College Football’s Week 0 Offers Trio of Big 12 Teams in Action, Ranked Showdown

With the 2025 college football season just days away from getting underway, three Big 12 teams will be in action during Week 0.

So while West Virginia enjoys a week off as they prepare to kickoff Rich Rodriguez’s first season back leading the Mountaineers, several conference teams will open up play this weekend, with two facing off in Ireland.

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— Big 12 Conference (@Big12Conference) August 18, 2025

Below is what to expect this week along with some other news and notes from the Big 12:  

• Week 0 will feature a trio of Big 12 teams with No. 22 Iowa State and No. 17 Kansas State facing off on ESPN in Ireland in the Aer Lingus College Football Classic’s first-ever ranked matchup. Kansas will also welcome Fresno State in the first game in re-imagined David Booth Kansas Memorial Stadium on FOX.

• No. 22 Iowa State’s and No. 17 Kansas State’s game in Ireland is just the second nationally-ranked matchup in FBS on opening day since 2000.

• Big 12 QB Club: The Big 12 has nine teams that return quarterbacks who threw for 2,400 yards or more last season, nearly twice the total of any other Power 4 conference. The Conference also bolstered its QB class with talented newcomers.

• The Big 12 had more signal callers than any other conference in America on the Davey O’Brien and Manning Award Preseason Watch Lists.

• 2025 marks the 30^th season of Big 12 Football, which held its inaugural season in 1996.

• The Big 12 will create excitement again this season after the Conference led the nation in 2024 in fourth-quarter lead changes and go-ahead scores in the final minute of conference games.

• The Big 12 Conference will publicly provide player availability reports for all Conference games this season, beginning with the Week 0 game between No. 22 Iowa State and No. 17 Kansas State.

The bulleted information was sent to the media by the Big 12 Conference. 

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