Grab your calendars as there’s been a change to your opening(ish) weekend college football agenda.
Texas A&M road trip to UCLA is one of a handful of high-profile games that will help launch the 2017 season Labor Day weekend. The game, which will be played at the famed Rose Bowl, had been originally scheduled for Saturday, Sept. 2. However, it was announced Wednesday that the game will be pushed back to Sunday, Sept. 3.
The game will kick off at either 7:30 or 8 p.m. ET, with the actual time being determined at a later date.
This year’s game will serve as the back-end of a home-and-home series between the two schools. The Aggies claimed a 31-24 win over the Bruins in overtime last season in College Station.
The 2017 season will actually commence the weekend of Aug. 26 with five games featuring FBS teams, including Stanford against Rice in Australia and Colorado State opening their new on-campus stadium against Oregon State. The first full weekend kicks off the following Thursday -- Ohio State-Indiana highlights that day’s lean slate -- and continues with a handful of games the next day -- hello Colorado-Colorado State, Washington-Rutgers and Utah State-Wisconsin among others.
The first full Saturday features the likes of Alabama-Florida State, Florida-Michigan, West Virginia-Virginia Tech, LSU-BYU, Louisville-Purdue, Cal-North Carolina, Maryland-Texas and South Carolina-North Carolina State squaring off Sept. 2.
A&M-UCLA is the only Sunday game, while Tennessee and Georgia Tech will close out the weekend at the brand-new Mercedes-Benz Stadium in Atlanta Labor Day night that Monday.