Football Results from Week 1

What an opening weekend! There were romps. There were upsets. There were shocks and surprises! And there were five days of football (Thursday to Monday) on TV.

Without further ado here are the results from the Top 25 (more or less) Upsets in Red, Losses by ranked teams in YELLOW:

1/1/1 Florida drubbed Charleston Southern 62-3. Tebow was…well, Tebow.

2/2/4 Texas took Louisiana-Monroe to the cleaners 59-20. Colt McCoy picked up where he left off last year.

3/3/5 Oklahoma lost to #20 Brigham Young Saturday evening 14-13 and lost Heisman Trophy winner Sam Bradford near the end of the first half with a sprained right shoulder.

4/4/3 Southern California clubbed San Jose State 56-3. The Trojans had a rookie QB making his first start? No problem!

5/5/6 Alabama beat #7 Virginia Tech 34-24.

6/6/11 Ohio State eked out a win over Navy 31-27 when a pass for two-point conversion attempt by the Midshipmen was intercepted and returned for two points for the Buckeyes.

7/7/15 Virginia Tech lost to #5 Alabama 34-24.

8/10/12 Mississippi beat Memphis 45-14.

9/11/17 Oklahoma State whipped #13 Georgia 24-10.

9/8/9 Penn State trounced Akron 31-7. All the Nittany Lions points came in the first half after which they sorta went to sleep. Joe Paterno was not pleased with the second half performance.

11/9/NL LSU beat Washington 31-23.

12/12/21 California creamed Maryland 52-13.

13/13/14 Georgia dropped their opener to #9 Oklahoma State 24-10.

14/16/10 Boise State beat #16 Oregon 19-8.

15/15/NL Georgia Tech beat Jacksonville State 37-17.

16/14/8 Oregon lost to #14 Boise State 19-8. The Ducks star RB, LeGarrette Blount, then lost his cool…and his place on the team. Cheers fr the Oregon coach for not putting up with that crap.

17/17/7 TCU does not play this weekend.

18/19/22 Florida State lost to Miami (Fla.) in a 38-34 thriller of a game that ended with a Miami goal line stand to preserve the victory.

19/18/3 Utah beat Utah State 35-17.

20/24/20 Brigham Young upset #3 Oklahoma 14-13.

21/20/NL North Carolina embarrassed The Citadel 40-6.

22/21/19 Iowa eked out a victory over Northern Iowa on Saturday afternoon17-16. They needed to block TWO—count them: TWO—go ahead field goals as time ran out to do so.

23/23/NL Notre Dame shut out Nevada 35-0.

24/22/NL Nebraska walloped Florida Atlantic 49-3.

25/NL/NL Kansas also drubbed Northern Colorado 49-3.

NL/25/23 Oregon State manhandled Portland State 34-7.

NL/NL/16 Cincinnati easily defeated Rutgers 47-15.

NL/NL/18 Missouri creamed Illinois 37-9.

NL/NL/24 West Virginia beat Liberty 33-20.

NL/NL/25 Michigan State rolled over Montana State 44-3.

The most lopsided score of the week belongs to the Air Force vs Nicholls State game. The Falcons put 72 points on the board in giving option lessons to the boys from Nicholls.