What It All Means: Week 0
I’ve been screaming about this for over 20 years and yet it continues to fall on deaf ears.
Why in heaven’s name would you possibly schedule a game that matters to start your season?
There’s no preseason like there is in the NFL. There’s no warm-up. There’s no time to get the timing down and figure out if all the parts are working. There’s no mulligan.
Nebraska is now 0-1 in the Big Ten West and in big, big trouble before September starts. That certainly looked and played like a team that could’ve used a work-the-kinks-out Week 0 game against Central Cupcake State.
Hawaii was more than just a paycheck opponent for UCLA, but it wasn’t a Pac-12 game.
There weren’t any problems for the Bruins on the way to a 31-3 halftime lead and a 44-10 win, and they did it even though QB Dorian Thompson-Robinson was off, hitting just half of his passes for 130 yards and a score.
But that’s the point. UCLA didn’t schedule LSU first. DTR had a mediocre game, and hopefully for the team he shook off the rust and is ready to go for the mega-showdown this Saturday.
Week 0 Roundup
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Week 0 Scoreboard | Week 1 Expert Picks
Is Fresno State going to beat Oregon this week because it cranked up a 45-0 win over an overmatched UConn? Probably not, but it’s a big plus to have a whole lot of live work and reps in before making the trip to Eugene.
So now I continue to push this rock up the mountain.
College football, make the Week 0 Saturday a national holiday.
All FBS teams get a home game against an FCS team, and that’s it for the FCS games for the rest of the year.
Yeah, I know, most teams are using this coming Saturday or September 11th as the time to get that easy win in over the FCSer, but everyone should pull a San Jose State. It took out Southern Utah 45-14 in Week 0 before facing USC.
America, let’s make Week 0 a thing.
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