Permanent 12th Game Option for the FCS: agree or disagree?

[Bisonator]

Well the other nice thing with this is it would open up more dates hence possibly making a bit easier to get those 11th games scheduled.

[Daytripper]

Well the other nice thing with this is it would open up more dates hence possibly making a bit easier to get those 11th games scheduled.

It would also allow more flexibility in scheduling bye-weeks.

[walliver]

Clemson and Alabama both played 15 games last year.
With a 12-game schedule, a FCS team could possibly play 17 games in a season, a shorter season at that.
As long as it's optional, I don't care. It will be interesting to see how the vote goes, as I suspect a lot of college presidents will not want a longer schedule, and a significant number of schools will have very poor attendance the week prior to labor day.

[DFW HOYA]

Here's what the Dartmouth Football Blog says about the move with respect to the Ivy. (Also some depressing stats on Ivy attendance).

http://biggreenalertblog.blogspot.co...re-in-fcs.html

No more depressing a stat that Penn is drawing 5,990 a game in Franklin Field. A quick look over at thw NCAA site reveals these attendance numbers in 1982, just 25 seasons ago:

Lehigh at Penn: 11,154
Colgate at Penn: 12,212
Columbia at Penn: 13,563
Yale at Penn: 32,175
Harvard at Penn: 34,756

http://web1.ncaa.org/footballStatsAr...f?id=5788276.0

[Go Green]

No more depressing a stat that Penn is drawing 5,990 a game in Franklin Field.

I think that it's accepted that Penn plays in front of the most empty seats these days--at least when the Harvard-Yale game is at Harvard.

[UAalum72]

No more depressing a stat that Penn is drawing 5,990 a game in Franklin Field. A quick look over at thw NCAA site reveals these attendance numbers in 1982, just 25 seasons ago:

Lehigh at Penn: 11,154
Colgate at Penn: 12,212
Columbia at Penn: 13,563
Yale at Penn: 32,175
Harvard at Penn: 34,756

http://web1.ncaa.org/footballStatsAr...f?id=5788276.0

Thirty-five years ago. Tempus fugit.

[BisonTru]

Would this mean the first weekend of FCS football would be the now kickoff game weekend?

Does anyone know the answer here? Does this mean FCS football would start a week earlier or would the playoffs get bumped back a week?

[ysubigred]

I can't see how you can be opposed to this & still call yourself a football fan. More football, more football, more football!!!!

Take YSU for an example; Last year under a 12 game schedule, the Guins would have played 17 game in one season Great for the fans hard on the athlete.

[Go...gate]

Not sure it is really needed in FCS.

[BigHouseClosedEnd]

I don't see the point of this. There's no money in FCS football. It's too hard to find 3 sensible OOC games, let alone 4.