Notre Dame football trip on tap for USRT

Incredibly, it took until this afternoon to get the final starting times for next weekend’s college football games which we had an interest in. What a totally suckity-suck system the NCAA has, where they hold back start times so that networks and regional sports channels can cherry pick what games they want to present and when.

We were eyeballing two possibilities… a day-night doubleheader involving Iowa and Iowa State, or a similar plan involving North Carolina and North Carolina State. Both plans needed an early game (noon-1pm) and a late game (7pm-8pm). So last Monday “stops” were put on both the NC State and Iowa State games’ start times, and we had to wait until today to find out where we were headed.

The word finally came down at 3pm today, and it wasn’t good news… both plans had overlapping start times, and we sure as heck aren’t driving 730 miles to see just one football game.

So it was off to “Plan C”.

Here is what we put together tonight, lickety split…

FRI NOV 6 – OHL, Oshawa at Saginaw
Dow Events Center

SAT NOV 7 2:30PM – NCAA, Navy at Notre Dame
Notre Dame Stadium

SAT NOV 7 8:00PM – NBA, Charlotte at Chicago
United Center

SUN NOV 8 – OHL, Oshawa at Windsor
WFCU Centre

Pretty neat – we get to cross off two more OHL venues, including the new arena in Windsor (we visited the “Old Barn” last year before they closed), and plant the USRT flag in South Bend, one of the most storied college football venues in all of sports. AND a Saturday doubleheader!