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College football Week 1 overreactions: Alabama is national title favorite, Clemson might not be playoff-worthy

Beauty is in the eye of the beholder. So are the results from Week 1 in college football.

In a sport where there is no preseason, the opening games are never going to works of art. Turnovers, penalties, special teams miscues and uneven play are going to be the norm, rather than the exception.

That leads to the inevitable misguided analysis that occurs from having a small sample size to evaluate teams. Many of these opinions start with the seed of bias that has been planted during the offseason. The results from the opener only validate them in their minds.