Welcome to the ACC Pittsburgh. One of the conference’s newcomers wastes no time getting started with a conference game and they couldn’t have asked for a for challenging opponent even though there are some questions about just how good this Florida State really is.
A long offseason for the Texas A&M Aggies finally comes to an end. While they’ll have to play the first 30-minutes of this contest without star quarterback Johnny Manziel, the Aggies will surely be happy to finally get an opportunity to do their talking on the football field.
An undefeated season in 2012 has placed high expectations on this year’s Buckeyes squad, but with the pressure now on them the team will be hard-pressed to repeat their feat from a year ago.
Texas head coach Mack Brown thinks the Longhorns can go undefeated. They won’t have any trouble getting off to a 1-0 start against a bad New Mexico State team.
A pair of new head coaches will get their first opportunity to impress their respective fan bases as Tommy Tuberville and Darrell Hazell make their debuts with Cincinnati and Purdue, respectively.
Head coach Doc Holliday has done a great job of bringing in talent at Marshall, but this is the year the squad needs to turn all that talent into wins.
There are some very good games in the first week of the season as we have been offered some fun neutral site contests and even some rare conference games…but this one is the prize of the week pitting two Top 10 teams in an on-campus BCS Championship elimination match before we even get to Labour Day (neutral sites are cool but they often lack emotion).
Louisville is getting about as much preseason buzz as the program ever has heading into this season and it is for good reason.
The No. 16 Oklahoma Sooners capped off their 10-3 season with a humiliating 41-13 loss to Texas A&M in the 2013 Cotton Bowl. Now, with 10 new starters, including redshirt freshman quarterback Trevor Knight, the Sooners look to get a chance at redemption.
The No. 25 Nebraska Cornhuskers will begin their 2013-14 campaign looking to take advantage of a Wyoming team that had a problem keeping opponents off the scoreboard in 2012.
Rising up in the SEC is very difficult. Since head coach Dan Mullen came to campus he has had a high level of success at a school that really isn’t accustomed to it, but they still haven’t broken through.
Boston College is trying to regain its footing on the gridiron and thinks it is easing into this season by scheduling an FCS opponent.
When Jim Mora took over the UCLA football program in 2012, the team was in flux following the departure of Rick Neuheisel. Inconsistency had plagued the group for a number of years, but in his first season on board, Mora got the team to the Pac-12 championship and won nine games along the way.
The Oregon Ducks are set to open the season at home against Nicholls State. They’re a top-three team entering the year, and needless to say, their opponent is not. The Colonels will enter Autzen Stadium as huge underdogs. They won just a single game in 2012, which is the amount of games the Ducks lost.
In Week 1 of the college football season, fans across the nation are lucky enough to see a rematch of one of the best bowl showdowns of 2012. The Boise State Broncos and the Washington Huskies closed out last season with a 28-26 battle in Las Vegas for the MAACO Bowl.
The Auburn Tigers are only a few years removed from being crowned the NCAA champions, but boy does that feel like a lifetime ago. The Tigers went just 3-9 in 2012, and they were 0-6 against the SEC West. Washington State wasn’t any better last season, as they went just 3-9 also.
