The BCS Title Game Should be on a Saturday

The last few years the BCS Title Game has been on a Monday night. I don't really care for it.

All year long we watch Saturday football. It's one of the great things about college football - the games are on a day when most of us don't work, and you can stay up until after midnight watching games because you don't have to work the next day, Sunday.

But the BCS Title Game has gone the way of the MLB or NBA Playoffs and is played on a weeknight, and starting at 8:30 EST. So if you are someone who goes to sleep around 10 PM because you've got to get up early to work the next day, you can only make it to halftime. I could stay up of course, if I can keep my eyes open after waking up early that morning, and then run on a short night the next day. But wouldn't be easier to just have the game on a Saturday.

Probably the main reason it isn't played on the weekend is the NFL Wildcard Playoffs which are played on the entire weekend before the title game. But if college and pro would work together a little bit, it could be done.

How about 3 playoff games on Sunday: 1:00, 4:30, and 8:00 - just like any other Sunday during the year, and then the final game on Monday, just like any other week of football in the NFL.

If this was done, you'd have the entire Saturday before to devote to the BCS Title Game. And the 8:30 start on Saturday night would be fine as the entire country could easily, and happily stay up to watch it.

Of course, the BCS is going away pretty soon. And if the 4-game playoff semifinal is played on New Year's Day then the title game is unlikely to take place where it is now, just 6 or 7 days afterwards. Well, if that's the case, it would just be the Divisional round of the NFL Playoffs where it would fall. And for uniformity, the NFL could just make the Wildcard the same and let college play the final few bowls on the Saturday of that weekend.