With every power 5 conference appearing to go to a 10 game conference schedule in 2020, debate has started in earnest if college football should move in the future to a 10 game conference schedule.
Here is sampling of where some are with this debate…
Agree. I’d like to see 9 league games tops. Play your in-state rival, another P5 and a G5 and call it a schedule.
— Ethan Moore (@_EthanMoore) July 31, 2020
I think because fans are tired of OOC schedules like Ole Miss’ here. It’s not just OM it’s all over the country with just garbage schedules for 3-4/7 of the home slate pic.twitter.com/VRZ0VXq11z
— Nicholas Carr (@NicholasCarr) July 31, 2020
I agree – and as you know, I'm a huge supporter of the FCS system – and that system goes away with the larger conference schedule. That said, Muschamp – how the hell does he survive this year?
— Hokie Matthew (@hokiesmash_ASD) July 31, 2020
I don't see much difference between 9 and 10, tbh; the real cut-off is 8 because it allows for two P5 OOC games (beyond that you only get one). One advantage of 9 over 10 is in the conference race everyone gets equal number of home and away games.
— Hokie Mark (@mark_hokie) July 31, 2020
Theory: Once fans get a taste of a 10-game conference schedule with few or no buy games, they're never going to want to go back.
— Stewart Mandel (@slmandel) July 30, 2020
Well not for me Stewart.
I doubt you’ll ever see the regular season go beyond 12 games. With a 10 game conference, your OOC scheduling flexibility is severely limited. For schools like Florida State, Clemson, Florida, Georgia Tech, Georgia, Louisville, Kentucky and South Carolina you are left with 1 game to schedule another opponent. They already have traditional year ending games with their in-state rivals.
Good luck trying to revive rivalries West Virginia vs Pittsburgh or Nebraska vs Oklahoma or Texas vs Texas A&M. Inter-sectional games? I would expect not too see many.
Certainly with the size of conferences now we want to see conference rivals play more often. This is not the way to achieve it, though I wouldn’t mind see schools like Ole Miss not have 3-4 cupcake games a year.
