What It All Means: Week 0
There were only 11 games, and it wasn’t always scintillating, but it was college football, it was for real, and there were some big storylines to come out of it.
It’s not even September yet, and Twitter already has Scott Frost fired, Northwestern came up with a better moment than it enjoyed in all of 2021, Vanderbilt went crazy, Illinois looked decent enough, and Florida State and North Carolina got in some tune-up work.
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It’s a nice way to ease into the intensity, it gave a slew of teams that few would normally watch the spotlight status, and the soft opening to the campaign was nice among the glut of NFL preseason games and baseball.
Now it should be expanded.
I wrote this last year, and the year before, and in 2001, and I’ll probably put this in the 2028 version of this, too – so sorry for the repetition if you’ve endured this whine before.
College football is all hell-bent on pumping the exhibition games of the bowl season, but why not Week 0 when nothing else is going on?
Make it a national party with all FBS home games against FCS teams.
Everyone makes money, all of the big teams get live action work before dealing with bigger and better things, and we get the FCS dates out of the way so there’s no Alabama vs Austin Peay on November 19th, and Week 1 can be full of real FBS vs FBS matchups instead of the massive slate of whatever to go along with the few showdowns.
But it’s fine. Week 0 was was entertaining from the first touchdown of the season by Western Kentucky, right up until America needed Nevada to come up with one defensive stop – at 2 am ET – to cover against New Mexico State.
Welcome back, college football season.
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