Re: SMU announces 2024 schedule
Posted: Fri Jan 26, 2024 1:31 pm
CA Mustang wrote:Cal-Stanford play the weekend before Thanksgiving (and presumably that weekend every year). As for the rest of the conference, I don't know if any of the rivalry games have traditional dates.
FSU usually plays Florida Thanksgiving weekend, Virginia plays Virginia Tech, Clemson plays South Carolina, Georgia Tech plays Georgia, etc... so there are ACC teams who play long time rivals that weekend. The weekend before Thanksgiving week isn't exactly a "prime time" rivalry game but it does kind of kick off rivalry week and that's when Cal/Stanford played this past season so I get it. I'm just not sure about Cal vs SMU playing on Thanksgiving weekend and expect that game will be one that draws as poorly as we have for years on that weekend when the students are gone. I suppose there are only so many rivalry games vs dates and time slots the networks have to work with and that is what football scheduling is all about.