If you’re tired of waiting until early September for the kickoff of college football, you’ll like one SEC athletics director’s suggestions.

Florida AD Jeremy Foley touched on the topic of college football scheduling in a recent interview with a local radio station. He wants to see the college football season start in August, and it’s not about him being impatient.

“More than anything else what I would like to see is maybe the season expanded so there’s two open dates every year,” Foley said. “That would mean some years you’d have to play a game a little earlier in August, but I think that would be beneficial to every football program in America and every football player in America.”

The current 12-game regular season is played out over 13 weeks with one open date. Those bye weeks, which Saturday Down South recently evaluated, are carefully planned, with some division rivals taking the same week off before their annual showdowns (Alabama-LSU, Florida-Georgia).

A potential second bye week looks like a win for many of the major parties involved – players, coaches, fans and the media. The players get an extra week to heal from injury. Coaches get another week to recruit or game plan. The fans get one week trimmed off a painfully long offseason. ESPN, CBS and the like get another Saturday of live college football.

Foley’s suggestion for an extended season, however, does not include expanding the number of games played.

“You never say never, but you talk about the time demand issue,” Foley said of a 13-game regular season. “You talk about 12 games, and if you’re fortunate enough to go to Atlanta, 13, and if you go to a bowl game, 14, and if you’re in the CFP and you’re successful, 15. It’s a tough game.”

[H/T: GatorBait.net]