The 2019 chase to the College Football Playoff begins on Aug. 24, when Florida and Miami kick off the season with a neutral-site matchup in Orlando, Fla. The first full weekend of college football is the week after, on Aug. 31.

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The championship on Jan. 13 at the Mercedes-Benz Superdome in New Orleans figures to be an exciting one, and Sporting News can’t wait to get there. And it all starts with that first weekend,

It’s never too early to look ahead to Week 1. With that said, here are 100 reasons we’re looking forward to Week 1 of the college football season (in mostly chronological order).

1. Florida-Miami (Aug. 24)

  1. Manny Diaz’s debut with the Hurricanes

  2. Feleipe Franks and Dan Mullen in Year 2

  3. Is there still a “Turnover Chain”?

  4. Arizona vs. Hawaii late night

  5. Khalil Tate vs. Cole McDonald in top 25 QB battle 

  6. Holy war between Utah and BYU (Aug. 29)

  7. UCLA on at Cincinnati in the Mick Cronin Bowl. (Aug. 29)

  8. Georgia Tech at Clemson 

  9. Geoff Collins’ head coaching debut

  10. Clemson’s entrance

  11. Trevor Lawrence’s first pass to Justyn Ross. Or Tee Higgins. Or. …  

  12. Travis Etienne’s first big run up the middle 

  13. Xavier Thomas’ first sack  

  14. Get back, Brent Venables

16. Dabo Swinney’s halftime interview

  1. Kellen Mond and Jimbo Fisher in Year 2

  2. Friday Night Sparty with Tulsa (Aug. 30)

  3. Colorado State-Colorado

  4. Kelvin Hopkins Jr.’s first option keeper for Army

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21. Rondale Moore’s first jet sweep for Purdue

  1. Jonathan Taylor’s first off-tackle run for Wisconsin 

  2. Utah State-Wake Forest in a shootout (Aug. 30)

  3. ESPN College GameDay (Aug. 31)  

  4. Lee Corso headgear — who will it be?  

  5. Ohio State’s Ryan Day, Justin Fields, Garrett Wilson and Zach Harrison debut against … Lane Kiffin and FAU.  

  6. Chase Young

  7. The first Script Ohio

  8. Northwestern-Stanford SAT jokes

  9. Hunter Johnson’s debut at Northwestern

  10. Northwestern linebacker Paddy Fisher  

  11. Adrian Martinez and Scott Frost in Year 2

  12. Huskers hype returns, but do the Blackshirts?

  13. Fresno State-USC in a gotta-have-it-game for Clay Helton.

  14. Jacob Eason’s debut at Washington

  15. Mike Leach’s first sideline interview

  16. Mason Fine at North Texas

  17. Matt Wells’ debut at Texas Tech 

  18. Neal Brown’s debut at West Virginia  

  19. “Texas is back!”

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  1. Sam Ehlinger

  2. Bru McCoy?

43. Bevo

  1. A.J. Epenesa’s first sack for Iowa

  2. Mike Locksley’s debut at Maryland

  3. Upset alert! (Doesn’t matter where)

47. Yetur Gross-Matos and Penn State’s pass rush

  1. Joe Burrow and LSU’s revamped passing attack

  2. Grant Delpit’s first interception

  3. Ed Orgeron’s first sideline interview

  4. Derek Stingley Jr.’s debut

  5. Ole Miss at Memphis

  6. Alabama vs. Duke

  7. Tua Tagovailoa’s first deep pass to Jerry Jeudy

  8. Najee Harris and Trey Sanders

  9. Jaylen Waddle running very fast

  10. #RunTheDamnBallSark

  11. Nick Saban’s first outburst

59. Saban’s second outburst …

  1. Anfernee Jennings, Dylan Moses and a defense with something to prove

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  1. Auburn vs. Oregon at Jerry World  

  2. Who’s Auburn’s QB?

  3. Justin Herbert at Oregon

  4. Pac-12 implosion (if the Ducks lose)

  5. Gus Malzahn hot-seat talk (if Tigers lose)

  6. North Carolina vs. South Carolina in Charlotte, N.C.

  7. Mack Brown’s Tar Heels debut

  8. Jake Bentley. He’s still at South Carolina?

  9. Florida State vs. Boise State

  10. Virginia vs. Pitt in ACC Coastal showdown

  11. Hugh Freeze’s debut at Liberty

  12. Syracuse with Tommy DeVito under center

  13. AJ Dillon at Boston College

  14. Georgia-Vanderbilt

  15. Jake Fromm and UGA’s offensive line

  16. Georgia running back D’Andre Swift

  17. Vanderbilt running back Ke’Shawn Vaughn

  18. Michigan and #SpeedInSpace

  19. The first chorus of “The Victors”

  20. Shea Patterson to Donovan Peoples-Jones, Nico Collins and Tarik Black

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  1. Jim Harbaugh and Josh Gattis. Does it work?

  2. Is Baylor back with Charlie Brewer?

  3. Iowa State quarterback Brock Purdy

  4. Les Miles’ debut at Kansas

  5. Chris Klieman’s Kansas State debut  

  6. Kelly Bryant’s debut at Mizzou

  7. Jim McElwain’s debut at Central Michigan

  8. The first chorus of “Rocky Top”

  9. Houston at Oklahoma (Sept. 1)

  10. Jalen Hurts’ debut at OU

  11. Dana Holgorsen’s debut at Houston

92. D’Eriq King’s return for Cougars

93. CeeDee Lamb, Kennedy Brooks and Kenneth Murray

  1. Notre Dame at Louisville (Sept. 2)

  2. Scott Satterfield’s Louisville debut 

  3. Notre Dame quarterback Ian Book

  4. Khalid Kareem off the edge

  5. Week 1 overreactions, over-analysis and Heisman cases

  6. Reading about it at Sporting News

100. Looking ahead to Week 2