BATON ROUGE – It seems like with each passing day, college football is becoming much more of a mirror image of the NFL.
A few weeks ago, Colorado football coach Deion Sanders broached the idea of his team playing another team for its spring game. He and Syracuse coach Fran Brown even petitioned the NCAA to allow their teams to hold an exhibition game but that waiver was denied.
NCAA bylaws prohibit teams from participating in intercollegiate practices during the spring.
LSU football coach Brian Kelly was asked following LSU's modified spring practice Saturday afternoon inside Tiger Stadium that served as what would've been the program's annual spring football game as fans were in attendance about the prospect of scrimmaging other teams.
Kelly said he is open to the idea.
"I would be open to it," Kelly told reporters. "The calendar dictates a lot of this, you work off an academic calendar, relative to recruiting, to different schools being on quarters as opposed to semesters. There are a lot of things that would have to come together in those situations.
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