Games To Watch: Saturday, September 5th

Buckle up everyone.  Today is the first day of the rest of your CFB lives.

The opening weekend of college football is generally just a chance to see what each team has, a buildup to the excitement of conference play.  This weekend's match-ups don't really deviate too much from the mean.  There are sure to be a lot of blowouts and a few, actual, good games.

The bout between Alabama and Wisconsin is obviously the highlight.  Wisconsin is sure to be a good team, but after what happened to them in the Big 10 Championship game, they are going to have to show me something before I will give them much credit towards being a potential top 10. I'm gonna have to go into this saying that Alabama wins it without too much trouble.

What does make this interesting, at least for us in the Lone Star State, it that we have two unranked, but very good Texas teams playing against top-15 opponents.  No. 15 Arizona State vs Texas A&M promises to be exciting just based on the fact that the Aggies are always up for a good shootout, and a Pac-12 team like ASU is the perfect opponent to deliver some excitement.  The Pac-12 South, like the SEC West is stacked, and while I don't see TAMU pulling off this upset, they surprised us last year against the Gamecocks didn't they?

Notre Dame is really always difficult to judge.  They come into every year highly ranked (No. 11 this year), and almost always don't live up to the hype.  But they are a perennial CFB powerhouse, and because of their schedule they have a chance to make waves every season. Texas's defense this year will be a bear, and if they can keep things close, maybe they have a chance to pull off the upset. Ultimately, I don't see either team winning, but there was a lot I didn't see last year too. We have a lot of college football ahead of us, and just as many questions that need answered.

Let's get to it.

Here's the full schedule of games:

Sat, Sept 5, 2015
12:00 PM ET CBSS	Colgate	at	Navy
12:00 PM ET ESPNN	Norfolk State	at	Rutgers
12:00 PM ET ESPNU	Richmond	at	Maryland
12:00 PM ET BTN	Illinois State	at	Iowa
12:00 PM ET FSN	South Dakota State	at	Kansas
12:00 PM ET SECN	Tennessee-Martin	at	(17) Mississippi
12:00 PM ET SECN	Louisiana-Monroe	at	(9) Georgia
12:00 PM ET ESPN	(21) Stanford	at	Northwestern
12:30 PM ET ESPN3	Wofford	at	(12) Clemson
1:00 PM ET ESPN3	Youngstown State	at	Pittsburgh
1:00 PM ET ESPN3	Maine	at	Boston College
2:00 PM ET PAC12	Portland State	at	Washington State
3:30 PM ET ESPN3	Howard	at	Appalachian State
3:30 PM ET ESPN3	Presbyterian	at	Miami (OH)
3:30 PM ET ESPN3	Albany	at	Buffalo
3:30 PM ET ESPN	Penn State	at	Temple
3:30 PM ET ABC	BYU	at	Nebraska
3:30 PM ET RSRM	Morgan State	at	Air Force
3:30 PM ET CBSS	Florida Atlantic	at	Tulsa
3:30 PM ET ASN	Wagner	at	Rice
3:30 PM ET ESPN3	Old Dominion	at	Eastern Michigan
3:30 PM ET FOX	Virginia	at	(13) UCLA
3:30 PM ET FSN	Sam Houston State	at	Texas Tech
3:30 PM ET CBS	Louisville	vs. (Atlanta, GA)	(6) Auburn
3:30 PM ET ESPNU	UTEP	at	(18) Arkansas
4:00 PM ET ESPNN	Southern Illinois	at	Indiana
4:00 PM ET TBA	North Dakota	at	Wyoming
4:00 PM ET MWC	Savannah State	at	Colorado State
4:00 PM ET SECN	Bowling Green	vs. (Nashville, TN)	(25) Tennessee
4:00 PM ET SECN	Southeast Missouri State	at	(24) Missouri
5:00 PM ET PAC12	Grambling State	at	Cal
6:00 PM ET ESPN3	Gardner-Webb	at	South Alabama
6:00 PM ET ESPN3	Towson	at	East Carolina
6:00 PM ET ESPN3	Troy	at	NC State
6:00 PM ET ESPN3	Bethune-Cookman	at	Miami (FL)
7:00 PM ET ESPN3	Florida A&M	at	South Florida
7:00 PM ET ESPN3	Missouri State	at	Memphis
7:00 PM ET ESPN3	Alabama A&M	at	Cincinnati
7:00 PM ET TBA	Mississippi Valley State	at	New Mexico
7:00 PM ET CUSA Network	Jackson State	at	Middle Tennessee
7:00 PM ET ASN	Southern	at	Louisiana Tech
7:00 PM ET PPV	Akron	at	(19) Oklahoma
7:00 PM ET ESPN	(15) Arizona State	vs. (Houston, TX)	Texas A&M
7:00 PM ET ESPNU	Louisiana-Lafayette	at	Kentucky
7:10 PM ET PPV	South Dakota	at	Kansas State
7:30 PM ET CBSS	UNLV	at	Northern Illinois
7:30 PM ET FSN	Georgia Southern	at	West Virginia
7:30 PM ET NBC	Texas	at	(11) Notre Dame
7:30 PM ET ESPN	McNeese State	at	(14) LSU
7:30 PM ET SECN	New Mexico State	at	Florida
8:00 PM ET MWC	San Diego	at	San Diego State
8:00 PM ET ESPN3	Tennessee Tech	at	Houston
8:00 PM ET ESPNN	Texas State	at	(10) Florida State
8:00 PM ET Cyclones.tv	Northern Iowa	at	Iowa State
8:00 PM ET ABC	Wisconsin	vs. (Dallas, TX)	(3) Alabama
8:00 PM ET PAC12	Eastern Washington	at	(7) Oregon
10:00 PM ET FS1	Mississippi State	at	Southern Miss
11:00 PM ET PAC12	Arkansas State	at	(8) USC
Sun, Sept 6, 2015
3:00 PM ET FS1	Purdue	at	Marshall
Mon, Sept 7, 2015
8:00 PM ET ESPN	(1) Ohio State	at	Virginia Tech