I played through from the end of the season to the start of the next season in Franchise mode. I take a long time to play and go day by day. This is is almost 10+ hours of gameplay, I last saved ...
Ideas
If you go in. Then exit save it. Leave go to franchise mode on the offline menu. Then don’t click continue click load your last dated save should be the second one down. I screwed with it for a couple minutes found that.