West Virginia’s season-opening game against Missouri is one of four high-profile matchups featuring Big 12 teams this weekend.
On Friday night, Kansas State gets things started with a trip out to Palo Alto, California, to face seventh-ranked Stanford. Third-ranked Oklahoma jumps right into the fire against fifth-ranked Houston early Saturday afternoon, West Virginia takes on 2014 SEC East champion Missouri at Milan Puskar Stadium and Texas wraps up week one with a Sunday evening game against ninth-ranked Notre Dame in Austin.
National championships will not be won during the first week of the season, but the process of determining the four teams who will make up this year’s college football playoff does begin during week one.