re: Only one open date next year

Unless it has changed..it has to do with some jackass rule by the NCAA that has to be the number of Saturdays during a certain period. It only appeared after the 12 game schedule became a reality. At first, they were going to say you could only have 12 games on the certain years. Schools then said..ahh.noooo..this is good money. So on those screwed up years, rather than drop back to an 11 game schedule, they give up a bye weekend.