Until then, you pour yourself a cup of coffee and listen to Rece Davis and Lee Corso exchange talk about the day ahead in college football, while Desmond Howard and Kirk Herbstreit go in-depth about America’s greatest game.
In 1869, Rutgers and Princeton (then New Jersey) came together on an early November day in New Brunswick, New Jersey. The Rutgers Queensmen defeated the Tigers 6-4, kicking off the beginning of a sport that only took a break in 1871.
Through both World Wars and the Great Depression college football never had a year off, even while thousands of college-age athletes were forced to choose fighting in a war over football.