[stupac2]

The way I remember it putting Big Game in October was basically payback for Cal and Stanford being annoyingly demanding about things, especially Big Game not being on Thanksgiving weekend (this was never the official reason, obviously, rather the scuttlebutt, and it makes more sense). That is, it was basically "Oh, so you don't want to play on Thanksgiving? How's October? DO YOU LIKE THAT????" It obviously wasn't solely spite, they did have to shift stuff around because of the calendar (IIRC that was a 13-week year and there was something else that made scheduling every rivalry plus the ND game in the last two weeks impossible), but we're the ones who got hosed because we had been annoying. If that comes up again it'll probably be someone else's turn, but I think it wasn't the sort of thing that would come up often.

[stupac2]

The way I remember it putting Big Game in October was basically payback for Cal and Stanford being annoyingly demanding about things, especially Big Game not being on Thanksgiving weekend (this was never the official reason, obviously, rather the scuttlebutt, and it makes more sense). That is, it was basically "Oh, so you don't want to play on Thanksgiving? How's October? DO YOU LIKE THAT????" It obviously wasn't solely spite, they did have to shift stuff around because of the calendar (IIRC that was a 13-week year and there was something else that made scheduling every rivalry plus the ND game in the last two weeks impossible), but we're the ones who got hosed because we had been annoying. If that comes up again it'll probably be someone else's turn, but I think it wasn't the sort of thing that would come up often.