After having their scheduled opener against Nicholls State postponed, this was the season opener for Oregon State. The Beavers were coming off of a 3-9 season and facing the #13 Wisconsin Badgers who were coming off of an 11-3 season and a trip to the Rose Bowl. Oregon State did have home field advantage but not many thought they would stop Montee Ball and the Wisconsin rushing attack.

The sixteenth edition of the CFBZ podcast is in the books! Bernie from Bernie's Dawg Blawg joined me on the show. In addition to his Georgia Bulldogs based site, Bernie also writes for Blog on Draft, a craft beer website on the Bloguin network.

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After going 7-6 in his first season, Will Muschamp certainly raised some questions. In year two, Muschamp improved to an impressive 11-2. Year three will be the most telling as Muschamp has now been through three recruiting cycles and a lot of the inherited talent has moved on. As impressive as the 11-2 season was, it ended on a down note with a 33-23 loss at the hands of former Florida defensive coordinator Charlie Strong and the Louisville Cardinals.

Free agency goes down tomorrow at 4 PM EST so the needs could change drastically but right now this is what I see.

1. Kansas City Chiefs = Luke Joeckel OT Texas A&M

Sure they reupped with Branden Albert but he can slide to guard or even right tackle to replace Eric Winston so the Chiefs take the value here.

2. Jacksonville Jaguars = Sharrif Floyd DT Florida

The Jaguars have a lot of needs and the defensive line is at the top of the list even though they have drafted this area in the 1st round twice since 2008. One to watch here is Ezekial Ansah as supposedly they are really high on him.

Spring practice is revving up and now is as good a time as any to open up our mailbag and answer some questions from our followers from the world of twitter:

I know we already talked about Aaron Murray once this week but I came across an interesting link and thought I would share it. I've recently started to follow Chris Brown's great site Smart Football. Occasionally Chris shoots out some links posts and today he made one that linked to a site called Football Perspective. In this link, Football Perspective took a look at the best passing seasons since 2005. Who do you think was the best QB in 2012 based on their criteria?

Last year I had a chance to interview West Virginia beat writer Mike Casazza on my podcast and I really thought the name of his book summed up college football to a tee. It's called "Waiting for the Fall" and that's what we are doing right now. There are some good parts of the off-season like National Signing Day, Spring Games and the start of fall practices but we are really all just sitting and waiting for that first kick-off of the college football season. I enjoy doing the previews that lead up to the first game but let's face it, we just want the first weekend to get here. With that being said, here's what we are waiting for in week one:

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According to Irish Sports Daily, top prospect Gunner Kiel will transfer from Notre Dame after just one year of roaming the sideline. Notre Dame had a wildly successful 2012 that saw head coach Brian Kelly and his team way ahead of schedule as they posted a 12-0 regular season record before being pummeled in the National Championship Game by Alabama. A key factor in the transfer has to be the emergence of rising sophomore Everett Golson. 

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Aaron Murray has had a very successful career at Georgia. Going into his red-shirt senior season he has thrown for over 10,000 yards, 95 TDs and has led the Bulldogs to two straight SEC Championship Games with the team going 22-6 over the last two years. In addition to the success he's had on the field, he's also had success off of the field as he earned his bachelor's degree in psychology this past May and started graduate classes in industrial-organizational psychology this past fall. 

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The Michigan Wolverines got some great news today as their starting QB Devin Gardner was granted an additional year of eligibility by the NCAA. Coming out of high school, Gardner was ranked by Scout.com as the #5 QB in his class and was given the prestigious five star ranking.

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