Boston College football has one of its games cemented for the 2026 season. The Eagles will be hosting the Maine Black Bears on Saturday, Sept. 19 at Alumni Stadium in Week 3 of the college football season. This will be the 11th meeting between the two teams. Boston College leads the all-time series 7-3.

Two more previously made the playoff in Indiana’s Curt Cignetti and Oregon’s Dan Lanning. Texas Tech coach Joey McGuire has delivered the best regular season in program history and Texas A&M coach Mike Elko led the Aggies to their most success in the regular season in decades.

Venables is no stranger to the College Football Playoff, having been there six times and won two national championships as the defensive coordinator at Clemson. He has now gotten there for the first time as a head coach after taking over the Sooners in 2022.

The Wolverines may have claimed the top spot only once, but it came in the final edition of the 2023 rankings, slotting them in as the No. 1 seed in the College Football Playoff field. The Wolverines ended up winning the national championship.

Seven bowl games and two CFP games, including the national championship game, will take place in Florida, though none of those games are close to the Pensacola area. The closest bowl game to Pensacola is 73 miles away at Hancock Whitney Stadium in Mobile, Alabama, where Louisiana and Delaware will clash in the 68 Ventures Bowl on Dec. 17.

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