ASU still in need of bye week

Butch Jones is shown in this April 21, 2018, file photo. (AP Photo/Butch Dill, File)JONESBORO -- Having played seven games in the last seven weeks doesn't make Arkansas State an exception. 59 of 131 teams at the FBS level have not yet had an open date in their schedule.

But 21 of those 59 will get a respite this week. Thirty more will be off next week.

Come Week 10, eight teams, one of them being ASU, will have played at least nine straight weeks.

Coach Butch Jones isn't bemoaning the circumstances. Much of it is simply schedule luck -- not only have the Red Wolves played every week thus far, but all 12 of their games this season will be played on Saturdays, something that hasn't happened for…