{"id":93028,"date":"2025-12-18T17:21:11","date_gmt":"2025-12-18T17:21:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/93028\/"},"modified":"2025-12-18T17:21:11","modified_gmt":"2025-12-18T17:21:11","slug":"texas-tech-head-coach-joey-mcguire-pitches-his-solutions-for-college-footballs-calendar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/93028\/","title":{"rendered":"Texas Tech head coach Joey McGuire pitches his solutions for college football\u2019s calendar"},"content":{"rendered":"

Joey McGuire<\/a> has worn many hats over his career through the high school and college coaching ranks, but he\u2019s looking to add a new one: Commissioner of fixing the college football calendar. <\/p>\n

The fourth-year head coach jokingly offered his name up for the self-imposed fake title Wednesday during a media availability, but his frustration with the current format is real. He believes every team should play Week 0, that a champion should be crowned by Jan. 1 and bowl games should be invitationals set for Week 1.<\/p>\n

McGuire\u2019s team had a historic season, winning a Big 12 title and earning a bye in the College Football Playoff.<\/a> Its reward is 26 days of non-compete before playing in the Capital One Orange Bowl on Jan. 1. McGuire loves it for player health. He hates it because it makes football a two-semester sport.<\/p>\n

\u201cTexas high school playoffs are playing 16 games, and they\u2019re crowning a state champion this weekend. FCS has 24 teams in their playoff and they\u2019re crowning a national champion on January 5,\u201d McGuire said. \u201cPeople are so stuck on traditions and all that. I get that, man. I\u2019m a traditionalist 100%. But guess what? It\u2019s changed.\u201d<\/p>\n

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By finishing the season on Jan. 1, teams would be able to seamlessly transition into the transfer portal, which opens on Jan. 2, he said. This doesn\u2019t eliminate the unpredictable coaching changes that can happen at programs competing in the playoff, but McGuire argues that unfavorable personnel changing is inevitable regardless of calendar shifts. <\/p>\n

Many programs with general managers can handle the current overlap of playoffs and the portal window. Some programs\u2019 philosophies, such as Texas Tech\u2019s, separate the responsibilities while in season. McGuire\u2019s job in recruiting extends only as far as daily texts at this stage in the season, while general manager James Blanchard <\/a>is working 20-plus-hour days on recruiting trails. <\/p>\n

However, only 12 teams are playing for a national championship in December. The rest of the country is either finished with its season or competing in bowl games with a withered staff and roster due to opt-outs and the rapid coaching carousel. <\/p>\n

McGuire has his solution ready for that problem.<\/p>\n

\u201cHow about moving the bowl games to an invitation? And that would be week one, Aug. 23, and we\u2019re playing bowl games Thursday, Friday, Saturday,\u201d McGuire said. \u201c \u2026 You\u2019re going to lose a home game, but you still would have a huge attraction TV-wise. It would be a big watch because you know everybody\u2019s dying for college football week one.\u201d<\/p>\n

As McGuire stated, the invitational bowl game would erase a home game for teams. But McGuire wouldn\u2019t be a successful commissioner if he didn\u2019t have a solution to ensure teams could fill out their schedules as they pleased. <\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019ve got these kids all summer long. Camp doesn\u2019t need to be a month long,\u201d McGuire said. \u201cWe can play zero week, and you know rock and roll.\u201d<\/p>\n

Unfortunately for the hopeful-minded \u201ccommissioner,\u201d changes in the college football calendar start with the networks, which he does not work with. However, McGuire said he will speak on the subject whenever given the chance because the conversation starts with him and other college football coaches being outspoken in a time of change.<\/p>\n

Find more Texas Tech coverage from The Dallas Morning News here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Joey McGuire has worn many hats over his career through the high school and college coaching ranks, but…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":93029,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[732,3688,154,27,29,28,415],"class_list":{"0":"post-93028","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-texas","8":"tag-article","9":"tag-colleges","10":"tag-sports","11":"tag-texas","12":"tag-texas-headlines","13":"tag-texas-news","14":"tag-texas-tech-red-raiders"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93028","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=93028"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93028\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/93029"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=93028"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=93028"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=93028"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}