It was nearly eight months ago the last time we had a real-life, this-counts-for-something college football game involving teams from the Football Bowl Subdivision, when Ohio State capped off an amazing 2014 season with a win over Oregon in the National Championship Game. And at times since that January tilt in Arlington, Texas, it felt like we'd never reach the next season.
But we somehow made it through that interminable span, and the 2015 season is upon us. In droves.
There are college football games scheduled for the next five days, beginning with an ACC/SEC clash of border states Thursday and wrapping up with the start of Ohio State's title defense on a Labor Day visit to Lane Stadium in Blacksburg, Virginia, to face the only team it lost to a year ago.