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Topic: Big Ten Power Rankings After Week 8

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FearlessF

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Re: Big Ten Power Rankings After Week 8
« Reply #28 on: October 20, 2025, 02:12:25 PM »
many early Thanksgiving weekend games were vs the Hawkeyes!

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Re: Big Ten Power Rankings After Week 8
« Reply #29 on: October 20, 2025, 02:31:00 PM »
Quote from: FearlessF on October 20, 2025, 02:12:25 PM
many early Thanksgiving weekend games were vs the Hawkeyes!
Ok I did not realize that.  Looks like Iowa-Nebraska played in late November throughout the 1890's all in Omaha or Council Bluffs.  Good to know.

I did know that Iowa often played Notre Dame as Iowa's last game of the season,  especially throughout the 1950's. 

Edit: Just to clarify,  throughout the 1950's Iowa would play Notre Dame the week before Thanksgiving and that would be Iowa's last game of the year.   Then Notre Dame would always play USC on Thanksgiving week,  including the years that USC played at Notre Dame.
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Re: Big Ten Power Rankings After Week 8
« Reply #30 on: October 20, 2025, 04:58:19 PM »
Quote from: FearlessF on October 20, 2025, 09:28:22 AM
just because the Big Ten didn't play on Thanksgiving weekend doesn't mean it's not a huge tradition in College Football

the B1G was just stuck in the leather helmet era
I blame Michigan
There's a reasonable reason for it and I don't think it's helmet era. Playing in Wisconsin, Minnesota, Michigan, Iowa, Indiana and Ohio in nearly the first week of December isn't exactly great experience for fans most years based on the average weather. Sometimes it works out, but often it blows. My brother and I for a good span of time were hitting OSU v UM in Ann Arbor every other year. Cant remember the exact years, but maybe '01 & '03 the weather was brutal. One year it snowed and the following it was freezing cold rain. Now granted, bad weather can happen anywhere, but there's a reason SEC and schools down south were far more prone to play Thanksgiving weekend. 
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Re: Big Ten Power Rankings After Week 8
« Reply #31 on: October 20, 2025, 05:07:42 PM »
perhaps, the older I get the less likely I am to sit outside to watch Huskers/Hawks that weekend.

I'm getting soft
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Re: Big Ten Power Rankings After Week 8
« Reply #32 on: October 20, 2025, 05:12:09 PM »
Quote from: SuperMario on October 20, 2025, 04:58:19 PM
There's a reasonable reason for it and I don't think it's helmet era. Playing in Wisconsin, Minnesota, Michigan, Iowa, Indiana and Ohio in nearly the first week of December isn't exactly great experience for fans most years based on the average weather. Sometimes it works out, but often it blows. My brother and I for a good span of time were hitting OSU v UM in Ann Arbor every other year. Cant remember the exact years, but maybe '01 & '03 the weather was brutal. One year it snowed and the following it was freezing cold rain. Now granted, bad weather can happen anywhere, but there's a reason SEC and schools down south were far more prone to play Thanksgiving weekend.
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Re: Big Ten Power Rankings After Week 8
« Reply #33 on: October 20, 2025, 05:20:39 PM »
Quote from: SuperMario on October 20, 2025, 04:58:19 PM
There's a reasonable reason for it and I don't think it's helmet era. Playing in Wisconsin, Minnesota, Michigan, Iowa, Indiana and Ohio in nearly the first week of December isn't exactly great experience for fans most years based on the average weather. Sometimes it works out, but often it blows. My brother and I for a good span of time were hitting OSU v UM in Ann Arbor every other year. Cant remember the exact years, but maybe '01 & '03 the weather was brutal. One year it snowed and the following it was freezing cold rain. Now granted, bad weather can happen anywhere, but there's a reason SEC and schools down south were far more prone to play Thanksgiving weekend.
It wasn't 01.  I was there in 01 and it was beautiful . . . The Game and the weather.  
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Re: Big Ten Power Rankings After Week 8
« Reply #34 on: October 20, 2025, 06:39:26 PM »
Quote from: FearlessF on October 20, 2025, 05:07:42 PM
perhaps, the older I get the less likely I am to sit outside to watch Huskers/Hawks that weekend.

I'm getting soft
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Re: Big Ten Power Rankings After Week 8
« Reply #35 on: October 20, 2025, 06:59:50 PM »
Quote from: FearlessF on October 20, 2025, 02:12:25 PM
many early Thanksgiving weekend games were vs the Hawkeyes!




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Re: Big Ten Power Rankings After Week 8
« Reply #36 on: October 20, 2025, 06:59:56 PM »
There is a reason all the cold weather NFL teams in the Midwest are building indoor stadiums.  Well  except for Buffalo and Geen Bay

One-third of the regular season now is after Thanksgiving.



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Re: Big Ten Power Rankings After Week 8
« Reply #37 on: October 20, 2025, 07:53:12 PM »
Quote from: ManHawk on October 20, 2025, 06:59:56 PM
There is a reason all the cold weather NFL teams in the Midwest are building indoor stadiums.
It's not the weather it's that the stadiums are to costly to sit there most of the year and not generate any revenue.Cleveland Stadium is only 25 yrs old and they'll be replacing it,outside of some out door hockey games and maybe some High School football it just isn't utilized that much
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