Posted by: Chris Vannini on January 14, 2013

The first game of a coach's new job can often set the tone - at least in the eyes of the fans.

For the 29 new head coaches in FBS, 13 open up at home next season, 10 open on the road, four open at a neutral site and three don't have their first game announced yet.

Six new head coaches will be facing off with another coach making his debut at that school. A reader passed along a nugget that Northwestern faces four new coaches in its first six games (Cal, Syracuse, Western Michigan, Wisconsin).

Here are the 2013 openers for the new head coaches in FBS:

Arkansas (Bret Bielema): Louisiana-Lafayette

Arkansas State (Bryan Harsin): Arkansas-Pine Bluff

Auburn (Gus Malzahn): Washington State

Boston College (Steve Addazio): Stony Brook

Cal (Sonny Dykes): Northwestern

Cincinnati (Tommy Tuberville): Purdue

Colorado (Mike MacIntyre): Colorado State (in Denver)

FIU (Ron Turner): at Maryland

Georgia State (Trent Miles): TBA

Idaho (Paul Petrino): at North Texas

Kent State (Paul Haynes): Liberty

Kentucky (Mark Stoops): Western Kentucky (in Nashville)

LA Tech (Skip Holtz): at NC State

NC State (Dave Doeren): Louisiana Tech

Nevada (Brian Polian): at UCLA

Northern Illinois (Rod Carey): at Iowa

Purdue (Darrell Hazell): at Cincinnati

San Jose State (Ron Caragher): TBA

South Florida (Willie Taggart): McNeese State

Southern Miss (Todd Monken): Texas State

Syracuse (Scott Schafer): Penn State (in East Rutherford, NJ)

Temple (Matt Rhule): at Notre Dame

Tennessee (Butch Jones): Austin Peay

Texas Tech (Kliff Kingsbury): at SMU

UTEP (Sean Kugler): TBA

Utah State (Matt Wells): at Utah

Western Kentucky (Bobby Petrino): Kentucky (in Nashville)

Western Michigan (PJ Fleck): at Michigan State

Wisconsin (Gary Anderson): UMass

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Chris Vannini is the lead writer for CoachingSearch.com and has covered Michigan State sports for The State News, The Oakland Press and MLive.com. He writes a weekly column for the Detroit Free Press on behalf of SB Nation. Vannini lives in Big Ten country, so his foot speed is far from SEC caliber, but his pulse on coaches is hard to match. Be sure to follow @CoachingBuzz on twitter and send your feedback to chris@coachingsearch.com