B1G! Friday Night Lights! Long Holiday Weekend!

We're on to Day 2 of the 5 day college football kickoff weekend! For those of us that overindulged last night, I told you that it was a marathon and not a sprint, but you didn't listen. (Hi, it was me. I overindulged last night and didn't listen.)

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Big Ten Football Week 1 Picks, Predictions, Previews

You can pick your friends, you can pick your nose, but you can’t pick a Rutgers win

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Ranking the Big Ten Football Stadiums

What’s the best college football game on this weekend? What time do tonight’s games kick off? And how do the Big Ten stadiums rank by capacity (if they were municipalities in their home states)?

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B1G Football Survivor 2026 - Week 0/Week 1

The goal of B1G survivor is simple: be the last one standing in the survivor pool.

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Indiana State Sycamores at Purdue Boilermakers

7:00 ET/6:00 GTZ. BTN.

Toledo Rockets at Michigan State Spartans

8:00 ET/7:00 GTZ. FS1.

Fresno State Bulldogs v #14 (?) Southern California Ostentatiously-dropped Magnums

9:00 ET/8:00 GTZ. Fox.