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"If the NFL moves to an 18-game season upon negotiating a new media contract at the end of the decade, the January competition calendar will become vastly more challenging for the CFP.

The NFL's regular season wouldn't end until the second Sunday, with the wild card round (six games over three days) on the third weekend and the divisional round (four games over two days) on the fourth."

What I find interesting about the NFL expansion over the last few years is that most of the fans I talk to dont like it. They think the nfl season is long enough, and they dont want games on Thursday, Saturday, sunday, Monday and every holiday.

Everyone I talk to doesnt like it, but they watch the games anyway.

That misses the larger point, which is that more NFL is bad for the business of CFB. The NFL is an order of magnitude more popular, and when/if fans decide there is too much TV football to watch all of it, more of what they stop watching will be CFB.

Hell, if Congress repealed the law that effectively prevents the NFL from playing on fall Saturdays until the third Saturday in December, and the NFL started playing every Saturday, they'd wipe out nearly all of CFB's TV revenue.

1. College football is football. The NFL is a place for players to go if they want to keep playing the college game after they are out of college.
2. MNF was a +1 spotlight thing. Now football doesnt mean anything. Its everywhere all the time.

My #2 is a small part of the big reason why I like the sport so much less now than before: The cadence is not right anymore. It used to be the stoppage time between plays was an opportunity to argue about the last play, bet worked up over the result of the play, yell at the coach about what they should be doing, armchair the lineups, watch the play develop and start again. Then the high tempo offenses took all that fan "interaction" away and just made it needlessly slow version of rugby.

The constant barrage of the season is doing the same thing. Football being on a sure cadence gave opportunity to argue about the games, beat to death an entire leagues outcomes for a few days, then build up for the next round. TBH, it always has bothered me that by Sunday morning, College football doesn't matter. But now nothing matters ever, because the new thing started just a minute ago. Again, it takes the ability to interact out of the sport.


Its just a slower version, fewer games version of good sports now.

NIL, transfer portal, and conference TV contracts are far more detrimental to the future of college football than an 18 game season. College football fans will watch but I think we'd all prefer a weekend or Friday night game.

Side note: the NFL has played 20 games since 1970 or so. They've just changed the composition of pre-season and regular season games. From 14-6, to 16-4 and now 17-3. They would just go to 18 regular season games and 2 preseason so that wouldn't affect the season length.