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The Solid Verbal: The scares, surprises, and dudes of our Week 1 recap

Time to completely overreact to everything!

NCAA Football: South Carolina at North Carolina State
NCAA Football: South Carolina at North Carolina State
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Hey look at that. Week 1 is already (kinda) in the books, so we have a ton of questions to try and digest, like:

• What’s the huge positive that Florida State can take away from a convincing loss to Alabama?

• Is there reason to worry about USC and Washington after they struggled with Western Michigan and Rutgers, respectively?

• How far can Michigan go behind what could be a very good defense and, well, relatively average QB play?

• Could Tom Herman getting his footing at Texas take longer than we accepted?

• What does Matt Canada’s first game as LSU’s OC say about the direction the Tigers are heading?

...and much more!

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