The mighty Southeastern Conference has taken more hits than usual in the opening week of the college football season, raising questions about the SECs status as the nations premier conference.Red flags went up around the country after the SEC, which has won over 80 percent of its nonconference games since 2006, went just 6-5 against non-league opponents. The first-week schedule of marquee matchup ends Monday with No. 11 Mississippi facing No. 4 Florida State of the Atlantic Coast Conference in Orlando, Florida.No matter what happens in the Rebels-Seminoles matchup, it is too early to believe the SEC wont be in the national championship conversation all year. No. 1 Alabama crushed No. 20 Southern California 52-6, No. 18 Georgia beat No. 22 North Carolina 33-24 and Texas A&M defeated No. 16 UCLA 31-24 in overtime.Still, there were chinks in the SEC armor.No. 5 LSU fell 16-14 to unranked Wisconsin at Lambeau Field in a result, more fodder for the argument the SEC wouldnt fare so well in nonconference games if its teams left the South more often. LSU had won a Football Bowl Subdivision record 52 consecutive regular-season nonconference games.We knew what was at stake this season, LSU cornerback TreDavious White said. Our goal is to win it all and to go undefeated. ... Its a hurtful feeling.Kentucky blew a 35-10 lead in a 44-35 home loss to Southern Mississippi. Missouri fell 26-11 at West Virginia. Mississippi State lost 21-20 at home to 28-point underdog South Alabama when a potential game-winning 28-yard field-goal attempt bounced off the left upright in the closing seconds. The SEC is not used to celebrating moral victories, but the one loser with reason to feel good about itself was Auburn, which was competitive in a 19-13 home loss to No. 2 Clemson.I dont care if youre SEC or ACC, whatever conference youre in, you put your clothes on just like I do, Southern Mississippi defensive lineman Dylan Bradley said. That is our mentality, we talk, and thats just something we believe in. We can play anybody on the field no matter who they are.Some of the SECs wins were as concerning as the losses.No. 9 Tennessee needed overtime to beat 20-point underdog Appalachian State 20-13. Arkansas converted a fourth-and-goal for the winning touchdown with 6:37 left in a 21-20 squeaker over 25-point underdog Louisiana Tech. No. 25 Florida, a 36 +-point favorite, only led 10-7 at the start of the fourth quarter before pulling away for a 24-7 triumph over Massachusetts.Obviously, as you watched the game, weve got a long way to go, Florida coach Jim McElwain said afterward.One consistent problem is for the SEC is that some teams that struggled last year continue to face the same issues this season. LSU and Auburn still arent getting consistent quarterback production. Kentuckys defense remains porous. Florida and Missouri continue to have trouble moving the ball, though the Gators at least appear to have corrected the field-goal problems that haunted them a year ago.All of it opens a window for other conferences to take a bite out of the SEC, which has won eight of the last 10 national championships. The SEC entered this season having gone 496-110 in nonconference games (regular season and bowls) since 2006 for an .818 winning percentage that leads all leagues.Not that the window is fully open.The Crimson Tide handed USC its most lopsided loss in a half-century and may have found a quarterback in freshman Jalen Hurts, who threw two touchdown passes and ran for two more scores. Georgias Nick Chubb rushed for 222 yards and showed that he was all the way back from a knee injury that ended his 2015 season in October. Texas A&Ms defense sacked UCLA quarterback Josh Rosen five times and forced him into three interceptions.Do I think we can get a lot better? Yes I do, Texas A&M quarterback Trevor Knight said. 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TROON, Scotland -- As if Royal Troon isnt hard enough, what with the leaf-blower-strong Scottish winds, the sideways summer rains and the cheese-cracker-small Postage Stamp par-3, now comes a new, even more chilling threat.Dustin Johnson.Johnson has done what many of the other 155 players in the Open Championship field feared he would eventually do. He has figured it out. Or more precisely, figured himself out.We can talk about his prowess, [but] theres not many guys who can do what he does, said defending Open champion Zach Johnson. I just like watching him play golf. There are only so many guys you can watch. Hes one you can watch.There has never been much of a debate when it comes to which player on tour is the most physically gifted. That would be 32-year-old Johnson, who can dunk a basketball, do standing backflips and, oh, by the way, hit a driver that goes longer than some regional jet routes.The problem has never been Johnsons talent. His talent makes your knees wobble. It renders yardage books irrelevant. He looks at par-5s as long par-4s, and short par-4s as long par-3s.His longtime agent, David Winkle, remembers following Johnson during a college conference tournament shortly before DJ turned pro. Winkle stood off the fairway near the usual landing area of a 320-yard par-4, then turned back to watch Johnson on the tee box.He holds his finish, flies it over the other two guys, whose drives were about 60 yards short of the green, and the ball lands 15 feet, pin high, like a dropped bag of sand, Winkle said. He walks by, and I say, Man, Dustin, great shot. He says, Wink, you know, its just a perfect 3-wood today.A 3-wood ... 320 yards ... pin high.Hes a supreme athlete, and it just so happens that his sport -- for all of us, unfortunately -- is golf, Zach Johnson says.But until last month at Oakmont, Johnson had been unable to connect the dots between himself and a major championship. He would come tantalizingly and soul-crushingly close, but then something so DJ-ish would happen: an accidental bunker at Whistling Straits in the 2010 PGA Championship, a final-round 82 at Pebble Beach in the 2010 U.S. Open, out of bounds at Royal St. Georges in the 2011 Open Championship, a three-putt on the last hole at Chambers Bay in the 2015 U.S. Open.Now look at him. Johnson won a U.S. Open trophy in June, then backed it up two weeks later with a WGC-Bridgestone championship. He leads the tour in top-10 finishes this season, has moved to a career-best No. 2 in the world rankings and is one of the favorites to win this week at the 145th Open Championship.ddddddddddddHes as relaxed and confident on the golf course as Ive ever seen, Winkle said. I think hes got a lot more in the tank.You could say golf owed Johnson a major. But the truth is, Johnson owed golf. Nobody with those kinds of skills should go an entire career without slipping on a green jacket or kissing a Claret Jug, or raising a U.S. Open or Wannamaker trophy.There was no epiphany moment for Johnson. He and his game have evolved, matured. Maybe it began in 2014, when he took a self-described leave of absence from the tour to attend to personal issues. Maybe he has found a deepening stability and happiness with fiancée Paulina Gretzky and their 19-month-old son, Tatum. Or maybe, to borrow a line from Chicago Cubs manager Joe Maddon, he doesnt vibrate at the same frequency as others.At that 2011 Open Championship, Johnson emerged from the scorers trailer not in a funk after finishing T-2, but almost with a smile.How about that, he said to Winkle. My best finish ever in a major.And after each of those golf disasters, Johnson would never hide from the media. He might not say much, but at least he stopped and talked, even after he lost the U.S. Open because of a three-putt par on a Chambers Bay 18th green that had been reduced to glorified dirt.Everybody wanted him to wallow in disappointment, Winkle said. But with him, its nobody elses fault. Theres no pouting, no 30 minutes needed to cool down.The pre-Chambers Bay/Royal St. Georges/Whistling Straits/Pebble Beach version of Johnson might not have won at Oakmont. But Johnson kept it together, even as the USGA embarrassed itself in the final round with its comical penalty process.In retrospect, his previous majors failures prepared him for that exact moment, and he responded with a striped drive and then a 6-iron to 5 feet on a final hole, said Zach Johnson, that you dont hit a 6-iron to [5] feet... That was impressive.Will DJ win this week? Put it this way: He can neuter any course with his distance. His short game (especially his improved wedge play) is underrated. He has been freed from the pressures of winning his first major. And since 2010, he has two top-10s and four top-15 finishes at the Open Championship. So, yeah, I like his chances.Johnson makes his official Royal Troon media center appearance on Wednesday. Dont expect many revelations. As usual, his game is what speaks the loudest. Wholesale NFL White Jerseys Nike NFL Jerseys China Wholesale Stitched Jerseys Cheap NFL Womens Jerseys Wholesale Jerseys China Youth NFL Jerseys Wholesale Cheap NFL Jerseys Outlet Jerseys From China Jerseys NFL Cheap Disocunt Football Jerseys Wholesale NFL Gear Wholesale Jerseys 2018 NFL Jerseys Outlet Wholesale Jerseys 2019 NFL Jerseys Outlet ' ' '