Gurley Marches Into Georgia

Former Tarboro High football player Todd Gurley score on the second and third touches of the football in his college football career.  His first play an unimpressive two yard run but #2 Gurley  broke a tackle at the eight yard line and cruised in for a ten yard touchdown run.  Georgia's defense allowed Buffalo a touchdown and on the following kickoff Gurley went 100 yards to give Georgia a 14-3 lead.

Gurley saved the best for last as in the fourth quarter he broke three tackles on a run up the middle and once he broke free as they say"Katie Bar the Door" a 55 yard scamper which gave Gurley three touchdowns on the day.  Gurley ran only eight times from scrimmage but hit the century mark getting 100  yards.  Boy does he have big expectations to live up to now.

Larry Fedora has that big hill of expectations to overcome now as his Tar Heels romp over Elon 62-0.  It has been 17 years since the Heels scored that many points.

ECU gets the 2012 football season off on the right foot as they hammer App State 35-13.

Fans have no middle ground.  You are expected to be the best team ever and when you stumble all of a sudden you are now the worse ever.  N C State fans have gone from hoping to play for the conference championship  to ready to run Tom O'Brien out of town after State lost last night to Tennessee.

Expectations can be fun to wish but nobody knows for sure about any thing.  It will be three weeks or so before State fans will know whether last night loss was pitiful or not bad at all.  Just suppose Tennessee turns out to play for the SEC championship or maybe the National Championship.  Take five minutes away from that game last night and State played about as well as you could expect.  Plain and Simple Tennessee was a better football team and they were much better than State at every position.

The other end of the spectrum is North Carolina.  What did they learn today.  Who knows until we see what Elon does the next few week.  Suppose Elon doesn't win a game all year then today wasn't all that impressive. 

There is a middle ground some where in every game.  State isn't as bad a State fans think and Carolina is probably not as good as they looked today in Larry fedora's first game in Chapel Hill.

Let's face it as long as the ACC stays away from allowing Non qualifiers to play and the SEC does the ACC teams will always be at a disadvantage when ever they play any team from the SEC.  We as fans have to decide what we want.  Do we want to win at all cost or do we want to set the academic standards and make all ACC teams live by them.  There is no middle ground but fans want both and academic excellence and winning football most of the time don't go together.