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VTHokie2000

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I suspect both teams have to agree on what day the game should be played.


Otherwise, you would see the home take advantage of the situation as a form of gamesmanship. I know if I was an AD at a G5 school and my school's football was going to play a home game against a power conference school, then I would be very very very tempted to pull a "Sewanee" if the power conference school had no say on the date.

The Sewanee reference is referring to the 1899 Sewanee Tigers football team. Some consider that team to be 1 of the greatest of all time given that they outscored their opponents 322-10 (Auburn was the only team to score on them), played with 13 players, and played 5 away games (traveling by bus or train) in 6 days.

1899 schedule
Oct 21 at UGA 12-0
Oct 23 at GT 32-0
Oct 28 Tenn 46-0
Nov 3 SW Presbyterian 54-0
Nov 9 at Texas 12-0
Nov 10 at TAMU 10-0
Nov 11 at Tulane 23-0
Nov 13 at LSU 34-0
Nov 14 vs. Ole Miss (in Memphis, TN) 12-0
Nov 20 Cumberland (TN) 71-0
Nov 30 vs. Auburn (in Montgomery, AL) 11-10
Dec 2 vs. UNC (in Atlanta, GA) 5-0

Assuming VT was the 2 week opponent and it has no say on the date of the game, then I would schedule the game to be played on the Sunday after VT's Week 1 game which would technically still be a Week 2 game. Now of course I would have to make sure my school's team isn't playing a game on Week 1 which shouldn't be hard to do given that teams are now playing Week 0 games. ;-)

(In response to this post by BROman Hokie)

Posted: 03/01/2022 at 8:41PM



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