Mandel’s Forward Pass: College football’s Week 1 storylines

Saturday night was a fun little appetizer for the 2019 season. But with all due respect to Florida-Miami and Arizona-Hawaii … THIS. IS. WEEK. 1!

After nearly eight months of sifting through coachspeak, monitoring the Transfer Portal and making futile predictions, it’s time for the fun to begin. Here, now, the eight most important storylines I’ll be tracking this weekend.

1. Invasion of the freshmen.