Do you have any sports-related spreads in your bullet journal or planner? I ALWAYS have one for my college team, and sometimes will take it to the next level with an NFL spread – I’ve even made one for fantasy football!
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I am and have always been an Auburn football junkie – I grew up going to the games, my mom and grandfather graduated from Auburn, I then attended and got both my undergraduate and graduate degree there. I just loved it – and football season is really makes it fun.
I’ve been drawing Auburn’s football schedules in my bullet journal ever since I started out. It’s fun to keep it in your book, and to look back on, and these spreads are really fun to create.
You can see the past 3 years of my Auburn spreads below.
I had a little fun with this years schedule, and shared how I made this schedule on Instagram live. A few of you asked for the video, so I thought I’d get it together with a blog post to explain errrrything! 🙂
You can also watch the video that shows all the steps when I made a schedule for the Carolina Panthers live on Instagram.
Step by Step:
What you’ll need:
Pencil, pen, ruler (optional), and a gridded or dotted notebook or sheet of paper.
Tips:
- This type of schedule is better for seasons about 18 games or shorter – if there’s more, it’s probably easier just to make a list.
- Get creative – make a space for the dates of the games, mark conference games, or create other shapes around each game.
- Use a color-code to show who won & lost the games – you may want to leave a spot for the scores of each game.
- Decorate with drawings, fight songs, logos, and more. I’ll have another video on how I drew the states and logos on my latest Auburn spread.
1 – Find your custom row height
- Go to bit.ly/lbw-football
2 – Edit with your own numbers
- Make sure you’re signed to Google, then File >> Make a Copy (for your own editing).
- Enter the number of games for your team. And count how many squares TALL your notebook is.
Add these to the yellow numbers and get your custom row height.
3 – Grab a Pencil
- Start from the top and use a pencil to mark the following:
- Use the # of extra rows you have (in my example 1), and this is blank row – skip this row and start from row 2.
- Find the rounded height of your rows (in my example 3). We’ll count by 3’s.On the edge of your page, make a light “1” over rows 2-4, a “2” over 5-7, “3” over 8-10, etc. (this will help with spacing your schedule.)
4 – Home & Away
- Look at your team’s schedule and find the Home and Away Games. Determine which page you want home games and which page you want away games.
- Down the spine of the book, go through each game, and mark your home games on one page and your away games on the other page.
- I use a light pencil line to show the ‘span’ of home and away games on each page.
5 – Zig-Zag It!
- Starting at your first game (still in pencil), make a zig-zag line from your first game through each game to your last game.
6 – Get Creative.
- You now have a ‘map’ and idea of where you have room to draw your games – so now’s the time to get creative and draw it out.
- I lettered the name of each opponent, then outlined them with a box with my ruler.
Watch the Process
After creating the Auburn spread, I drew the NFL schedule for the Panthers on Instagram live so I could show you exactly how I mapped it out – you can watch the whole process in the video below.
Finish it Up
Now here’s the fun part! Once you’re finished up, you can decorate it however you want! I kept it simple on the Panthers spread, but added a few drawings to the Auburn spread.
After I went live on Instagram, I got a few of your versions and I LOVE them – thanks Robin, Shireen, Debbie & Melissa! You can see their versions below.
Make sure you tag @lifebywhitney IN your picture on Instagram or share in my Facebook group if you try this style out. 🙂
Need ideas for other sports schedule spreads? Check out the photo gallery below and get some more inspiration!
You can even add your own sports spreads to the gallery 🙂
Like the gallery? Check out the free Journal Kickstart or my new course Journal You – my new passion projects that help YOU get started on a journal you LOVE. There’s a ton of galleries just like this throughout the courses. 😆
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