7 things we've learned through 7 weeks of college football season

7 things we’ve learned through 7 weeks of the college football regular season

By Stu White | Oct 18, 2015

Oct 17, 2015; Baton Rouge, LA, USA; LSU Tigers running back Leonard Fournette (7) receives the snap from the shotgun and runs for a touchdown against the Florida Gators during the second quarter of a game at Tiger Stadium. Mandatory Credit: Derick E. Hingle-USA TODAY Sports /

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Oct 17, 2015; Waco, TX, USA; Baylor Bears wide receiver Corey Coleman (1) catches a pass and runs for a touchdown against the West Virginia Mountaineers during the second half at McLane Stadium. The Bears defeat the Mountaineers 62-38. Mandatory Credit: Jerome Miron-USA TODAY Sports /

2. Baylor’s Corey Coleman is unstoppable

It’s easy to downplay ridiculous individual performances when they happen within the context of potent, ruthlessly efficient offense like Baylor’s. Naysayers and doubters can write-off gaudy stats as merely being the product of a gimmicky system. Eye-popping numbers lose their impact when such numbers are what’s expected. Oh, of course so-and-so has a bazillion yards. That’s what’s the offense is designed to do. Yawn. Wake me up when Real Man Football is being played.

All that said, people can no longer ignore Baylor’s Corey Coleman. What the wide receiver is doing this year is absolutely jaw-dropping.

Through six games of the 2015 regular season, Coleman has already snagged 16 touchdowns. Yes, 16 touchdowns. Sure, Baylor hasn’t exactly faced the stiffest of competition, having gone up against the likes of SMU, Lamar, Rice and Kansas, but 16 receiving touchdowns by mid-October can’t be ignored.

Coleman isn’t just leading wide receivers in touchdowns this year. He’s hauling in more TD catches than most other teams. Even pass-happy, air-it-out-every-damn-play teams like Washington State and Cal barely have more team touchdowns than Coleman has individual. There’s no way to discredit numbers like that.

Will Coleman be able to keep up his record-shattering pace? Baylor’s second-half schedule is going to be a step up in difficult from what they went up against in the opening weeks of the season. With games against Oklahoma, Oklahoma State, TCU, and a maybe-turning-things-around Texas still left to play, it’ll be interesting to see if Coleman can continue putting up NFL Blitz statistics. Expect to see him in New York come Heisman season.

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