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With Week 14 of college football having arrived, it can only mean one thing.
Another chapter of the Egg Bowl will be written between Ole Miss and Mississippi State football.
The rivalry game between two of the Southeastern Conference’s oldest members dates will have a new twist to it this year: The game, a Thanksgiving staple, has been moved to Black Friday.
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Friday’s meeting between the Rebels and the Bulldogs is the second time in recent years that the rivalry game won’t be played on Thanksgiving, with the other being in 2020. That game, however, took place amid the COVID-19 pandemic. Why has this year’s Egg Bowl rivalry been moved from Thanksgiving?
Here’s what you need to know on why The Egg Bowl isn’t being played on Thanksgiving this year:
Why is ‘The Egg Bowl’ not on Thanksgiving?
As previously reported by the Clarion-Ledger, Ole Miss athletic director Keith Carter said at an alumni event at the Country Club of Jackson in June that the game is being played on Friday because ABC wanted the game on that day compared to Thanksgiving. ABC is in its first season of a 10-year contract as the exclusive broadcast partner of the SEC.
“In that negotiation, ABC came to us and said we want this date, and we wanna play at this time,” Carter said in June. “And we actually did have a little negotiating power on another game that we got scheduled at the time we wanted on the road.”
As noted in the Ole Miss game notes, it is the first time that Egg Bowl is being played on a Friday since the 2008 season, when Ole Miss came out with the 45-0 win in Oxford.
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Publish date : 2024-11-28 12:04:00
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