‘Climate change’ means it is time to 'reimagine' college football calendar, claims USA Today sports columnist

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USA Today Sports columnist Dan Wolken claimed that a new college football season schedule needs to be dreamed up in order to handle the threat of climate change.

In response to a Wednesday ESPN article exploring whether a reimagined college football season calendar could be a good idea, Wolken tweeted that "extreme heat" and "climate change" make this idea completely necessary.

The ESPN article in question polled "decision-makers" within the sport and "those who would be directly impacted" weigh the "pros and cons of such theoretical changes."

Regardless of his actual decision-making relevance with the college football world, Wolken gave a ringing endorsement to shifting the schedule around in order to deal with climate change on Thursday.

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Sharing Sports Illustrated writer Pat Forde’s tweet about the article – in which the journo mentioned the article has "some good" and "some unrealistic" ideas – Wolken commented that climate change should prompt administrators to change the schedule.

He wrote, "If you want to actually reimagine the college football calendar, I’d start with the reality that extreme heat and climate change is going to have a major impact."

Wolken also threw a passive-aggressive insult at the people who could make these scheduling changes, adding that actually