If they're going to keep Thursday night games, I don't know how they haven't come up with an economical scheduling of it.
Like start Thursday night games when the bye weeks start (after week 4), and whenever one of the teams has to play coming off a bye, try to schedule those teams after that bye week against one of the other ones also coming off their scheduled bye. They kind of already do it after the Thursday Thanksgiving games as the Cowboys usually play that Thursday game the following week.
Then switch to Saturday games instead of Thursday when college regular season is over.