College football is finally back! After months of big changes, hanging onto surprising feuds and following the realignment madness, the weird sport we all love is back — even if the Week 0 games aren’t exactly the best for the first Saturday of the season.
So at this point, any touchdown is a good touchdown, and the first one of the 2022 college football season came not long after the first kickoff and was on the heels of the first interception as well.
Austin Peay at Western Kentucky delivered the first score of the season with the Hilltoppers capitalizing on Governors quarterback Mike Diliello throwing a pick on his team’s opening drive not three minutes into the first quarter. Western Kentucky began its next drive on its own 49-yard line, and it took about two minutes to find the end zone.
Following a fourth-down conversion, Hilltoppers quarterback Austin Reed connected with basically wide-open receiver Malachi Corley in the end zone on 2nd-and-10 for a 16-yard touchdown and the first of the new college football season:
The FIRST TOUCHDOWN of the college football season has arrived. pic.twitter.com/W2Hw6rFCWh
— CBS Sports (@CBSSports) August 27, 2022
And just like that, another college football season is upon us. However, at the end of this game’s first quarter — and time of publishing — Austin Peay had a 10-7 lead.
Then late in the second quarter with the Hilltoppers holding a 14-10 lead, they posted the first defensive touchdown, a pick-six, of the season. On 1st-and-10 with about four and a half minutes left in the half, Diliello threw another interception, and Western Kentucky ran this one back for a touchdown.
PICK. SIX. @WKUFootball pic.twitter.com/zAVRCS99gI
— CBS Sports Network (@CBSSportsNet) August 27, 2022
