With the expanded College Football Playoff and litany of bowl games in addition to the recruiting calendar in December, the 2025 college football season begins in late August and goes through Jan. 19,

As the back end of the college football season keeps expanding for upper-echelon teams, a proposal is now on the table to turn the early Week 0 window for select games into the new start to the season.

FBS commissioners expect the conversations to continue in the coming weeks. The FCS is expected to soon formalize its own move to permit schools to begin playing on Week Zero.