Why are so many teams playing today?

[patdog]

Do these teams get a 13th game for some reason or are these regular season games?

 

[QuaoarsKing]

Regular season games. Any team that travels to Hawaii this season can play a game 1 week early. Still limited to 12 though.

You can play a 13th game if one of them is a road game at Hawaii. The team in the game that isn't playing at Hawaii this year is still limited to 12.

Also, Rice and Stanford are just playing early because it's in Australia.

 

[patdog]

So what about BYU-Portland St. and USF-San Jose?

Never mind. I see now. BYU and San Jose have games at Hawaii later this year. Still think this is ********. Hawaii is in a conference now. They don't need a 13th game to get teams to play them.

 

[Maroon Eagle]

BYU & San Jose State play at Hawaii. Portland State and South Florida are playing because they'll get an extra bye week this season (only one in 2017).