College football's scheduling superlatives

Hawaii will have one of the wildest schedules in college football this fall. But the Warriors aren't the only team with some scheduling quirks.The 2016 season begins with a scheduling oddity. A week before everyone else kicks off, Cal and Hawaii meet Aug. 26 in Sydney, Australia, a city that has never hosted a college football game.

If a historic trip Down Under isn't unusual enough, Hawaii then travels nearly 9,500 miles to Ann Arbor, Michigan, to play the Wolverines. After returning to Oahu -- a mere 4,440 miles from the Big House -- for the home opener against Tennessee-Martin, Hawaii crosses the Pacific yet again to visit Arizona on Sept. 17.

Mercifully, a bye week arrives to salvage…