The Napkin Week 0, ft. Nebraska, Hawaii

The time has come. The college football season is officially here. There is no better feeling than waking up on a Saturday morning, sitting down to watch your pregame show of choice, and placing your bets for the day.

Week 0 is our training camp. It’s our dress rehearsal. It’s the day we use to make sure that our gameday setup runs smoothly. It’s when we make sure that our TV, laptop, tablet, and multi-screen devices are ready to go for the official start of the season next week.

If the Week 1, five-day stretch of games from Thursday to Monday of Labor Day weekend is the “grand opening” of the season, then Week 0 is more like a “soft opening”, a soft launch, if you will.

While Week 0 may not have the pomp and circumstance that Week 1 has, given the much more limited slate of games, that doesn’t mean we can’t sink our teeth into the Week 0 games made available to us.

All odds are provided by Tipico Sportsbook, our current official partner here at Gators Wire.

I’d like to give a special shoutout to my good friend Steven McAvoy for helping me out with The Napkin graphic. You can send him a DM on Twitter @StevenMcAvoy_ for all your design needs.

Without further ado, The Napkin for Week 0.

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Nebraska vs Northwestern: Under 51.5 (-110)

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I don’t want to say that I won’t ever bet on a middle-of-the-pack Big Ten West matchup, but given the limited slate and the high-profile coverage of the game (12:30 p.m. EDT kick-off on FOX from Dublin, Ireland), I feel like I have to bet on this game.

Look, I hear you. “Betting the under is boring”. I actually agree with you. Who wants to watch a football game and root for punts? Not I. But in a Week 0 matchup between teams that will be out of the Big Ten West division race by mid-October? That both want to run the football? With the game taking place in Ireland?

I feel like I have to at least throw something on this,…