Week 1 occasionally delivers truly great football, an epic battle of two teams destined for a playoff run.
It also delivers some awful football, as two teams still shaking off the rust of a long offseason wage a battle of attrition.
But Saturday's noon slate gave us something else entirely. It was a Schrödinger's cat of college football -- both great and awful, beautiful and horrifying, live and dead, all at once.
On the wide open plains of Iowa, the Hawkeyes delivered a win so gloriously ugly, the only true complaint is that the 7-3 final score was marred by a late safety that left even Iowa fans, now secure in victory, dejected.