Heroes and Goats: Week 2

[naptownskinsfan]

Our second week of the college football season is in the books, which means it is time for our second installment of Heroes and Goats.  Feel free to talk about my choices, but absolutely add your own choices as well.  

Heroes

QB Kyler Murray, OKLA- Murray continues his early season Heisman campaign picking up where he left off last week, scoring five total touchdowns as the Sooners routed UCLA 49-21.  Murray had 306 yards and three touchdowns through the air, and added 69 yards and two touchdowns on the ground.  Oh yeah, and apparently he's better at another sport. 

QB Dwyane Haskins, OSU- Haskins was nearly perfect in OSU's 52-3 dismantling of Rutgers, completing 20-23 passes for 233 yards and four touchdowns, good for nine on the year.  Haskins has had an impressive opening to his season so far, but let's see what happens when the competition heats up.  

QB Kellen Mond, TAMU- Clemson was nearly upset by TAMU, and Mond led the charge.  Mond threw three touchdown passes and 430 yards in the air, added 33 on the ground and did not turn the ball over.  Mond is certainly playing levels above what he played at last year, as new head coach Jimbo Fisher pays early dividends for him. 

RB Jonathan Taylor, WIS- Taylor ran all over New Mexico as another top five program- Wisconsin- ran over their opponent 45-14.  Taylor ran 33 times for 253 yards, and scored three touchdowns.

QB Will Grier, WVU- Grier continues his hot start from last week, going 21-26 for 332 yards, throwing four touchdowns and one interception in WVU's 52-17 route of Youngstown State.  

K Brandon Ruiz, ASU- #collegekickers, right?  Wrong.  Ruiz knocked down all three kicks and one extra point try, including a game-winning kick as time expired as Arizona State upset #15 Michigan State 16-13.  A game and moment that Ruiz will remember for a lifetime. 

QB Terry Wilson, KU- Another big upset this weekend was Kentucky ending one of college football's longest losing streaks to the Florida Gators, winning 27-16.  Wilson threw for two touchdowns and 151 yards, and added 105 yards and a third touchdown on the ground.  

QB Malcolm Perry, NAVY- As one might expect from a triple-option attack, Perry didn't do much through the air in Navy's 22-21 victory over Memphis, going 2-3 for 22 yards.  However, Perry was the Midshipmen's leading rusher in attempts (36) and yards (166) while adding two touchdowns.  He also caught a pass from last year's QB, Zach Abby, for 17 yards as well.  Perry accounted for slightly over half of Navy's offensive output for the day. 

WR Emanuel Hall, MIZZ- Missouri took down Wyoming 40-13, thanks in part to a great showing from Hall- 10 catches for 171 yards and a touchdown.  

Goats

Florida State's groundskeepers- while this is going back to Week One, Florida State's grass kept coming up in large clumps one play at a time in their prime-time matchup against Virginia Tech.  For player safety, you never want to see that, and thankfully there were no serious injuries to report from the field conditions.  How a top Division I school could have their field in such bad shape at the start of the season is flat out embarrassing, and someone should probably lose their job for it. 

QB Brandon Wimbush, ND- Notre Dame ended up beating Ball State, but it should've been much more of a blowout than it was.  Wimbush had a terrible showing, rushing for negative yards for the first time in his career, taking four sacks and throwing three interceptions.  He did pass for nearly 300 yards, but all three touchdowns were scored on the ground.  

HC Mark Dantonio, MSU- Forget the upset to Arizona State and the near upset in Week 1 to Utah State for a second......both games, the Spartans took nine penalties- yesterday for 82 yards, and last week it was 62 yards.  A 4th and 1 delay of game penalty set back a potential game winning drive.  These are on the head coach and the coaching staff, and Dantonio has a lucky bye week in Week 3 to get it fixed.  

The ACC Conference- early on, the ACC has looked like the worst of the Power Five conferences by far.  It is looking like Clemson may not even play a ranked team this year, and their marquee game might be their almost-upset to unranked TAMU.  All 16 college football championship semi-finalists have won 4.1 games against AP-ranked opponents, so Clemson has to hope they win in style- and some of the other teams they are going to play this year start playing much better.  

Wow

The AP poll was started in 1936, and now has a new team that has spent the most time as their #1 team- Alabama was selected as the #1 team for the 106th time, passing Ohio State.  

During Georgia's victory against South Carolina, Deandre Baker intercepted a tipped pass and ran the ball back for a touchdown.....or so it seemed.  Baker ALMOST reached the Goat category this week, but miraculously, the South Carolina players around the football thought that Baker had the touchdown.  UGA linebacker Juwan Taylor still had his wits on him and picked the ball up for the touchdown. 

Usually in blowouts, you expect both teams to put up somewhat decent yardage totals, especially once the team on the winning end decides to start swapping out players.  However, Rutgers only managed 134 yards and 3 points, to the Buckeyes totals of 579 and 52. 

Savannah State earned their blowout fee- and then some- in their 77-0 loss to Miami this weekend.  

Hawaii's air attack is once again firing on all cylinders, and they have two receivers in the top 10 in yardage- John Ursua and Cedric Byrd- and both have hauled in five touchdown passes.  A third receiver, JoJo Ward, just missed the top 10 cut and had two touchdowns.  Their QB, Cole McDonald, has thrown 13 touchdowns to 0 interceptions, for a total of 1165 yards......he's also completed over 70% of his passes  He's also added 125 yards on the ground and two of his own touchdowns. 

[MSURacerDT55]

Can Nick Bosa/Chase Young get a little bit of love?

[naptownskinsfan]

15 hours ago, MSURacerDT55 said:

Can Nick Bosa/Chase Young get a little bit of love?

Almost put Bosa on there.  After watching some more of the game, Malcolm Perry may have done it all for Navy, but S Sean Williams probably deserved the nod- he had 9 tackles, forced two fumbles and led the defense in shutting down Memphis in the fourth quarter.  

Defense isn't my forte, but I'lll definitely keep an eye out for more defenders in the future.  If people add their selections onto this thread after each week, it gives me more names to look up and research as well- with all of these teams, we just can't watch them all without some assistance. 

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