The No. 16 Oklahoma Sooners capped off their 10-3 season with a humiliating 41-13 loss to Texas A&M in the 2013 Cotton Bowl. Now, with 10 new starters, including redshirt freshman quarterback Trevor Knight, the Sooners look to get a chance at redemption.
The No. 25 Nebraska Cornhuskers will begin their 2013-14 campaign looking to take advantage of a Wyoming team that had a problem keeping opponents off the scoreboard in 2012.
Boston College is trying to regain its footing on the gridiron and thinks it is easing into this season by scheduling an FCS opponent.
When Jim Mora took over the UCLA football program in 2012, the team was in flux following the departure of Rick Neuheisel. Inconsistency had plagued the group for a number of years, but in his first season on board, Mora got the team to the Pac-12 championship and won nine games along the way.
The Oregon Ducks are set to open the season at home against Nicholls State. They’re a top-three team entering the year, and needless to say, their opponent is not. The Colonels will enter Autzen Stadium as huge underdogs. They won just a single game in 2012, which is the amount of games the Ducks lost.
In Week 1 of the college football season, fans across the nation are lucky enough to see a rematch of one of the best bowl showdowns of 2012. The Boise State Broncos and the Washington Huskies closed out last season with a 28-26 battle in Las Vegas for the MAACO Bowl.
The Auburn Tigers are only a few years removed from being crowned the NCAA champions, but boy does that feel like a lifetime ago. The Tigers went just 3-9 in 2012, and they were 0-6 against the SEC West. Washington State wasn’t any better last season, as they went just 3-9 also.
The USC Trojans and the Hawaii Warriors are set to kick off the 2013 college football season in a Thursday-night matchup Aug. 29. Both teams have a lot to prove, as both are coming off of disappointing 2012 campaigns.
Teams from deep in the heart of Texas often don’t like to leave the state during the first month of the season – and they usually don’t have to with all the programs down there.
The Penn State Nittany Lions will match up against the Syracuse Orange for the 71st time on the gridiron, as they open the 2013 season with a neutral-site game on Aug. 31, at MetLife Stadium in East Rutherford, New Jersey.
The No. 13 Oklahoma State Cowboys will open their 2013 season as the top-ranked team in the Big 12 in the Associated Press and USA Today Coaches polls.
The two-time defending champion No. 1 ranked Alabama Crimson Tide look to start their 2013 campaign with a win over unranked Virginia Tech in what looks like a pretty one-sided affair.
The Temple Owls will open at Notre Dame on national TV on August 31, hoping to take the new Midwest-dominated American Athletic Conference by storm.
Finally we have some genuine action and not just talk. This border state battle is easily the best game of the first day of action as it pits two teams who though not favourites in either the SEC or ACC, are at least in the discussion of possible conference champs respectively.
There won’t be any love lost between the Utah Utes and Utah State Aggies when they open their schedules against one another for the first time since 2009. A staple of each program’s non-conference schedule, the Battle of the Brothers dates way back to 1892, with the Utes holding a 77-29-4 all-time edge in the series.
Florida state bragging rights will be on the line when the Florida State Atlantic Owls travel to Miami to take on the Hurricanes to open the 2013 college football season.
