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Week 1 showed us offseason narratives mean nothing until games are played

Vernell Brown III makes a ridiculous one-handed catch to gain 41 yards for Florida. (0:17)

During the long, dark months between the end of one season and the beginning of another, we tell each other stories, because we need something to fill the void. We dress those stories up, calling them things like "way too early" rankings, preseason predictions or scalding hot takes, and we sustain them with statistics, data and historical perspective. But ultimately, they are at best educated guesses and, at worst, outright lies.

Then Week 1 comes along and college football delivers us a heaping dose of the truth, exposing our deceptions to the world like the kiss cam at a Coldplay concert.

College football Week 1 winners and losers: LSU's win at Clemson saves SEC from really rough start to 2025

Let’s get this out of the way immediately: Week 1 in college football can be misleading.

Recent history is littered with season openers that didn’t affect the next dozen weeks like we thought they would. Drawing season-long conclusions based on one weekend’s worth of games is a perilous endeavor. Do it at your own risk.

But make no mistake. Saturday wasn't a great day for the SEC. And could have been a lot worse if No. 9 LSU hadn't snapped a five-game Week 1 losing streak against No. 4 Clemson.

Texas entered 2025 as the preseason No. 1 team in the AP Top 25 for the first time and won’t spend a second set of rankings at that spot after losing 14-7 at No. 3 Ohio State. The Longhorns were slight underdogs to the defending national champions before kickoff.

College football winners, losers in Week 1: LSU flexes national title-caliber defense, Arch Manning falls flat

College football has never been more unpredictable as the transfer portal and NIL deliver massively transformed rosters. And with that, Week 1 gave us one of the most electric weeks of college football that we've had in years. 

Right off the top, five AP Top 25 teams fell before the end of Week 1, including three in the top 10. Texas became the first preseason No. 1 team to lose its opener since Miami fell to BYU in 1990. 

But even down the board, there were major shakeups. Auburn looked the part of a complete team in a dominant win against Baylor. North Dakota gave Kansas State a tremendous scare. Tulane crushed Big Ten foe Northwestern by three touchdowns. Every game is a moment to be shocked. 

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