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One of college football’s most storied rivalries will be put on hold for two more weeks.
The annual contest between Cal and Stanford — known simply as “The Big Game” — that was originally slated for Saturday has been rescheduled for Dec. 1, the schools announced Friday. The air quality in the Berkeley, California, was deemed unsafe in the wake of wildfires ravaging the Bay Area.
The 121st Big Game will be rescheduled for Dec. 1 at 12 p.m. on @Pac12Network pic.twitter.com/CGKIq2vjTU
— Cal Football (@CalFootball) November 16, 2018
With both teams already eliminated from contention in the Pac-12 North, they were free to move the game to the weekend reserved for conference championship games. That creates an oddity that was noted by The Athletic’s Stewart Mandel, who pointed out that The Big Game will technically be the final contest of the Pac-12 season because the league’s title game is set for Nov. 30.
In a strange quirk, the last game of the Pac12 schedule is no longer the Pac 12 championship (which is the night before rescheduled Big Game)
— Stewart Mandel (@slmandel) November 16, 2018
Cal plans to honor the tickets that were purchased for the originally scheduled game. Hopefully both the fires and smoke in California will be gone by the time Dec. 1 rolls around.
Marcus covers SEC football for Saturday Down South.
