Notre Dame at Texas A&M (Aug. 31; 7:30 p.m., ABC)
Early pick: Texas A&M 27, Notre Dame 24
College GameDay’s choice for Week 1, first-year Texas A&M coach Mike Elko battles his former quarterback, Riley Leonard, and Notre Dame inside a raucous Kyle Field. When this game was scheduled several years ago, who envisioned the former leader at Duke guiding the Aggies into a war against a preseason top 10 with a player he helped developed as the face? It’s going to be a tough go of things for the loser of this matchup in the expanded College Football Playoff race with very little margin for error the rest of the way.
