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The Whistlestop Tour: Week 0 of Big Ten Football

Hammer and Rails | August 29, 2022

Related Topics: Big Ten Conference, American football, Ryan Hilinski, Scott Frost, Nebraska Cornhuskers men's basketball, Nebraska, Wyoming, Vanderbilt Commodores men's basketball

Week zero is now a weird appetizer to start the college football season There are only a handful of games now, and to play in one you have to have one of the following qualifications:

  1. The game is played internationally (This is why Northwestern and Nebraska got to play.
  2. One of the teams involved has a game at Hawaii, thus they get an extra bye week for travel purposes later.
  3. The NCAA usually likes to shift an FCS game or two to week 0 as a showcase.
  4. Conference realignment screws things up.
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