2018 General College Football Season Thread

[Some Irish Bloke]

Originally Posted by zelezo vlk

Seems like scUM and Sparty always play at noon

Didn't realize it was on FOX. still don't quite understand the timing of OSU/Purdue.

IIRC at least two out of last three have been 3:30. "Trouble with the snap" in 2015 occurred as I was walking into the stadium for the USC showdown, which was a night game, and last year I remember watching at a buddies place and showing up in a torrential down poor, and I showed up a few minutes late a 4 pm ET. It was so dark out you would have thought daylight savings time had already ended.

Your point still stands though; I feel like historically they make it a noon kick, but sparty hasn't been as good as they have been in the past decade, making this typically "regional" rivalry of more national importance. I just don't like noon kicks, and this is the most intriguing bye week match-up given my pure hatred of scUM. I'll live, just wondering if anyone had some insight.

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Many of the games that were cancelled for weather-related issues are being played this weekend - some with the same opponents, many with different ones. In general, fans did not get refunds.

Makeups with same opponent
Stanford v Cal
Norfolk St v Liberty

Cancelled, No makeup games for team(s)
UCF v North Carolina (UCF in championship game)
Appalachian St v Southern Mississippi (App St in championship game)
West Virginia

West Virginia, North Carolina and Southern Mississippi will end up playing only eleven games this year.

Makeup Games with Different Opponent

Original game------Makeup Game
Nebraska-Akron --- Nebraska-Bethune Cookman (signed Sept 20)
NC St-W.Virginia --- NC St-East Carolina (signed Oct 2)
S. Carolina-Marshall -- SC-Akron (signed Nov 3)
Va Tech-E. Carolina -- VaTech-Marshall (signed Nov 18)
Iowa St-S.Dakota St -- Iowa St-Drake (signed Nov 26)

Iowa St originally wanted Drake, but could not get approval. They signed Incarnate Word which was voided when Inc. Word went to Playoffs. Drake's game with William Jewell was canceled due to weather.

The Carolinas games were canceled due to the hurricane.
The Midwest games were canceled due to thunderstorms with lightning.
The Bay Area game was canceled due to wildfire smoke.

In general, many of the opponents received the same amount of money for buy-in games. Marshall negotiated for a future home-and-home series. Va Tech will play the twelfth game to become bowl eligible. Makeup games in some cases are having difficulty selling tickets. The Nebraska-Bethune Cookman game was played Oct 27th in what would have been Nebraska's bye week.

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North Dakota lawmakers want new rivalry trophy for North Dakota State-North Dakota series

As North Dakota State and North Dakota move one step closer to having their in-state rivalry renewed on an annual basis, the call for a rivalry trophy has been made by a couple of lawmakers from the state of North Dakota. Because the old trophy, The Nickel Trophy, has been donated to the North Dakota State Heritage Center when the football rivalry seemingly went dormant, lawmakers have asked students at both universities to begin forming plans for a new rivalry trophy that can be held by the winning program.



North Dakota Senator Scott Meyer introduced a resolution in the state senate, and the resolution passed. The resolution asks the student bodies to “design and implement a new football rivalry trophy.” Sen. Jordan Kannianen carried the bill and joked about how much success the North Dakota State Bison have had in hoisting trophies lately, referencing the seven national championships in the past eight seasons. North Dakota State was recently officially invited to be honored at the White House by President Donald Trump.

North Dakota will join the Missouri Valley Football Conference beginning in 2020, which will bring the two in-state football programs back in the same conference for the first time since sharing a home in the North Central Conference when both programs played at the Division 2 level. The two schools first met in football on Nov. 3, 1894 and have played a total of 111 times over the course of the rivalry’s history. North Dakota leads the all-time series with a record of 62-46-3, which includes wins in five of the most recent seven meetings. Of course, North Dakota State has risen to national championship heights since this rivalry has gone into a bit of a hibernation.

North Dakota State is scheduled to host North Dakota on Sept. 7, 2019.

Prior to N.Dakota's nickname change to the Fighting Hawks, the Nickel Trophy represented the rivalry between the Fighting Sioux and the Bison.

The Sitting Bull trophy goes to the winner of the ND Fighting Hawks and the South Dakota Coyotes, who first played each other in 1903.

The Dakota Marker trophy goes to the winner of the South Dakota State Jackrabbits and the ND State Bison, who also first played each other in 1903.