College football is back, though Philly sports fans will have to wait a week to see their favorite schools in action.
While Saturday is officially the opening of the college football season, it is known as Week 0, as most NCAA Division I teams start their season on the first Saturday before Labor Day. The first game of Week 0 took place 39 years ago, when Nebraska crushed Penn State at New Jersey’s Giants Stadium in the 1983 Kickoff Classic.
Eleven games are scheduled for Saturday, up from five last season, though none of the teams in the Associated Press’s Top 25 College Football poll will be in action.
The best game seems to be Nebraska versus Northwestern, a Big Ten matchup being played at the Aviva Stadium in Dublin, Ireland, between two teams looking to turn things around after disappointing 2021 seasons. It’s the first regular-season international game in five years, and part of a five-game deal dubbed the Aer Lingus College Football Classic that was scheduled to start in 2020 but was delayed due to COVID-19.
All start times are Eastern Standard Time:
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Austin Peay in Western Kentucky: 12:00 p.m., CBS Sports Network (Chick Hernandez, Randy Cross)
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Nebraska at Northwestern (in Dublin): 12:30 pm, Fox (Jason Benetti, Brock Huard)
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Idaho State at UNLV: 3:30 p.m., CBS Sports Network (Chris Lewis, Donte Whitner)
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UConn in the state of Utah: 16:00, FS1 (Alex Faust, Petros Papadakis)
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Wyoming in Illinois: 4 p.m., Big Ten Network (Brandon Gaudin, Joshua Perry)
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Duquesne in the state of Florida: 5 p.m., ACC Network (Drew Carter, Roddy Jones)
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Charlotte in Atlantic Florida: 7 p.m., CBS Sports Network (Chris Hassel, Robert Turbin)
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Florida A&M in North Carolina: 8:15 p.m., Red ACC (Matt Barrie, Tim Hasselbeck)
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North Texas at UTEP: 21:00, Stadium
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Nevada in the state of New Mexico: 10:00 p.m., ESPN2 (Roy Philpott, Andre Ware)
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Vanderbilt in Hawaii: 10:30 p.m. CBS Sports Network (Rich Waltz, Aaron Taylor)
The Nittany Lions kick off their 2022 season against the Purdue Boilermakers on Thursday, September 1 at 8 p.m.
The game will air on Fox instead of ESPN thanks to Joe Buck’s decision to leave the network and join his old football teammate Troy Aikman in the booth. Monday night football. Fox agreed to let Buck go even though he had one year left on his contract in exchange for an additional pick from this season’s Big Ten football roster, which happened to be Penn State versus Purdue.
Penn State is 15-3-1 all-time against Purdue, dating back to 1951. The last time the two met was in 2019 at Beaver Stadium, with the Nittany Lions posting an easy 35-7 win.
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Temple
in duke
Friday, September 2, 7:30 p.m.
ACC Network
rutgers
at boston university
Saturday, September 3, 12 p.m.
ACC Network
Villanueva
against Lehigh
Friday, September 2, 6 p.m.
FloFootball
Pennsylvania
against Colgate
Saturday, September 17, 1 p.m.
ESPN+
Delaware
in the Navy
Saturday, September 3, 12 noon
CBS Sports Network
Range
Equipment
first opponent
Date
1.
Alabama
state of utah
September 3, 7:30 p.m.
two.
Ohio State
notre dame
September 3, 7:30 p.m.
3.
Georgia
Oregon
September 3, 15:30
Four.
Clemson
ga tech
September 3, 8 p.m.
5.
notre dame
Ohio State
September 3, 7:30 p.m.
6.
Texas A&M
Sam Houston Status
September 3, 12 noon
7.
Utah
Florida
September 3, 7 p.m.
8.
Michigan
colorado state
September 3, 12 noon
9.
Oklahoma
UTEP
September 3, 15:30
10
Baylor
albany
September 3, 7 p.m.
eleven
Oregon
Georgia
September 3, 15:30
12
saint oklahoma
north carolina street
September 3, 12 noon
13
north carolina street
saint oklahoma
September 3, 12 noon
14
USC
Rice
September 3, 6 p.m.
fifteen.
michigan street
western michigan
September 2, 7 p.m.
sixteen.
Miami Florida)
bethune-cook
September 3, 15:30
17
pittsburgh
West Virginia
September 3, 7 p.m.
18
Wisconsin
State of Illinois
September 3, 7 p.m.
19
Arkansas
Cincinnati
September 3, 15:30
twenty
Kentucky
miami
September 3, 7 p.m.
twenty-one
old lady
Troy
September 3, 4 p.m.
22
forest stele
IMV
September 1, 7:30 p.m.
23
Cincinnati
Arkansas
September 3, 15:30
24
houston
UTSA
September 3, 15:30
25
BYU
South Florida
September 3, 4 p.m.