I know some of y’all will disagree with me, but I love it when Kirk Herbstreit calls games. His work on the ABC/ESPN Saturday Night Football marquee matchups speaks for itself, and now he’s working with Al Michaels broadcasting NFL Thursday Night Football games on Amazon Prime.

I thought he did a great job with the Chiefs-Chargers game and I’m excited to see how he does moving forward with some of the big Thursday night games Amazon landed for 2022.

Now, we just need Herbstreit to do more games. I know he likes the Cincinnati Reds. Get him on those broadcasts. Have him call a few NBA games. Who cares? He already knows the schools, so why shouldn’t he call a couple of college hoops games every year?

If Herbstreit reads this (and I can only assume my Mailbag is the first thing he reads every Friday morning), he’s probably shaking his head no vigorously, as I’m sure he’s busy enough. But he’s one of the best broadcasters in the business today and he deserves more credit for that.

Now, let’s dive into your questions for this week’s Mailbag:

Mac:

What has been the most disappointing team in college football this year? Plenty of choices to pick from.

It has to be Notre Dame at this point, right? There are indeed plenty of options to choose from, but the Fighting Irish are a disappointing 0-2 to start the Marcus Freeman era.

Texas A&M is an obvious runner-up at this point, having lost to Appalachian State at home. But the Irish getting schooled by Marshall in Week 2 was the worst loss of the year for a Power 5 team thus far.

That’s not a knock on the Thundering Herd. Charles Huff is a hell of a coach and deserves all the good things coming his way. He’s worked hard to get to this point, and that shows in how prepared his team was for the big stage.

But, if you’re Notre Dame, you can’t start 0-2. That Week 1 loss to Ohio State is now more of a concern for the Buckeyes that they didn’t blow out the Irish and let them hang around. We’ll see if either the Irish or the Aggies can turn things around moving forward.

I’d also be remiss if I didn’t mention Nebraska in this space, as the Huskers have already fired coach Scott Frost. Yikes. The reason they aren’t No. 1 in my most-disappointing team rankings, though, is that they were nowhere near the top 25 to start the year. Notre Dame and Texas A&M were top-10 teams.

James:

Which SEC player has been flying under the radar this year and deserves more love?

I don’t think Arkansas RB Rocket Sanders is getting nearly enough attention so far this fall. The Razorbacks have played 2 solid opponents – Cincinnati and South Carolina – and it hasn’t slowed Sanders down at all.

He has 273 rushing yards in those 2 games, leading the SEC over a pair of Vanderbilt players (Ray Davis and Mike Wright) who have each played 3 contests. Auburn’s Tank Bigsby is in second place among SEC players who have played only 2 games, with 199 yards thus far.

With KJ Jefferson also drawing plenty of attention from opposing defenses in the running game, there have been some holes for Sanders to hit. But, he’s hitting them consistently and is off to a great start this year.

We’ll see if he can keep it up when SEC West play starts, but so far, he’s been impressive and I haven’t heard his name mentioned nearly enough outside of Arkansas circles.

Shane:

Which Group of 5 team has the best College Football Playoff chances entering Week 3?

Incredibly, at this point in the season, only one non-Power 5 team is ranked in the AP Poll – No. 12 BYU. Considering the Cougars just took down a top-10 Baylor team in Provo, they’re the answer to this question.

This isn’t some weak Group of 5 schedule the Cougars are facing, either. They travel to Autzen Stadium to play No. 25 Oregon this weekend in a marquee game. In Week 6, they face Notre Dame in Las Vegas. In Week 7, they host No. 10 Arkansas in Provo.

Then, to conclude the season, they head to Stanford to take on the Cardinal. There’s a lot of meat on that bone. If they can go undefeated this year, they’ll have as good of a case for Playoff inclusion as any Pac-12 team has ever had.

There’s a reason BYU was so attractive to the Big 12, and it’s not just because it expands the league’s footprint into the Mountain time zone. The Cougars are legit. They have been for years and if they win at Oregon on Saturday, we’ll have to start having the discussion on where they belong in the top 10.

@Dobbe8:

Yes, only 1 week of the NFL season has passed so far, but who do you have in the Super Bowl this year?

I honestly have no idea who will make the Super Bowl this year. The one thing I am confident about is that whatever AFC team makes it to the title game will beat whatever NFC team makes it that far.

Since I’m not confident in anything at this point, I’m going to go crazy with my pick here. Are y’all ready for this?

My Super Bowl pick is…

Cincinnati Bengals over Minnesota Vikings.

Why not? Yes, the Bengals are 0-1, but they lost by a field goal at the end of overtime in a game Joe Burrow threw 4 picks. I would bet a lot of money that Burrow won’t throw 4 interceptions in a game the rest of the year.

In the NFC, I’m a Packers fan, so am I trying to jinx the Vikings? I’ll never tell. All I know is that Justin Jefferson looked unstoppable against a loaded Green Bay secondary on Sunday. He legitimately might be the best non-QB, non-Aaron Donald player in the league.

Let’s go ahead and predict an all-2019 LSU Super Bowl reunion. Burrow, Jefferson, Ja’Marr Chase… there would be storylines aplenty ahead of that game.

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