Apple Cup game thread

[D-train]

Only 24 days away so why not??? We are 21 point favs....

[Captain 97]

Don't know why they can't find a way to schedule this game in later in the year. The The SEC always seems to have a late season non conference game built into their schedules. Last Year on November 22nd Alabama played Eastern Illinois, Georgia played Charlotte and Auburn Played Mercer. Tennessee played New Mexico State on November 15th.

[DavidGee24]

Don't know why they can't find a way to schedule this game in later in the year. The The SEC always seems to have a late season non conference game built into their schedules. Last Year on November 22nd Alabama played Eastern Illinois, Georgia played Charlotte and Auburn Played Mercer. Tennessee played New Mexico State on November 15th.

And USC/Notre Dame is always later in the season, right? Further, that's a bona-fide matchup. Pretty unfair that those SEC schools get to play against palookas and rest their starters in anticipation of their biggest games of the season.

[D-train]

It's opening day. Seems pretty prestigious to me. I would rather that then the type of program they have played in the past game 1. How is playing them late in the season better? Tradition? Oregon is by FAR our #1 one rival now and we play them late in the season.

[Captain 97]

Rivalry games need to have some run up to them. The teams need time to figure out who they are and start to build up some anticipation and some hope that you are going to beat your rival this year. Having a rivalry game right off the get go just loses a lot of the pomp and circumstance. Also even if one team has been down heading into the Apple Cup there has often been that opportunity to be the spoiler and ruin the other teams bowl aspirations. I agree that Oregon is our biggest Rival but there is nothing wrong with having more than one rival. Having the Cougs fill a spot in the schedule that has always been held by Portland State or Idaho just sort of take all of the luster out of the whole thing.