There was definitely a lot of head scratching among college football teams last weekend, especially for two teams in the Palmetto State.
Playing one of the top offenses in Division I-AA, the Coastal Carolina defense has been up to the challenge at least in the first half against Presbyterian.
Coastal has picked off PC quarterback Tim Webb four times, two by Marrio Norman, to lead 24-7 at the half.
Just when you thought the college football season couldn’t get any crazier, then last weekend happened.
No. 1 LSU loses to Kentucky in overtime and No. 2 Cal uses poor clock management in losing at home to Oregon State.
Being a diehard Ohio State fan, I wasn’t disappointed by those losses.
The clock operator couldn’t wind the clock fast enough tonight. But mercifully the Chanticleers-51-0 rout over Chowan is over. It was a good confidence booster for the Chants, who will need it as they enter their final five games.
The Coastal-Chowan game had blowout written all over and so far it hasn’t disappointed. Coastal has dominated the undermanned and undersized Hawks in every area in leading 34-0 at the half.
It’s hard to believe it’s Week 7 in the college football season but it is. It’s been one of the crazier ones in recent memory with Appalachian State getting things going against Michigan in the opening week.
At 1-3 and a game against Furman, is it too early for Coastal Carolina to panic? Yes.
No one expected the Chanticleers to resemble the team that went 9-3 last season and made a trip to the postseason. They lost 36 players and have faced a brutal schedule in which four of their first five opponents were ranked at one point in the I-AA poll.