Power 5 play begins this week with fewer non-conference blowouts on the slate than usual.

Forty names, games, teams and minutiae making news in college football (remedial clock management instruction available at Middle Tennessee):

FIRST QUARTER: BRING ON THE BIG BOYS

Week One was a weak one. No splashy intersectional games in JerryWorld, Atlanta, Orlando or a single Power 5 campus. We did get a touching display of emotion from Kirk Herbstreit, a 99-yard Army drive and UTEP holding an opponent to fewer than 15 points for the first time in four seasons. That’s about it.

Just a single team from the preseason SI Still Standing 16 has played thus far, and that was Memphis. Things pick up this week, with most of the ACC and Big 12 swinging into action.

A quick look at the openers from our Still Standing 16, as we get into a fat-free fall with many fewer