Hitting the Week One highlights with SEC Network host Peter Burns

Key notes from Peter Burns interview

• The idea was that Scott Frost was everything on paper. They had zero wins before him, and then they went undefeated under him at UCF. Frost had that lineage as the quarterback on that 1997 team. The idea came up of what movie had a great cast but just sucked? Mind was The Monuments Men with George Clooney. I think Suicide Squad was so bad that they're doing another one. That might be where it's at for Nebraska.
   
• For Texas A&M football, you're not trying to reclaim a national championship season from the 1990s. They're trying to create something new. The programs like Nebraska or Tennessee would kill to be in the spot that the Aggies are in right now.
   
• There are different trains of thought about what you want in that opening game. During the Kevin Sumlin era, it was Lamar and teams like that. Kent State is a step up from that. It should be a little bit more of an interesting opponent in week one.
   
• Haynes King and Zach Calzada play different styles of football. How much do we trust Jimbo Fisher to adjust calling games to this style of football? In today's game, it's a race to 50. How are you going to use Haynes King in week one? Are you going to shelter him, or are you going to try and show you're a playoff contender?
   
• You want guys in space. Look at what Lane Kiffin did in Oxford. He got his athletes in space. You have to get those athletes in space and let them shine. When you do, the next breakout star is going to happen, and recruiting begets recruiting. I think football will regress a little bit and be less wide-open, but I think it lends the perfect situation for Texas A&M. The schedule also provides a perfect ramp-up for the Aggies.
   
• The running game is like Billy Liucci: It's not sexy. It's an old-school mentality of football. If you saw the way A&M was kicking everybody's ass at the end of last year if you saw it in 2005, you'd be going, "Hell yeah, that's championship football." Now it's not as cool to go 80 yards and take seven minutes off the clock. It still wins, but style points still matter. People being enamored with Ohio State and not with Texas A&M last year is a product of being thirsty for those big offenses.
   
• Moving to Houston locks LSU in for a different reason. They're allowed to play football and have fun, but when so many people are being affected in Louisiana and the Baton Rouge area, it's a real thing. What I've learned being an LSU fan is that people depend on LSU football more than wins and losses. It's a way through life. Regarding Week One, UCLA looked fairly good against Hawaii, and they ran the ball well. I think LSU's defense is chomping at the bit. I do think LSU's running back situation is a little nicked up. We'll see on Saturday.
   
• I think you're going to see a lot of D'Eriq King and a lot of Alabama running backs. I talked to Miami's play-by-play guy, and he was talking about how fast their linebackers were. Think about how many road graders Alabama has on the offensive line. They can grind it out and take chances when they can. The only way Alabama loses to Miami is if Bryce Young has a couple of early turnovers. You should be able to grind it out with no problem.
   
• The Clemson-Georgia game is such a coin-flip game to me. If you lose that game, as long as it's not a 17 or 21-point blowout, you're fine. Clemson is probably going to run the table in the ACC and is probably is CFP team. If Georgia loses, they'd still control their own destiny because they're the best team in the SEC East.
   
• I think Tennessee will be interesting, and I think they'll have a track meet on Thursday. Their offense will remind us more of what Ole Miss did last year. I have no idea what to expect from Dan Mullen and Florida yet. Everyone is talking about Emory Jones, but it seems like Richardson is pushing him. Combined with losing Pitts and Toney, it could be tough. I think it's Georgia and everybody else in the East, and I've said it for a while that I think it's Texas A&M-Georgia in Atlanta for the SEC Championship this year.