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The Good, The Bad, and The Jury Is Still Out

It was the biggest game of the new season, and it didn’t disappoint. In a weekend of football that was both loved for the return of football and also loathed due to a lack of marquee games, Auburn and Oregon delivered in a big way. The Week 1 schedule was known to be a bit of a clunker all offseason, so the only matchup of ranked teams created a ton of buzz, and the media did a great job at building up the rematch of the 2011 BCS National Championship game along with promoting the battle of Oregon’s NFL-ready QB with Auburn’s true freshman phenom.