Forty names, games, teams and minutiae making news in college football, where the movie reviews are brutal in Lincoln:
FIRST QUARTER: BEST OPENING WEEK EVER … IF YOU WIN
We’ve made it to another season, and another year of The Dash. And what a start we get, with 14 games matching Power 5 teams against each other (13 this week, plus Nebraska-Illinois in Week Zero). That’s the most since the Power 5 conferences largely coalesced into their current shape in 2012. The average number of P5 vs. P5 openers from 2012-19 was 10.
The winners are the fans who want a heavier slate of interesting matchups to start the year, as opposed to the usual Power 5 openers against Cadaver State.