One Month Away

It is August the 4th and that means it is one month away until kick off. The first weekend celebration starts on Thursday Sept 2nd and ends on Monday the 6th. Yes, in less than one month we get to watch our favorite teams play good quality opponents like Western Michigan University, Stony Brook College and Samford. These first cupcake games are a very important confidence boost for our teams, but provide nothing but local interest.

There are, however, a few games that I am interested in on the first weekend. Obviously I am interested in N. Texas at Clemson but there are actually some other games that grabbed my interest, the first being LSU vs UNC. With all the the projections that UNC will have one of the best defenses in the country, a traditionally though LSU will provide the first and one of the biggest tests for UNC.

The Second is Pitt at Utah. I speculated in a previous post that Utah stands to benefit most for the out of control spiral of USC. This first non-conference game could a good chance for Utah to smack an east coast team around and get some national attention for future recruiting.

The third and final game that I am interested in is Boise State and Virginia Tech. both teams had good seasons last year and are looking to get on to the national scene and are looking to make a run at a national title with in the next few seasons. that being said each team has something to prove and should make for some interesting play on the field.