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Forde-Yard Dash: It's Time for ACC, Big 12 to Kick Off a Fat-Free Fall

Forty names, games, teams and minutiae making news in college football (remedial clock management instruction available at Middle Tennessee):

FIRST QUARTER: BRING ON THE BIG BOYS

Week One was a weak one. No splashy intersectional games in JerryWorld, Atlanta, Orlando or a single Power 5 campus. We did get a touching display of emotion from Kirk Herbstreit, a 99-yard Army drive and UTEP holding an opponent to fewer than 15 points for the first time in four seasons. That’s about it.

Just a single team from the preseason SI Still Standing 16 has played thus far, and that was Memphis.