December 13 – 19
We have reached the beginning of the end of this year’s football season and there is still much that remains to be determined. The NFL enters it’s final quarter of the season with a ton of team still contending for the playoffs, while the NCAA continues to court controversy over their final four team rankings for the College Football Playoffs (CFP). Add to that the beginning of the Bowl season and you can imagine there’s plenty of great content available for guests. This will also be our last football preview until the NFL Playoff schedule is released.
So, let’s dig and see what’s up.
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When the NFL expanded to 17 games over 18 weeks, it ended a perfect quarterly measure for the season. However, we can still view the final four weeks of the season as a time when we see the shape of the playoffs in the not-too-distant horizon. As of this publishing, not a single team has secured a guaranteed playoff spot. This leaves 30 teams with a potential path to the playoffs. Given that only two teams have been officially eliminated that means every game counts over the last four weeks of the regular season.
In NCAA football, we begin the Bowl Schedule in earnest with seven bowl games scheduled this week. While the CFP playoffs don’t happen until the New Year, we still get the Division II & III National Championship games this week and the Football Championship Series semifinals. While the stakes aren’t high in the Bowl Schedule, it’s a time to shine for many of the players, so the games can still be fun and guests will certainly enjoy them at your place.
The next few weeks will be filled with the Bowl Games you never knew you wanted and the end of the NFL season. This makes for great background content while guests are celebrating the holidays at your restaurant. As we said above, there will be no more Football Previews this year, so the Bowl schedule will remain on our preview site and the NFL Playoff schedule will be posted as soon as the matchups are set.
Have a great rest of your football season and here’s to a successful New Year.
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