Saturday afternoon was supposed to deliver college football at its finest. A season opener loaded with storylines that had fans buzzing for weeks. The anticipation was at an all-time high with Alabama and Florida State taking the field. Especially after Florida State’s bold new quarterback, Thomas Castellanos, is looking to back up his summer trash talk. But then one completely unrelated game decided to hijack the entire afternoon, completely ignoring the fact that millions of viewers had carefully choreographed their Saturday around watching Castellanos try to make good on his promises.

The culprit? Tennessee and Syracuse. They locked in what seemed like an endless battle at Atlanta’s Mercedes-Benz Stadium. What should have been a tidy three-hour window stretched on and on, like that

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