Nebraska coach Scott Frost solutions questions from the media on Thursday, Aug. 25, 2022, at Aviva Stadium in Dublin. Nebraska faces Northwestern on Saturday within the Irish capital. Ken Maguire, Related Press
Zero. Zilch. Nada.
That’s what number of weekends there are till school soccer is again in our collective lives.
The 2022 season kicks off Saturday morning, and the complete Week 0 slate for FBS packages consists of 11 video games.
Right here’s a rundown.
The large one: Nebraska vs. Northwestern (in Dublin, Eire)
The 2 colleges are each coming off dismal 3-9 data, and Nebraska’s Scott Frost is a well-liked decide to be on the recent seat this season.
Nonetheless, that is the one matchup between two Energy 5 colleges this weekend, and it simply so occurs to be two Massive Ten packages dealing with off in a neutral-site matchup in Eire — the primary regular-season worldwide sport in 5 years.
The Utah one: UConn at Utah State
The Aggies are coming off their first Mountain West Convention championship season in program historical past and shall be determined favorites towards the Huskies.
For Utah State, this sport supplies a straightforward method to slide into the season for the 12 months’s largest take a look at: touring to SEC nation to face top-ranked Alabama subsequent week.
The sneaky enjoyable one: Vanderbilt at Hawaii
It is a good distance for an SEC crew to journey to for its opening sport.
Hawaii legend Timmy Chang — the star quarterback from the early 2000s — can be making his teaching debut for the Rainbow Warriors after changing Todd Graham.
The total schedule
- Austin Peay at Western Kentucky, 10 a.m. MDT (CBS Sports activities Community).
- Nebraska vs. Northwestern (Eire), 10:30 a.m. (Fox).
- Idaho State at UNLV, 1:30 p.m. (CBS Sports activities Community).
- UConn at Utah State, 2 p.m. (FS1).
- Wyoming at Illinois, 2 p.m. (Massive Ten Community).
- Duquesne at Florida State, 3 p.m. (ACC Community).
- Charlotte at Florida Atlantic, 5 p.m. (CBS Sports activities Community).
- Florida A&M at North Carolina, 6:15 p.m. (ACC Community).
- North Texas at UTEP, 7 p.m.
- Nevada at New Mexico State, 8 p.m. (ESPN2).
- Vanderbilt at Hawaii, 8:30 p.m. (CBS Sports activities Community).