A sweet breeze drifts into college football this weekend. It brings not cooler temperatures, but something even more refreshing.
Conference play en masse.
A few league games already have commenced, but they’ve done little to counter the drudgery of September scheduling. For all the hot air about college football having the best regular-season in sport, the opposite is true.
Scheduled mismatches now plague the sport. Predetermined results are college football’s calling card in September.
And it’s not going to change. Not anytime soon, anyway.
I’ve long said that the dumbing down of scheduling will change when the television networks demand it, and now I’m not sure that day will come.