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Football fans and bettors are waiting for the weekend to arrive. After all, college football is back! The NCAA football season begins this weekend. Kicking off the season will be Florida State playing against Georgia Tech. The opening game will be played in Dublin, Ireland, at 12:00 PM ET. This is the first game that marks Week 0 in college football. So if you want to open a sportsbook, you have more than enough time to do so before things get busy.

There are more exciting games to open the season on opening day. You also have Montana State playing New Mexico at 1PM ET, and then SMU will face Nevada at 8:00 PM ET. The exciting matchups will hopefully serve as a preview of what will be a thrilling season for college football. And for those who bet on football, or want to become a football bookie, hopefully a profitable one too.

NCAA Football Returns

Saturday will be the unofficial start to the season. The official opening will be the following weekend, coinciding with Labor Day Weekend. This first week of college football is called Week 0. And while people are quick to dismiss these games as “minor”, some of the games are actually very exciting.

It is also called Week 0 because the schedule is a lot less full than that of a regular season slate. The full schedule begins with Week 1. Your sportsbook software will have all of the lines ready, so you won’t need to worry about managing the workload of a busy football betting business. You will, however, need to brush up on the changes in the NCAA tournament.

Changes in NCAA Football Regulations

You may wonder why is this important in your sportsbook operation. The changes this season are important because it will affect the landscape of college betting. If you remember, the NCAA divisions have had a shuffling. Quite a few powerful teams have changed conferences. As you can imagine, this will change the dynamics within the conference. Furthermore, it will also affect the ability of a team to go further into the season if they are getting another powerful opponent.

The realignment features the Big Ten adding four schools: UCLA, Southern Cal, Oregon, and Washington. This will now be a conference with 18 schools. The SEC will now have 16 schools as Oklahoma and Texas move there. For the Big XII, they will have 16 after a reshuffle. The ACC will have 17 schools after the addition of Cal, Stanford, and SMU. Pac-12 is quite lonely with just two schools- Oregon State and Washington State.

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