[Jarons]

They do not scrimmage, or have preseason games in college football.

So you don't think that they are screwing the fans now when "Giant State" puts on their schedule a warm-up game that they fans pay fullprice for, and it goes into their overall record as a win against "You don't even belong on the football field State"?
Why do you think these big schools schedule these D2 and D3 schools in their opener? It's because they want to work the kinks out before they have to play a real game! If they scrimmaged or played a preseason game instead, don't you think it would make the quality of the games that they schedule in the regular season that much better.

Instead, the fans get:

Wake Forrest 53 - Presbyterian 13
Miami (FL) 45 - Florida A&M 0
Indiana 51 - Towson 17
Nevada 49 - Eastern Washington 24
Florida State 59 - Samford 6
California 52 - UC Davis 3
Tennessee 50 - Tennessee-Martin 0

These are preseason games, but these teams got a cakewalk game and an easy 1-0 record. If they played a preseason game, they would probably schedule these same teams and then maybe these teams would gamble more with the rest of their schedule.

Good point. The title of the thread is "Preseason Games" or something like that, my mind automatically thought of the NFL. I did not occur to me big school playing direction university is essentially a preseason game and hosing the fans that pay full price for the games.