The year was 1894. Yale put together a football schedule that was daunting: Games on Wednesdays and Saturdays, basically ...
No major college football team — what we now call the FBS level — had played a 16-game season since Yale in 1894. Until now.
The 16-game season didn't come out of nowhere ... what that was going to be like,” Ohio State coach Ryan Day said. “We knew it was going to be a little bit of a battle of attrition at times.