Cincinnati vs Purdue College Football Handicapping
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.
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.
Boston College is trying to regain its footing on the gridiron and thinks it is easing into this season by scheduling an FCS opponent.
Teams from deep in the heart of Texas often don’t like to leave the state during the first month of the season – and they usually don’t have to with all the programs down there.
The Penn State Nittany Lions will match up against the Syracuse Orange for the 71st time on the gridiron, as they open the 2013 season with a neutral-site game on Aug. 31, at MetLife Stadium in East Rutherford, New Jersey.
The No. 13 Oklahoma State Cowboys will open their 2013 season as the top-ranked team in the Big 12 in the Associated Press and USA Today Coaches polls.
The two-time defending champion No. 1 ranked Alabama Crimson Tide look to start their 2013 campaign with a win over unranked Virginia Tech in what looks like a pretty one-sided affair.
The Temple Owls will open at Notre Dame on national TV on August 31, hoping to take the new Midwest-dominated American Athletic Conference by storm.
Finally we have some genuine action and not just talk. This border state battle is easily the best game of the first day of action as it pits two teams who though not favourites in either the SEC or ACC, are at least in the discussion of possible conference champs respectively.
There won’t be any love lost between the Utah Utes and Utah State Aggies when they open their schedules against one another for the first time since 2009. A staple of each program’s non-conference schedule, the Battle of the Brothers dates way back to 1892, with the Utes holding a 77-29-4 all-time edge in the series.
Florida state bragging rights will be on the line when the Florida State Atlantic Owls travel to Miami to take on the Hurricanes to open the 2013 college football season.
The SEC is the biggest baddest conference around and they have earned that title. The League have won so many championships in a row it is hard to keep track and have to be an odds on favourite again as they enter this season with a high number of highly ranked teams.