College football

Week 0 provides a massive Big Ten matchup that could determine the trajectory of one coach's career.

[Austin Peay](https://www.cbssports.com/college-football/teams/AP/austin-peay-governors/)at [Western Kentucky](https://www.cbssports.com/college-football/teams/WKY/western-kentucky-hilltoppers/)-- noon on CBS Sports Network ( [find channel](http://www.cbssportsnetwork.com/)), [CBSSports.com](https://cbs-sports.app.link/Ek1FU81gIjb)and [CBS Sports App](https://cbs-sports.app.link/Ek1FU81gIjb) [Idaho State](https://www.cbssports.com/college-football/teams/IDST/idaho-state-bengals/)at [UNLV](https://www.cbssports.com/college-football/teams/UNLV/unlv-rebels/)-- 3:30 p.m. on CBS Sports Network ( [find channel](http://www.cbssportsnetwork.com/)), [CBSSports.com](https://cbs-sports.app.link/Ek1FU81gIjb)and [CBS Sports App](https://cbs-sports.app.link/Ek1FU81gIjb) [North Texas](https://www.cbssports.com/college-football/teams/NTEXAS/north-texas-mean-green/)at [UTEP](https://www.cbssports.com/college-football/teams/UTEP/utep-miners/)-- 9 p.m. on CBS Sports Network ( [find channel](http://www.cbssportsnetwork.com/)), [CBSSports.com](https://cbs-sports.app.link/Ek1FU81gIjb)and [CBS Sports App](https://cbs-sports.app.link/Ek1FU81gIjb) [UConn](https://www.cbssports.com/college-football/teams/UCONN/connecticut-huskies/)at [Utah State](https://www.cbssports.com/college-football/teams/UTAHST/utah-state-aggies/)-- 4 p.m. Come for the quarterback intrigue, but stay for the joy of watching star wide receiver [Josh Downs](/college-football/players/3162970/josh-downs/) in action. [fuboTV](https://www.fubo.tv/lp/collegefootball/?irad=399332&irmp=416484&sharedID=HTW) (Try for free): Coach Bret Bielema announced Thursday that ex-Syracuse starting quarterback Tommy DeVito will lead his team against the Cowboys. The Timmy Chang era will kick off for Hawaii as the former Rainbow Warriors quarterback takes over his alma mater in the hopes of leading it back to national prominence. [find channel](http://www.cbssportsnetwork.com/)), [CBSSports.com](https://cbs-sports.app.link/Ek1FU81gIjb) and [CBS Sports App](https://cbs-sports.app.link/Ek1FU81gIjb): The SEC season will kick off in the nightcap when Commodores coach Clark Lea takes his team to the middle of the Pacific Ocean to take on the Rainbow Warriors. DeVito has had plenty of success at the FBS level and multiple weapons around him, including a potential star at tight end [Luke Ford](/college-football/players/2975611/luke-ford/). [fuboTV](https://www.fubo.tv/lp/collegefootball/?irad=399332&irmp=416484&sharedID=HTW) (Try for free): Cornhuskers coach Scott Frost is on one of the [hottest seats in the country](https://www.cbssports.com/college-football/news/nebraska-and-scott-frost-are-sure-traveling-a-long-way-for-a-must-win-big-ten-game-in-week-0/), and he lured former Texas starting quarterback [Casey Thompson](/college-football/players/2966934/casey-thompson/) to Lincoln, Nebraska, to take over for the recently-departed [Adrian Martinez](/college-football/players/2966360/adrian-martinez/). Florida State coach Mike Norvell is in a big year and it's not like the Seminoles have fared well in season-openers recently. Coach Pat Fitzgerald has a stout offensive line, but has held his quarterback situation close to the vest even after they arrived in Ireland. Ladies and gentlemen, believe it or not, the 2022 FBS college football season is finally here.

Official or not, college football starts Saturday with a Week 0 slate that features double-digit games, including a nationally broadcast conference game ...

But every game that will broadcast this week can be streamed via Only one game will be broadcast nationally in Week 0: Nebraska vs. [Top 25 QBs for 2022](https://www.sportingnews.com/us/ncaa-football/news/ranking-college-footballs-top-25-quarterbacks-2022/qgloxtp6i6ebojhheis1zyug) The remaining six games involve some combination of Group of 5 and Power 5 opponents. will need to produce more of those results in 2022, as the fifth-year coach has yet to lead his alma mater to a winning season (he is 15-29 in the previous four years). That game, the only one that will be nationally broadcast during the opening week, will take place in Dublin.

Well, it's finally here. After a long and eventful offseason, the 2022 college football schedule kicks off with 11 games set for the traditional Week 0 ...

[Bookmark](https://si.com/fannation/college/cfb-hq) - Oklahoma - Michigan - Utah Bret Bielema returns a good enough defense while transfer quarterback Tommy DeVito unleashes his big arm in his first start for the Illini. Keep an eye on the Aggies, who won 11 games, beat Oregon State in the bowl, and finished in the top 25 poll, opening against one of college football's worst programs before heading to Alabama.

Nebraska and Northwestern are having a Big Ten showdown in Dublin as Ireland gets its 10th college football game, its first since 2016, and one of the more ...

12:15 p.m. ET, 5:30 p.m. The network will broadcast the game from Aviva Stadium beginning at 5:30 p.m. -- Northwestern makes a costly penalty on third and goal, getting tagged for a facemask after stopping Nebraska short of the goal line. Northwestern puts a punt inside the Nebraska 10 with about 6:30 left in the half. Nebraska took two timeouts and, with 1:49 on the clock, the Wildcats line up on fourth-and-1 and dive forward with a QB sneak for a first down. Big series there for Nebraska to come back from a good Northwestern punch to end the first half. Great play from the Nebraska defense, tough break for the Northwestern offense. Nebraska tries to sneak in an onside kick but Northwestern recovers, and they'll start in Nebraska territory with nine minutes in the quarter down 28-17. Nebraska will have the ball back with the lead. He completes it to Washington over the middle for a huge gain with no one home, and Northwestern is back in Nebraska territory. -- After failing to convert on third down, Northwestern misses a kick to the right to give Nebraska the ball back.

A closer look at the top games for Week 0 of the 2022 college football season.

Pick: Illinois -10 -- Barrett Sallee [Charlotte](https://www.cbssports.com/college-football/teams/CHARLO/charlotte-49ers/) at [FAU](https://www.cbssports.com/college-football/teams/FAU/florida-atlantic-owls/) [-267BET NOW ] [-7-110BET NOW ] [o59.5-110BET NOW ] [+215BET NOW ] [+7-110BET NOW ] [u59.5-110BET NOW ] Pick: Over 59.0 -- Shehan Jeyarajah [Vanderbilt](https://www.cbssports.com/college-football/teams/VANDY/vanderbilt-commodores/) at Hawaii [+278BET NOW ] [+9.5-110BET NOW ] [o54.5-110BET NOW ] [-355BET NOW ] [-9.5-110BET NOW ] [u54.5-110BET NOW ] Nebraska has made a lot of changes on the offensive side of the ball, and there's a strong chance the Cornhuskers will be on a limited playbook in the first game of the season. [fuboTV](https://www.fubo.tv/lp/collegefootball/?irad=399332&irmp=416484&sharedID=HTW) (Try for free) -- If I'm betting the spread, I'm taking Northwestern and the points -- but not because I have that much faith in the Wildcats. [Nebraska](https://www.cbssports.com/college-football/teams/NEB/nebraska-cornhuskers/) vs. That will force the Commodores into a shootout -- one that Wright and Co. [CBS Sports Network](http://www.cbssportsnetwork.com/), [CBSSports.com](https://cbs-sports.app.link/Ek1FU81gIjb), [CBS Sports App](https://cbs-sports.app.link/Ek1FU81gIjb) -- Get to know the name [Mike Wright](/college-football/players/3161978/mike-wright/) because the Vanderbilt quarterback is going to be one of the most pleasant surprises of the 2022 season. will be able to narrowly win thanks to the dual-threat ability of the signal caller. [college football](/college-football) coverage from the opening kickoff onward. [fuboTV](https://www.fubo.tv/lp/collegefootball/?irad=399332&irmp=416484&sharedID=HTW) (Try for free) -- The Cowboys were decimated by departures, including stud wide receiver [Isaiah Neyor](/college-football/players/3121203/isaiah-neyor/). [Northwestern](https://www.cbssports.com/college-football/teams/NWEST/northwestern-wildcats/) -- that aforementioned game in Ireland -- is the highlight entering Saturday as the lone contest between not only Power Five opponents but conference foes. Since games are scattered across six time zones, there will be games to watch from early in the day into late at night.

Though the real fun begins next week with Week 1, there are seven FBS vs. FBS games on the schedule on Saturday.

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College football, a sport once defined by regional charm, is awash in money and becoming more like the NFL every week.

In the long term, it may prove to be the opposite. But for real devotees, the changes augur alterations to the sport that may make it unrecognizable over the next decade. In the short term, this has proven to be a lucrative decision. [ESPN paid $5.64 billion](https://www.cbssports.com/college-football/news/espn-reaches-12-year-deal-to-air-college-football-playoffs/) for the Bowl Championship Series, essentially giving it the right to air three college football games a year for the next 13 years. The fears that college football is about to become little more than a duopoly with every non-SEC or Big Ten school left standing out in the cold That move was a response to the SEC bringing in Texas and Oklahoma for similar reasons. And they’re doing so at the total direction of the networks. In December 2020, ESPN [paid $3 billion to the SEC](https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/10/sports/ncaafootball/sec-disney-deal.html) to move its games from CBS. The Big Ten, attempting to sweeten the pot on its rights deal, added UCLA and Southern California earlier this summer, two schools that make no geographic sense for the conference, but which do allow access to a swath of the country that wouldn’t otherwise be interested in its TV network. But for the most part, it has been a regional one, confined to large swaths of the South (here in Georgia, people care about the Bulldogs more than they ever will about the Falcons) as well as the upper Midwest and parts of California. [Seventy-five of the 100 most watched shows on television](https://sportsbusinessjournal.com/Journal/Issues/2022/01/10/Upfront/Ratings.aspx) last year were NFL games. The Nebraska Cornhuskers (who usually play 4,409 miles from Dublin) will face the Northwestern Wildcats (3,653 miles from Dublin) in the grand tradition that is the Aer Lingus Classic.

Week 1 of the college football season is a five days of football fun. Sporting News breaks down the best games of the opening weekend.

[Composite preseason Top 25](https://www.sportingnews.com/us/ncaa-football/news/composite-college-football-top-25-rankings-2022-alabama-ohio-state/xlbzgfpmq09o16mn8071vr5hy) Brian Kelly makes his LSU debut at the Caesars Superdome in New Orleans. [Big Ten predictions](https://www.sportingnews.com/us/ncaa-football/news/big-ten-football-predictions-2022-conference-standings-impact-transfers-best-games/ycau2ysqqowffdemq2fb9ucq) The Crimson Tide are not in one of those neutral-site openers this year under Nick Saban. Yes, that is the Wildcats and Aztecs on CBS in the afternoon window. No team generated more hype in the offseason than the Trojans, who could bring a top-10 ranking into new coach Lincoln Riley's debut. The Mountaineers have a chance to play spoiler, and the Tar Heels are looking to bounce back after a tough 2021 season. When you get late-night Friday night football for the first time, you take it. Western Michigan running backs Sean Tyler and La'darius Jefferson combined for 1,986 yards and 19 TDs in 2021. The Big Ten has had success pushing Week 1 conference openers, and this should be a fun matchup featuring veteran QBs Aidan O'Connell and Sean Clifford. The Mountaineers have lost their first game against a Power 5 opponent each of the last three years. Here is an early viewer's guide to Week 1 of the college football season.

For those attending the Nebraska and Northwestern football game in Dublin, they expected to have plenty of fun in a unique environment. But free beer?

Sounds like a good time for all. When the concession workers notified fans in the first half that the credit card machines used to take payments were down because the Wi-Fi connection was out at Aviva Stadium, those in line literally got all the food and drink they could handle. Fans attending the Nebraska and Northwestern college football game in Dublin, Ireland, on Saturday expected to have plenty of fun in a unique environment, plus all the food and drink they could handle.

On the first day of the college football season, Northwestern defeated Nebraska 31-28 at Aviva Stadium in Dublin, Ireland.

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Nebraska fans at Dublin's Aviva Stadium may have watched the Cornhuskers faceplant again, but they at least got some free beer.

Idaho State went 1-10 last season and UNLV, armed with the benefit of playing in Las Vegas and in an NFL stadium, only did the Bengals one better in the win column in 2021. Also, the wardrobe choice he chose to leave the house in does him no favors. In this case, it certainly applied to the slate of games fans had to choose from. Whoever came up with the title "Week 0" to signify the start of the college football season needs their head examined. Supposedly, SFA assistants were lurking in the shadows during Jacksonville’s Spring Game to get the lowdown on RichRod’s offensive schemes. The same thing goes as far as grading from last season: High marks will be only for the spectacular, and failing grades have no chance of being reversed.

On the surface, in the moment, players can now transfer so easily you're to be forgiven for wondering if some might soon be able to switch teams at halftime.

Dolby lifted his shirt and pointed to a small circle with the number “41” inside. We want to change the narrative and celebrate these elite student-athletes who play a pivotal role in making college football so thrilling.” it just kind of created a perfect storm of superiority in the college football ranks.” Cooper points out that nearly 70% of the betting to reach the four-team College Football Playoff tournament is on, uh, four teams, and almost half of that is on Alabama. “I can’t recall a season when there was so much separation between the top teams and the rest of the field,” said Robert Cooper, director of trading for SportsBetting.ag in an email this week. Blindsided at age 3 by a nervous system so confounding it took a team of 25 neurologists even to identify it, Zeke fought for years from a wheelchair against opsoclonus-myoclonus syndrome, said to affect one in 10 million people annually. 1 (you’re kidding!), and to hear the wagering crowd tell it, you can count on one hand the schools not named Alabama with a chance of being the postseason No. Told he couldn’t play sports or so much as ride a bike, his parents opted for aggressive treatments and Zeke finally went into remission and began playing football at age 10. Players you once suspected of accumulating hard cash under the table no longer have to stoop; they can get it over the table, an overdue adjustment that allows many of Saturday’s heroes to trade on their name, image, and likeness. On the surface, in the moment, players can now transfer so easily you’re to be forgiven for wondering if some might soon be able to switch teams at halftime. Report to the other locker room, son; then we’ll really put a whoopin’ on Dear Old Whatsitsname. In fact, you can count those on Mickey Mouse’s hand (he has three fingers — why do I have to explain everything?).

Their top challenger is likely Ohio State, which features a Heisman Trophy favorite in quarterback C.J. Stroud and a number of quality NFL prospects. Defending ...

Considering the level of prospects in the state and the rich history of all three programs, it’s stunning to see how far the three schools have fallen. The season starts with an absolute blockbuster of a matchup, Notre Dame and new coach Marcus Freeman in Columbus to face loaded Ohio State. will certainly remember that beatdown when the Wolverines visit Ohio Stadium in a showdown that is expected to determine the rugged Big Ten East winner. There are new coaches at two of the big three in the Sunshine State — Mario Cristobal at Miami and Billy Napier at Florida. The ACC — in particular Florida State, Miami and Clemson — could be poached, though its grant of rights — which gives every school’s media rights to the league — extends to 2036 with current members. Oklahoma and Baylor could be dark-horse candidates, though both lack the kind of premier non-conference opponent to impress the committee.

College football simply teased us Saturday. There wasn't a lot of action, and with no top-25 teams playing, we were all eased in gently as our true fandom ...

Instead, the business trip to the islands wound up a walk on the beach. Arroyo is in an interesting situation with the Rebels, sitting on a recruiting gold mine of a city with a strong base around him. He'll need to continue to develop and take care of the ball, but he has ability. It didn't matter that Nebraska overhauled its team through the transfer portal, brought in a new quarterback and up-tempo offensive coordinator Mark Whipple from Pittsburgh, the outcome was the same. Northwestern marched right down the field to score a touchdown, and the Huskers never recovered. According to the Hartford Courant, Mora expressed worry about starting quarterback Ta'Quan Roberson and receiver Keelan Marion, who were hurt in the first half. Following a touchdown with 9:09 left in the third quarter to put the Huskers firmly in control with a 28-17 lead, Frost called for an unsuccessful onside kick in a "What was that?" They went on the road to Logan, Utah, to take on defending Mountain West Conference champion Utah State Aggies and stuck tight before falling 31-20. His team had just scored two touchdowns in 28 seconds, was firmly in control and he tried to go for the jugular. Remember, they failed to score more than 14 points in seven of the team's final eight games a season ago and was consistently abysmal. All-American candidate left tackle Peter Skoronski often was the best player on the field, and Northwestern liberally ran behind him. The Huskies have a familiar name in Jim Mora leading the program now, and it looked like a different team.

While the Wildcats pulled off the only real upset of the day, fellow underdogs Austin Peay, Florida A&M and UConn all gave their respective opponents a scare.

[Recap](https://www.cbssports.com/college-football/gametracker/recap/NCAAF_20220827_AP@WKY/) While the Wildcats pulled off the only real upset of the day, fellow underdogs Austin Peay, Florida A&M and UConn all gave their respective opponents a scare. A handful of unsuspecting matchups went down to the wire, and a few individual efforts shook up our preconceived notions as the 2022 season got underway.

Nearly 20 years after Sylvester Croom became the SEC's first Black head football coach, the league has none for the second straight season.

As part of the NCMFC, a group of coaches is designated for the "Coalition Academy," a mentorship program that pairs influential athletic directors with minority coaches. "And even though it wasn't the SEC, that's why I was thrilled to see Mel Tucker get the contract he got at "There are a lot of Black coaches in that situation, where we're just not going to get the opportunity," said Buckley, who was inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame in 2019. "If Coach Bryant had lived long enough, I would have been the head coach at Alabama," Croom said. He was also Alabama's first Black assistant coach and the SEC's first Black defensive coordinator when he coached at LSU in 1990. Croom was a finalist for the Alabama head position in 2003 that ultimately went to Mike Shula. And yet, here we are in the hotbed of college football, and there are no Black head coaches in the SEC anymore." Offense is what sells and typically is what athletic directors are looking for when they're in the market for a head coach -- somebody with an offensive background and somebody who has called plays. SEC commissioner Greg Sankey said he hears and feels Croom's frustration and that it is "troubling" the league is without a Black head football coach for a second straight season. That access I was given to Nick and his program is what put me on track to get the Maryland [head-coaching] job." "We've had success in adding diversity in other sports as well as some of our athletic directors' positions and at the president and chancellor level, but not in the head football coach position recently," Sankey said. And he doesn't need to be reminded that in 2022, for the second straight season, the SEC -- a league in which more than 60% of the players and 48% of the on-field coaches are Black -- won't have any Black head football coaches despite 10 jobs having come open in the past three years.

And it started out that way, with some early offensive fireworks behind quarterback Casey Thompson, but ultimately Nebraska lost yet another one score game to ...

"At that point in the game, I felt all the momentum was on our side. Close calls: the Huskers became the first Power 5 college football team to lose nine straight one-possession games since Iowa State in 2014-16. "Those are excuses.