Why the College Football National Championship Should Never Be Played on a Monday

It’s absolutely disgusting that the Indiana Hoosiers and Miami Hurricanes have to play for a national championship on a Monday night.

In the world of NIL, it’s hard to imagine a world where these players have to attend class on Tuesday. Hell, earlier this week, Miami quarterback Carson Beck admitted that he graduated damn near two years ago and isn’t even enrolled in classes.

But think about the working man fan. These people have to stay up until the wee hours of the morning to enjoy this game, and then go clock into a laborious eight hour shift of staring into a computer monitor the very next morning.

People have lives. College football is played on Saturdays. So why isn’t the national title game?

Since the College Football Playoff started in 2014, the championship game has been held on a Monday. Even throughout the 2000s, the final game of the damn season mostly wound up on a Monday.

It’s candidly unacceptable.

Think about the hardworking Midwest family that gets home from work and it’s dark outside. Then, they have to drive their kid to basketball practice, even though he’s not any good. After all of that, they just want to watch brain rot Instagram Reels and go to sleep.

But they can’t.

Because they have to watch this god forsaken college football game.

It’s because the NFL dominates the weekend. There’s too much competition with the divisional round of the NFL Playoffs taking place on Saturday and Sunday.

Think about it — you were parked on the couch to watch Sean McDermott’s last game as the coach of the Buffalo Bills. Then, you rolled upstairs to bed after watching the Chicago Bears fail at a Cinderella victory against the Los Angeles Rams the next day.

Oh yeah, there were two more full games sandwiched between those.

The fix is simple.

Eliminate Week 0.

Sorry, Pat McAfee doesn’t get to go to Ireland and drink beers while standing on the ESPN desk. The games aren’t that good, and people can wait another week after an entire summer without football.

Then, get rid of the conference championship games.

Completely meaningless. This season, there were legitimate debates about purposely tanking conference title games for better seeding in the College Football Playoff. They’re dead. It’s time to admit it.

Lastly, our most controversial maneuver.

Let’s sort something out with the Army vs. Navy Game.

As college football’s oldest tradition, it certainly deserves its own spotlight. But couldn’t we move that thing to a Friday night at the end of the season? High school football is long over, and we could celebrate the troops to start a weekend.

That frees up three Saturdays on the college football calendar.

No excuses to be playing championship games on a Monday.