Marshall Football Weekly Report: Week Two

Week Two of the college season, and things are off and running headlong toward the post-season. Like a young toddler year's season has bumped it's head on the coffee table a couple times, but for the most part it has shaped up as expected.Marshall University almost added it's name to the list of things that went wrong over the long weekend. Right below that haymaker thrown in the Boise State game and BYU continuing to play above expectations.Yes, Marshall almost proved us all wrong when everyone asked the question, can this team really lose to another I-AA school? I know my nomenclature is wrong and they are supposed to be called Football Championship Subdivision, but that's not important to the point.The point is the Herd almost left the weekend with a loss to a team that they quite frankly under estimated.The Marshall defense has long been a staple of the program and over the past few seasons has been the silver lining in the vast acid rainstorm that is called Mar...