It's '21 schedule release day for the pros and so far the league has officially released week 1 but most of the games have leaked by now (compiled here) so I thought we could get a head start talking **** about each other's teams and looking at some of the Cal scheduling nuggets.

First off the schedule in the link was made (not by me) of using sourced links but isn't necessarily 100% how it'll be in the official release tonight. For example the Vikings were the first team to have their full schedule leaked and it was from a trusted Vikings source who leaked last year's schedule correctly

Is the 17th game here to stay? Interesting that they pushed it into January, which has pretty terrible weather in a lot of places.

But in terms of CFB, that choice gives a little window for an 8 team playoff and just pushing back the title game a week. Scheduling CFB games on a weekend vs the NFL playoffs is not a good move.IMO, but then last weekends of the regular season are ripe for competition since.many games just dont matter by then.

The round of 8 could be spread around near NY's day, drawing from existing bowls, the round of 4 would come on that new 18th NFL weekend, and the title game on the next Monday so as to separate from NFL weekend playoff games... Just like now.

As for the NFL schedule, it will be out in a few hours.

Any good Cal/NFL roadtrips?

Off a quick scan? As long as Aaron Rodgers is still the Packers QB that week 1 game in New Orleans against Cam Jordan would be a fun one to go to

And yea, the 17 game schedule is staying. I don't think it will matter much for CFB though, by December/January when the playoffs are coming up people have such a football addiction that people are watching bowl games named after sponsors we've never heard of between two teams we've never seen. I'm not even sure they're extending the season though, I think the 17th game comes out of the front end when they dropped the 4th preseason game.

The NFL is scheduling a saturday double header in week 15 and I'm honestly surprised they stopped there, they got a taste of saturday scheduling during the 2020 pandemic year and I thought they'd be back for more.

Really they need to add a second bye and extend the season to 19 weeks. There's literally no reason not to, teams are healthier and the NFL gets another weekend of games to sell to broadcasting partners -- it's literally just printing money with no real downside

Bearly Clad said:

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Off a quick scan? As long as Aaron Rodgers is still the Packers QB that week 1 game in New Orleans against Cam Jordan would be a fun one to go to

And yea, the 17 game schedule is staying. I don't think it will matter much for CFB though, by December/January when the playoffs are coming up people have such a football addiction that people are watching bowl games named after sponsors we've never heard of between two teams we've never seen. I'm not even sure they're extending the season though, I think the 17th game comes out of the front end when they dropped the 4th preseason game.

The NFL is scheduling a saturday double header in week 15 and I'm honestly surprised they stopped there, they got a taste of saturday scheduling during the 2020 pandemic year and I thought they'd be back for more.

Really they need to add a second bye and extend the season to 19 weeks. There's literally no reason not to, teams are healthier and the NFL gets another weekend of games to sell to broadcasting partners -- it's literally just printing money with no real downside

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The NFL has an agreement with college football not to schedule on Saturdays during the college football season. Last year was an anomaly in so many ways....