Friday August 17, 2012

Why aren’t we starting college football season this weekend?  I’m scratching my head, but I honestly can’t come up with a good reason why college football is not underway already.  August is hands down the worst month for sports for the entire year.  The public is screaming for something sports related of value to watch (sorry baseball folks, the race for the playoffs doesn’t get into full swing until September and the PGA has to be the worst excuse for a “major”). 

Here’s how you can really tell that the public is sports starved right now….  We are excited about NFL Preseason games?!?!  You have got to be kidding me.  There is nothing entertaining about watching the starters go half speed for 2 series or watching a bunch of guys that are ultimately going to end up on the practice squad.  We need college football right now, and just think it could have the spotlight all to itself for about 4 weeks until the NFL season kicks off the 2^nd weekend in September.

But there’s another great benefit to moving the start of college football up two weeks….  By starting college football 2 weeks earlier, then the regular season can end earlier (Thanksgiving Day weekend at the latest).  By ending the regular season earlier we can avoid the worst overlap of the sports season, the 3 weeks in November and early December when both college football and college basketball are going on at the same time.  Move college football earlier by 2 weeks, have them finish by Thanksgiving weekend, and don’t let college basketball start playing games until December 1.  That’s my perfect world.