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Toledo allowed 13.3 points a game last fall, finished first in the country against the pass and tenth against the run, and won eight games. Michigan State went…
North Texas averaged 45.1 points a game last season, the second-ranked offense in the country, and almost none of it is walking into Memorial Stadium. Thirty-e…
UAB opens at Memorial Stadium on Sept. 3, and the plainest thing separating these two is what they did last fall: Illinois went 9-4, UAB went 4-8, and that bod…
Rutgers and Massachusetts open at SHI Stadium with rosters that barely resemble the ones that finished last November. Rutgers went 5-7, scoring 28.7 a game and…
Akron and Wake Forest have never played. No series, no film, no grudge, just an opener in Winston-Salem that both sides need for different reasons. Wake Forest…
Georgia Tech opened last season in Boulder and left with a 27-20 win, and Haynes King carried it out of the building himself: 19 rushes, 156 yards, three touch…
Thirty miles of Interstate 35 separate these campuses, and across 24 seasons of results there is not one game between them. Texas State gets its first crack in…
UTEP rebuilt itself through the transfer portal this offseason, and it built from below. Fifteen of Scotty Walden's 21 portal additions came from outside FBS,…
Clemson travels to Death Valley facing an LSU program that leveraged massive transfer activity to retool its top-tier roster. LSU holds a 9.6-point overall rat…
Bryant-Denny will be loud on Sept. 5 for a reason that has little to do with the visitor: nobody has seen Keelon Russell start a college football game. Alabama…
Memphis wasn't supposed to win this one. They stun UNLV, 27-21 at Allegiant Stadium. Nobody pulled clear, and Memphis had the better end of the last ten minute…
Stanford wasn't supposed to win this one. They knock off Hawai'i, 37-27 at Stanford Stadium. Stanford was not the side anyone expected to be up 10 at the end o…
On to the details. Florida State handles New Mexico State, 34-17 at Doak Campbell Stadium. Florida State was the steadier side of a 17-point win. Ashton Daniel…
Noah Kim scored 18 of Eastern Michigan's points. They shock Sacramento State, 28-17 at Rynearson Stadium. Eastern Michigan was not the side anyone expected to…
Drew Klein kicked field goals from 34, 44, 42 and 48 yards, and made all four. That is 12 points from a man who never carried, caught or threw anything, and it…
Beau Pribula threw the ball eleven times and ran it fifteen. The result was 155 passing yards and 110 rushing yards, and a Virginia offense that never had to g…
USC ran 76 plays to San José State's 56 and needed almost none of them to be spectacular. Nine of them gained 15 yards or more, against five for the Spartans,…
Kyle Lemmermann's 31-yard field goal and Jon Denman's two-yard touchdown run were TCU's entire night, and both were finished by 4:00 of the first quarter. Over…
UNLV and Memphis have never played each other — no bowl crossover, no forgotten September trip anywhere in the modern record. They finally meet in Week 1 at Al…
Florida State scored 33 points a game last season. Two afternoons wrote most of that: 77-3 over East Texas A&M and 66-10 over Kent State. Strip those two out a…
Hawai'i won the last meeting 23-20 in Honolulu, in last season's opener, and on Aug. 29 the trip reverses. The Rainbow Warriors come to Stanford Stadium off a…
Virginia won eleven games last fall behind a quarterback, a 1,000-yard back and a receiving corps that are all gone. NC State won eight and kept the one player…
San José State's first snap of 2026 comes at the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum, taken by a Hawai'i transfer, Luke Weaver, who has thrown 20 career passes again…
The last time these programs met, last September in Chapel Hill, TCU won 48-14. Almost nobody who did the damage will be in Dublin. Josh Hoover, who threw for…
