How many games have names?

[darell1976]

Besides the obvious Homecoming does your school have special names for other games during the season?

At North Dakota we have the Potato Bowl (since 1965), Hall of Fame game, and Military Appreciation Day.

[asumike83]

ASU has 'The Battle for the Old Mountain Jug' with Western Carolina every year as well as 'Black Saturday', which is our annual home game against Furman/Georgia Southern in alternating years.

[RabidRabbit]

Most schools have the last home game as Sr Game. SDSU has that.
Beyond that SDSU has three named home games:
Cereal Bowl - First home game of season.
Beef Bowl - Second home game of season.
Hobo Day - SDSU homecoming, and one of the most unique named homecoming tradition around. Biggest ONE DAY EVENT in South Dakota.

Dakota Marker - Game between NDSU and SDSU, recently named game between two teams closing in on 100 games. Odd years at Brookings, even years at Fargo.

[darell1976]

Most schools have the last home game as Sr Game. SDSU has that.
Beyond that SDSU has three named home games:
Cereal Bowl - First home game of season.
Beef Bowl - Second home game of season.
Hobo Day - SDSU homecoming, and one of the most unique named homecoming tradition around. Biggest ONE DAY EVENT in South Dakota.

Dakota Marker - Game between NDSU and SDSU, recently named game between two teams closing in on 100 games. Odd years at Brookings, even years at Fargo.

Since SDSU will be reunited with USD is there or was there a trophy with them? I know we had the Nickel with NDSU and the Sitting Bull Trophy with USD (both retired). Also how did they come up with those names Cereal, Hobo and Beef?

[TexasTerror]

SHSU has the 'Battle of the Piney Woods' against Stephen F. Austin

There's others around the league - but will let them share.

[UNH_Alum_In_CT]

In addition to the Family, Senior, Hall of Fame, Food Drive, etc. games, UNH has:

The Colonial Clash/Bill Knight Trophy Game with UMass
The Brice-Cowell Musket Game with UMaine.

[HailSzczur]

Villanova Delaware for the Battle of the Blue
Then two years ago they started The Mayor's Cup with Temple

[CrunchGriz]

Montana and Montana State play in what many fans know as "The Brawl of the Wild" for the Great Divide Trophy (also known as the "Griz-Cat" or "Cat-Griz" game, depending on which side you favor). 110 games, 69-36-5 in favor of the Griz.

Montana also plays Eastern Washington in "The Governor's Cup".

Montana formerly played Idaho for "The Little Brown Stein", but Idaho is too chicken or cheap to play the Griz any more, having lost the last four times they attempted it in 2000-2003, and playing in a crappy dome that can't seat enough people to pay enough to entice the Griz back to Moscow. (WAC rules won't allow them to come to Missoula to get their butts kicked any more--probably as a direct result of the losses they sustained there in 2001 and 2003.)

[89Hen]

Villanova Delaware for the Battle of the Blue
This and the "Route 1 Rivalry" with Delaware State. There's only been one so far, but they are scheduled to meet the next three years.

BTW, stupid name considering Route 1 doesn't go through Newark. xeyebrowx

[BEAR]

UCA and McNeese have the "Red Beans and Rice Bowl". It's an annual fundraiser to feed the hungry in our two states. The idea came from the fact that rice is a major product of the two states and Louisiana, of course, knows how to cook up some good Cajun food! xbowx

[bojeta]

Horseshoe Classic. Annual game between Cal Poly and UC Davis as both schools have a long tradition of playing each other dating back to 1938 and both schools have a Mustang as their mascot.
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[R3TRO]

In addition to the Family, Senior, Hall of Fame, Food Drive, etc. games, UNH has:

The Colonial Clash/Bill Knight Trophy Game with UMass
The Brice-Cowell Musket Game with UMaine.


Don't forget the Granite Bowl (vs. Dartmouth) which is schedule to resume in 2014.

[citdog]

"The Military Classic of the South" will be played again this year in General Johnson Hagood, CSA, Stadium.

http://www.ncaawiki.com/images/3/3a/Citadel_00504794.shako.355wide.jpeg

[superman7515]

This and the "Route 1 Rivalry" with Delaware State. There's only been one so far, but they are scheduled to meet the next three years.

BTW, stupid name considering Route 1 doesn't go through Newark. xeyebrowx

And the highway next to DelState is Route 113/13. Makes no sense at all.

[ngineer]

Of course there is the "The Rivalry" (Lehigh/Lafayette) and "The Game" (Harvard/Yale).

[Screamin_Eagle174]

EWU vs. UM - Governor's Cup
EWU vs. PSU - Dam Cup
EWU vs. whoever (in Seattle) - Showdown on the Sound

This year only - EWU vs. UW - Apple Cup
Next year only - EWU vs. WSU - Apple Cup

[Cocky]

JSU has one game ayear called homecoming. Our old school bell game against Troy doesnt happen anymore.

[SFA 93]

Stephen F. Austin vs Northwestern State

(The Battle for Chief Caddo)

Chief Caddo is the largest trophy in college football.

Read the tale of the two sons on the banks of the Sabine River.
http://www.texasescapes.com/AllThingsHistorical/Chief-s-Sons-Natchitoches-Nacogdoches-BB507.htm

[citdog]

Stephen F. Austin vs Northwestern State

(The Battle for Chief Caddo)

Chief Caddo is the largest trophy in college football.

Read the tale of the two sons on the banks of the Sabine River.
http://www.texasescapes.com/AllThingsHistorical/Chief-s-Sons-Natchitoches-Nacogdoches-BB507.htm

Battle of Sabine Pass where 50 Confederates defeated 5,000 yankees and suffered 0 casualties is also very instructive.

[VBR_Productions]

Old Dominion is bringing back the Oyster Bowl this year, played between the Monarchs and the Dukes of James Madison on 10/29. This is the 62nd game so there's a lot of history to it. Dating back to the 1940's, Foreman Field was used to host the annual game. Collegiate players who have participated include Roger Staubach, Fran Tarkenton and Bruce Smith.

http://www.odusports.com/sports/m-footbl/spec-rel/042311aab.html

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oyster_Bowl

[Tribe4SF]

W&M and Richmond play for the Commonwealth Cup in the "South's Oldest Rivalry" to conclude each season.

[bonarae]

Harvard and Yale have the original 'The Game' (Michigan-Ohio State's rivalry title is also called 'The Game').

[blaw0203]

At FAMU we have the "Florida Classic" which is the LARGEST game in all of FCS. It is played the weekend before thanksgiving in Orlando FL at the Citrus Bowl against our rival Bethune Cookman University.
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We also have the Atlanta Classic which is the fourth largest game in all of FCS where attendance routinely cracks 55,000+; it has gone as high as 70,000+. The game is played at the Georgia Dome.
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[Walkon79]

The Brawl is the only "named" game, but its a doozy! And by the way it is and always will be Cat/Griz :)

Our other home dates are all "named" weekends. Hall of Fame, Ag Appreciation, Parents, and Homecoming weekends.

[GeauxLions94]

Southeastern Louisiana and Nicholls State play in the annual River Bell Classic

[Furmandad]

The Bronze Derby //http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Bderby.jpg
The Bronze DerbyTraditionally, one of the athletic highlights on PC's campus is the Bronze Derby[14] football game. Played annually against nearby Newberry College, the game is the subject of a long-standing rivalry between the two schools.

The rivalry dates back to the a particularly heated game played during 1946-47 basketball season. Before the game commenced, a set of PC students unfurled a large banner inscribed with “Beat H ... Out of Newberry!” on the wall of the gymnasium behind the PC student section. While the crowd was distracted, however, a group of Newberry students climbed the outside of the gym wall, crawled through a window, and ripped the banner off the wall before fleeing into the night. After the game ended (PC won 51-47), PC students demanded that the banner be returned. The Newberry students refused, and a fight ensued. In the midst of the epic struggle, a Newberry student snatched a derby from the head of a PC student.


A triumphant PC player hoists the Bronze DerbyIn the days following the derby theft, Frank E. Kinard - a senior at Newberry and editor of the school paper - received a letter from Charles MacDonald, then assistant athletic publicity director at PC. MacDonald suggested that the derby be recovered so that it could be made to be a symbol of athletic rivalry between the two schools, to which Kinard and the Newberry student body agreed. The derby was then unearthed, although the identity of the abductor was kept secret, and the hat was immortalized in bronze, forever a symbol of the rivalry between the two teams.

During the early years of the Bronze Derby rivalry, the hat was exchanged between Newberry and PC at every athletic event, the first occurring at a basketball game on February 28, 1947, which PC won 44-42. Eventually, however, it was decided that the derby would be awarded only to the winner of the Annual Thanksgiving Turkey Day Bronze Derby Game, rather than at every athletic event. The game was then rescheduled during the 1992 season after the teams and the conference moved to NCAA Division II (the game date conflicted with the playoff schedule).

Currently, the annual Bronze Derby game has been temporarily suspended, given PC's move out of Division II athletics and into Division I. The game, however, is still intended to be played once PC's transitional phase is completed.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Bronzederby.jpg

[GAD]

Boom/Box Classic- Jackson State vs. Southern:Two of FCS largest fan bases each school has set the others attendace record @SU 35K+ @J-State 65K+
Bayou Classic-Southern vs Grambling: Played in the Louisiana Superdome this is one of the largest rivalrys in the country regardless of division over 200K show up in New Orleans for this game it has been on NBC for almost 20 years