Television time slots keep expanding throughout college football.
There's more Friday games this year in addition to the now-standard mix of Thursday games and, of course, the occasional Tuesday and Wednesday MACTION events.
Nebraska coach Matt Rhule, ultimate football guy, has another thought he's open to exploring: breakfast football.
Rhule was asked about the gameday procedures for his Cornhuskers with another night game coming this week. Newly ranked Nebraska, No. 22 in the AP Top 25, hosts a solid FCS program in Northern Iowa.
It's a second-straight evening home kickoff.
"I hate it. I hate it. If it was up to me, we'd play at 9 o'clock in the morning. Kegs and eggs and football. Let's go," Rhule said Monday. "But, yeah, you know, we've done I think a really good job of changing our schedule around. We even changed it last week based upon he feedback from some guys on the staff. We now have brunch from 8:30 to 10:30. We have buses coming over here. A lot of the guys, we have a lot of veteran guys that get up at 6 in the morning every morning and come over because we practice in the mornings. They have recovery available to them. We come over here and do our walk-through, so we're kind of moving, doing our walk-through till about 11:30 and then we get back, get lunch over there and then guys can go up to their room for a couple hours. They get out of the hotel, they get a little fresh air, they get over here, where they're comfortable. Then games are on and we come down at 2:30 and kind of do our neuro-charge where we're bouncing balls, waking up and we do a quick special teams call-out and then optional chapel and meal. We try to break the day up."
Rhule admitted that his own personal preference aside, night games are again becoming an asset for the Huskers inside Memorial Stadium.
"With my A.D.D. (Attention Deficit Disorder), I just can't sit there all day. I've got to get over and do something," Rhule said. "I think that change has really helped.
"I think for us, night games is a weapon. It's a weapon. It's an absolute weapon. I'm just talking about my preference. I went home and watched Oregon play Boise; that was a great game. I like that stuff. But that was just me being selfish. For the team, night games are amazing because the crowd is so electric."
Rhule maintained his focus on the process of rebuilding the Nebraska program. He didn't relish in Saturday's rivarly beatdown of Deion Sanders's Colorado Buffaloes.
But Rhule admitted the game went as he expected -- though with fewer points scored by the Huskers.
"If you want to play championship football, it's why you've got to be like this (consistent, chopping wood every day)," Rhule said. "It's why I don't get too high, don't get too low. I returned people's texts if they texted me about the game, but I'm not like, it wasn't the highlight of the year for me. It wasn't vindication. It wasn't anything. It was a game that we played. I expected the game to go that way. I expected us to score 40 points in that game and hold them to about 10.
"That was my prediction going into it and I thought that's where the game was. That's no disrespect to them; I think they're a really good team. I just felt like we matched up well against that team."