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College football is back. Here’s the compete Week 0 TV schedule.

Eleven NCAA Division I college football games are scheduled for Saturday, up from five last season.

The 2022-23 college football season begins on Saturday, though Penn State and most NCAA Division I teams won't take the field until next week.
The 2022-23 college football season begins on Saturday, though Penn State and most NCAA Division I teams won't take the field until next week.Read moreCharlie Neibergall / AP
    by Rob Tornoe
    Published 

College football is back, though Philly sports fans will have to wait a week to see their favorite schools in action.

While Saturday is officially the opening of the college football season, it’s referred to as Week 0, since the majority of NCAA Division I teams start their season on the first Saturday before Labor Day. The first Week 0 game took place 39 years ago, when Nebraska crushed Penn State at Giants Stadium in New Jersey in the 1983 Kickoff Classic.

Eleven games are scheduled for Saturday, up from five last season, though none of the teams on the Associated Press’s Top 25 College Football Poll will be in action.

The best game looks to be Nebraska versus Northwestern, a Big Ten matchup being played at Aviva Stadium in Dublin, Ireland between two teams looking to turn things around after disappointing 2021 seasons. It’s the first regular-season international game in five years, and part of a five-game deal dubbed the Aer Lingus College Football Classic that was set to begin in 2020, but was delayed due to COVID-19.

Week 0 college football TV schedule

All start times are Eastern Standard Time:

  1. Austin Peay at Western Kentucky: 12 p.m., CBS Sports Network (Chick Hernandez, Randy Cross)

  2. Nebraska at Northwestern (in Dublin): 12:30 p.m., Fox (Jason Benetti, Brock Huard)

  3. Idaho State at UNLV: 3:30 p.m., CBS Sports Network (Chris Lewis, Donte Whitner)

  4. UConn at Utah State: 4 p.m., FS1 (Alex Faust, Petros Papadakis)

  5. Wyoming at Illinois: 4 p.m., Big Ten Network (Brandon Gaudin, Joshua Perry)

  6. Duquesne at Florida State: 5 p.m., ACC Network (Drew Carter, Roddy Jones)

  7. Charlotte at Florida Atlantic: 7 p.m., CBS Sports Network (Chris Hassel, Robert Turbin)

  8. Florida A&M at North Carolina: 8:15 p.m., ACC Network (Matt Barrie, Tim Hasselbeck)

  9. North Texas at UTEP: 9 p.m., Stadium

  10. Nevada at New Mexico State: 10:00 p.m., ESPN2 (Roy Philpott, Andre Ware)

  11. Vanderbilt at Hawaii: 10:30 p.m., CBS Sports Network (Rich Waltz, Aaron Taylor)

When will Penn State’s college football season begin?

The Nittany Lions kick off their 2022 season against the Purdue Boilermakers on Thursday, Sept. 1 at 8 p.m.

The game will air on Fox instead of ESPN thanks to Joe Buck’s decision to leave the network and join his longtime football partner, Troy Aikman, in the booth on Monday Night Football. Fox agreed to let Buck leave despite having a year remaining on his contract in exchange for the an extra pick from this season’s Big Ten’s football slate, which happened to be Penn State versus Purdue.

Penn State is 15-3-1 all time against Purdue, dating back to 1951. The last time the two faced off was 2019 at Beaver Stadium, with the Nittany Lions notching an easy 35-7 victory.

» READ MORE: Nick Singleton’s unrelenting ability to put in the work might be a key piece in Penn State’s football puzzle

First game for other Philly-area college football programs

Team
Temple
First opponent
at Duke
Date
Friday, Sept. 2, 7:30 p.m.
TV
ACC Network
Team
Rutgers
First opponent
at Boston College
Date
Saturday, Sept. 3, 12 p.m.
TV
ACC Network
Team
Villanova
First opponent
vs. Lehigh
Date
Friday, Sept. 2, 6 p.m.
TV
FloFootball
Team
Penn
First opponent
vs. Colgate
Date
Saturday, Sept. 17, 1 p.m.
TV
ESPN+
Team
Delaware
First opponent
at Navy
Date
Satuday, Sept. 3, 12 p.m.
TV
CBS Sports Network

AP Top 25 College Football Poll

Rank
1.
Team
Alabama
First opponent
Utah State
Date
Sept. 3, 7:30 p.m.
Rank
2.
Team
Ohio State
First opponent
Notre Dame
Date
Sept. 3, 7:30 p.m.
Rank
3.
Team
Georgia
First opponent
Oregon
Date
Sept. 3, 3:30 p.m.
Rank
4.
Team
Clemson
First opponent
Georgia Tech
Date
Sept. 3, 8 p.m.
Rank
5.
Team
Notre Dame
First opponent
Ohio State
Date
Sept. 3, 7:30 p.m.
Rank
6.
Team
Texas A&M
First opponent
Sam Houston State
Date
Sept. 3, 12 p.m.
Rank
7.
Team
Utah
First opponent
Florida
Date
Sept. 3, 7 p.m.
Rank
8.
Team
Michigan
First opponent
Colorado State
Date
Sept. 3, 12 p.m.
Rank
9.
Team
Oklahoma
First opponent
UTEP
Date
Sept. 3, 3:30 p.m.
Rank
10.
Team
Baylor
First opponent
Albany
Date
Sept. 3, 7 p.m.
Rank
11.
Team
Oregon
First opponent
Georgia
Date
Sept. 3, 3:30 p.m.
Rank
12.
Team
Oklahoma St.
First opponent
North Carolina St.
Date
Sept. 3, 12 p.m.
Rank
13.
Team
North Carolina St.
First opponent
Oklahoma St.
Date
Sept. 3, 12 p.m.
Rank
14.
Team
USC
First opponent
Rice
Date
Sept. 3, 6 p.m.
Rank
15.
Team
Michigan St.
First opponent
Western Michigan
Date
Sept. 2, 7 p.m.
Rank
16.
Team
Miami (Fla.)
First opponent
Bethune-Cookman
Date
Sept. 3, 3:30 p.m.
Rank
17.
Team
Pittsburgh
First opponent
West Virginia
Date
Sept. 3, 7 p.m.
Rank
18.
Team
Wisconsin
First opponent
Illinois State
Date
Sept. 3, 7 p.m.
Rank
19.
Team
Arkansas
First opponent
Cincinnati
Date
Sept. 3, 3:30 p.m.
Rank
20.
Team
Kentucky
First opponent
Miami
Date
Sept. 3, 7 p.m.
Rank
21.
Team
Ole Miss
First opponent
Troy
Date
Sept. 3, 4 p.m.
Rank
22.
Team
Wake Forest
First opponent
VMI
Date
Sept. 1, 7:30 p.m.
Rank
23.
Team
Cincinnati
First opponent
Arkansas
Date
Sept. 3, 3:30 p.m.
Rank
24.
Team
Houston
First opponent
UTSA
Date
Sept. 3, 3:30 p.m.
Rank
25.
Team
BYU
First opponent
South Florida
Date
Sept. 3, 4 p.m.