If AP isn't giving us college FB skeds until August ...

... can anybody think of a relatively painless way to wrestle those into a form I could use in the paper this summer, without having to type in all 119 skeds?

 

Interns.

 

That's a lot of phone calls. I'll stick with my intern suggestion. Or just run the most important skeds until AP releases the entire thing.

 

Try collegefootballnews.com. They usually do conference by conference previews that include team-by-team schedules. Maybe you can use those with some editing. Also, most conference web sites have skeds, some of them are team-by-team.

 

We have our interns type in all the high school schedules, sport-by-sport, each season. If we gave them college football schedules to do, with only 12 games, they'd probably be thanking us.

 

If you are immune from waiting for a story on a baseball game that ended at 10:10 for an SID story ... God forbid they go ahead and move the box score ... until 11:05, only to find that the story some kid (maybe) spent way too much time writing is impossible to read, only now there's no time to rewrite it because it's 11:11 and we have to go ... then I salute you.

Again, I stand by what I said on the other thread.

I find the SID offices that I deal with regularly to be, almost without fail, exceedingly helpful -- and, of course, in most locations that's their job. The writing thing? Not so much, sorry.

 

I'd go with the conference web sites. Apple+C, followed by Apple+V, is your friend.

 

12 down, 102 to go:

ALABAMA CRIMSON TIDE
Aug. 30 Clemson (at Atlanta)
Sept. 6 TULANE
Sept. 13 WESTERN KENTUCKY
Sept. 20 at Arkansas
Sept. 27 at Georgia
Oct. 4 KENTUCKY
Oct. 18 OLE MISS
Oct. 25 at Tennessee
Nov. 1 ARKANSAS STATE
Nov. 8 at LSU
Nov. 15 MISSISSIPPI STATE
Nov. 29 AUBURN
ARKANSAS RAZORBACKS
Aug. 30 WESTERN ILLINOIS
Sept. 6 LOUISIANA-MONROE (Little Rock)
Sept. 13 at Texas
Sept. 20 ALABAMA
Oct. 4 FLORIDA
Oct. 11 at Auburn
Oct. 18 at Kentucky
Oct. 25 OLE MISS
Nov. 1 TULSA
Nov. 8 at South Carolina
Nov. 22 at Mississippi State
Nov. 28 LSU (Little Rock)
AUBURN TIGERS
Aug. 30 LOUISIANA-MONROE
Sept. 6 SOUTHERN MISS
Sept. 13 at Mississippi State
Sept. 20 LSU
Sept. 27 TENNESSEE
Oct. 4 at Vanderbilt
Oct. 11 ARKANSAS
Oct. 23 at West Virginia
Nov. 1 at Ole Miss
Nov. 8 TENNESSEE-MARTIN
Nov. 15 GEORGIA
Nov. 29 at Alabama
FLORIDA GATORS
Aug. 30 HAWAII
Sept. 6 MIAMI (FLA.)
Sept. 20 at Tennessee
Sept. 27 OLE MISS
Oct. 4 at Arkansas
Oct. 11 LSU
Oct. 25 KENTUCKY
Nov. 1 Georgia (Jacksonville)
Nov. 8 at Vanderbilt
Nov. 15 SOUTH CAROLINA
Nov. 22 THE CITADEL
Nov. 29 at Florida State
GEORGIA BULLDOGS
Aug. 30 GEORGIA SOUTHERN
Sept. 6 CENTRAL MICHIGAN
Sept. 13 at South Carolina
Sept. 20 at Arizona State
Sept. 27 ALABAMA
Oct. 11 TENNESSEE
Oct. 18 VANDERBILT
Oct. 25 at LSU
Nov. 1 Florida (Jacksonville)
Nov. 8 at Kentucky
Nov. 15 at Auburn
Nov. 29 GEORGIA TECH
KENTUCKY WILDCATS
Aug. 31 at Louisville
Sept. 6 NORFOLK STATE
Sept. 13 MIDDLE TENNESSEE
Sept. 27 WESTERN KENTUCKY
Oct. 4 at Alabama
Oct. 11 SOUTH CAROLINA
Oct. 18 ARKANSAS
Oct. 25 at Florida
Nov. 1 at Mississippi State
Nov. 8 GEORGIA
Nov. 15 VANDERBILT
Nov. 29 at Tennessee
LSU TIGERS
Aug. 30 APPALACHIAN STATE
Sept 6 TROY
Sept. 13 NORTH TEXAS
Sept. 20 at Auburn
Sept. 27 MISSISSIPPI STATE
Oct. 11 at Florida
Oct. 18 at South Carolina
Oct. 25 GEORGIA
Nov. 1 TULANE
Nov. 8 ALABAMA
Nov. 22 OLE MISS
Nov. 28 at Arkansas (Little Rock)
OLE MISS REBELS
Aug. 30 MEMPHIS
Sept. 6 at Wake Forest
Sept. 13 SAMFORD
Sept. 20 VANDERBILT
Sept. 27 at Florida
Oct. 4 SOUTH CAROLINA
Oct. 18 at Alabama
Oct. 25 at Arkansas
Nov. 1 AUBURN
Nov. 15 LOUISIANA-MONROE
Nov. 22 at LSU
Nov. 28 MISSISSIPPI STATE
MISSISSIPPI STATE BULLDOGS
Aug. 30 at Louisiana Tech
Sept 6 SOUTHEASTERN LOUISIANA
Sept. 13 AUBURN
Sept. 20 at Georgia Tech
Sept. 27 at LSU
Oct. 11 VANDERBILT
Oct. 18 at Tennessee
Oct. 25 MIDDLE TENNESSEE
Nov. 1 KENTUCKY
Nov. 15 at Alabama
Nov. 22 ARKANSAS
Nov. 28 at Ole Miss
SOUTH CAROLINA GAMECOCKS
Aug. 28 NORTH CAROLINA STATE
Sept. 4 at Vanderbilt
Sept. 13 GEORGIA
Sept. 20 WOFFORD
Sept. 27 UAB
Oct. 4 at Ole Miss
Oct. 11 at Kentucky
Oct. 18 LSU
Nov. 1 TENNESSEE
Nov. 8 ARKANSAS
Nov. 15 at Florida
Nov. 29 at Clemson
TENNESSEE VOLUNTEERS
Sept. 1 at UCLA
Sept. 13 UAB
Sept. 20 FLORIDA
Sept. 27 at Auburn
Oct. 4 NORTHERN ILLINOIS
Oct. 11 at Georgia
Oct. 18 MISSISSIPPI STATE
Oct. 25 ALABAMA
Nov. 1 at South Carolina
Nov. 8 WYOMING
Nov. 22 at Vanderbilt
Nov. 29 KENTUCKY
VANDERBILT COMMODORES
Aug. 28 at Miami (Ohio)
Sept. 4 SOUTH CAROLINA
Sept. 13 RICE
Sept. 20 at Ole Miss
Oct. 4 AUBURN
Oct. 11 at Mississippi State
Oct. 18 at Georgia
Oct. 25 DUKE
Nov. 8 FLORIDA
Nov. 15 at Kentucky
Nov. 22 TENNESSEE
Nov. 29 at Wake Forest

 

Unless their format is to bold the home games, add the days of the week, note the conference games in blue, put asterisks around the homecoming games...

Just playin'.

 

Lack of consistent formatting might be an issue.