First weekend! Let's make some rash judgments!

This might be the best time of the year in volleyball. This is our one chance to really go nuts and extrapolate wild, sweeping generalizations with a really poor data sample size.

Oregon is for real! ...at least on Friday night! - We are! Penn State...? Obviously, anytime a bunch of Ducks walk into Happy Valley and win, it means the Rise of the Duck and the end of Penn State as any kind of powerhouse program, right? Well, until you get to Saturday night, when...

USC doesn't want to be #1! - USC almost ran the table on the weekend after defeating the Gopher Nation in 5, and then being up 17-11 in the 4th against PSU before the wheels fell off, and the bus went in a ditch, breaking both axles, creating an environmental biohazard. Yeah, it was that ugly. Oh, also the Gophers overcame the Ducks.

See also... "Micah Hancock: Better than sliced bread?", "Thanks a lot, Falyn", and "What does it all mean?! A Gopher Guide to Strange Days."

Texas is only great against American opponents! - Sure, beat Pepp and Ole Miss, but not so fortunate against Israel, were ya'? That could prove meaningful exactly never.

Kentucky can't ever beat Florida State! - Or maybe just Seminole teams loaded with foreigners. Something like that.

Assistants are more important than anyone thought! - Sure, you need someone to chart your passing for you and to look good in a polo shirt. But, Whitis leaves TN. TN needs five games to beat Ohio and Maryland. Sullivan and Stemke leave Lincoln. Huskers need five to beat the Aggies. See? That's incontrovertible evidence that assistants mean more!

Benson-less Indiana is doomed! - Either that or CSU and Va Tech are just, you know, better than Indiana on these two nights in August. Where have you gone, Robert Guillaume?

Kent Miller's is powerless against Chippewas! - In his return to head coaching, Miller's Billikens beat Marquette, beat Iowa, and then lost to Central Michigan? Who of course lost to Iowa and Marquette?

The glory days are back for the Wramblin' Wreck! - Three wins including an upset of Louisville! Happy days are here again! The skies above are clear again! Now we'll get to the Elite 8 and lose to Hawaii!

Washington hates prairies! - 5. 7. 9. Is it Michael Landon? A personal vendetta against Melissa Gilbert? A distaste for half pints?