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Would you be in favor of adding more games every year?
Posted on 5/2/15 at 9:09 pm
Posted on 5/2/15 at 9:09 pm
We are currently at 12 or 13 (if you go bowling). That could possibly help with the whole rotation argument that comes up from time to time. What is your opinion. All hypothetical of course. There is typically a long gap between Thanksgiving and the Championship which is approaching being played two full weeks into January. The NFL is currently at 16 games just for regular season. Ohio State played 16 last year (going 15-1) in the new format with the expanded playoff just for some reference (and playing in the Big 10 title game). That is tops though as far as college is concerned currently.
This post was edited on 5/2/15 at 9:14 pm
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Posted on 5/2/15 at 9:10 pm to Mister Tee
Why would anyone complain about more football?
Posted on 5/2/15 at 9:10 pm to TheCheshireHog
I know!
Posted on 5/2/15 at 11:44 pm to Mister Tee
Ohio State played 15 games last year, not 16...
Posted on 5/3/15 at 12:41 am to DrewDawg13
Good catch. Even better then. So the tops for a college season stands at 15 including winning a conference championship, winning an extended playoff and then still reaching the championship game, win or lose.
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Posted on 5/3/15 at 3:42 am to Mister Tee
You would have to eliminate bowl season eventually. Unless college football wants to extend into February.... Which is fine by me...
Posted on 5/3/15 at 5:34 am to Mister Tee
No, absolutely not.
Posted on 5/3/15 at 5:47 am to Mister Tee
No, not at all. I would be in favor of dumping a cupcake and playing nine SEC games though.
Posted on 5/3/15 at 6:42 am to TheCheshireHog
quote:Interesting.
Why would anyone complain about more football?
Posted on 5/3/15 at 1:24 pm to harmonics
You wouldn't have to eliminate bowl season. You could sneak a game in one week early for at least one extra game. You have to admit the college football season goes by pretty quick at only 3 months of continuous play. Whats a month + one or two weeks going to do. It made sense when conferences had 10 or 12 teams. But people on here talk every week about expansion, expansion expansion. How on earth is everyone expected to play one another like that? It's just a question though. And I think football should be about variety outside of conferences as well, so if you keep expanding like the SEC has done, you are only going to get more issues like these. But like I said it's all hypothetical.
Posted on 5/3/15 at 1:28 pm to Mister Tee
Take away the crappy Nov. FCS games and switch it to conference games.
12 regular season games is enough.
12 regular season games is enough.
Posted on 5/3/15 at 1:30 pm to Mister Tee
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The NFL is currently at 16 games just for regular season
so? what's your point? They are professionals whose job is devoted to football 24/7 year round. We're talking about 18-21 year old college students who also have to go to class, study, do homework, and take finals while they're not practicing and playing.
Posted on 5/3/15 at 1:30 pm to Mister Tee
There's no logical reason for the SEC not to play nine conference games especially with the permanent cross-divisional opponent. It makes a lot of sense to have a 13 game schedule with nine conference games.
Posted on 5/3/15 at 1:32 pm to nebraskafaninwi
Like it or not, those games give both valuable playing time and experience to underclassmen and a nice paycheck to smaller schools. I'm not against it.
Posted on 5/3/15 at 1:32 pm to nebraskafaninwi
With head injury trauma kind of a hot issue, I doubt there are any moves to increase the number of games outside of playoff scenarios.
Posted on 5/3/15 at 1:33 pm to Mister Tee
Only if they start paying the players
Posted on 5/3/15 at 1:35 pm to WG_Dawg
I think we know how that works. Most of those "college students" leave pretty early for things like what occurred during these past few days (draft). Calling them student athletes is becoming a joke and a slap in the face to real students. "Go to class, study, do homework and take finals" and playing football as opposed to getting a part time job to help pay their way through school? They aren't really there to get through school anyway. Just my opinion, I'm not slamming your post.
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Posted on 5/3/15 at 4:42 pm to Mister Tee
Hell no. I'd rather go the other direction. Drop one of these cream puff games and go back to 11 regular season games and add a bye week back in. It'll never happen because of the money, but nobody uses that extra game correctly anyway. Almost everyone plays a cream puff, usually a FCS school. Nobody plays their young guys enough and leaves their starters in too long (listening Saban?) either trying to run up the score for style points i.e. Baylor or their coach subscribes to the NFL theory that you play your starters till midway thru the 3rd regardless of the score. Either way is not good for the starters and doesn't get the bench enough meaningful snaps. The games are snoozers I'd rather not bother watching, and all it does is get people hurt and small schools get a paycheck. What's the point?
While we're at it, could we please raise the bowl eligibility requirements to 7 wins and get rid of a couple dozen of these Hardees Sausage Biscuit bowls? And it should also be required that team invites are based on record and not on name recognition. By that I mean, a 6-6 Iowa team should not get an invite before a 9-2 La Tech squad.
While we're at it, could we please raise the bowl eligibility requirements to 7 wins and get rid of a couple dozen of these Hardees Sausage Biscuit bowls? And it should also be required that team invites are based on record and not on name recognition. By that I mean, a 6-6 Iowa team should not get an invite before a 9-2 La Tech squad.
Posted on 5/3/15 at 4:50 pm to phil4bama
What if the condition of adding an extra game was for playing teams within your conference only? I am talking about conferences with over 10 teams obviously. Anything after that, and you simply aren't going to get to play everyone in your conference anyway. And some teams have OOC yearly obligations anyway.
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