Week #1

The College Football season is officially off and running! Week #1 saw the A Division go 0-4, while the B & C Divisions are the early "tough" divisions as they both went a collective 3-1 for the week. Everything with the website should be updated and everything should be set to go for the season. If at any time you find a mistake or even just have suggestion on how to improve the website, don't be afraid to let me know. Now, let's look at the action in week #1........

Pride 87    Contributors 81
Larry and Harry (I think that was two of the original Stooges if I am not mistaken) start off the season with a solid 87 point week and get the win over McSwain's Contributors. The Pride were lead by Pittsburgh Def with 24, along with Suggs 19 point effort. Larry and Harry though are not all smiles these days, as they watched #1 pick Suggs blow out his knee and will watch the rest of the season from the sidelines. Losing the #2 overall pick is a pretty devastating loss, do the Pride have the depth to survive, or maybe Brunnell will just take over where Suggs left off. Not the best of starts for the Pride any way you look at it. McSwain's team was lead by Graham with 20, and Milons with 17. All was not loss for the Contributors, as they did get a top 6 finish. The other good break for McSwain, is his team is actually in a first place tie, despite the week #1 loss, go figure?

Death 66    Christians 57
The Commish is out to prove he is better than the lame showing he had last year, and his Death team starts off 2001 with a win over the Christians. The Commish got 19 from his Oregon QB, along with a now injured Stallworth with 12. The Death did miss out on a top 6 finish by just 3 points, a frustrating thing considering the Commish made a blunder on draft day, and marked down the wrong bye week for Jones, and ended up using his mulligan for an incomplete roster, as he didn't have enough players active in Week #1. Maybe the Commish is better this year, then again maybe not? Rusch's team got a huge 31 point game from McCullogh at RB, but only had 1 other player score more than 6 points. Pretty scary considering his #1 pick Nebraska QB was playing a team in first Division I game ever! The Christians do reside in the A Division, so losing week #1 is not necessarily a bad thing in that division, it was the only thing this week!

Q-Dogs 102    Elephants 69
Al's Q-Dogs put up the top score of the week with a big 102 week to turn back the Elephants. Al gets 31 from Diedrick, 23 from Miller and 14 from his East Carolina QB to lead the way to an impressive start. The Q-Dogs sit at top the C Division, where the Cossacks were the only team to loose this week, so no time for a drop-off in week #2, something that won't happen if Al's team keeps scoring at this pace, no to mention the Q-Dogs have the Redhwaks on the schedule this week! Brady's Elephant team posted a score worthy of a top 6 finish, but against the Q-Dogs this week it wasn't enough for a win. The team was lead by Florida QB with a big 32 point game this week, and being in the A Division, they have the same number of wins as their fellow division teams.

Titans 78    Stingrays 56
In the father-son match up of the week, Jeff's Titans turn back Merv's Stingrays in a solid manner. The Titans posted a top 6 finish total of 78 points for the week, as they were lead by Miami QB with 23, along with Oklahoma K's big 16 point week. A solid start for Jeff as he needed it to keep pace with the Q-Dogs in the C Division. Merv's team was lead by Watson's  21 points and Clemson QB with 13. Merv is not quite in love with his team yet, but he gets the chance this week to prove that his team is not as bad as Merv thinks it is against the Commish's Death team, who is trying to prove that the Commish is not as bad a coach as everyone thinks he is in college football!

Cows 67    Redhawks 52
Driver's Cow team gets the week #1 win with a 15 point win over the 'Hawks. The Cows were lead by Virgina Tech QB's 23 points (I thought Vick went to the NFL?), along with Staley's 21 point week. The Cows did miss out on a top 6 finish by just 2 points, something Driver will none to happy with if this happens on a regular basis. A solid start for the Cows in the end. Carey's Redhawks post the league low score of 52 points, not what Carey had in mind for opening week of the season. The 'Hawks were lead by Texas D with 19 points, and got 12 points from their Oklahoma QB, but no other player scored in double digits. Only one way to go for the Redhawks....... up! Oh yea......the Redhawks play the Q-Dogs this week..... yikes!

Maulers 86    Cossacks 66
Mike's Maulers turn it on a blow away the Cossacks in week #1 by 20 points. A big week by Toefield with 23, along with Nebraska D with 25 were more than enough to finish in the top 6 and get the bonus point. Mike obviously liked the match up of his defense, and wisely picked Nebraska to secure the win over the Cossacks. Can't say that Maze didn't see this coming! Maze's team had a better week than the coach expected points wise, as his #1 pick was off this week, along with his #1 QB (although BYU QB's put up 26 points this week off the bench!). Things will get better for Maze when his stud players return, hopefully he doesn't fall to far behind the division leaders before long.

Weekly Awards
QB of the Week:    Florida, Elephants    32 Points
A good start to the season at QB for the Elephants, unfortunately it went to waste against the Q-Dogs and their monster 102 point week.

RB of the Week:    McCullough, Christians & Diedrick, Q-Dogs    31 Points
Solid weeks from both players, different results for the teams. Al uses Diedrick's big week to show he is the team to beat, while Rusch suffers the defeat at the hands of the Death.

WR of the Week:    Milons, Contributors    17 Points
A down week for WR's, but McSwain's Milons was the leader this week, which helped them get a point despite the loss to the Pride.

Week #2 Lines:
Cows                     @    Contributors -10
Cossacks -6 1/2    @    Christians
Pride -11              @    Elephants
Death -6 1/2        @    Stingrays
Titans                  @    Maulers - 6 1/2
Q-Dogs -33         @    Redhawks

Commish's Lock of the Week:    Take the Cossacks and give the 6 1/2

Commish's Underdog of the Week:    Take the Titans and the 6 1/2

That is all for now, remember the the roster deadline is Friday at 8pm (unless you have a player in the Thursday night game), and remember that score are due by 8pm every Monday!

Good luck to everyone but the Stingrays this week! 
Just kidding Merv :>) Good luck as well!

The Commish

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