Just about everyone agrees that changes need to be made to the college football calendar, but there’s no clear answer yet for how the calendar could or should change.

The 2025-26 college football calendar created chaos amid the College Football Playoff, as eight of the 12 teams in the CFP had their head coach and/or coordinators accept jobs at other schools before the CFP started. The transfer portal, condensed to a 15-day stretch in January, forced the final four teams in the playoff to simultaneously build their rosters for next season while trying to win the current season’s national championship.

The extension of the season into January forces college football to play its biggest games of the year on weekdays to avoid competing against the NFL playoffs, while the lengthy delay between the end of the regular season and the College Football Playoff quarterfinals has proven to be a disadvantage for teams that receive first-round byes.

With all of that in mind, there have been plenty of ideas proposed for potential changes to the college football calendar. Should the start of the season be moved up so the CFP can start sooner? Should there be no break between the end of the season and the start of the playoff? Should signing day be moved away from December, and should the transfer portal be moved away from January? Should spring practices be moved to the summer, reducing the need for teams to have their full rosters in place for the spring semester?

That brings us to This Week’s Question: If you were the commissioner of college football, how would you change the college football calendar?