Improving college football with one change

[FuckESPNdotCOM]

What if college football changed one simple thing to make the season last twice as long?

One game every two weeks, instead of one game every week.

-Stagger half the games so every single week there's football, but we don't have to choose between 30 different games going on.
-No more weekday games.
-No more bye weeks (they're built in!)
-No more excuses (We didn't have enough time to prepare!)
-More time to heal for athletes, especially after brutal games.
-Athletes may not miss an entire season due to injury in Week 1.
-Week 0 might actually make sense (staggered first week).
-"More" football during the year: no need for shit-tastic spring leagues or 8 months in between action. Seriously, who really gives a fuck about football between mid-January and late August?

[JdPat04]

Good idea, which means it will never happen.


You’d probably have to take a “by week” in December for the testing and holidays, but that’s about it.

[FSUKW]

I’d probably hate it until Feb when we are still playing. LOL

[bigbluebazooka]

I actually don’t mind watching the XFL. Less penalties, less replays, and players don’t jump up looking for a penalty every time they get hit to hard.

[FuckESPNdotCOM]

Good idea, which means it will never happen.


You’d probably have to take a “by week” in December for the testing and holidays, but that’s about it.

It has some major weaknesses that mess with the ability to schedule non-conference games, but I think it could be worked out.

Basically you'd have to separate the schedule into separate sections for non-conference, divisional, and cross-divisional play. I don't think anyone would want to go a week without seeing someone in their conference play, meaning the simplest solution would be for divisions to be staggered (West would play Week 1, East would play Week 2) then have some time period dedicated for East vs. West games, then have a period for non-conference games. You could easily do the same with pods.

You could do every team in a given conference has the same schedule, but that would mean weekends without any conference play.

[Muck FcDisney]

Would the playoffs start in... May?

Not that I really care about other college sports, but I imagine this would hurt attendance for spring sports.

And I would probably have withdrawals waiting 2 weeks between games. :frustrated

[JdPat04]

Would the playoffs start in... May?

Not that I really care about other college sports, but I imagine this would hurt attendance for spring sports.

And I would probably have withdrawals waiting 2 weeks between games. :frustrated

Just have Miami play the other weeks so you can watch them lose when you can’t watch FSU