Big 12, SEC taking very different approaches to college football’s new Week 1
The SEC and Big 12 have very different visions for how to use the extra week of college football in 2027.
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College football needs to treat Week 1 as a premium asset, not a dumping ground
Tennessee AD offers ‘correction’ to Pete Thamel’s reporting on Nebraska series cancellation
"Correction: Tennessee is not canceling this series. Nebraska did."
ACC will drop divisions beginning in 2023, announces primary opponents for each school
Beginning in 2023, each ACC school will face three permanent conference opponents annually and five other ones. They'll play the non-permanent opponents twice each over a four-year span.
LSU-Alabama to be played in afternoon for first time since 2010, but Paul Finebaum’s “does not have the cachet it used to” take...
Alabama-LSU has been a primetime CBS game every year since 2010, but it won't be this year thanks to CBS' pick of Notre Dame-Georgia as their one contractually-allowed primetime game.
No. 7 Florida-No. 5 LSU is on ESPN rather than CBS thanks to an interesting CBS decision to take No. 1 Alabama-No. 24...
The CBS pick of Alabama-Texas A&M happened before last weekend's Florida win, but it also likely has a lot to do with markets and viewers.
Boise State-Florida State moves city, time slot and network thanks to Hurricane Dorian
The Boise State-Florida State game has been moved from Jacksonville to Tallahassee, and moved earlier in the day Saturday.
Miami-Florida drew some of ESPN’s best CFB ratings in years, which might lead to even more Week 0 emphasis
This marked the first recent Week 0 matchup between two Power Five teams, but the ratings success might mean it isn't the last one.
Pac-12 overflow will now go to Fox Business, not FS2, but that was far from the league’s biggest issue
Future Pac-12 overflow will wind up on Fox Business, which is good news for how many people will be able to watch it. But overflow really isn't a key issue in the conference lagging behind its competitors; lagging TV revenue and significant league network challenges are much larger problems.
