Notre Dame and Miami announced their kickoff time for the November 7th game, and the entire slate is absolute perfection.
Notre Dame and Miami announced that their November 7th game against each other in South Bend, Indiana, will be a 7:30 PM kickoff.
That in and of itself is spectacular, but it opened up a look at the November 7th slate, and man, is it a dose of football heaven.
The matchups on that day are simply incredible. Ohio State and Oregon headline the day, while the Fighting Irish and Hurricanes are the bookends. In between, there are games between Alabama and LSU, Ole Miss and Georgia, Oklahoma and Florida, and Texas vs. Missouri. e
From start to finish, that day is going to be amazing and one of the days that everyone has circled on their calendar to be in front of their televisions.
This again underscores what is truly great about college football. Somewhere along the line, the prerogative changed in college football from the number one thing being Saturdays in the fall to the number one thing being the playoffs and the National Championship.
Don't get it wrong, those two thigs are probably three and two respectively, but the number one thing in college football is a Saturday in the fall.
This November day in the state of Ohio will see a sunrise nearing the nine o'clock hour and a sunset around 5:00 PM. The weather will likely be garbage. Some combination of snow and wind or ice-cold rain and wind.
It will be the perfect day for a nice warm pot of soup, a couple of beverages, and the feet in the house kicked up, ready for about 14 straight hours of football.
That is it. That image is what fans love about college football and what the NCAA is losing touch with in the sport as it stands today. We are quickly progressing to a 24-team college football playoff where regular-season games don't mean anything.
What simply cannot be lost in any of this is the essence of college football. Nothing beats a fall Saturday, and nothing will ever beat it.
The slate that is presented on November 7th, while being awesome, should remind everyone that that is what this is all about. Save your playoff expansion for another day; give me November 7th, 2026, as many times as possible.
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