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Each week this faculty soccer season, we’ll be doing a brand new collection known as The Top State. With FBS groups in 41 of the 50 states, the complete nation can be filled with groups representing their state on the gridiron and showcasing how good their state is at soccer. There’ll be an award given out right here for The Top State every week, which can be given to the state with some mixture of essentially the most wins that week, essentially the most impactful wins that week, and/or essentially the most fascinating wins that week. Saturday received the season into full swing with virtually each single workforce getting their season kicked off, with midday video games on the East Coast and late-night finales on the West. Let’s get into it!
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Honorable Mention: Louisiana
Biggest win of Week 1? Debatable, however LSU’s highway win at Clemson made plenty of doubters of their CFP potential look foolish on Saturday. The Tigers considerably elevated the chances that the state of Louisiana can be represented in the CFP come December with that victory. Tulane additionally elevated these odds by squashing Northwestern 23-3.
The Top State: Florida
The Sunshine State took down the legendary Alabama Crimson Tide on Saturday night, because the Florida State Seminoles, contemporary off a 2-10 season, triumphed victoriously at residence 31-17. The win was so large that their followers racked up $50,000 in field-storming fines. One large upset wasn’t what received Florida into this week’s high spot, although.
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On Sunday night time, Miami hosted final 12 months’s nationwide runner-ups, the legendary Notre Dame Fighting Irish, and knocked them off with a late subject objective 27-24. Around the remainder of the state, the Florida Gators handily beat an FCS workforce, FIU and UCF gained, and the South Florida Bulls upended Boise State in a Thursday night time sport.
Thus, the award for the Top State of Week 1 goes to Florida, as a result of all their faculties mainly took over half the nation and considerably impacted the CFP image by dealing losses to Alabama, Notre Dame, and Boise State all in one week!