The 2022 college football season leaps into September with a run of non-conference games with major postseason implications involving nearly every team in the preseason USA TODAY Sports Coaches Poll.
Even during an era when unbeaten regular seasons have becoming less and less common, these non-league games promise to shake up the College Football Playoff race before the end of the year's opening month.
There are so many options that the games that just missed the cut for the best of non-conference play include some of the biggest matchups and rivalries in the Football Bowl Subdivision, including:
- West Virginia at Pittsburgh, Sept.