A few years ago, the NCAA realized that the opening weekend of college football was trash. Virtually everyone played cupcakes. While there was excitement about football being back, all the games were bad and predictable. Their solution was to start encouraging teams to schedule good opening weekend match-ups. This was a solution that most fans have enjoyed. While the majority of opening weekend games are still bad, there’s more than enough good games out there to really enjoy the weekend.
However, they merely traded week one with week two. Week two games are a hellscape of 1-AA matchups and huge spread games.