#Breaking, per (super) Wikipedia:
The 2023 NCAA Division I FBS football season will be the 154th season of college football in the United States organized by the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) at its highest level of competition, the Football Bowl Subdivision (FBS). The regular season will begin on August 26 and end on December 9. The postseason will begin on December 15, and, aside from any all-star games that are scheduled, end on January 8, 2024, with the College Football Playoff National Championship at NRG Stadium in Houston, Texas. This will be the tenth and final season of using the four team College Football Playoff (CFP) system, with the bracket being expanded to 12 teams for the 2024 season. ...The regular season will begin on Saturday, August 26(,) with seven games in Week 0.
- Aer Lingus College Football Classic (Aviva Stadium, Dublin, Ireland): Navy vs. No. 13 Notre Dame
- FIU at Louisiana Tech
- Hawaii at Vanderbilt
- Ohio at San Diego State
- San Jose State at No. 6 USC
- UMass at New Mexico State
- UTEP at Jacksonville State
One hundred thirty-three teams are scheduled to compete for the national championship. Here is the preseason Associated Press poll:
- Georgia
- Michigan
- Ohio State
- Alabama
- Louisiana State
- Southern California
- Pennsylvania State
- Florida State
- Clemson
- Washington
- Texas
- Tennessee
- Notre Dame
- Utah
- Oregon
- Kansas State
- Texas Christian
- Oregon State
- Wisconsin
- Oklahoma
- North Carolina
- Mississippi
- Texas Agricultural and Mechanical
- Tulane
- Iowa
More Wikipedia:
The AP college football poll's origins go back to the 1930s. The news media began running their own polls of sports writers to determine, by popular opinion, the best college football teams in the country. One of the earliest such polls was conducted by the AP in November 1934. In 1935, AP sports editor Alan J. Gould declared a three-way tie for national champion in football between Minnesota, Princeton, and Southern Methodist. Minnesota fans protested and a number of Gould's colleagues led by Charles "Cy" Sherman suggested he create a poll of sports editors instead of only using his own list. The next year the weekly AP college football poll was born, and has run continuously from 1936.
Here's for whom I'm rooting in each of the conferences:
- North Texas, American Athletic Conference
- Louisville, Atlantic Coast Conference
- Purdue, Big Ten Conference
- Texas Christian, Big 12 Conference
- Western Kentucky, Conference United States of America
- Akron, Mid-American Conference
- Wyoming, Mountain West Conference
- UCLA, Pac-12 Conference
- Kentucky, Southeastern Conference
- James Madison, Sun Belt Conference
I hope WKU wins the national championship. Georgia won in 2022.
