Fans of 128 schools wait eight months for thirteen weeks of football. And around half of them see their dreams dashed in college football’s opening weekend.
The sport’s fragile nature is part of what makes it great, but what makes it great can also make it very painful very quickly. On the other hand, around half of those fan bases get to be 1-0 and have their off-season optimism infused with real live football optimism. Marlin Lane, LaMarcus Coker, and several others have been the second coming of Chuck Webb after eight months of hype and one week of football.