# College Football 2012 -- Week 1 Games **URL:** \ **Category:** The Game Room\ **Created:** [June 17, 2012, 2:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/college-football-2012-week-1-games/625425 "2012-06-17T14:35:32Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 15\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Zeldar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b77776/32.png) [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2012, 2:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/college-football-2012-week-1-games/625425/1 "2012-06-17T14:35:32Z")
Father’s Day seems like the right time to start thinking about CFB Week 1, right? Let’s speculate on how many Top 25 teams (using whoever’s rankings by then you wish) will no longer be Top 25 after Week 1, and who all will move into that list that week. Using the slate provided by > **[Matt's College Sports on TV](https://www.mattsarzsports.com/Football2012/)** > > Since 2005, college football and men's college basketball television & webcast schedules. > **[Matt's College Sports on TV](https://www.mattsarzsports.com/Football2012/week1)** > > Since 2005, college football and men's college basketball television & webcast schedules. Here are the choices: ```auto Thursday, August 30, 2012 South Carolina at Vanderbilt 7:00 PM UCF at Akron 7:00 PM Eastern Michigan at Ball St. 7:00 PM Northern Colorado at Utah 7:15 PM Texas A&M vs. Louisiana Tech (at Shreveport, LA) 7:30 PM UCLA at Rice 7:30 PM Massachusetts at Connecticut 7:30 PM Southern Illinois at Eastern Illinois 7:30 PM South Dakota Mines at North Dakota 8:00 PM Azusa Pacific at UC-Davis 9:00 PM Chadron St. at Montana St. 9:00 PM Washington St. at BYU 10:15 PM Northern Arizona at Arizona St. 10:30 PM Minnesota at UNLV 11:00 PM Friday, August 31, 2012 Villanova at Temple 7:00 PM NC State vs. Tennessee (at Atlanta, GA) 7:30 PM Boise St. at Michigan St. 8:00 PM San Jose St. at Stanford 10:00 PM Saturday, September 01, 2012 Notre Dame vs. Navy (at Dublin, Ireland) 9:00 AM Ohio at Penn St. 12:00 PM Northwestern at Syracuse 12:00 PM Appalachian St. at East Carolina 12:00 PM Western Michigan at Illinois 12:00 PM Miami (OH) at Ohio St. 12:00 PM Elon at North Carolina 12:30 PM Nicholls St. at Oregon St. 3:00 PM Nevada at California 3:00 PM Richmond at Virginia 3:00 PM William & Mary at Maryland 3:00 PM Miami (FL) at Boston College 3:30 PM Southern Miss at Nebraska 3:30 PM Iowa vs. Northern Illinois (at Chicago, IL) 3:30 PM Eastern Kentucky at Purdue 3:30 PM Northern Iowa at Wisconsin 3:30 PM South Dakota at Montana 3:30 PM Colorado St. vs. Colorado (at Denver, CO) 4:00 PM Murray St. at Florida St. 6:00 PM Youngstown St. at Pittsburgh 6:00 PM Liberty at Wake Forest 6:30 PM Clemson vs. Auburn (at Atlanta, GA) 7:00 PM FIU at Duke 7:00 PM Chattanooga at USF 7:00 PM San Diego at Cal-Poly 7:00 PM Hawai'i at USC 7:30 PM Alabama vs. Michigan (at Arlington, TX) 8:00 PM Rutgers at Tulane 8:00 PM Indiana St. at Indiana 8:00 PM Texas St. at Houston 8:00 PM Carroll at Portland St. 8:00 PM Arkansas St. at Oregon 10:30 PM Oklahoma at UTEP 10:30 PM Toledo at Arizona 10:30 PM San Diego St. at Washington 10:30 PM Sunday, September 02, 2012 Bethune-Cookman vs. Alabama St. (at Orlando, FL) 12:00 PM Kentucky at Louisville 3:30 PM SMU at Baylor 6:30 PM Monday, September 03, 2012 Georgia Tech at Virginia Tech 8:00 PM ``` ======================= Some early preferences: > **[Ranking the 10 Best Games of College Football 2012 Opening Weekend](https://bleacherreport.com/articles/1224624-ranking-the-10-best-games-of-college-football-2012-opening-weekend)** > > Before you know it, the 2012 college football season will be upon us. Fans across the nation are already counting down the days until kickoff, and based on the opening week slate of games, the season will get off to an impressive start... > [@](#): > > Ranking the 10 Best Games of College Football 2012 Opening Weekend > By David Luther(Featured Columnist) on June 16, 2012 > > Before you know it, the 2012 college football season will be upon us. > > Fans across the nation are already counting down the days until kickoff, and based on the opening week slate of games, the > > season will get off to an impressive start. > > With so many great games just on the first weekend of play, we’ve decided to give you a helping hand in deciding what > > games to watch, what games to DVR, and what games to skip over entirely. > > Here’s our top ten ranking for the best games of the opening week of the 2012 season! > > Texas-San Antonio at South Alabama > Texas State at Houston > SMU at Baylor > Massachusetts at Connecticut > Washington State at BYU > Texas A&M at Louisiana Tech > Georgia Tech at Virginia Tech > Boise State at Michigan State > Notre Dame vs. Navy > Michigan vs. Alabama ============================= [http://www.collegefootballzealots.com/2012-articles/june/five-opening-weekend-games-to-look-forward-to.html](http://www.collegefootballzealots.com/2012-articles/june/five-opening-weekend-games-to-look-forward-to.html) > [@](#): > > The Six Most Intriguing Opening Week Games > Written by Kevin | 02 June 2012 > > South Carolina at Vanderbilt - Thurs, August 30th > Washington State at BYU - Thurs, August 30th (10:15 PM on ESPN) > Tennessee vs North Carolina State - Fri, August 31st (7:30 PM on ESPNU) > Boise State at Michigan State - Fri, August 31st (8 PM on ESPN) > Clemson vs Auburn - Sat, Sept 1st (7 PM on ESPN) > Alabama vs Michigan - Sat, Sept 1st (8 PM on ABC) ============================= > **[2012 College Football Schedule: The Must-Watch Games Of Every Weekend](https://www.sbnation.com/ncaa-football/2012/4/2/2910842/college-football-schedule-2012)** > > The 2012 college football schedule is complete enough to call it complete, so let's review the best and biggest games, week-by-week. > [@](#): > > 2012 College Football Schedule: The Must-Watch Games Of Every Weekend > > By Jason Kirk - College Football Editor > > Week 1: Notre Dame-Navy (Dublin, Ireland) > Michigan-Alabama (Dallas) > Clemson-Auburn (Atlanta) > Boise State-Michigan State > Washington State-BYU > Arkansas State-Oregon ---
**Author:** ![Oakminster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/77aa72/32.png) [@Oakminster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Oakminster)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2012, 2:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/college-football-2012-week-1-games/625425/2 "2012-06-17T14:46:55Z")
I think the Tide rolls over Michigan, Boise State falls to Michigan State, Auburn beats Clemson. ---
**Author:** ![Zeldar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b77776/32.png) [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2012, 2:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/college-football-2012-week-1-games/625425/3 "2012-06-17T14:53:28Z")
> [@Oakminster](#): > > I think the Tide rolls over Michigan, Boise State falls to Michigan State, Auburn beats Clemson. Hey! We agree! I’m hoping Vandy can get off to a good start, too. And Navy creaming ND in Ireland will be oh, so fine! ---
**Author:** ![Zeldar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b77776/32.png) [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2012, 3:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/college-football-2012-week-1-games/625425/4 "2012-06-17T15:40:25Z")
Another version of Week 1’s games with “rankings” attached is at [Week 1 Scoreboard](http://rivals.yahoo.com/ncaa/football/scoreboard) which I had just assumed wasn’t ready yet. :smack: It’s almost a sure bet that one of these teams will drop out of the “Top 25”: (20) Southern Miss – 1:00 pm EDT (24) Nebraska ---
**Author:** ![Oakminster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/77aa72/32.png) [@Oakminster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Oakminster)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2012, 5:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/college-football-2012-week-1-games/625425/5 "2012-06-18T05:20:13Z")
Southern Miss is a gutsy little team. They’ll play anybody, anytime, anywhere. They usually have to go on the road for big games, because their stadium isn’t very big. The two SEC schools in the state refused to play them for many years…likely because in any given year, Southern Miss might just whip their ass. Think State is going to finally play them next year. Think they beat Nebraska at Nebraska a few years ago. Hope to see them do it again… ---
**Author:** ![Uncle\_Jocko](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/uncle_jocko/32/2932_2.png) [@Uncle\_Jocko](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Uncle_Jocko)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2012, 9:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/college-football-2012-week-1-games/625425/6 "2012-06-20T21:11:49Z")
Who cares about Notre Dame-Navy, Alabama-Michigan, Clemson-Auburn? Big deal. Listen to Bleacher Report … it’s the Texas-San Antonio vs South Alabama game the nation will be talking about! Seriously, that made their best games of opening weekend list? I realize it’s UTSA’s first game as an FBS school, but … really? There are some surprisingly good matchups for week one. North Carolina State-Tennessee could be intriguing, as well as Miami-Boston College. Even the doofuses at Bleacher Report mention Georgia Tech-Virginia Tech. I guess they overlooked that South Dakota School of Mines-North Dakota donnybrook. ---
**Author:** ![AncientHumanoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ancienthumanoid/32/278_2.png) [@AncientHumanoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AncientHumanoid)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2012, 9:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/college-football-2012-week-1-games/625425/7 "2012-06-20T21:54:13Z")
I’m seriously considering going to the CoSt vs CU game in Denver. I went to CU for a while and lived in Ft Collins for awhile a couple of years ago. So, I could root against both teams. ---
**Author:** ![Zeldar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b77776/32.png) [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2012, 10:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/college-football-2012-week-1-games/625425/8 "2012-06-20T22:04:46Z")
> [@NoClueBoy](#): > > I’m seriously considering going to the CoSt vs CU game in Denver. I went to CU for a while and lived in Ft Collins for awhile a couple of years ago. So, I could root against both teams. That’s a fun way to be. Sad thing is that they can’t both lose! Last year I made a point of ranking the Week One games based on the Sagarin rankings of both teams to come up with a difference by which all games could be ranked. That “South Dakota School of Mines-North Dakota donnybrook” might well be one of the more tightly matched games! If anybody wants to go through that same sort of exercise, use the numbers at [http://www.usatoday.com/sports/sagarin/fbt11.htm](http://www.usatoday.com/sports/sagarin/fbt11.htm) which are probably not a lot worse than anybody else’s and which apply to all the Division I teams. ---
**Author:** ![Zeldar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b77776/32.png) [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2012, 9:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/college-football-2012-week-1-games/625425/9 "2012-06-21T09:15:57Z")
I couldn’t resist the temptation: > **[Rivals.com](https://n.rivals.com/)** > > The definitive source for all Rivals news. ```auto Week: 1 Sagarin Jan/2012 Diff (20) Southern Miss 1:00 pm EDT 24 1 (24) Nebraska 25 Auburn 7:00 pm EDT 33 1 (22) Clemson 32 Iowa 3:30 pm EDT 45 2 Northern Illinois 47 Towson 7:00 pm EDT 114 2 Kent St. 116 Tenn-Martin TBA 180 2 Memphis 182 McNeese St. 7:30 pm EDT 173 4 Middle Tenn. St. 169 Troy TBA 147 5 UAB 152 N.C. State 7:30 pm EDT 57 7 Tennessee 50 Tulsa TBA 35 8 Iowa St. 43 (8) Boise St. 8:00 pm EDT 9 9 (11) Michigan St. 18 (1) Alabama 8:00 pm EDT 1 10 (12) Michigan 11 Sacramento St. 8:00 pm EDT 145 12 New Mexico St. 133 Eastern Wash. 9:00 pm EDT 125 16 Idaho 141 Florida Intl. 7:00 pm EDT 94 19 Duke 113 East. Michigan 7:00 pm EDT 119 19 Ball St. 100 UTSA TBA 200 19 South Alabama 181 Nevada 3:00 pm EDT 60 22 California 38 Indiana St. 8:00 pm EDT 117 22 Indiana 139 W. Michigan 1:00 pm EDT 78 23 Illinois 55 UCLA 7:30 pm EDT 66 23 Rice 89 Central Arkansas TBA 126 23 Mississippi 103 Toledo 10:30 pm EDT 40 24 Arizona 64 San Diego St. 10:30 pm EDT 70 26 Washington 44 Northwestern 12:00 pm EDT 58 28 Syracuse 86 Wagner TBA 219 29 Florida Atlantic 190 Southern Utah 8:00 pm EDT 111 31 Utah St. 80 Weber St. 10:00 pm EDT 136 31 Fresno St. 105 (9) South Carolina 7:00 pm EDT 10 32 Vanderbilt 42 Texas A&M 7:30 pm EDT 14 34 Louisiana Tech 48 Colorado 4:00 pm EDT 107 35 Colorado St. 142 Miami (FL) 3:30 pm EDT 52 38 Boston Coll. 90 Appalachian St. 12:00 pm EDT 131 38 East Carolina 93 Ohio 12:00 pm EDT 68 40 Penn St. 28 Youngstown St. 6:00 pm EDT 115 46 Pittsburgh 69 Navy 9:00 am EDT 74 48 Notre Dame 26 Washington St. 10:15 pm EDT 83 49 BYU 34 Miami (OH) 12:00 pm EDT 98 49 Ohio St. 49 South Dakota St. TBA 140 49 Kansas 91 Marshall TBA 79 57 (17) West Virginia 22 Southern TBA 235 60 New Mexico 175 William & Mary 3:00 pm EDT 165 61 Maryland 104 Arkansas St. 10:30 pm EDT 67 62 (4) Oregon 5 Northern Iowa 3:30 pm EDT 75 67 (10) Wisconsin 8 Wyoming TBA 84 67 Texas 17 Minnesota 11:00 pm EDT 88 67 UNLV 155 Chattanooga 7:00 pm EDT 127 68 South Florida 59 Bowling Green TBA 99 70 Florida 29 Massachusetts 7:30 pm EDT 150 74 Connecticut 76 Liberty 6:30 pm EDT 149 76 Wake Forest 73 SE Missouri St. TBA 215 78 Cent. Michigan 137 Hawaii 7:30 pm EDT 97 85 (6) USC 12 (16) Oklahoma 10:30 pm EDT 4 88 UTEP 92 Eastern Kentucky 3:30 pm EDT 153 88 Purdue 65 San Jose St. 10:00 pm EDT 96 89 (7) Stanford 7 Richmond 3:00 pm EDT 177 106 Virginia 71 Northern Arizona 10:30 pm EDT 148 107 Arizona St. 41 Buffalo TBA 135 114 (19) Georgia 21 Northwestern St. TBA 167 114 Texas Tech 53 Elon 12:30 pm EDT 172 118 North Carolina 54 North Texas TBA 121 119 (2) LSU 2 UCF 7:00 pm EDT 77 121 Akron 198 Austin Peay 7:00 pm EDT 224 123 West. Kentucky 101 Idaho St. TBA 205 133 Air Force 72 Rutgers 8:00 pm EDT 36 135 Tulane 171 Lamar TBA 220 138 LA Lafayette 82 Nicholls 3:00 pm EDT 226 139 Oregon St. 87 Murray St. 6:00 pm EDT 163 140 (23) Florida St. 23 Missouri St. TBA 160 141 (15) Kansas St. 19 Villanova TBA 195 149 Temple 46 Jacksonville St. TBA 164 158 (5) Arkansas 6 Jackson St. TBA 189 158 Mississippi St. 31 Texas St. 8:00 pm EDT 178 163 (18) Houston 15 Northern Colorado 7:15 pm EDT 209 170 Utah 39 SE Louisiana TBA 207 191 Missouri 16 Savannah St. TBA 241 238 (3) Oklahoma St. 3 ``` ---
**Author:** ![furt](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/439d5e/32.png) [@furt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/furt)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2012, 11:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/college-football-2012-week-1-games/625425/10 "2012-06-21T11:02:58Z")
> [@Uncle\_Jocko](#): > > Who cares about Notre Dame-Navy, Alabama-Michigan, Clemson-Auburn? Big deal. Listen to Bleacher Report … it’s the Texas-San Antonio vs South Alabama game the nation will be talking about! > > Seriously, that made their best games of opening weekend list? I realize it’s UTSA’s first game as an FBS school, but … really? Actually, it’s both teams’ FBS debut, but yeah. There’s a reason I’ve configured my browser to block any search results from Bleacher Report. ---
**Author:** ![BobLibDem](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/boblibdem/32/3149_2.png) [@BobLibDem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BobLibDem)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2012, 11:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/college-football-2012-week-1-games/625425/11 "2012-06-21T11:42:42Z")
What’s the early line on where the ESPN Game Day set-up will be in week 1? I’d lean toward Dallas for the Michigan-Alabama game, but they may prefer a campus site. ---
**Author:** ![FrWindyShephardHenderson](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/a9a28c/32.png) [@FrWindyShephardHenderson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FrWindyShephardHenderson)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2012, 2:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/college-football-2012-week-1-games/625425/12 "2012-06-21T14:30:51Z")
Making the trip up to Dublin for the Notre Dame v Navy game. Should be a good atmosphere up there. I fear I might spending most of my day explaining the rules to the lads I convinced to tag along though. Inconsistent as ND are\* I still the think the match itself will be a blow out. \*Do they have a QB this year? ---
**Author:** ![Munch](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/munch/32/5281_2.png) [@Munch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Munch)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2012, 2:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/college-football-2012-week-1-games/625425/13 "2012-06-21T14:58:54Z")
> [@FrWindyShephardHenderson](#): > > \*Do they have a QB this year? They have 4. Gunner Kiel, Everett Golson, Andrew Hendrix, and Tommy Rees. I really think Rees is done (terrible last year, off-season legal issues), and Kelly will want to keep Kiel off the field as much as possible this season. I really like Hendrix this season. ---
**Author:** ![FrWindyShephardHenderson](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/a9a28c/32.png) [@FrWindyShephardHenderson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FrWindyShephardHenderson)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2012, 3:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/college-football-2012-week-1-games/625425/14 "2012-06-21T15:49:18Z")
Yeah Rees looked like a deer in the headlights last year. Interesting to see if they find someone else to throw it to now that Floydd is gone. ---
**Author:** ![basset\_hound](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/basset_hound/32/1432_2.png) [@basset\_hound](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/basset_hound)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2012, 11:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/college-football-2012-week-1-games/625425/15 "2012-06-29T23:46:03Z")
Alabama pounds Michigan (Crimson Tide 38 - 10) Boise State loses to Michigan State (MSU 30 - 28) — BSU misses a field goal on the last play) Clemson makes the Cam Newton year seem even more distant (ACC Tigers 40 - 17) Southern Miss goes down to Nebraska (27 - 21)