The 2023 college football season may still be a ways out, but it's truly never too early to start looking ahead. And there are a number of intriguing neutral-site games on the calendar.

While some are opening-weekend matchups, others are traditional rivalries played in neutral sites, like Texas-Oklahoma and Army-Navy.

Let's take a look at 2023's slate of neutral-site games, played at some pretty cool venues, including one that's in another country. While this isn't the full list of neutral-site games during the 2023 season, we tried to pick the ones that are played in unique venues or have College Football Playoff or conference title implications, and it's an added bonus if seem like they'll be close games. We'll go in chronological order.

Aug. 26: Navy vs. Notre Dame

Where: Aviva Stadium in Dublin, Ireland

For the second season in a row, we'll have a Week Zero game played in Dublin, Ireland. Last season, Northwestern came from behind to beat Nebraska 31-28.

As a matter of fact, college football has been played in Ireland quite a few times. 2023's matchup between the Irish and Midshipmen will mark the fifth time in the last 11 years that college football teams have played in Dublin.

Georgia Tech beat Boston College 17-14 in 2016. Due to COVID-19, the Nebraska-Illinois game that was supposed to be played in Ireland in 2021 was moved to Champaign, Illinois. 2023's matchup between Navy and Notre Dame is actually a makeup game of sorts—the Irish were supposed to play the Midshipmen there in 2020. But thanks to COVID, the game was moved to this year.

Notre Dame should enter as heavy favorites. The Irish finished 9-4 in head coach Marcus Freeman's first season in South Bend. Freeman landed one of the most talented quarterbacks in the transfer portal this offseason in former Wake Forest signal-caller Sam Hartman.

Navy, meanwhile, has a new head coach for the first time in 15 seasons, as the Midshipmen chose to move on from Ken Niumatalolo following back-to-back 4-8 seasons. Former Navy defensive coordinator Brian Newberry will have his first season as the Midshipmen's head coach in 2023.

The game will be held at Aviva Stadium, which is home to the Irish rugby union team and Republic of Ireland national football (soccer) team. After a long offseason, it'll be pretty fun to have college football kicked off in Ireland for a second consecutive year.

Sept. 2: North Carolina vs. South Carolina

Where: Bank of America Stadium in Charlotte, North Carolina

These two Carolina schools, located about 200 miles from each other, have played each other a couple of times in Charlotte, North Carolina, in recent years. In 2019, they met during Week 1, with UNC winning 24-20. And just two seasons ago, they played in the Duke's Mayo Bowl, with South Carolina winning 38-21.

These teams had pretty opposite endings to their seasons in 2022. South Carolina finished the regular season with two wins over Top 10 opponents, upsetting Tennessee and then Clemson. The Gamecocks lost a close one to Notre Dame 45-38 in the Gator Bowl in December. North Carolina, meanwhile, was 9-1 through mid-November. But the Tar Heels lost their last four games, including to Clemson in the ACC title game and to Oregon in the Holiday Bowl.

Both teams return their starting quarterbacks. UNC gets back star quarterback Drake Maye, who finished with 4,321 yards passing, 38 touchdowns and seven interceptions. The Tar Heels will have to replace two of his biggest weapons, though, as receivers Josh Downs and Antoine Green are headed to the NFL.

South Carolina quarterback Spencer Rattler—who finished with 3,026 yards passing, 18 touchdowns and 12 interceptions—returns for the Gamecocks. Like Maye, Rattler will have to play without a couple of key weapons from last season. Tight end Jaheim Bell transferred to Florida State, and starting running back MarShawn Lloyd transferred to Southern Cal.

It looks like this will be a pretty evenly matched game, so it should be a fun one.