College football’s Week 0 games are being assessed by outlets that name winners and losers from the opening slate of the season. Yahoo Sports and CBS Sports both feature Bill Belichick’s USC team prominently among the winners, while North Carolina State is also included in coverage of standout and disappointing performances.
Both articles frame Week 0 as an “action-packed” start, using selected game outcomes to categorize teams. Yahoo Sports credits USC and NC State among the winners and losers, indicating mixed results across the slate. CBS Sports similarly lists USC’s association with Belichick as a major positive, while also describing NC State’s performance as more underwhelming. The differing emphasis in the two pieces is mainly about how strongly each team’s Week 0 showing is portrayed rather than disputing the basic inclusion of these teams in the overall evaluations.
