The start of the 2015 college football season on Thursday will also be a history-making night, with Cat Conti serving as an official during the Michigan vs. Utah game.
According to Fox Sports' Stewart Mandel, citing colleague Mike Pereira, Conti will be the first female official to work a game featuring two teams from the Power Five conferences in college football.
Conti's star has been on the rise in the officiating ranks, though as she told Yahoo Sports' Graham Watson last year after she was assigned to a game between Southeast Missouri and Kansas in the Jayhawks' stadium, it didn't change much.