College Football Week Zero Thread: Give Ireland Back to the Irish

Delaware State missed the flight to Hawaii.

https://twitter.com/StephenTsai/status/1825944200640344151?s=19

 

He was a defensive lineman. And the coach indicated there was a bit of a bidding war for him for strategic reasons beyond his skill. But still, any incoming freshman getting that kind of offer is eye-popping.

 

I hate the phrase "Week 0" almost as much as "running downhill" and "physicality."

 

Week 0 is such because you are not allowed to play an FBS game baring special circumstances (most commonly an overseas game or playing at Hawaii sometime during the season). Thus the official opening weekend for all is deemed Week 1.

 

details are needed.

They thought they could bus from Delaware to New York and have plenty of time? How do you not stay in north jersey or something to make sure

 

Or even fly out of Philly or BWI? I have a sinking feeling they were trying to squeeze the last penny because they really have no business making this trip.

 

It makes more sense than trying to explain why only about a dozen teams are playing in Week 1 and 100+ other teams have their first game in Week 2. It's good shorthand.
Our state's private school association has a similar deal. There were about 20 games last week and everybody else starts this week. Meanwhile, the public schools have preseason scrimmages this week and their openers next week. I jokingly called the public school scrimmages Week minus-1 in a preview story.

 

And they're still up three on the Rainbow Warriors.

 

They're playing games that count. It's Week 1.

 

They could call it a Kickoff Classic week or something

 

Yeah that's still a little on the high side for a defensive lineman, who usually need a good year to upgrade into another Tier of NIL. But a blue-chip QB or OT ou of HS...$400K is pretty cheap actually.