Assuming the series doesn't get scrapped I look forward to coming to Gainsville as an old man, 23 years after this board got its start.
Hoping and praying Heavenly Buffs has a Raleigh location by that point, otherwise I’ll just drive them in from Durham I guess.
I’ve always thought it would be cool to have a scheduling period every year where schools can negotiate their upcoming seasons OoC schedule. Like do it in March; after signing day In February and before spring football in April. It would give the sports world something college football to talk about during a time that they otherwise wouldn’t. Think about how exciting it would be with breaking news of new match ups announced for the upcoming season like everyday. It would give teams the ability to control their schedule better. Your team was left out of the playoffs because of strength of schedule? Schedule stronger OoC teams for next season. Turns out the opponents on your conference schedule are better than expected? Schedule next years OoC teams with some easier wins. It just makes too much sense to me
It won’t matter then. If you do it this way there is no home/home or 2 for 1. You schedule it fresh every year. Sure there will be some matchups that are assumed every year; cross conference rivalry games and whatnot, but it still has to be negotiated during the scheduling period every year
Not necessarily, that’s the type of shit ADs would negotiate and you would have to establish a relationship with other ADs where you don’t fuck over the other guy. But it would still give you the ability to fuck over the other guy if you have to without having to pay a buy out Doing it every year would also be beneficial for all the opening weekend neutral site games. You could get a network in there to “help” negotiate games that are immediately interesting with current teams, not expected interesting with teams 5 years from now. Like if it was negotiated every year, in 2018 we could have had Alabama/UCF instead of Alabama/Louisville. That would have been a no brainer game to put together after all the national championship back and forth at the end of the previous season. instead we got Bama rolling Louisville because Louisville was good 5 years earlier when the contract was signed
This would also go good with my idea of allowing a game each season that doesnt count for W/L records. You want to schedule a FCS cupcake as a warmup game? Awesome, go for it, but it won’t count for your record. You want to take a big money opening weekend game against another top 10 team at Jerry’s world? Sweet, you can test yourself against a quality opponent and if you lose it doesn’t immediately take you out of natty talk because you started 0-1.
Like, at this point, I think college football should just make me king for a day and I can fix all of this nonsense for them pretty easy. Don’t get me started about how I’d change the conference structure and add in promotion/relegation
https://fbschedules.com/ncaa-2021/team/florida Nope https://fbschedules.com/ncaa-2022/team/florida Nope https://fbschedules.com/ncaa-2023/team/florida At Utah could happen https://fbschedules.com/ncaa-2024/team/florida Nope https://fbschedules.com/ncaa-2025/team/florida Nope 2026 yup https://fbschedules.com/ncaa-2026/team/florida 2027 yup https://fbschedules.com/ncaa-2027/team/florida So basically not until the second term of Kamala Harris.
After a season where it was shown schedules could be changed and matchups didn’t need to be set 30 years in until future, it’s nice that we’re back to that practice. That said, 10 years doesn’t feel that far away for some reason
At least you have some big, scheduled games to look forward to. After PSU wraps up Auburn and WVU in 2024 the only series we have scheduled currently is...Temple.
I just want to see a group of teams/conferences leave a date in late October open and agree to some sort of ranking system they want and match some teams up. It really isn't that difficult.
Coastal Carolina and BYU scheduled a game in two days, and we can’t get something booked in less than a decade.