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With high school football offically kicking off the regular season in Alabama, and the college season next week, the powers to be in college football have squeezed a few extra games in this weekend dubbed “Week Zero.” Whatever does that mean?
https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/zero
Webster’s Dictionary associates several words with the meaning of “zero.” Such phrases used to describe the word include absence of measurable quantity, an insignificant person or thing, the state of total absence and Bryan Harsin’s coaching while at Auburn just to name a few. Do any of those definitions resonate with college football fans? By calling it “Week Zero,” college football is practically saying the games this weekend do not count. Sure. Tell that to the Ga Tech and FSU fans traveling across the pond to see their two teams square off in Dublin, Ireland Saturday morning on ESPN. For that matter, tell that to ESPN selling advertising for the broadcast rights of the game, Kirk Herbstreit who will be mercilessly heckled by FSU fans for his outright attacks on that program at the end of last season while sealing their fate in missing the college football playoffs and what if a –10.5 point underdog Yellow Jackets upset the Top 25 ranked Seminoles? Would it count then in Week Zero? Or would the Noles get a mulligan? I can promise you this, wake up Sunday morning a big, fat loser to “Local Man” if you choose to play such silly games and tell him about the games in Week Zero you miss-picked being absent of measurable quantity. That answer will come in the form of an envelope plus 10% to start your miserable season of picking losers handed to said local man!
As someone who always chooses to look at the positives in college football, cough cough, why do we not take a brighter look at part of the definition of the word zero? The point of departure in reckoning. I guess you must start somewhere and that somewhere should be below here at Radio Free Auburn!
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Florida State –10.5 vs Ga Tech. Head Coach, Brent Key, has returned a once proud Yellow Jacket program from the doldrums of college football to respectable. Last year’s 7-6 team returns eight starters on offense lead by explosive QB Haynes King. The ramblin wreck from Ga Tech scores points with anyone using a stable of running backs and explosive playmakers on the outside. The problem is the defense has had no sting since the early 90s. Some may say, the 1890s. FSU and their warrior fanbase come into the opener looking to take some scalps after being shunned off the reservation of last year’s college football playoffs. Clemson/Oregon State transfer QB, DJ Uiagalelei, takes over for his 10th and final season looking to guide FSU to a college football playoff berth. With a pile of talent from the transfer portal joining forces in Tallahassee, that berth could start Saturday in Ireland. Erin Go Bragh with a wild, woolly shoot-out across the pond. Noles 43, Yellow Jackets 42.
Montana State –12.5 vs New Mexico. Auburn week three opponent, New Mexico, host the Big Sky Saturday afternoon catching double digit points at home. This line opened MSU –4.5 and has jumped faster than Nvidia Stock over the last two years. What gives? Well, Montana State is one of the best teams in the Big Sky Conference and New Mexico did so well last year they hired a new coach in Bronco Mendenhall. Ain’t no way anyone with the name Bronco does not cover here. Bobcats 34, Lobos 27.
SMU –24.5 vs Nevada. Speaking of teams that can score some points. New ACC addition, SMU, will unleash their Mustangs in Reno, NV Saturday Night against a dilapidated Nevada program. Yours truly never likes to pick against teams from Nevada especially when they play in Nevada, but Michael Corleone would have to come off his Lake Tahoe compound to stop the beating about to take place in the desert this weekend. SMU Head Coach Rhett Lashlee, you remember him Auburn fans, is 18-9 with two seasons under his belt leading the charge in Dallas, TX. Go ahead and make that 19-9 bigly to begin 2024. Mustangs 69, Wolfpack 20.
Delaware State +39.5 vs Hawaii. Jill, Joe, Hunter Biden, and all his baby mommas will leave the friendly confines of their home state travelling to the rock while grifting even more money from the American Taxpayer this weekend when The Hornets take on The Rainbow Warriors late Saturday Night to finish off Week Zero of the 2024 College Football Season. I am not sure if the Biden part is true, except the baby mommas and grifting, and I had no idea Delaware State even existed as a university, but I am sure that I never bet against the Rainbow Warriors when they play football on the rock. After travelling 7000 miles (about 11265.41 km) to the islands, eating roasted pig, chugging Mai Tais, and booty dancing Hula Girls all week, will Delaware State score a point in this game? Former Hawaii QB and now head coach, Timmy Chang, looks to fully implement that old-school run and shoot made so famous offensively while he played under retired coach June Jones. Two facts about this game. One, if you bet this seek help you degenerate. Two, Hawaii goes for over 50 Saturday Night. Rainbow Warriors 55, Hornets 12.
Good Luck Ramblers in 2024 and let us get to Ramblin!