Week 0 is here. Should college football move up its season for good?

On Saturday, at noon ET, Florida State and Georgia Tech kick off the 2024 college football season from inside Aviva Stadium in Dublin, Ireland.

The international ACC showdown is one of four college football games played a week before the traditional Labor Day weekend kickoff — a date known as “Week 0.” The full smorgasbord of college games unfurls next week, featuring three top-25 matchups (Georgia-Clemson, Notre Dame-Texas A&M and LSU-USC) and two spicy in-state/border rivalry meetings (Miami-Florida and Penn State-West Virginia).

But what if those games were this weekend? What if the start of the season began a week earlier?

In the future, it could very well happen. In fact, not long ago, College Football Playoff leaders seriously discussed the prospect of shifting up by a week the entire regular season: Week 0 would become the new Week 1 and conference championship games would shift from the first weekend in December to the Thanksgiving week. Rivalry Week, traditionally played Thanksgiving week, would move to the third week of November.

Click here for the Viewer’s Guide to the New College Football Playoff. (Taylor Wilhelm/Yahoo Sports)

The goal: Free up the second week of December to play the four first-round games of the expanded playoff. For now, those games are scheduled for the third week of December, when at least two of those games will go head-to-head with the NFL.

Is it realistic to shift up the entire regular season? Yes.

Is it difficult to shift up the entire regular season? Also, yes.

“We have to continue to consider Week 0 in my view,” ACC commissioner Jim Phillips said last year about the prospect. “I don’t know that anybody’s ready to say we can’t do it or we can do it.”

However, since Phillips uttered those words many months ago, conversations around the prospect have faded. College…

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Publish date : 2024-08-22 12:45:35

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