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2022 Week 0-1: Ranking the top 40 most intriguing college football games
The 2022 college football season will kick off Aug. 27 with Week 0.
Week 1 is set to kick off Sept. 1 and will conclude Sept. 5.
Tennessee will kick off its 2022 season Sept. 1 against Ball State at Neyland Stadium. Kickoff is slated for 7 p.m. EDT and SEC Network will televise the season-opening matchup.
The Vols finished 7-6 in Josh Heupel’s first season as head coach at Tennessee. Tennessee appeared in the Music City Bowl against Purdue.
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Ahead of the 2022 season, Vols Wire ranks the top 40 games for Week 0 and Week 1 contests.
Rankings are based on intriguing matchups, play-callers and various player-personnel. An honorable mention matchup is Alabama A&M at UAB on Sept. 1 due to the Blazers’ first game following the sudden retirement of head coach Bill Clark.
Texas State at Nevada (Sept. 3)
David Yeazell-USA TODAY Sports
Tulsa at Wyoming (Sept. 3)
Brian Losness-USA TODAY Sports
Arizona at San Diego State (Sept. 3)
Tim Heitman-USA TODAY Sports
Miami-Ohio at Kentucky (Sept. 3)
Jordan Prather-USA TODAY Sports
Ball State at Tennessee (Sept. 1)
Photo by Dan Harralson, Vols Wire
Buffalo at Maryland (Sept. 3)
Vincent Carchietta-USA TODAY Sports
SMU at North Texas (Sept. 3)
(Rebecca Slezak/The Dallas Morning News via AP)
Georgia State at South Carolina (Sept. 3)
Jay Biggerstaff-USA TODAY Sports
Virginia Tech at Old Dominion (Sept. 2)
HELEN COMER/The Daily News Journal / USA TODAY NETWORK
Memphis at Mississippi State (Sept. 3)
Matt Bush-USA TODAY Sports
Bowling Green at UCLA (Sept. 3)
Richard Mackson-USA TODAY Sports
Boise State at Oregon State (Sept. 3)
Soobum Im-USA TODAY Sports
TCU at Colorado (Sept. 2)
(AP Photo/LM Otero)
Rice at USC (Sept. 3)
(Photo by Kevork Djansezian/Getty Images)
Murray State at Texas Tech (Sept. 3)
John Gutierrez-USA TODAY Sports
New Mexico State at Minnesota (Sept. 1)
Mark J. Rebilas-USA TODAY Sports
Western Kentucky at Hawaii (Sept. 1)
Jasen Vinlove-USA TODAY Sports
Western Michigan at Michigan State (Sept. 2)
Syndication: Detroit Free Press
Houston at UTSA (Sept. 3)
Mickey Welsh / Advertiser / USA TODAY NETWORK
North Carolina State at East Carolina (Sept. 3)
Syndication: Tallahassee Democrat
North Carolina at Appalachian State (Sept. 3)
(AP Photo/Chris Seward)
Colorado State at Michigan (Sept. 3)
Syndication: The Coloradoan
Nebraska versus Northwestern (Aug. 27)
(Photo by Maddie Meyer/Getty Images)
Vanderbilt at Hawaii (Aug. 27)
(Photo by Jacob Kupferman/Getty Images)
UTEP at Oklahoma (Sept. 3)
Kevin Jairaj-USA TODAY Sports
Illinois at Indiana (Sept. 2)
Charles LeClaire-USA TODAY Sports
UConn at Utah State (Aug. 27)
David Butler II-USA TODAY Sports
Louisiana Tech at Missouri (Sept. 1)
(Photo by John E. Moore III/Getty Images)
Clemson at Georgia Tech (Sept. 5)
Ken Ruinard-USA TODAY Sports
Kent State at Washington (Sept. 3)
(AP Photo/Ted S. Warren)
Louisville at Syracuse (Sept. 3)
Russ Isabella-USA TODAY Sports
Rutgers at Boston College (Sept. 3)
Syndication: The Record
Army at Coastal Carolina (Sept. 3)
Jay Biggerstaff-USA TODAY Sports
Penn State at Purdue (Sept. 1)
Matthew OHaren-USA TODAY Sports
Florida State versus LSU (Sept. 4)
Dale Zanine-USA TODAY Sports
Oregon versus Georgia (Sept. 3)
Mark J. Rebilas-USA TODAY Sports
Cincinnati at Arkansas (Sept. 3)
(Photo by Wesley Hitt/Getty Images)
Utah at Florida (Sept. 3)
(Stephen M. Dowell/Orlando Sentinel via AP)
Notre Dame at Ohio State (Sept. 3)
(AP Photo/Darron Cummings)
West Virginia at Pittsburgh (Sept. 1)
Charles LeClaire-USPRESSWIRE
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