What if USC and UCLA played Thanksgiving weekend

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- November 8, 2026 at 2:34 pm #24943
  
  Java
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  USC won. And then they both had to fly across the country to play again in front of an empty stadium in Indianapolis. ???
  
  for those who hate college football in its present state this would be awesome
- November 8, 2026 at 4:28 pm #24956
  
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  And then the loser in Indy would get bumped from the Playoff to make room for 8-4 South Carolina.
- November 8, 2026 at 4:52 pm #24960
  
  Fraud
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  Oregon is going to likely win out and it’s going to be UCLA vs. Oregon.
  - November 8, 2026 at 5:05 pm #24968
    
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    Oregon could easily win out and, if they did, I assume they’d qualify for Indy unless there’s a three- or four-way tie at 7-2 and some weird tiebreaker rule that sends someone else. Then they’d still have to win the CCG to get into the Playoff, right?
  - November 8, 2026 at 5:10 pm #24970
    
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    Ha. Yeah, I don’t know the Big10 multi team tie breaker. If ESPN had their way, the 3rd place SEC team would go to Indy then.
- November 8, 2026 at 4:54 pm #24962
  
  saturdaysarebetter
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  My god Java, that would be college football idiocy at its finest would it not?
- November 8, 2026 at 7:28 pm #24997
  
  Daystalker
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  Depending on how things bounce, the two teams could potentially play each other 3 times in one season. As the playoffs expand to more teams that will probably happen often. A regular season matchup, a conference title game, and again in Playoffs. Being that the rivalry games are late in the season, that would get old fast to have the same matchup multiple times in a somewhat short timeframe. Not if you win I guess, but still.
- November 8, 2026 at 7:32 pm #24999
  
  saturdaysarebetter
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  This was brought up years ago with Ohio State and Michigan. They could play their season finale, meet in the Big 10 Conference Championship game and then in the playoffs. It could happen in three successive weeks. Unlikely, but possible.
  
  If you know you’re going to meet in the conference championship game, do you rest your starters in the meaningless season finale? One way around it is to move the rivalry game up in the year.
  - November 8, 2026 at 8:05 pm #25011
    
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    The possibility of college players invoking load management and coaches holding out healthy players are two more good reasons to hate the concept of conference championship games.
- November 8, 2026 at 8:00 pm #25006
  
  SC Gator
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  Stalker, you’re forgetting that when the Playoff expands to 24 a likely byproduct will be the cancellation of conference championship games. Therefore, the likelihood of two teams playing each other three times in a season diminishes to zero.
- November 8, 2026 at 8:02 pm #25008
  
  saturdaysarebetter
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  Yes it does.
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