The Masters is being staged amid the splendor of fall foliage.
The NBA season started on Oct. 22 and ended on Oct. 11, 355 days later.
The Indianapolis 500 and Kentucky Derby raced not in May, but on Aug. 23 and Sept. 5, respectively.
So are we so sure that the College Football Playoff will be presented on the tidy dates of Jan. 1 and Jan. 11? Are we so sure that they should be?
Big 12 commissioner Bob Bowlsby told Sirius XM Radio on Thursday that the CFP operations committee, of which he is a member, has discussed postponing the playoff.