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COLUMN: Friday Night Lights? Great show, bad idea

If you ask me what favorite all-time favorite tv show, I’ll happily say Friday Night Lights. I’ve watched the acclaimed NBC drama three times over. I can’t get enough of Coach Taylor and Smash Williams, but if there’s anything I learned from my obsession with the show is that Friday nights are for high school football and high school football alone.

Over the past several years, college football teams have started playing games from Tuesday to Saturday. These weekday games have several uses. First, these games give mid-major conference teams national television time that they often miss out on most Saturdays.