How many games will a spring schedule consist of?
Okay, this one’s pretty important — at least that’s what I read in the Dummy’s guide for scheduling. How many games will a spring season consist of? Will it be ten games like the fruitless efforts put forth for the fall?
Ryan Day on where the Big Ten is in regard to putting together a spring football schedule: "There are some models, and everyone's kind of throwing ideas around right now. We're working really, really hard on that. That was not a focus a few days ago, but it is now."
— Colin Hass-Hill (@chasshill) August 12, 2020
While it might be an assumption that you would use the same schedule and just slide it to whatever timing is agreed upon, it’s not that easy. Again, there are some considerations as far as the 2021 NFL Draft goes, as well as attempting to squash seasons from a high impact sport too close together..
Because of that, it’s not out of the realm of possibility that each team plays less than nine or ten games. It’ll be interesting what number of games the league decides upon — again, given that this is all a real possibility in the first place.