Check your ego at the door
On the opening weekend of college football season, Virginia's Al Groh puts his ego aside to remind us that any win's a good win -- and is one more than Oklahoma has:
"If you're not happy with this win, you've got a problem with your ego," Groh said, according to the Washington Post after UVa's sloppy 31-19 win Saturday over unheralded Western Michigan. "I'm real happy. We won. That's a pretty good feeling. Now we've got one more win than Oklahoma's got. That feels pretty good, too. It wasn't perfect. Nope, it wasn't perfect. We'll do some things better. We better do some things better. I'm real happy about it. I'm not going to let my ego get in the way."
(The Sooners lost at home to TCU.)
That might be small consolation to Wake Forest and Duke, which lost to Vanderbilt and East Carolina, respectively. Maryland survived Navy on a last-minute TD. Clemson and Georgia Tech got the ACC big nonconference wins, though, for those who missed those late-Saturday night finishes (ABC's special report on Rehnquist's death almost ran long enough to keep the Tigers' dramatic finish off the air).
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What a poor weekend of football -- with "sloppy" being the operative word. It seemed like too many teams (Fla. State, Va. Tech, Oklahoma) had QBs who just weren't ready. Was that the case, or were the opposing defenses just that good?
Posted on September 6, 2005 1:15 PM