College Football’s 2023 Season Starts With Too Many Terrible Games

College Gameday is starting the 2023 season at a football game between South Carolina and North Carolina. Seriously.

With all due respect to those two fine programs, that is a brutal choice for the biggest college football pregame show. Unfortunately, the first full Saturday this September is that bad.

Last year, the college football season had a huge, signature game with Notre Dame at Ohio State as the headliner. Now that’s where College Gameday should be to start the season — on campus for a Top 10 game. That game capped a solid slate of Saturday games that included Utah at Florida, Cincinnati at Arkansas and Oregon vs Georgia. It wasn’t the greatest opening weekend ever, but it was sufficiently exciting.

This year? Good luck trying to find a game worthy of interest.

New Mexico at Texas A&M is the primetime ESPN game. UMass at Auburn is the afternoon ESPN game. Yes, as in ESPN the main cable network.

Colorado at TCU is the noon game on Fox, an impending blowout hyped by Deion Sanders. That leads right into a thrilling Rice/Texas game. Yes, Rice is playing Texas on broadcast television and, no, it’s not 1955.

CBS is airing Texas Tech at Wyoming in primetime. What?