(01-19-2021 08:00 AM)Crayton Wrote:  A question from another thread is, then, how to improve the regular season to make it more College Football -like?

1) Not expand the playoff or maybe even end the playoff
2) Bring back the bread-and-butter rivalries
3) ??? Stop scheduling a decade-out and give more year-of flexibility?
What else?

I am good with the CFP but would be fine if we went back to the BCS - there's nothing wrong with a mechanism that matches "#1 vs #2".

The one thing we should have more of is the bread-and-butter rivalries in the midwest. Games like Texas - Texas AM and Oklahoma - Nebraska that were torn apart by the emergence and development of the Big 12. Otherwise most rivalries are intact. I see no reason those shouldn't be annual games.

As for scheduling, I think we are going to see more of (3). I think the virus has shown the value of more flexibility, despite the risk that entails.