After nearly seven months, our long national nightmare is over. 

The 2016 college football season is here, and to reward you for your patience, we have one of the best opening weeks of competition ever assembled. It will also be one of the largest slates ever, though the 86 games on tap between Thursday evening and Monday night is one fewer than in 2015.

You can thank an overabundance of FCS/FBS clashes for this large schedule—46 to be exact—but even with those mostly lopsided matchups, there are still plenty of great games. How do four matchups of Top 25 teams and 14 pitting power-league foes or top independents sound? There's even a trio of conference pairings, one of which is taking place in Ireland.