With conference expansion, I like the thought process of playing each team in the conference at least 2 times in a 4 year cycle. Also just saw a post where the SEC is leaning more towards a 9 game conference schedule (always thought that would happen eventually). I personally would have liked just to have 10 teams in the SEC (get rid of mizzou, a&m, vandy, and arky) then play every one once, and the winner of the regular season wins the league (no title game). That will never happen
How many games is too many? 9 conference games + SEC champ game + potentially 4 playoff games (for the loser of the SEC) is already 14 before any non-con games. Want to keep the meaningfulness of regular season college football games without teams resting players towards the end of the year (like NFL)
I like the 12 team playoff mainly for making December relevant (there was always a huge gap between important games). Under the current schedule, there is meaningful football from August 24 - Jan 20. 5 months out of the year is pretty solid when you compare to even a few years ago before week 0 was a thing. You were looking at labor day weekend, nothing most of December and one national champ game before/around jan 10th (3 months + 1 game)
How many games is too many? 9 conference games + SEC champ game + potentially 4 playoff games (for the loser of the SEC) is already 14 before any non-con games. Want to keep the meaningfulness of regular season college football games without teams resting players towards the end of the year (like NFL)
I like the 12 team playoff mainly for making December relevant (there was always a huge gap between important games). Under the current schedule, there is meaningful football from August 24 - Jan 20. 5 months out of the year is pretty solid when you compare to even a few years ago before week 0 was a thing. You were looking at labor day weekend, nothing most of December and one national champ game before/around jan 10th (3 months + 1 game)
