College Football Roundup Week 0: What It All Means, Winners, Losers, Overrated, Underrated

College football Week 0 roundup with the winners, losers, overrated, and underrated aspects to the season

The Really Big Week 0 Thing Was …

Nebraska just can’t get this thing going.

It continues to be the problem with Scott Frost and the Huskers – they can’t win a close game. Ever.

That’s not entirely true, but eight of the nine losses last season were by eight points or fewer – and they gave Ohio State a run in the 26-17 loss.

Northwestern 31, Nebraska 28.

With the defeat in Dublin, 21 of Frost’s 30 losses over the last four years and one game were by eight points or fewer.

And even after all of the losing, all of the close calls, and all of the pain and suffering the former superpower program has endured …

It still seems like it’s SO CLOSE to being okay.

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With North Dakota, Georgia Southern, Indiana, at Rutgers, and Illinois still on the slate, this can still be a decent season because Nebraska really does appear to be better.

Can it beat Oklahoma, Minnesota, or Wisconsin at home, or take out Purdue, Michigan, or Iowa on the road? Now the expectations have gone down so low after this that winning just one of those games – or, heaven forbid, two – would totally change the narrative.

Of course, for all of the positive with the improved passing game, and for all of the good things the Huskers did, all anyone will remember is …

– UNC QB, Frost, Fitzgerald Winners & Losers
– THAT kick: Most Overrated Thing
– Florida Atlantic rolls: Most Underrated Thing
– Week 0 should be more: What It All Means, Week 0

NEXT: The most overrated thing was …