Article about moving FCS football

[Sportsfan101]

to the spring. I actually think it may make senes, but curious to get y'alls thoughts on this. https://buffsblog.com/buffsblog-big-bol ... he-spring/

https://buffsblog.com/buffsblog-big-bol ... he-spring/

[nevadacat]

Well, I’d miss fewer volleyball games on Saturday afternoons.

[SparkCat]

Personally, I think it’s an awful idea and downplays the division. Football is a fall sport.

[RICO CAT]

I propose the FBS move to the spring.

[MSU01]

Aside from the fact that nobody would watch, too many FCS teams rely on playing one or two FBS money games every year to make this feasible from a scheduling standpoint.

[Long Time Cat]

I think it sucks big time. Fall and football are made for each other, like burgers and fries, turkey and stuffing, Christmas and New Year’s, 4th of July and fireworks. And like 01 said no one would watch because like I said football is made for fall. Can you imagine starting football during march madness? In case you can’t tell I think it’s a stupid stupid idea!

[Hawks86]

[damnyoutuesday]

Absolutely not. Can you imagine watching Cat/Griz in 80F weather? Would be unnatural and an affront to god

[AFCAT]

Someone proposed this years ago and it didn’t go anywhere then and it won’t now.


…and that guy isn’t going to Greeley to watch a game in the Fall or Spring.

[rfischer94]

Hard pass. We see how well that has worked for the WNBA.

[110010110]

It's an article on "bufffsblog.com" by "John", not sure how much faith I'm going to put into it. If someone actually creditable starts talking about it maybe I'll pay attention.

[Bobcat4Ever]

I think it sucks big time. Fall and football are made for each other, like burgers and fries, turkey and stuffing, Christmas and New Year’s, 4th of July and fireworks. And like 01 said no one would watch because like I said football is made for fall. Can you imagine starting football during march madness? In case you can’t tell I think it’s a stupid stupid idea!

Ditto!

[FA_Q_M]

No to spring season...

Rather than have FCS and FBS, there should be one premier/upper league, and do like they do in European soccer. Every 4 years or so 10 teams come up and 10 teams go down. Don't know exactly how soccer leagues do it, but something along those lines.

[The Butcher]

No to spring season...

Rather than have FCS and FBS, there should be one premier/upper league, and do like they do in European soccer. Every 4 years or so 10 teams come up and 10 teams go down. Don't know exactly how soccer leagues do it, but something along those lines.

Love the idea but there is no way in hell that 10 teams would go down.

[damnyoutuesday]

No to spring season...

Rather than have FCS and FBS, there should be one premier/upper league, and do like they do in European soccer. Every 4 years or so 10 teams come up and 10 teams go down. Don't know exactly how soccer leagues do it, but something along those lines.

Personally I think every year like European soccer would be cool. Will never happen tho.

For funsies, if the top 8 teams and bottom 8 teams got promoted/relegated this year:

Promoted (final 8 in FCS playoff):
NDSU
Montana State
SDSU
South Dakota
UC Davis
Incarnate Word
Mercer
Idaho

Relegated (bottom 8 of FBS from Sagarin):
Kent State
Southern Miss
Tulsa
Kennesaw State
Middle Tennessee
New Mexico State
UTEP
UMass

[PHAT CAT]

to the spring. I actually think it may make senes, but curious to get y'alls thoughts on this. https://buffsblog.com/buffsblog-big-bol ... he-spring/

https://buffsblog.com/buffsblog-big-bol ... he-spring/

I think this dude has home delivery from his local weed store. Step away from the pipe, chief.

[MSU01]

No to spring season...

Rather than have FCS and FBS, there should be one premier/upper league, and do like they do in European soccer. Every 4 years or so 10 teams come up and 10 teams go down. Don't know exactly how soccer leagues do it, but something along those lines.

Personally I think every year like European soccer would be cool. Will never happen tho.

For funsies, if the top 8 teams and bottom 8 teams got promoted/relegated this year:

Promoted (final 8 in FCS playoff):
NDSU
Montana State
SDSU
South Dakota
UC Davis
Incarnate Word
Mercer
Idaho

Relegated (bottom 8 of FBS from Sagarin):
Kent State
Southern Miss
Tulsa
Kennesaw State
Middle Tennessee
New Mexico State
UTEP
UMass

I think a promotion/relegation structure to college football would be a lot of fun. I'd structure it something like this:

First Level: 40 teams (12 or 16-team playoff decides national champion, bottom four teams are relegated each season to Second Level.

Second Level: 60 total teams separated geographically into a 30-team West Division and a 30-team East Division. 8-team playoff within each division followed by a championship game between the West and East division winners. The top two West teams and top two East teams are promoted to the First Level each year, while the bottom four teams from each division are relegated to the Third Level.

Third Level: 80 total teams separated geographically into a 40-team West Division and a 40-team East Division. Similar playoff structure to Second Division, but the top 4 teams from each division are promoted to the Second Level. The bottom four teams from each division are relegated to the Fourth Level.

Fourth Level: 80 total teams separated geographically into a 40-team West Division and a 40-team East Division. Similar playoff structure to the Third Level with the top 4 teams from each division being promoted to the Third Level.

Every team would play a 12-game schedule against only opponents from their own level, with the schedules generated regionally to limit travel while also retaining non-regional historical rivalries (Notre Dame-USC, Army-Air Force, etc) when the two teams are playing at the same level.