Week 0 Just Happened
What the heck was that? Why was there football yesterday? Isn’t week 1 next weekend?
Week 0 is an honored college football tradition dating all the way back to *checks Wikipedia* 2017 or 1983? Like everything involving the NCAA, there are a multitude of complex rules, rule changes, and weird decisions. To play a week 0 game, the game must be approved by the NCAA; that’s the main thing to keep in mind. There were a bunch of week 0 games in 2002. None were played from 2005 to 2015. And 2017, the current set of rules for week 0 was put in place. Since 2017 we’ve consistently had multiple Week 0 games (ignoring 2020 for obvious reasons).
(If you’re trying to win a bar bet, the actual 1st Week 0 game was in 1983 when #1 Nebraska beat #4 Penn State at Giants Stadium in New Jersey)*
Who Would Even Want to Play in Week 0?
Everyone.
Every team would gladly play a week 0 game given the opportunity.
It gets the kids back for fall camp 1 week sooner, so coaches get more practices.
It adds another weekend of TV inventory for networks and conferences. (i.e. more …
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