Weather or not, longer college football season seems unlikely

With an eye toward player safety and schedule flexibility, the NCAA last year considered ways to lengthen the college football season so every team would have 14 weeks to play 12 games.

It didn’t come to pass.

The topic popped up again this week as Hurricane Florence prompted the cancellation, postponement or relocation of more than a dozen games, just two weeks after two other games were called off because of lightning in the Midwest.

A longer season with more open dates would increase the chances of rescheduling games impacted by weather.