This year there is just one game scheduled, New Mexico at Utah State, not exactly a well known rivalry or even a rivalry at all. The schools (and FS1) lucked out that the NFL game got postponed so maybe they get some fans desperate for football (I'm not that desperate).

I guess the NFL has taken hold of Thanksgiving, even more so once they started the prime time game, and very few games are held that day anymore, even before this season. I remember one year (1991) when Penn State and Pittsburgh played a Thanksgiving morning game. The game I most associate with Thanksgiving is Texas and Texas A&M but of course getting them to play at all now, let alone on Thanksgiving, is like pulling teeth. Texas A&M and LSU have played a few times on Thanksgiving but they've been mostly Saturday lately. But these days, good luck getting any relevant games even though the only NFL games involve two of the worst teams not from Philly (or New York)... Detroit and Dallas. You know you really are desperate to watch football when you'll watch the Lions and the Cowgirls.

I’d love to see college football spread throughout Thursday-Saturday of Thanksgiving weekend. It gives an opportunity for more schools to get their rivalry week game aired

If it were up to me, Thanksgiving would always look like this:

230pm ESPN Ole Miss/Mississippi St
630pm ABC Texas/Texas A&M

NBC used to have Southern vs Grambling State on Thanksgiving. The pros started to hog this day.

I like it how it is. I prefer my family not argue about Aggies and Longhorns all day. Especially when the "Aggie" side would only watch the UT game.

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If it were up to me, Thanksgiving would always look like this:

230pm ESPN Ole Miss/Mississippi St
630pm ABC Texas/Texas A&M
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That would be a great lineup. Unfortunately it will never happen.

(11-26-2020 09:53 AM)DavidSt Wrote:  NBC used to have Southern vs Grambling State on Thanksgiving. The pros started to hog this day.

No, except for the first one in 1974, which was played on the Saturday before Thanksgiving, the Bayou Classic is and was always played on the Saturday after Thanksgiving.

I think we all miss the Egg Bowl and Texas vs TAMU on Thanksgiving Day.

I pine for the days of Cornell vs. Penn and VMI vs. VPI on Thanksgiving Day.

(11-26-2020 09:53 AM)DavidSt Wrote:  NBC used to have Southern vs Grambling State on Thanksgiving. The pros started to hog this day.

The Bayou Classic is held the Saturday after Thanksgiving and has been since 1990. The Turkey Day Classic is held on Thanksgiving.

I have it on in the background. Weird, I thought New Mexico was independent.

Also both teams 0-4

(11-26-2020 08:44 AM)Fighting Muskie Wrote:  I’d love to see college football spread throughout Thursday-Saturday of Thanksgiving weekend. It gives an opportunity for more schools to get their rivalry week game aired

You mean they way that it has been every year prior to this one?

(11-26-2020 08:46 PM)GreenHornet33 Wrote:  

(11-26-2020 08:44 AM)Fighting Muskie Wrote:  I’d love to see college football spread throughout Thursday-Saturday of Thanksgiving weekend. It gives an opportunity for more schools to get their rivalry week game aired

You mean they way that it has been every year prior to this one?

No, even more so. I’d like to see all 5 P5s have a Thursday game and a Friday game and for the G5’s to get in on it too.

(11-26-2020 08:57 PM)Fighting Muskie Wrote:  

(11-26-2020 08:46 PM)GreenHornet33 Wrote:  

(11-26-2020 08:44 AM)Fighting Muskie Wrote:  I’d love to see college football spread throughout Thursday-Saturday of Thanksgiving weekend. It gives an opportunity for more schools to get their rivalry week game aired

You mean they way that it has been every year prior to this one?

No, even more so. I’d like to see all 5 P5s have a Thursday game and a Friday game and for the G5’s to get in on it too.

Georgia used to play Georgia Tech on Thanksgiving all the time. It was a tradition for my aunt and I to watch Georgia vs Tech and then whoever the Cowboys were playing. I could care less about Dallas now, but it would be nice to have Clean, Old-fashioned Hate return to its original day.

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Carolina played only once on Thanksgiving Day that I can remember.
1982 vs. Bowling Green. It's the only time Carolina has played the Falcons.

(11-26-2020 08:57 PM)Fighting Muskie Wrote:  

(11-26-2020 08:46 PM)GreenHornet33 Wrote:  

(11-26-2020 08:44 AM)Fighting Muskie Wrote:  I’d love to see college football spread throughout Thursday-Saturday of Thanksgiving weekend. It gives an opportunity for more schools to get their rivalry week game aired

You mean they way that it has been every year prior to this one?

No, even more so. I’d like to see all 5 P5s have a Thursday game and a Friday game and for the G5’s to get in on it too.

Great for the fans but terrible for the schools and the players. Can you imagine if Ohio State hosted a Thursday night game in September, October, or November when classes are in session and the headaches and disruption it would cause around campus? Don't forget about the season ticket holders who live in Cleveland or Cincinnati or other parts of the state that now either have to give up the game or give up a workday to drive all the way to Columbus on a Thursday and either stay overnight (and then leave in the wee hours in the morning or miss at least part of the workday on Friday). And at least Columbus is a big city where some of the fans might live there or near there. How do you think this would work at Penn State or Alabama? Have Ohio State play only road Thursday night games? Then you're disrupting their week, making them travel in the middle of the week and missing classes. Yes, other athletic teams do it but not on the scale of football and the body recovers a lot faster in other sports. I don't even like the NFL playing on Thursday nights. I'm not in favor of a bunch of P5's playing Thursday night games. If the MAC's or Sun Belt's or even the lesser teams in the P5's feel they need to in order to get attention, that's their prerogative. But Alabama and Ohio State shouldn't have to and they don't. I don't even care to watch Thursday Night games anyway. Most of the time I can't make it through a full Thursday Night game without falling asleep, I'm too tired from the day.

(11-27-2020 09:44 AM)schmolik Wrote:  

(11-26-2020 08:57 PM)Fighting Muskie Wrote:  

(11-26-2020 08:46 PM)GreenHornet33 Wrote:  

(11-26-2020 08:44 AM)Fighting Muskie Wrote:  I’d love to see college football spread throughout Thursday-Saturday of Thanksgiving weekend. It gives an opportunity for more schools to get their rivalry week game aired

You mean they way that it has been every year prior to this one?

No, even more so. I’d like to see all 5 P5s have a Thursday game and a Friday game and for the G5’s to get in on it too.

Great for the fans but terrible for the schools and the players. Can you imagine if Ohio State hosted a Thursday night game in September, October, or November when classes are in session and the headaches and disruption it would cause around campus? Don't forget about the season ticket holders who live in Cleveland or Cincinnati or other parts of the state that now either have to give up the game or give up a workday to drive all the way to Columbus on a Thursday and either stay overnight (and then leave in the wee hours in the morning or miss at least part of the workday on Friday). And at least Columbus is a big city where some of the fans might live there or near there. How do you think this would work at Penn State or Alabama? Have Ohio State play only road Thursday night games? Then you're disrupting their week, making them travel in the middle of the week and missing classes. Yes, other athletic teams do it but not on the scale of football and the body recovers a lot faster in other sports. I don't even like the NFL playing on Thursday nights. I'm not in favor of a bunch of P5's playing Thursday night games. If the MAC's or Sun Belt's or even the lesser teams in the P5's feel they need to in order to get attention, that's their prerogative. But Alabama and Ohio State shouldn't have to and they don't. I don't even care to watch Thursday Night games anyway. Most of the time I can't make it through a full Thursday Night game without falling asleep, I'm too tired from the day.

We aren’t talking about any old week during the regular season—we’re talking about Thanksgiving and the day after when class is not in session.

Putting a game in the 3:30 time slot in Big Ten country on each of those days shouldn’t be a problem.

Iowa-Nebraska does well on Black Friday already. Maybe Wisconsin-Minnesota would be a good Thanksgiving day match up.

(11-27-2020 01:00 PM)Fighting Muskie Wrote:  

(11-27-2020 09:44 AM)schmolik Wrote:  

(11-26-2020 08:57 PM)Fighting Muskie Wrote:  

(11-26-2020 08:46 PM)GreenHornet33 Wrote:  

(11-26-2020 08:44 AM)Fighting Muskie Wrote:  I’d love to see college football spread throughout Thursday-Saturday of Thanksgiving weekend. It gives an opportunity for more schools to get their rivalry week game aired

You mean they way that it has been every year prior to this one?

No, even more so. I’d like to see all 5 P5s have a Thursday game and a Friday game and for the G5’s to get in on it too.

Great for the fans but terrible for the schools and the players. Can you imagine if Ohio State hosted a Thursday night game in September, October, or November when classes are in session and the headaches and disruption it would cause around campus? Don't forget about the season ticket holders who live in Cleveland or Cincinnati or other parts of the state that now either have to give up the game or give up a workday to drive all the way to Columbus on a Thursday and either stay overnight (and then leave in the wee hours in the morning or miss at least part of the workday on Friday). And at least Columbus is a big city where some of the fans might live there or near there. How do you think this would work at Penn State or Alabama? Have Ohio State play only road Thursday night games? Then you're disrupting their week, making them travel in the middle of the week and missing classes. Yes, other athletic teams do it but not on the scale of football and the body recovers a lot faster in other sports. I don't even like the NFL playing on Thursday nights. I'm not in favor of a bunch of P5's playing Thursday night games. If the MAC's or Sun Belt's or even the lesser teams in the P5's feel they need to in order to get attention, that's their prerogative. But Alabama and Ohio State shouldn't have to and they don't. I don't even care to watch Thursday Night games anyway. Most of the time I can't make it through a full Thursday Night game without falling asleep, I'm too tired from the day.

We aren’t talking about any old week during the regular season—we’re talking about Thanksgiving and the day after when class is not in session.

Putting a game in the 3:30 time slot in Big Ten country on each of those days shouldn’t be a problem.

Iowa-Nebraska does well on Black Friday already. Maybe Wisconsin-Minnesota would be a good Thanksgiving day match up.

For traveling fans, a regular old Saturday is still the optimal time for college football. Much of the appeal of playing on a non-Saturday is to get maximum TV exposure, especially for the Power 5. With the NFL having a triple header on Thanksgiving, it becomes a TV exposure *disadvantage*. No smart Power 5 conference commissioner is going to burn a Thanksgiving rivalry week date in order to willingly go head-to-head against the NFL. It’s a total waste. That’s why you’re seeing such weaker college football slates on Thursday nights in general ever since the NFL has been showing it’s Thursday package on OTA networks.

Black Friday is totally open for college football without any NFL competition, which is why games on that date for TV purposes make sense.