Whatever happened to Thursday night football?

[SCary_Gamecocks]

It's exactly why we stopped playing on Thursday night, Spurrier hated it, felt he didn't get a full week of prep in. So it was stopped for us. It's good for schools like USF, UCF, etc.. to get the national spot light, because on Saturdays it's about the P5.

Yeah, at some point he flip flopped on that. We had a ton of Thursday night games under Spurrier. Maybe he thought we needed the exposure. Of course most of them were season openers, which gave us two extra days for the next opponent. I think at one point we opened 5 of 6 seasons on Thursday night.

 

[Swamp Donkey]

Yeah, at some point he flip flopped on that. We had a ton of Thursday night games under Spurrier. . .

He laughed at Clown Town doing Thurs night games when he was a Championship coach for us.

 

[TLB]

For me it was FSU's first ACC loss, it was a Thursday night vs Virginia Nov 2nd 1995.

Wife was a grad student at UVA at the time, huge football fan (chose undergrad at UF by coming down and catching WLOCP, never saw campus). They stormed the field and had a grand weekend.

 

[GatorTruth133]

I remember in the early 90's, we played Miss St. on a thursday night in Starkville and got our asses beat. Don't think we've played on thursday's night since.

'92 and yes, it did impact us playing any day but Saturday from that point on.

 

[gardnerwebbgator]

Yeah, at some point he flip flopped on that. We had a ton of Thursday night games under Spurrier. Maybe he thought we needed the exposure. Of course most of them were season openers, which gave us two extra days for the next opponent. I think at one point we opened 5 of 6 seasons on Thursday night.

Mainly, SOS used the extra two days to prep for UGA most years.

 

[GatorInGeorgia]

For some reason I had it in my head we gave a whooping to the cocks and a Thursday in the 90s. Went back and looked and sure enough they were all Saturday games.

You were just drunk & stoned...so it’s okay.