This post is from 2010!
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When we think of Thanksgiving Day football, most of us probably think immediately and exclusively of the NFL, and with good reason. The Lions and Cowboys are Thanksgiving Day institutions, with each team playing nationally televised games during the day while the cooking, congregating, and camaraderie (and the eating, of course) of Thanksgiving is taking place.
But the football doesn’t end after the Cowboys game. In fact, the NFL’s traditional Thanksgiving slate is just the beginning of a huge weekend of football, with the college game taking the baton and running with it from Thursday night through Saturday.
In this post, I’ll highlight college football’s one Thanksgiving Day game – a historic, always-heated rivalry – and then run down the most important games on Thanksgiving Friday as well.
College Football Thanksgiving Day & Friday Schedule for 2010
Matchups – Kickoff Times – TV – Point Spreads – Over-Unders
Click for the NFL Thanksgiving Day schedule for 2010
Texas A&M at Texas
- Texas-Texas A&M Thanksgiving Day Kickoff Time: 8:00 ET
- Texas-Texas A&M Thanksgiving Day TV: ESPN
- Texas-Texas A&M Thanksgiving Day Point Spread: Texas A&M -3.5
- Texas-Texas A&M Thanksgiving Day Over-Under: 47.5
Neither the Aggies nor the Longhorns is having a particularly good season this year, but this will still be an entertaining college football game if you are a fan of rivalries. There aren’t many more heated rivalries than this one, which I have learned since moving to Dallas. Aggie people don’t like Longhorn people, and the feeling is certainly mutual. If nothing else, it gives you an alternative if the evening portion of the NFL Thanksgiving Day schedule doesn’t do it for you. (And let’s be honest, with Matt Millen and Joe Theismann in the booth, the game better be really interesting to keep me watching.)
The truth is, most of us will probably be dozing in and out of sleep while trying to watch either the NFL or college football night game. All good Thanksgivings should be punctuated with a solid food coma; am I right?
But when you wake up on Friday and start reaching for the leftovers, there will still be plenty of football to entertain you as you beach on the couch.
Here are the marquee matchups that will be played the day after Thanksgiving. We’ll have the complete college football schedule for Thanksgiving weekend, with all TV listings, posted a little closer to the when it occurs.
Auburn at Alabama
- Auburn-Alabama Date: Friday, November 26th
- Auburn-Alabama Kickoff Time: 2:30 ET
- Auburn-Alabama TV: CBS
- Auburn-Alabama Point Spread: Alabama -4.5
- Auburn-Alabama Over-Under: 58
Colorado at Nebraska
- Colorado-Nebraska Date: Friday, November 26th
- Colorado-Nebraska Kickoff Time: 3:30 ET
- Colorado-Nebraska TV: ABC
- Colorado-Nebraska Point Spread: Nebraska -17.5
- Colorado-Nebraska Over-Under: 51
Arizona at Oregon
- Arizona-Oregon Date: Friday, November 26th
- Arizona-Oregon Kickoff Time: 7:00 PM ET
- Arizona-Oregon TV: ESPN
- Arizona-Oregon Point Spread: Oregon -19.5
- Arizona-Oregon Over-Under: 62.5
Boise State at Nevada
- Boise State-Nevada Date: Friday, November 26th
- Boise State-Nevada Kickoff Time: 10:15 PM ET
- Boise State-Nevada TV: ESPN
- Boise State-Nevada Point Spread: Boise State -13.5
- Boise State-Nevada Over-Under: 68
Other college football games to be played the day after Thanksgiving:
- Louisville at Rutgers
- Western Michigan at Bowling Green
- West Virginia at Pittsburgh
- Buffalo at Akron
- Central Michigan at Toledo
- Northern Illinois at Eastern Michigan
- SMU at East Carolina
- Ohio at Kent State
- UCLA at Arizona State
- Southern Miss at Tulsa
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* – Texas/Texas A&M photo credit: Darren Carroll/SI via SI.com
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