> This is confusing to everyone because New Year’s Day is a great time for a couple big games and New Year’s Eve is a horrible one – at least if you are one of the many people who A) have to work, or B) have other plans that night. In other words, tens of millions of you.
> So why is this happening? Why is college football staging its semifinals at a time that everyone predicts will cause fewer people to watch?
> Here’s the honest answer: the people who run college football don’t care about you. At all. Like, not one single bit.
Dan Wetzel does an excellent job pointing out how stupid of a decision this is. Even as a die-hard college football fan, I wish the games were on another day.