’ s appropriate for a program that has won three of the last four national championships, but there’s also no denying that the Tide looked like a team with a lot of work to do in their 35-10 win over Virginia Tech.
The showcase games of college football’s opening week are four big non-conference games involving teams from the SEC. But beyond that, there are twelve other games that are at least worth checking in on. TheSportsNotebook’s college football coverage runs down the rest of the Undercard Dozen…
South Carolina hosts North Carolina to get the season kicked off on Thursday, and then Saturday sees Alabama-Virginia Tech in the late afternoon, followed by Georgia-Clemson and LSU-TCU in prime-time. Here’s the rundown on the four games that are the highlight of the season’s opening week…