What I wonder a little though is, why now? ESPN has held rights to several conferences for years, and they aren't shy about doing what makes the most financial sense, and they still haven't moved any of their college properties to Friday night. They've had their NBA Friday nights for like 15 years now, but if college games put up decent numbers on Friday nights, you'd think they'd do it, but they don't. So what is FOX chasing? Do they just have fewer properties? They have NFL and MLB and obviously they aren't going to bury the NFL on Friday, and MLB doesn't conflict with basketball, but I still wonder just how good the number is compared to doing regular FS1 doubleheaders through the week.
If I was allowed to do it, I would just put two games each on Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday (with a bye), then 5 on Saturday and 2 on Sunday. The only short turnaround would be Thursday-Saturday, and ensuring that if a team did it they were at home on Saturday doesn't seem too hard to do.
You could maybe even get around that issue entirely by establishing travel partners like the Pac 12 does: Maryland-Rutgers; PSU-OSU; UM-MSU; IU-PU, Illinois-NW; UW-Minnesota; Iowa-Nebraska. Then the Thursday pairing would also be the Sunday pairing, but flipped. Am I missing something here?
