When did college football decide that all crosstown games be played after Thanksgiving?
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Because the crosstown or intrastate games would make for the best rivalries. You always want your biggest rival to be the last game, because you will be most prepared, and it may save an otherwise disappointing season. You also have the entire off season for bragging rights and recruiting.
737482
yeah it has to be at least the day after thanksgiving
782073
They didnt come out with any type of ranking system until about week 4 of the season.  Teams that played non D1 schools werent allowed to be ranked until week 6 and had to start at the bottom of the polls.  Ranking was determined by SOS, and Wins vs Losses instead of by name and history of the school or conference.  Teams that havent played a top 25 opponent outside of conference during the season were penalized.  Conference champions had to open the season at another conference champion from the previous season.  Teams that ended the season ranked in the top 25 for 3 consecutive years had to try and schedule a home and home with a 2 schools out of conference with the same stats.  Just really scheduling.
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The current NFL schedule was developed in 2001and activated for the 2002 season.It works from the 2002 to 2008 seasons.It will take all 32 teams through every team and stadium. That means that every team will play every other team away and at home. The season is set up like this:\n\nNFC & AFC\nEach team plays there division rivals 6 times(3 at home and 3 away)=6 games\n\nOne division will play a whole other division with a combination of home and away(it could be all away or all home or 2 away or 2 home or 1 home and 3 away or 3 home and 1 away)=4 games\n\nEach division willl play one team from the remaining 2 divisions based upon where each team finished the previous \nseason=2 games\n\nEach NFC division will play an entire AFC division and vice versa in any combination of away or home games as was deemed when the schedule was put together=4games\n\nTotal:16 regular season games per team\n\nEach team plays 8 home and 8 away games each season.\n\nStarting in the 2007/2008 season each team will play 1 to 2 games over seas in Europe.\n\nI'm 100% right, I guarantee it. I studied the schedule very carefully and researched it very completely. Anyone who tells you any thing different is a complete idiot.
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At that time, the NFL did not award the conference championship game to the team with the better record.  The site of the conference title games rotated from year to year depending on who made the game.  So for instance, one year the order of precedence may have been West Division champ, then Central, then East, whereas the next year it was Central, East, West, and the year after could have been East, West, Central (also remember there was only one wild card team, and only three rounds of the playoffs).\n\nAs it turns out, that year the Central had precedence over the East, so the Steelers hosted the title game that year.
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Here is the link to find results of the scores. Not necessarily the stats in the gahttp://football.about.com/od/schedules/a/05schedule.htmme for 2005, 2004.\n\nBest i think we are going to due. If you are looking for individual teams i think you can go to there website.
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This year, US Thanksgiving is on Nov. 23.
752258
Where are you from?  Thanksgiving is the 3rd thursday of November.\nChristmas is December 25th.  Yes, all USA celebrates it, don't know about all Americans.
92583
Big 10 football, yeah right.  (by the way, there are 11 teams in your conference)  SEC rules!!!!!!\n\nAnd therandman is right.  The VOLS will be back!! in 2006!!
935153
the day that the rest of the BCS bowls make their selections.  I think it'll be in a week or so.
15829
Everything has been thrown off because January 1st is on a Sunday, which is traditionally an NFL day.  The NCAA had to reschedule its bowl games to meed the NFL's schedule.
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The longest rivalry is Harvard -- Yale.  The first game was played in 1875.\n\nThe most played rivalry in College Football is the Lehigh-Lafayette Rivalry between Lehigh University and Lafayette College who have met 141 times since 1884.
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Thanksgiving Day football, once a tradition among the high schools and colleges of America, has more or less faded into oblivion in most sections of the country. But it is still alive in the National Football League in two franchise cities, Detroit and Dallas, where Thanksgiving Day football has become a normal, expected way of life.  Beginning in 1966, Dallas has missed playing on the holiday only in 1975 and 1977. \nHowever, when it comes to Thanksgiving Day football, NFL style, most fans first think of the Lions and the tradition that was started in 1934. It was their first year in Detroit after a local radio executive, George A. Richards, had purchased the Portsmouth (Ohio) Spartans and moved the team to Detroit. The Spartans were members of the NFL from 1930 to 1933.\nWith the Spartans, not only was Richards bringing a proven, quality team to Detroit, he was also bringing at least one super-star, Earl "Dutch" Clark, one of the most versatile backs ever to play the game. Clark had an outstanding supporting cast in the Detroit backfield with a big, talented line anchored by Frank Christiansen.\n\nEven though he knew there was some risk in scheduling a game on Thanksgiving Day, Richards also recognized that his Lions were taking a back seat to the baseball Tigers on the sports pages. So as one way of attracting Motor City fans during the team's first season, he opted for the Thanksgiving Day contest.\n\nThus the football-on-Thanksgiving tradition became firmly established in Detroit. With the exception of a six-season gap from 1939 to 1944, the Thanksgiving Day game has been played with no interruptions.
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Bowl games are over Long time ago!!!!!
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The NFL this season will implement for the first time in its history a primetime "flexible scheduling" element on Sundays in Weeks 10-15 and in Week 17. \n\nFlexible scheduling will ensure quality matchups on Sunday night in those weeks and give surprise teams a chance to play their way onto primetime. \n\nThe 2006 NFL schedule will list start times for all Sunday games during the "flex" weeks as 1:00 p.m. ET, except for games played in the Mountain or Pacific Time zones, which will be listed at 4:05 p.m. ET or 4:15 p.m. ET. \n\nThe NBC Sunday night time slot for "flex" weeks will list teams as "TBD." \n\nOnly Sunday afternoon games are eligible to be moved. Flexible scheduling will not be applied to games airing on Thursday, Saturday or Monday nights. \n\nJust as the six major college football conferences have done for many years, the NFL now will have additional flexibility to move the start times of games on Sundays, using a 12-day notice format. \n\nFor example, a game scheduled for Sunday, November 26 could move from a 1:00 p.m. ET kickoff to an 8:15 p.m. start, but the change would be made and announced no later than Tuesday, November 14. \n\nThe NFL has commonly moved games between 1:00 p.m. ET and 4:15 p.m. ET (eight times last season) on Sunday afternoons. The new practice allows the NFL to employ flexible scheduling to include one of its primetime package of games – on Sunday evenings. \n\nSunday afternoon games, as in the past, can still be moved between 1:00 and 4:05 or 4:15 p.m. ET. \n\nIn Week 17, in order to ensure a Sunday night game with playoff implications, the decision to move the start time may be made on six days notice. \n\nCBS and FOX will each be able to protect a total of five games in the seven weeks of flexible scheduling, but not more than one game in any week. \n\nDuring the 2005 regular season, the NFL conducted a study with mock flexible scheduling. An eight-person task force consisting of team executives, one from each division, was consulted on a weekly basis. In addition, television network partners and the NFL's broadcasting department participated weekly in the process. \n\n\nNFL Flexible Scheduling 101:\n\nBegins Sunday, November 12, 2006 (Week 10) \n\nIn effect Weeks 10-15 and Week 17. \n\nNot in effect Week 16 due to holiday weekend. \n\nOnly Sunday afternoon games in Weeks 10-15 and 17 are subject to being moved into the Sunday night window. \n\nThe majority of games on Sundays will be listed at 1:00 p.m. ET during flex weeks except for games played in Pacific or Mountain Time zones which will be listed at 4:05 or 4:15 p.m. ET. \n\nNo impact on Thursday, Saturday or Monday night games. \n\nThe NFL will decide (after consultation with CBS, FOX, NBC) and announce on 12 days notice the game being moved to 8:15 p.m. ET and may also announce games moving to 4:15 p.m. ET. \nWeek 17 start time changes could be decided on 6 days notice to ensure a game with playoff implications. \n\nThe NBC Sunday night time slot in "flex" weeks will list teams as "TBD." \n\nFans and ticket holders must be aware that NFL games in flex weeks are subject to change 12 days in advance (6 days in Week 17) and should plan accordingly. \n\nNFL schedules all games. \n\nCBS and FOX each get to protect a total of 5 games in the 7 weeks of flexible scheduling, but not more than one game in any week. \n\nTeams will be informed as soon as they are no longer under consideration or eligible for a move to Sunday night.
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It won't announced until Sunday, Dec 3rd.  I think there is a special BCS selection show on at 6:30pm est on Fox.  That is when the final BCS Poll is announced.  Ohio State will play the 2nd ranked BCS Poll team.
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if they can...most of the college football schedules have already been made for next year...as they are made YEARS in advance.\n\nbut I would love to see more games putting traditional powerhouses together early in the season.