We always (over)react to college football’s first full Saturday

• I’m just kidding. Sort of. If Oregon has a great season and doesn’t make the college football playoff while Florida State does, you can give Land Clark’s crew a big assist. They certainly gave a bunch of them to the Seminoles last night in their tighter-than-expected win over Oklahoma State. A pass interference against FSU in the end zone that went uncalled. A phantom defensive holding call that kept a Seminole scoring drive alive. A missed fumble. Just another week’s work for the West Coast’s finest conference. Heck, I don’t know if the officiating crew in Hawaii works Pac-12 games, but the final play of the contest, when the Husky running back stepped out of bounds and it was ignored, had a conference feel to it. It seemed a fitting capper for a long day of watching college football. (As an aside, the big college game of today pits Southern Methodist University against Baylor, a Baptist institution, on a Sunday. Football is bigger than religion in Texas.) But no matter what, yesterday was a great way to start the season. There were enough tight games every fan had a chance to overreact at least once. UCLA fans (“what’s wrong with Brett Hundley?” ), California fans (“we’re going to win 12 games!”) and Husky fans (“why the heck did we hire this Peterson guy?”) . It’s an important fan skill that needs to be honed early in the season. But what did we really learn this first full week? We learned Eastern fans are really into their team, if 9,000 or so of them showed up for an easy win over an NAIA school from Montana. That’s impressive. So was the lightning – and the rain – in Florida last night. And we learned the Peterson era might just face a rocky start, especially since Eastern is the next opponent and another close win – or, god forbid, a loss – over an FCS school, even a good-to-great FCS school, won’t be met with much happiness. We learned Mike Leach wasn’t too enamored with Cougar defensive coordinator Mike Breske’s game plan – just read his comments on WSU’s “one-dimensional” schemes up front – against Rutgers. We learned UCLA’s offensive line is suspect, USC is going to run a lot of plays and Oregon is quite a bit better than South Dakota. We learned Arizona may just have another decent quarterback, Oregon State still hasn’t learned how to dominate FCS schools and California isn’t going to be the pushover it was last season. Or maybe, just maybe, all of those lessons are really just overreactions.

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• WSU: Besides Leach’s comments following practice yesterday, Jacob Thorpe also has quotes from the Cougar players as well as a practice summary that includes quotes from Breske. Then, of course, today he has a morning post with links. … WSU had a nice day in cross country action. That’s part of our college roundup. … ESPN.com’s Pac-12 blog has its thoughts on what we learned in the first week and hands out helmet stickers , including one to Connor Halliday. … Next up for WSU is Nevada . The Wolf Pack took care of Southern Utah last night.

• EWU: The Eagles breezed to a 41-9 win even though they rested a handful of starters. Jim Allen has the game story and Colin Mulvany the photographs .

• Idaho: There was supposed to be a game in Gainesville last night. There wasn’t. It started, but only last about 10 seconds. A slip-n-slide field isn’t conducive to a game. John Blanchette has a story and a blog post on a game that was originally terminated – yes, that’s the word that was used – then later suspended.

• Indians: Spokane controls whom will make the NWL playoffs, as it has to defeat Vancouver twice to knock the Canadians out of the playoffs after Vancouver won 5-4 last night.

• Chiefs: The Chiefs earned a 2-1 win at Everett last night in preseason WHL action.

• Preps: We do have a roundup of the minimal high school action yesterday.

• Seahawks: Most of the Hawks’ roster decisions yesterday – every team in the NFL had to get down to the 53 players on the regular season roster – were pretty well expected . There were a few surprises , for example receiver Bryan Walters (pictured) being cut even though the Hawks kept seven other receivers , but most of the moves were expected. … Remember, yesterday’s moves aren’t the final ones the Hawks will make. The roster is always changing in the NFL. … Churches have to work around the Hawks schedule on Sundays.

• Mariners: When this homestand began, the M’s were poised to make a run toward the playoffs. But not right now. They have lost three consecutive games – last night it was 3-1 to Stephen Strasburg and the Nationals – and are 1 1/2 games behind Kansas City and Detroit – the two are tied – in the second wild-card race. The West? The Angels are making short work of that. … Despite throwing a lot of innings, Chris Young isn’t tired. … The M’s are also falling in the power rankings .

​• Sounders: Three points are three points , even if the Sounders weren’t artistic in earning them . At least in the first half. But Clint Dempsey’s second-half goal off a corner earned Seattle a 1-0 win over Colorado. … Marco Pappa delivered the corner to Dempsey, but he won’t being doing that for a while. He’s headed off to join his national team. … The Sounders were happy with the victory . The Rapids were unhappy with the defeat. What else is new? … Salt Lake and San Jose tied.

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• College football revved up yesterday and the weather decided to take a turn toward fall this morning in Spokane. Clouds, a cool breeze and a touch of chill in the air. Seems appropriate. Until later …