Info on possible date change of SMU @ TCU 2009???

[CA Mustang]

Rivalry week is bad b/c it's thanksgiving and the students from both schools go home, and fans travel for thanksgiving.

Isn't Rivalry Week the weekend BEFORE Thanksgiving?

[huskerpony]

Rivalry week is bad b/c it's thanksgiving and the students from both schools go home, and fans travel for thanksgiving.

Isn't Rivalry Week the weekend BEFORE Thanksgiving?

That all depends on what rivalry week you are talking about.

Big 12 rivalry week is Thanksgiving weekend. USC-UCLA is usually the week after, and Michigan-Ohio St. is the week before. Lots of non-conference rivalries are the first week of the season (CU-CSU, etc.)

SMU-TCU was the week before Thanksgiving when I was in school, but we were both in the WAC then. (and to Dutch's point--no way we could pull off Thanksgiving week. But to go back to the week before would be great.)

[Metropolis777]

Rivalry week is bad b/c it's thanksgiving and the students from both schools go home, and fans travel for thanksgiving.

Isn't Rivalry Week the weekend BEFORE Thanksgiving?

It is for conferences that finish their season before Thanksgiving. Basically, you could now assert that Rivalry week is 8 days beginning on the Saturday before Thanskgiving and ending on the Saturday after Thanksgiving.

Right now, these are the games scheduled for Rivalry Week

Nov 21, 2009
Purdue at Indiana
Ohio St. at Michigan
Penn St. at Michigan St.
Iowa at Minnesota
California at Stanford
LSU at Ole Miss
Vanderbilt at Tennessee
Utah at BYU*

Nov 26, 2009
Texas at Texas A&M

Nov 27, 2009
Nebraska at Colorado*
Arkansas at LSU*
Pitt at West Virginia*
Ole Miss at Mississippi St.*

Nov 28, 2009
UCLA at USC
Georgia at Georgia Tech
North Carolina at NC State
Virginia Tech at Virginia
Kansas vs. Missouri
Oklahoma St. at Oklahoma
Arizona at Arizona St.
Notre Dame at Stanford
Washington at Washington St.
Alabama at Auburn
Florida St. at Florida
Clemson at South Carolina


*tentatively and/or traditionally scheduled

[huskerpony]

The frogs are saying we head to cow town Oct. 3.

If true, that wouldn't be so bad, in my opinion. That is, as long as we get a conference game on the 12th or 26th. (Having both of our bye weeks in the OOC schedule would suck.)

[CA Mustang]

Rivalry week is bad b/c it's thanksgiving and the students from both schools go home, and fans travel for thanksgiving.

Isn't Rivalry Week the weekend BEFORE Thanksgiving?

That all depends on what rivalry week you are talking about.

Big 12 rivalry week is Thanksgiving weekend. USC-UCLA is usually the week after, and Michigan-Ohio St. is the week before.

USC-UCLA (along with the rest of the Pac-10 rivalry games) used to be played the weekend before Thanksgiving. But with the schedule expansion, now they are spread out over three weeks.

I'm fine with SMU-TCU playing at the end of the season, but it is difficult to arrange since the schools are in different conferences. If the date is truly important to the schools, they can tell the conferences to schedule it the same way you see with Clemson-South Carolina, UF-FSU, etc.

[SMU SID]

Just to confirm - it has been moved to 10/3.

[papawasamustang]

Just to confirm - it has been moved to 10/3.

I would love to see us play Clemson. Any update?

[StallionsModelT]

Its TCU playing Clemson right?

[Stallion]

Fine with me-that should give SMU an extra week to prepare for TCU while TCU is coming off a BCS road game.

[Dooby]

Hopefully a bye-week. No guarantee. They could try to squeeze a conference game in that spot.

[huskerpony]

Hopefully a bye-week. No guarantee. They could try to squeeze a conference game in that spot.

It would be better if they do. Having both bye weeks in the non-conference part of the schedule would not be a good move. However, I think it would be better to fill in the Sept. 12 spot with a conference game. Get 3 games in and have a week off before TCU sounds ideal to me. Not sure that playing SFA and having a week off is the best preparation for Wazzu.

[Charleston Pony]

I wish we would revert back to playing the Horny Toads the last game of the year. That would bring back some of the tradition that the rivalry needs!

Not a bad idea.

except that both are small private schools. Rivalry week is bad b/c it's thanksgiving and the students from both schools go home, and fans travel for thanksgiving. the last week of the year is when school is wrapping up in december and everyone's either in finals or headed home.

good point. If we ever get to the point that TCU is at right now (and they remain strong), television will be interested in that game and we would need to play at a time when students are on campus. Really need strong student attendance to make a decent showing.

[BIGHORSE]

Ch. 5 just confirmed that we go to froggyland on Oct. 3rd.

because of their game with Clemson.

[Insane_Pony_Posse]

"Ch. 5 just confirmed that we go to froggyland on Oct. 3rd"

On the phone with Joe T's reserving an Oct 3rd late night
table by the pool with a pitcher of ritas for a post game victory party!

[ALEX LIFESON]

I love "ritas" too, but, your whole life seems to revolve around booze. I hope you have a designated driver on retainer.