A few thoughts on week 1

• Alabama look impressive. I'll be very surprised if they aren't top 10 at the end of the season
• I've never been convinced by Denard Robinson. There's clearly a lot of talent and he is capable of extraordinary things but there's something missing. I think he is lacking some of those intangibles that make the difference between a very talented player and a winner.
• The win for Clemson over Auburn was not just big for them, but big for the ACC. The ACC has struggled to get attention at the top of the rankings and had Clemson lost, all the ACC would have suffered as many would just have concluded that the ACC's best wasn't as good as an average SEC team.
• No major shocks among the big teams but many premature conclusions will be drawn on the basis of one game.
• How many points did Oklahoma State score?
• The Notre Dame - Navy game in Dublin was a sell-out so on that basis was a success. But 35,000 out of the 48,000 crowd had come over from the US which means its unclear how much the locals were interested in the game. That said, with that many travelling then further one-off games by other teams must be possible.