Zach Schwartz, a producer at FanDuel, has experienced the flip side of this: couples planning their wedding around football season. (Though Schwartz also confessed that he and his wife have so many friends that work in or around football that any dates from September to February were fully off the table.) The people in his life who root for the southern college football powerhouses also never considered having a fall wedding, as they were full of piety for a recently-retired coach. “I have a few friends that went to SEC schools and they knew that their wedding could only be in the summer or spring,” Schwartz said. “All the other time ‘belongs to coach Saban.’”
Eventually I got on the phone with Colin Bennett, a University of Marylandgrad who lives in Baltimore, works in sales, and tied the knot on October 7, 2023—the same day his beloved Maryland Terrapins met Ohio State in a …