College Football: Top games to watch in Week 1

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This may be one of the best opening weekends in college football. There are a ton of great games, but here are five of the must-watch contests.

Traditionally, opening weekend of college football has had one or two barnburners accompanied by a bunch of cupcake games meant to get the alumni and fans fired up.

This year, there are a plethora of awesome games to watch on opening weekend. I am not going to rank all ninety-freaking-two of them, First, because other people have done that already; second, because I don’t agree with their assessments. I mean, Alabama v. Louisville falls dead last?! I think it’s going to be a pretty decent game, and will show pretty quickly if Alabama deserves the preseason number one ranking.

Plus, even if you are as college-football mad as me and my colleagues here at Saturday Blitz, there is no way on you’ll be able to watch ’em all. So because I’m SUCH a kind person (don’t laugh) I offer you my picks for the best bets on opening weekend. If you only get to watch five games on opening weekend, these are the five you should turn on.

By the way, opening weekend is almost here. *Author does happy dance* Let’s get started.

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