So tell me: Why are the weekday(TWTh) games the pits? The NCAA is missing something here. 100+ teams out there and they can’t put together ONE good matchup?
Well, I live in the South and follow an SEC football team closely. Many of the SEC teams like to schedule “cup cakes” or “cream puffs”, whatever your preferred nomenclature is, before their big-time in-state rival games. For example, next week is the Iron bowl for Alabama-Auburn, the Egg bowl for Ole Miss-Miss.State, Florida plays Florida State, Kentucky plays Louisville, South Carolina plays Clemson and Tennessee plays Vanderbilt and UGA plays Georgia Tech. All of those are in-state games. The other SEC teams that play next week are LSU-Texas A&M and MiZZOU vs. Arkansas. Note that LSU, MIZZOU and Arkansas play in SEC league play this week. LSU-Arkansas, MIZZOU-TENN, and Texas A&M plays UGA. So there are only 3 SEC league games this week. So for the SEC, that explains the crappy schedules this week.
Remember, NCAA does not control scheduling and in reality has impact on football like they do for all other NCAA Championships (i.e. NCAA BB tourney). Football schedules are the total control of the Conferences working in conjunction with league members.