College Football returns: Nebraska, Northwestern highlight Week Zero with Ireland game

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College football fans have spent the past seven months pining, patiently awaiting the return to the gridiron as the sports fix was fed with the NBA and always thrilling regular-season baseball. 

The wait has come to end. Sort of. 

FILE - Northwestern head coach Pat Fitzgerald talks to reporters during an NCAA college football news conference at the Big Ten Conference Media Days at Lucas Oil Stadium, Tuesday, July 26, 2022, in Indianapolis. Northwestern is set to kick off its season on Aug. 27, 2022, against Nebraska.  (AP Photo/Darron Cummings, File)

Week Zero of the college football season has arrived with 11 games scheduled for Saturday, August 27. There will not be a single ranked team competing, but no one should be getting picky this weekend. 

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Let’s take a look at a handful of games on the Week Zero slate.

Nebraska head coach Scott Frost enters his fifth year in Lincoln with the heat on full blast as his Cornhuskers have failed to finish a season over .500 since taking the job in 2018. After finishing last season at 3-9, and losing their opener to Illinois, Nebraska heads to Dublin, Ireland, for a fun game against Northwestern. 

The Cornhuskers will have a new quarterback under center as Texas transfer Casey Thompson will get the first snap for Nebraska. Thompson started 10 games for Texas last season, throwing for 2,113 yards with 24 touchdowns and 24 interceptions. 

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"I really like what we have at that position," Frost said on "Husker Sports Nightly" when announcing the news. "I wouldn’t be