The college football season is in shambles. Canceling it would leave a gaping hole in the sports landscape for the fall.
Not so fast, the NFL is eyeing the chance to play games on Saturdays, too, if there is no college football per a report.
Per a source with knowledge of the situation, the NFL likely will move games from Sundays to Saturday, if college football doesn’t proceed this season. It’s unclear whether the games would be broadcast, streamed, or distributed on a pay-per-view basis, but the league likely would backfill the vacant Saturday windows with NFL content.
The easiest approach would be to treat each Saturday like the late-season tripleheader the league staged in 2019, with a game at 1:00 p.m., 4:30 p.m., and 8:15 p.m. ET. That would trim the Sunday slate by three games each week.
If this comes to, um, pass, that means the NFL would be playing on more days of the week than not. The schedule would include Thursday, Saturday, Sunday, and Monday play.
