Report on Frog Forum-ESPN to Televise SMU/TCU

[NavyCrimson]

If we are in the Top 20 (as TCU usually is), this could be a national TV game - every year - like some of the previous posters are saying.

I would love to see it on Rivalry Weekend or whatever they call it when all the big rivalries take place with a national audience. Isn't it some time in November or near Turkey Day? That would be great!

[NickSMU17]

This game will be a sellout on a friday night...doesn't matter about high school football

[Metropolis777]

If ESPN is moving this game, they're probably moving it to Friday, Sept 10. Auburn vs. Mississippi St has already been moved from Saturday to Thursday for ESPN on that weekend.

[PonySoprano]

Am I the only person who thinks that college football should be played on Saturdays (with the exception of Thanksgiving weekend)?

[couch 'em]

Forget rivalry weekend, if we're both top 20 this game should be played in the Cotton Bowl during the fair!

[NavyCrimson]

Nope, you're not.

I can appreciate the Thursday night games but definitely not Friday. The real question: Can it be used against us in recruiting?

[LakeHighlandsPony]

I don't want to give up a Boulevard saturday for friday night. In the state of Texas you do not want to compete against friday night lights. Not one recruit will see the game.

[NavyCrimson]

There's your answer if recruits wont see the game.

[The PonyGrad]

There's your answer if recruits wont see the game.

I've got one word, er.. acronym for you, DVR.

[mustangxc]

There's your answer if recruits wont see the game.

I've got one word, er.. acronym for you, DVR.

I was going to say, if it's on ESPN they can always DVR it and watch it later! I know the Hawaii Bowl airs daily at my house! I watch it hoping we shut them out, but unfortunately come away with that same feeling every time!

[lwjr]

National TV on a Thursday night? I guess I will watch on TV, cause I will not be able to fly in on a Thursday night.

[ponyscott]

Forget rivalry weekend, if we're both top 20 this game should be played in the Cotton Bowl during the fair!

I'm glad someone else is touting this as I still think on the last weekend of the Texas State Fair would be a great tradition to start having the SMU/TCU showdown yearly. It would be great fun and I'm sure the City of Dallas would cut a deal for something like this to occur in a yearly series. The game could attract alot of fans that otherwise wouldn't go to the game in Ft Worth or Dallas.

[Insane_Pony_Posse]

a Friday game would give more time to recover from
the alcohol induced cranium crushing headache

[Junior]

I think they would have to open the BLVD earlier than that. Then again, would they really make me pack up my stuff if I got there at 3?

They have to clear the students out and make everyone move their cars. I wonder where you'd park?

Where there's a will....

[1983 Cotton Bowl]

TCU is playing Oregon State at Jerry World? That seems like an odd matchup for that venue. How do you fill 90,000+ seats with those 2 teams?