The best games to watch over college football's opening weekend

Don't you dare flip that channel

College football players.
(Image credit: AP Photo/Nam Y. Huh, File)

Spoiler alert: The world is terrible.

College football's opening weekend, however, is not. I like it so much that instead of taking in fragments of as many important matchups as possible, I prefer to watch complete games. Many of the best programs in the country — Ohio State, Clemson, Wisconsin — are playing pushover teams anyway. So why not catch a game in every time time slot from Thursday until Monday night, regardless of how the teams are ranked in the now meaningless preseason AP poll?

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Matthew Walther

Matthew Walther is a national correspondent at The Week. His work has also appeared in First Things, The Spectator of London, The Catholic Herald, National Review, and other publications. He is currently writing a biography of the Rev. Montague Summers. He is also a Robert Novak Journalism Fellow.