This weekend, college football came back with a vengeance. Teams that won should have, Alabama, Michigan and Notre Dame were all among the winners. The only real surprises was watching both LSU and North Carolina losing games they probably should have won.

That brings me to my issue with the weekend. 3rd ranked Clemson lost at home to 5th ranked Georgia, 10-3. Now, I’m admittedly not a Clemson fan so, watching them lose was that first bite of a Peanutbutter and chocolate desert, immensely satisfying!

This is my issue. All the Clemson fans moaning and crying, ‘we had to play Georgia!!!’ First, stop it was a neutral field, and second, have you seen Clemson’s ACC schedule this year? It’s a diabetic’s dream, cupcake city! They have road games against ‘powerhouses’, Pittsburgh, Syracuse and, catch your breath Tiger fans, Louisville. I have never seen an easier path of a one loss team to a potential College Football Playoff birth!

By comparision, Notre Dame opened the season at Florida State, and has road games at Virginia Teach, at Virginia and a home game against North Carolina. None of those team appear on Clemson’s schedule.

Here’s the problem. The NCAA is a business, first. Right now, Clemson means ratings and revenue, right now, Notre Dame gets by on name alone.

Using the ratings and revenue and af revenues as a model, wouldn’t Clemson be better suited going to Blacksburg, Chapel Hill, or Coral Gables? I can guarantee people would tune into ABC Saturday Prime Time. By ensuring ratings in the first or second weekend of December, and what I’m sure they are hoping for huge ratings on New Year’s Eve and New Year’s Day, the NCAA is missing a huge opportunity this fall.

The NCAA has to question their scheduling. Take for example, Oklahoma and Texas. These two are moving to the SEC in 2025 at the latest. You’re crazy if the NCAA and its media partners didn’t see billions in revenue. Imagine it, Alabama going to Norman in Primetime? Texas at Bama or LSU in prime time? Hell, you could even do the Annual Texas-OU game in Prime Time from the Cotton Bowl! An organization so high on making money and greed, how could they not have their media darling Clemson represented in better matchups? It’s a terrible disservice to passion fans,

It’s all about money and being a business. College sports stopped being college sports long ago, as technology evolves it will only get further away from sport and ‘love of the game’, and all about the business and money.

Back tomorrow with a Yankee recap.