Week 1 college football TV schedule and open thread: It's baaack

Finally, it is Saturday. Finally, it is game day.

We've still got quite a while to wait until Florida takes on New Mexico State at 7:30 p.m. on SEC Network, and it could be longer still if the predicted thunderstorms end up transpiring. So you will be filling your daylight hours will lots of non-Florida football.

Here are my picks for the two viewing windows before Florida plays.

Early (noon to 3:30 p.m. Eastern)

Stanford at Northwestern (noon, ESPN): It's smart kids vs. smarter kids! And, goodness, this window is bare, unless you like blowouts.

Afternoon (3:30 p.m. to 7:00 p.m. Eastern)

Penn State at Temple (3:30 p.m., ESPN): Temple coach Matt Rhule is a rising star in the sport, but James Franklin's Nittany Lions should be much improved in his second year in Happy Valley. Could be a really close game or a runaway win.

Louisville vs. Auburn (in Atlanta, 3:30 p.m., CBS): A 3:30 p.m. game on CBS in Week 1 is a lot of fun, first, but this is also the game in which Will Muschamp gets revenge on Louisville, or a different Louisville offense shows up a Muschamp defense as a double-digit underdog. You'll be talking about this one this week, I bet.

Sat, Sept 5, 2015
12:00 PM ET CBSS	Colgate	at	Navy
12:00 PM ET ESPNN	Norfolk State	at	Rutgers
12:00 PM ET ESPNU	Richmond	at	Maryland
12:00 PM ET BTN	Illinois State	at	Iowa
12:00 PM ET FSN	South Dakota State	at	Kansas
12:00 PM ET SECN	Tennessee-Martin	at	(17) Mississippi
12:00 PM ET SECN	Louisiana-Monroe	at	(9) Georgia
12:00 PM ET ESPN	(21) Stanford	at	Northwestern
12:30 PM ET ESPN3	Wofford	at	(12) Clemson
1:00 PM ET ESPN3	Youngstown State	at	Pittsburgh
1:00 PM ET ESPN3	Maine	at	Boston College
2:00 PM ET PAC12	Portland State	at	Washington State
3:30 PM ET ESPN3	Howard	at	Appalachian State
3:30 PM ET ESPN3	Presbyterian	at	Miami (OH)
3:30 PM ET ESPN3	Albany	at	Buffalo
3:30 PM ET ESPN	Penn State	at	Temple
3:30 PM ET ABC	BYU	at	Nebraska
3:30 PM ET RSRM	Morgan State	at	Air Force
3:30 PM ET CBSS	Florida Atlantic	at	Tulsa
3:30 PM ET ASN	Wagner	at	Rice
3:30 PM ET ESPN3	Old Dominion	at	Eastern Michigan
3:30 PM ET FOX	Virginia	at	(13) UCLA
3:30 PM ET FSN	Sam Houston State	at	Texas Tech
3:30 PM ET CBS	Louisville	vs. (Atlanta, GA)	(6) Auburn
3:30 PM ET ESPNU	UTEP	at	(18) Arkansas
4:00 PM ET ESPNN	Southern Illinois	at	Indiana
4:00 PM ET TBA	North Dakota	at	Wyoming
4:00 PM ET MWC	Savannah State	at	Colorado State
4:00 PM ET SECN	Bowling Green	vs. (Nashville, TN)	(25) Tennessee
4:00 PM ET SECN	Southeast Missouri State	at	(24) Missouri
5:00 PM ET PAC12	Grambling State	at	Cal
6:00 PM ET ESPN3	Gardner-Webb	at	South Alabama
6:00 PM ET ESPN3	Towson	at	East Carolina
6:00 PM ET ESPN3	Troy	at	NC State
6:00 PM ET ESPN3	Bethune-Cookman	at	Miami (FL)
7:00 PM ET ESPN3	Florida A&M	at	South Florida
7:00 PM ET ESPN3	Missouri State	at	Memphis
7:00 PM ET ESPN3	Alabama A&M	at	Cincinnati
7:00 PM ET TBA	Mississippi Valley State	at	New Mexico
7:00 PM ET CUSA Network	Jackson State	at	Middle Tennessee
7:00 PM ET ASN	Southern	at	Louisiana Tech
7:00 PM ET PPV	Akron	at	(19) Oklahoma
7:00 PM ET ESPN	(15) Arizona State	vs. (Houston, TX)	Texas A&M
7:00 PM ET ESPNU	Louisiana-Lafayette	at	Kentucky
7:10 PM ET PPV	South Dakota	at	Kansas State
7:30 PM ET CBSS	UNLV	at	Northern Illinois
7:30 PM ET FSN	Georgia Southern	at	West Virginia
7:30 PM ET NBC	Texas	at	(11) Notre Dame
7:30 PM ET ESPN	McNeese State	at	(14) LSU
7:30 PM ET SECN	New Mexico State	at	Florida
8:00 PM ET MWC	San Diego	at	San Diego State
8:00 PM ET ESPN3	Tennessee Tech	at	Houston
8:00 PM ET ESPNN	Texas State	at	(10) Florida State
8:00 PM ET Cyclones.tv	Northern Iowa	at	Iowa State
8:00 PM ET ABC	Wisconsin	vs. (Dallas, TX)	(3) Alabama
8:00 PM ET PAC12	Eastern Washington	at	(7) Oregon
10:00 PM ET FS1	Mississippi State	at	Southern Miss
11:00 PM ET PAC12	Arkansas State	at	(8) USC
Sun, Sept 6, 2015
3:00 PM ET FS1	Purdue	at	Marshall
Mon, Sept 7, 2015
8:00 PM ET ESPN	(1) Ohio State	at	Virginia Tech