Week 0

Games in Alaska, Puerto Rico and other outlying territories would nominally count towards the Hawaii Rule, but those locales do not field FBS programs, or have venues that met NCAA minimum attendance guidelines before those were abolished in 2023.

4 Penn State, 44–6, at Giants Stadium in East Rutherford, New Jersey.

[4] For the 2020 season, the NCAA issued a blanket waiver for Week 0 games by any team, in order to allow for scheduling flexibility amid the COVID-19 pandemic.

[5] However, no Division I FBS members wound up playing in a Week 0 game in 2020.

Week 0 games since 2002: Rose Bowl Pasadena, California Rankings reflect preseason AP Poll.