Edit: NCAA to consider 14 week football schedules
Wasn't the argument against a playoff that it was too many games?
More ov an invitational.
So they're basically giving back the bodybag game that was eliminated with 9 game league schedules.
Weeeeeee
Perhaps the Big Ten is ashamed enough by Rutgers that they do the right thing (10 conference games)? It would solve the 5/4 home/away split and really the money grab is about TV contracts (where an extra Big Ten game is good for ratings) vs. the totally unnecessary extra incremental revenue from a home body bag game (plenty of $$ to schools as is).
I have no idea if they have a program, but they'd be just as successful as the outfit playing in Knoxville.
Don't like.
We just need an 8 game playoff bracket.
So only 8 teams will play one extra game.
I do think a pre-season game or two should be allowed to develop final roster.
That would just water down how special the season is.
It allows a team to get a mulligan in case of a royal screw job by the refs (us vs. OSU, FSU vs. Clemson).
More football. I can't say I'd be unhappy if they did this. We'll just have to wait and see.
Something I don't understand is how osu played 13 regular season games in 2002.
11 was the standard with a 12th game being an exemption because kickoff classics and Hawaii games counted as exemptions (that's why we played 12 games in 1986, 1995, 1998).
12th game didn't get passed until 2006.
Everyone played 12 regular season games in 2002, including Michigan. I don't have the reference in front of me, but I recall the reason being calendar-based, as in, there was an extra calendar week during the season, or something. My memory is vague. But there were a couple of seasons like that where there were 12 games.
The permanent 12th game didn't happen until later (2006, as you said) and prior to that passage the preseason games still existed, but 12 game seasons were already floating around before then.
12 was allowable for everybody when there were certain quirks in the calendar, I think. If August had five Saturdays or something. So everyone played 12 in '02. And then there's the Hawai'i/Kickoff Classic/Pigskin Classic exemption, which OSU used in 2002 to get to 13.
The internet informs me that 2002 and 2003 were trial periods for the 12 game regular season. Add that to the kickoff classics and you get teams that did not play in a conference title game that still had 14 games seasons, like OSU, Nebraska, and Iowa State. Allegedly those years were chosen for the trial period because Labor Day fell on Sept. 1 or 2, allowing an extra week between that weekend and the week after Thanksgiving.
There are either 13 or 14 Saturdays from Labor Day weekend to Thanksgiving weekend. For about a decade, the rule was that if there were 13 Saturdays, the season maximum was 11 games. If there were 14 Saturdays, the season maximum was 12 games.
The result was that if September 1 was on Sunday or Monday, the season was 12 games. If September 1 was on Tuesday through Saturday, the season was 11 games. They got rid of that (obviously) and now it's 12 games no matter what.
Still dumb.
Bad things and hi-jinx can happen during bye weeks. As we saw with one of our players during the bye week this past season.
One is enough.
During any week of the year for a college student.
In fact, I would imagine LESS hi-jinx happen with athletes during the actual season because there is less time to do stupid shit.
The players get some days off during the bye week.
They got that bye week Saturday off and unfortunately it did not go well for everyone. Perry wasn't the only one suspended, remember. Couple others were quietly suspended for goofing off over there, but he's the only one who got in legal trouble.
Labor Day weekend to Thanksgiving weekend. Sometimes that's 13 weekends, sometimes it's 14. Either way, it's 12 games for each team, then Championship weekend in early December.
I love college football, but I also believe in "for every time there is a season." And I just don't think the last weekend of August is college football season. That's still summer.
I think the "sometimes" is the part they want to fix.
The headline is "14 weeks." Not games. There's nothing in the article that suggests "games."
According to the article, they also want to standardize when things begin for preseason purposes. May be a separate issue, may be the same.
Split the schedule between spring and fall. Spread the games and enable hurt athletes to recover.
Then they need to expand the scholarship rosters.
But at this juncture, if the football seasons continue past twelve and a bowl game, it's tantamount to theft of young lives and health. In which instance our colleges have become farm systems for the professional leagues, the athletes should be paid substantial compensation and lifetime health care.
look at that whole paying the athletes'. at least the football kids.
This is the sensible solution. Paying only football/basketball men's players would quickly run into huge Title IX issues. Simply removing the NIL restriction would allow them to make (usually modest) money off of their noteriety without affecting Title IX. Women would be afforded the same freedom, and while more men than women would be able to capitalize, some would make good money.
My guess is that Katie Ledecky would have to be amongst the top ten of endorsable college athletes in any sport. Plus, a tweak or two of the rules could allow gymnasts to compete in the NCAA after the Olympics--can you imagine what a phenomenon Simone Biles would be in NCAA gymnastics?
It's not perfect, but it's a good fix.
I would like to see some hotshot 5 star player tell a bunch of $EC teams he wants his "signing bonus" upfront.
Keeping everything on the low-low, he gets paid by 3 or 4 teams, then chumps them all by going to Michigan.
It would be hilarious.
Every 5 star in the SEC essentially does exactly this as soon as he signs a LOI.
Except that they wind up at Alabama or LSU and not Michigan.