Now, this is how you’re supposed to open a college football season.
Big games – four of them involving preseason top 25 teams in which the point spread is a touchdown or less; four more that are within the reasonable two-touchdown range.
Big names – Alabama vs. Southern Cal (you can almost hear Keith Jackson warming up his windpipe here); a Monday night meeting between Notre Dame and Texas that possesses many echoes of its own.
Meaningful interaction between conferences – Clemson at Auburn; Florida State-Ole Miss; LSU-Wisconsin at Lambeau Field; Georgia-North Carolina at the Georgia Dome.