In prime time, LSU demolished Virginia Tech in Death Valley, while South Florida upset Auburn on The Plains.

Host Willy Daunic and Athlon Sports Senior Editor Mitch Light talk about last night's opening games of the 2007 college football season and then switch their attention to previewing the best matchups this weekend. Special guests include Dan Grogan from Athlon Fantasy Football and Tim Prister from IrishIllustrated.com.

Host Willy Daunic and Athlon Sports Senior Editor Mitch Light kick off the first Athlon Sports Radio show and breakdown the college football landscape one week before the season. Join them each week as they breakdown the SEC, then the rest of the nation, and prepare you for the upcoming weekend. Special guests include Dan Grogan from Athlon Fantasy Football and Josh Cooper from the Decatur Daily.

This could be the year Vanderbilt snaps its painful string of 24 consecutive losing seasons. When you combine a roster loaded with experience, some star power and a schedule that features eight home games, you have all of the necessary ingredients for a six- or seven-win season in Nashville.

The Heisman Trophy runner-up and Doak Walker award winner, Darren McFadden, returns to a team that won the SEC West. So does Felix Jones, another 1,000-yard rusher. The hopes of the 2007 Arkansas season rest on the shoulders of these two backs as the entire Razorback nation looks to get over a turbulent offseason.

Those young Gators will have to grow up quickly if they hope to come close to duplicating the success of last season. Florida must replace virtually all of its defense and a four-year starter at quarterback. The Gators face a rough schedule that features home games against Tennessee, Auburn and Florida State, the annual tussle with Georgia and a visit to LSU.

There are exclamation points ? most notably the return of a more seasoned Matthew Stafford ? and there are also question marks. The offensive line is inexperienced, the wide receivers are underachieving, and the defensive ends and most of the linebackers are just flat gone. One thing is for sure. It should be one heck of a year in Athens.

The Tigers go into the 2007 season with lofty and realistic expectations of battling for the national championship. And perhaps it?s not a coincidence that Les Miles? stamp on the Tigers is more obvious now than it was in his first two seasons.

Alabama is not deep, and its defensive front is suspect in size, numbers and talent. However, a big pack of skill players returns on offense. Couple that with Alabama's good-schedule year and maybe Nick Saban can pull a surprise in his first season in Tuscaloosa.

After spending the spring building UCLA's new offensive engine, Norm Chow's spring game test-drive focused on making modifications on the fly.

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Notre Dame and Arizona State will play in the new $1 billion home of the Dallas Cowboys in 2013.

Florida State offensive tackle Daron Rose is ineligible for the season and will attend a junior college.

Former Georgia Tech quarterback Joe Hamilton resigned from his position at the school Wednesday, a day after he was charged with marijuana possession, driving under the influence of alcohol and hit-and-run.

Former North Alabama linebacker Ronald McKinnon heads the Divisional Class selected for the College Football Hall of Fame on Wednesday.

Texas backup quarterback G.J. Kinne is transerring to Tulsa.

Florida International was placed on four years' probation by the NCAA on Wednesday and will lose scholarships for a variety of infractions.

The NCAA has accused Alabama State University of 23 rules violations, alleging widespread use of ineligible players, grade changes and recruiting misdeeds and charging the school with lack of institutional control.

Jacksonville State coach Jack Crowe has spoken to the family of former LSU quarterback Ryan Perrilloux about a possible transfer to an FCS team with no scholarship quarterbacks on the roster.

College teams that consistently underperform in the classroom are getting hit harder by the NCAA.

Two former Mississippi State players were given suspended sentences for firing guns on campus in March.

The NCAA has denied a request by Arkansas quarterback Ryan Mallett for immediate eligibility.

Troy Aikman, Billy Cannon and Lou Holtz are among the 15 former players and coaches elected Thursday to the College Football Hall of Fame.

A nonprofit group that hands out the Butkus Award to the nation's top college linebacker will stop presenting it after a yearlong legal battle with the Hall of Famer.

Saying the BCS was in an "unprecedented state of health," ACC commissioner John Swofford announced that college football will not change the way it determines its national champion.

The NCAA won't reconsider it's decision to deny former Cincinnati quarterback Ben Mauk another year of eligibility.

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