Perhaps the most anticipated — and certainly most reformatted — college football season kicks off at noon ET Saturday when Florida State and Georgia Tech clash in Ireland. Week 0 they call it.
It’s fitting the Seminoles are involved in ushering in a new era — namely the first season with the kind of expansive, 12-team playoff a sport with 134 teams needs.
It was just nine months ago, after all, that they were trap-doored by the old four-team model which deemed their 13-0, ACC championship team unworthy of the playoff because they’d lost star quarterback Jordan Travis to injury.