Last March, Colorado head coach Deion Sanders wondered aloud why his Buffaloes couldn't practice against another team, and then Fran Brown and Syracuse answered the call.
Colorado and Syracuse jointly asked the NCAA for permission, and the NCAA said no, reasoning that it was too late in the game to make such a drastic change for the spring of 2025.
The Buffs and the Orange asked again for this spring, and again the NCAA said no.
“If two teams are doing it, what that would lead to is, ‘Gosh, if Syracuse and Colorado are doing this, why can’t Florida State and name-a-school,’” said Division I Football Oversight Committee chairman Mark Alnutt, also the AD at Buffalo.
The committee is currently studying the entire calendar, and didn't want to approve a drastic change with other, even-more-drastic changes to the calendar possibly coming soon. The entire concept is not dead, and the manner in which the question was asked matters. Colorado and Syracuse did not ask for everyone to have permission to jointly practice in the spring; they only asked for permission for Colorado and Syracuse to jointly practice.
"The subgroup may consider joint practice concepts during its review of the spring practice period and consult other governance committees that may be impacted by a concept," the NCAA's written rationale to Colorado said, according to USA Today, who broke the story. "Based on feedback from the membership and other impacted governance committees, the subgroup may consider legislation that would permit any institution to engage in a joint practice."