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re: Is there a reason the big12 does not care about tradition?
Posted on 11/27/20 at 12:06 pm to Hill Country
Posted on 11/27/20 at 12:06 pm to Hill Country
I think Texas and Texas A&M should still play on Thanksgiving Day. I don’t mind playing Arkansas on thanksgiving weekend, but I hated having that game on Black Friday.
I would love to see, in the future, LSU play Tulane annually in the super dome thanksgiving weekend.
I would love to see, in the future, LSU play Tulane annually in the super dome thanksgiving weekend.
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Posted on 11/27/20 at 12:11 pm to kingbob
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I would love to see, in the future, LSU play Tulane annually in the super dome thanksgiving weekend.
This might seem like a big game where you're from, but nobody outside of louisiana would watch this game or view it as a decent game. And most years it would be a complete blowout.
Posted on 11/27/20 at 12:16 pm to msudawg1200
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Do what? The B1G has been playing after Thanksgiving for years. Maybe in the 80's when no teams but a few big rivals(Iron Bowl, UF-FSU, TAMU-Tex) did.
The B1G flexed the schedule an extra week in 2009.
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Thanksgiving leftovers and the Ohio State-Michigan game could become a new tradition.
The Big Ten will move to a 13-week schedule beginning in 2009, pushing the rivalry game and the rest of the conference's schedule to the Saturday after Thanksgiving.
Big Ten school presidents voted to support a 13-week schedule on Dec. 2, spokesman Scott Chipman said. That will allow teams one week off during the 12-game regular season.
Since the NCAA adopted a 12-game schedule in 2006, many Big Ten coaches have been calling for a bye week to give coaches and players a mental and physical break instead of three straight months of football.
Posted on 11/27/20 at 12:18 pm to Hill Country
Agreed, but the Battle for the Tiger Rag was such an important game for so long that it fundamentally established the identity of LSU, including the team’s colors. I want to see that game come back, see Tulane become a competitive program (and join a P5 conference), and LSU gain a real true rivalry with traditions attached. Plus, it would be cool to have an annual game in the dome, or at least one every other year.
Posted on 11/27/20 at 1:09 pm to kingbob
quote:the ball is in Tulane’s court. They need to git gud
Agreed, but the Battle for the Tiger Rag was such an important game for so long that it fundamentally established the identity of LSU, including the team’s colors. I want to see that game come back, see Tulane become a competitive program (and join a P5 conference), and LSU gain a real true rivalry with traditions attached. Plus, it would be cool to have an annual game in the dome, or at least one every other year.
Posted on 11/27/20 at 1:17 pm to turnpiketiger
To be honest, college football doesn't care about tradition. Not completely a bad thing. This way of thinking brought us the CFB Playoff. Hopefully more teams will be involved in the future.
Posted on 11/27/20 at 1:19 pm to chinese58
What playoff? There’s not been a true playoff yet, it’s just an invitational always that gives only a few a chance.
This post was edited on 11/27/20 at 1:20 pm
Posted on 11/27/20 at 1:35 pm to East Coast Band
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Name any traditions of the B1G, other than Ohio state and Michigan at noon the Saturday after thanksgiving
That conference has more trophy games than any other.
Michigan-Michigan State play for the Paul Bunyan Trophy
Minnesota-Wisconsin play for the Axe
Michigan-Minnesota play for the Little Brown Jug
Iowa-Minnesota play for Floyd of Rosedale
Indiana-Purdue play for the bucket
More traditions:
Ohio State dotting the i
Penn State whiteout
Purdue’s giant bass drum
Michigan running under the banner
Iowa’s pink locker rooms
When it comes to tradition, Big Ten may be at the top simply because of those old rivalries.
Posted on 11/27/20 at 1:44 pm to turnpiketiger
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The SEC & B10 do a good job at preserving traditions such as this.
Egg Bowl should have been last night. That's an SEC 'tradition' that makes sense.
Posted on 11/27/20 at 1:44 pm to kingbob
The only people who care about the Tiger rag game are old LSU fans. Tulane made it clear decades ago that they do not give a shite about athletics. LSU has moved on. That being said, it wouldn’t hurt to play a home and home(Dome) every few seasons. Thanksgiving weekend wouldn’t bad a bad idea. Say play it, take 4 years off then play again.
Posted on 11/27/20 at 2:05 pm to turnpiketiger
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Tech-UT thanksgiving night
This isn't correct.
After A&M left, they started rotating between TCU and Texas Tech to ensure the sips had a home game every year. At some point they got tired of losing more often than not and changed it to that weekend.
Posted on 11/27/20 at 2:07 pm to kingbob
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Washington vs Wazzou in the Apple Cup
Not this year. Another thing Jay Inslee shite all over in his quest to turn Washington 3rd World.
Posted on 11/27/20 at 2:43 pm to CGSC Lobotomy
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they started rotating between TCU and Texas Tech to ensure the sips had a home game every year.
So typical of them to not compromise and have to have control it this way. How bad can it be to have to play in either Fort Worth or Lubbock every other thanksgiving? They should just go independent if they really want total control and not have to accommodate for other teams.
Posted on 11/27/20 at 2:58 pm to Hill Country
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Texas wanted to have a home game every year on thanksgiving because they are like that. So they had to rotate between several teams. But nobody really cared about their games against those schools.
I think TCU told them to pound sand with that idea regarding them. F'n arrogant sips
Posted on 11/27/20 at 3:00 pm to Chitter Chatter
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Hill Country
I speak for almost everyone, we'd rather have Baylor.
The A&M game is not a rivalry, you've won ONCE and should have lost 5 times over in that game.@
Posted on 11/27/20 at 3:35 pm to turnpiketiger
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K state - Kansas - last week of season (Thanksgiving weekend)
I don't know where you are getting this idea from. There has never been a set date for this game. When I was at K-State in the 80s the game was in the middle of October. They played it some years as early as weeks 4 or 5 and on other years as late as weeks 10 or 11. This goes back to the last decade of the Big 8 way before anyone ever saw the Big 12 coming.
Posted on 11/28/20 at 9:02 pm to CGSC Lobotomy
quote:Texas has been so irrelevant no one even knows that they had to be at home on thanksgiving
After A&M left, they started rotating between TCU and Texas Tech to ensure the sips had a home game every year
Posted on 11/28/20 at 9:16 pm to East Coast Band
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Are those really traditions, or just silly names given to annual games?
Well what are you calling traditions? Playing certain teams every year isn't a tradition?
What are traditions of the SEC that you think the average fan would actually know? Besides the Iron Bowl? Besides a game?
And speaking of the Pac, USC vs. Notre Dame have met 91 times...USC/UCLA have met 89 times for the Victory Bell.
Auburn vs. Alabama have met 84 times.
And the Big Game? Cal/Stanford have met 123 times.
I would say those are pretty deep traditions.
This post was edited on 11/28/20 at 9:17 pm
Posted on 11/28/20 at 10:03 pm to turnpiketiger
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K state - Kansas - last week of season (Thanksgiving weekend)
This was KU-Mizzou. K-State-KU has never been last week of the season regularly.
Posted on 11/29/20 at 6:17 am to Hill Country
So in reality the biggest tradition in the Big 12 is Texas being Texas, which is kept every year.
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