College football allows itself to be outflanked by NFL on Thanksgiving
It made so much sense for college football to put games on the Wednesday before Thanksgiving, but it never acted. Now the NFL has filled that space
College football has had an NFL problem for a long time, and one could say it has gotten worse , not better, with the passage of more years and decades. Consider the following points: December First, the expansion of the College Football Playoff means college football's first big playoff weekend has conflicted with NFL Saturdays in December. The NFL cannot play games on the second Saturday of December, but college football has so far refused to put the first round of the CFP on that day.
College football has stupidly chosen to play on the third Saturday of December. It's such an obvious fix to make, but college football hasn't yet made it. January The conflict with the NFL has also occurred in January, when college football has been unwilling to play its national championship game on a Saturday because of the NFL playoffs.
The solution here is to wait until the NFL's conference championship weekend -- Sunday games only -- to play on Saturday. Again, college football has been unwilling to do something that would reduce conflict with the NFL. This brings us to our newest college football NFL problem: Thanksgiving scheduling.
NFL strikes first The NFL is scheduling a Thanksgiving Eve game this year. The Green Bay Packers will play the Los Angeles Rams on the Wednesday night before Thanksgiving Day. College football caught flat-footed again College football could have put games on the Wednesday before Thanksgiving but refused to act.