MSU, UK Win – In Very Different Fashions – One Opening Night

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The college football season is underway and a pair of SEC teams already have wins under their belts.  But they sure got those win in very different ways.


Mississippi State 59, Memphis 14

Quick Take:  No one should get too carried away with a win over miserable Memphis, but State fans have reason to smile this morning.  Vick Ballard ran for 166 yards and three TDs while Chris Relf threw for 202 yards and a pair of long, beautiful scoring strikes… all in just three quarters of action.  It was a feel-good start for a program that’s been doing a lot of feeling good since Dan Mullen arrived.

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Kentucky 14, Western Kentucky 3

Quick Take:  Does the word “retch” mean anything to you?  There’s not much to be gained by scheduling teams from the FCS-level or the bottom of the FBS-level.  While UK’s defense did the job, there’s the obvious caveat of: Yeah, but it was against one of the 10 worst teams in the country.  But there was no way to spin any positives out of UK’s offensive performance.  Where have you gone, Randall Cobb?  Heck, where have you gone Mike Hartline?  (Kudos to the less than 25,000 fans who showed up to watch such a boring football game.)

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“It’s better to be 1-0 than 0-1″